The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-13

r,,is &c the story of man who was
HE till he was married, and then
his unhappiness passed into the COM
orotive degree. Seven years had
-, Jennings wooed his Rachel, and
4,.,,ob in the end he married her, yet
of+en doubted whether he had won
hoar+ It was undeniably true that
his caresses were distasteful to her,
I'D that she tolerated with bare polite
noes the slightest expression of affec-
+ion before others.
why did she marry him? There were
o.;+ics unknind enough to say the cause
.,,tobt have been found in the loneli
,oss of her environment. In short, she
ms %. the fairy prince she might have
,,,olcomed never came riding to her
door. Jennings was a rising lawyer
ond could give her the opportunities
,or soul craved. Therefore she married.
II was unfortunate that Jennings
,ock of SAVIOR faire took the form it
ain for in other directions he was
man of force. The world recognized
chat 2 career lay before him, and be-
cause success commands success he
was beginning to find every day new
chances of promotion. In every direc
+ion but the one he had arrived" very.
fast during the past year, but he ton-'
fessed to himself with touch of de-
spair that he could not melt by hissde9
voted attentions his wife's cool matter
of-fact indifference of manner toward
him. Indeed, he suspected that his very
tboughtfulness often bored this domes-
tic marble statue of his.
Frank Jennings got his big inspira-
ton one night when they were at the
tbeater. The play was THE Tanning of
the Shrew,'' with Ada Rehan in the
title role. 1t struck Jennings forcibly
that the handsome, well-gowned, cool
eyed young woman by his side had de-
cided points of resemblance to Shake
speare's heroine, and he wondered if
she did not need a course of Petruchio
revised to meet the needs of TWEEN
tieth century standard. He resolved
that he would play the doting husband
no longer.
And so it happened that when he had
seen her safe home after the play he
told her negligently that he was going
10 run on to the club. She looked lit
tie surprised, but assented carelessly
enough. Jennings did not find the club
very amusing, but he was not the man
to give up a thing he had set his will
upon. Next evening he announced an
engagement with a college classmate
He did not get home all night, and next
day he telephoned that he would be de-
tanned till late on business. On Satur-
day afternoon he went on a long wheel
ing jaunt with his law partner, and re-
turned home weary enough to sleep
round the clock, so that again Rachel
had the evening to herself. She was
a very angry young woman. His at
tentions might be quite a matter of
course to her, but she decidedly object
ed to his offhand neglect of her. She
had been much sought after before her
marriage, and her pride was in arms
But that same pride of hers prevented
any intimation to her husband that she
felt aggrieved and her ex-slave went his
way smilingly in apparent unconscious
ness of any neglect. He was no longer
fond and uXorious, but as jauntily in
different as one could well be. To
Judge from his manner he could not
have told the color of the ladys eyes,
and yet he was so interesting and gay
mat the Cndnge IN MIN CndlleuSeu hSl
admiration and her pique. She re-
sented his genial aloofness, and at the
same time she found herself somehow
fascinated by it. A woman likes to
know that there are recesses and re-
serves about her lover that she has
never penetrated. Her interest is stim-
ulated by the hint of mystery.
Rachel Jennings thought more about
her husband in the next few days than
she had before for many years.
IF he had courted me in this way
he would long ago have carried me off
my feet" she thought, ruefully. Il
wonder what has come over him. He
is suddenly transformed from a COM
monplace domestic fixture into an in
teresting study. But I'll show him he
can't break away without a by-your-
leave"
She got herself up in the most fetch
ing way, did this modern Delilah. New
er siren sang more bewitching songs
than did she to her lord and master.
Never did more appealing eyes lure coy
man by the flashing light that lay in
them. But all in vain. He was genial
enough. good comrade in an aloof
way, but plainly conscious Of her lit
tie wiles. She began to think that
Men are April when they WOO, De-