Evening journal., 1900-02-22
But FO[ Q Brief Period.

1.-THE charwOman didn't come this
morning, You know Everard and"
Dorothy was desperately afraid that
she would cry, and she was determined
not to cry, so she said no more.
"Why can't you find q servant,
thenw growled her husband. such
wretched Acknowledgement never
saw"
perhaps you were more comfortable
In lodgings" said Dorothy, taunted in
TO speech.
No answer.
perhaps you think it was a mistake
to have married me-"
Silence, so much recommended in
cases Of this kind, is sometimes the
most cruel Of all retorts. 1t was 80
now. Yet Everard Payn said not a
word. He knew he was behaving like
q brute. but he was cold, hungry and
haunted with corroding care. He
turned to the fireplace and tried to
poke the mass Of coal and coal dust in
TO a flame. but his efforts were ill-di-
rected. and the smoldering heap re-
NAMED dead. He threw down the po-
ker I'm a passion and went out into the
hall and into the street. closing the
front door after him with a bang.
Hour after hour Dorothy sat at the
wretched breakfast table without NOV
ing. She was alone In the little house
and had no one to mind but herself.
The tears came freely enough now.
They trickled through her fingers and
dropped, one by one, on the soiled Ia
blecloth
was it true, then" she asked her
self. Ibid Eyerard regret already the
rash step that had brought them to-
getherY He was only a poor writer
struggling for dear life in the cruel
battlefield of London. She knew that
he was often pressed for money,
though he told her little of his mon
ey troubles Was it not piece of fol
ly in them to marry?
At length she rose and mechanically
began to clear away the breakfast
things. The kitchen fire had gone out.
Everything was cold and dreary. And
IL it were all a huge mistakel
She went upstairs and began to put
q few Of her personal belongings into
portmanteau. One volume she
thought she must have-a copy Of
"The Imitation of Christ" She found
1t after a little search, but then she
remembered. 1t had been a gift from
Everard-how long ago it seemed
in the days Of their courtship. The pet
name he had given her, and that no
one but he had ever called her by,
"podie," was on the fly leaf In his
/ handwriting. She could not take it.
She kissed 1t and put it away in a
drawer. Then she went on putting
things together, one by one, on the
bed.
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The winter afternoon had given
! place TO twilight when Everard put
4 his latchkey into the door of the little
! dwelling lie had long since repented
Of his bad temper. and he had brought
with him a twopenny bunch of yiolets
as n peace Offering. 1t struck him, as
he opened the door, that there was az
: unusual echOing In the passage. Clos
ing the door behind him, he shouted
"Dorothyw There was no reply.
"She can't be sulking still?" he sale
: to himself. THAT is not like Dodie
Where are your he cried again, push
ing open the door of the sitting room
He half expected to feel a pair o.
warm arms around his neck as he di,
so, but there was no sound of an,
kind. The room was dark and cold
| WIFI unktln lit III lllG E4o
The cold light fell on n black CRATE
= Evidently the fire had not beel
touched since he left in the morning
lie ran from room TO room, dreadinl
he knew not what as he threw opel
each door. Dorothy was not there. No
did he notice that their bedroom win
dow was open and that the draugh
caused by his opening the door hal
sent a scrap Of thin paper on whic
I Dorothy had written n farewell mes
snge futterng to the floor. He gaze
round the deserted bedroom. noting TIA
Z signs OF packing. and the truth burs
e. on him. He felt as IL she had dice
Then suddenly n revulslon Of feelin
=, came upon him.
''She can have no heart after all,
leave me when she knew I was in sue
trouble" he said. savagely. He turne
left the house and never entered
e again a month later the landlor
10 seized the furniture for rent and Il
e the place to another tenant.
I'll Dorothy woke next morning with
.el painful sense Of something dreadfl
n having happened, and she instlnctivel
N listened to learn whether her husban
v was up. Then she remembered. 81
q had been careful TO leave her address
II so that Everard might have no DIFF
Guilty in tracing her, and she had j
1, doubt that he would turn up some tin
,. during the day TO scold her-she dete
y mined that she would submit to Il
4 scolding without a word-but, at an
- rate. to take her home.
She did not go out all that day, lei
she should miss him, but he new
y came When night fell she would ha,
" been glad to go back OF her own a
70 cord, but her pride forbade her an
she remained where she was. Surei
a she thought, he will come to-morro,
But that day too, passed. and Dorotl
ii began TO realize that her husband he
D. taken her at her word.
he AS a matter Of fact on the mornir
OF the second day Everard had lie
- word where he was to be found at q
y house agents office and inserted oil
W or two advertisements In the daily D
T. pers-he could not AFFORD magyar
b. then he told himself he could do !
more, Dorothy was dead to hini-lo
in the great whirlpool Of London.
a year went by, and Dorothy. pa
and thin and shabby. was slowly dra
a cling her way through one of the gre
C. thoroughfares. Her heart was heav