Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27

seeing her own husbands love for her
grow less from year to year, until
she sometimes doubted if he loved
her at all.
You do as l say, Lorinda," con-
tinued Emmeline. Il firmly believe
that such a move on your part would
be good thing for both you and Levi.
| wouldn't suggest it, only know
how Levi is all wrapped up in you,
and how helpless he is without you.
He'd do anything in the world to have
you come back again if you went away
for awhile
1t was a day in October when EN-
incline visited her sister. The days
following her visit were peculiarly
tryingdays for Lorinda. Never had
she suffered so many annoyances
from Lewis fatal habit of leaving
tasks unfinished and of postponing
them altogether. The last straw
came on blue Monday" Levi had for
weeks promised Lorinda that he would
put new clothes line posts in the places
of the old ones that had almost rotted
away at the base. He had gone so far
as to bring the posts to the drying
yard, and there they had lain for
weeks when an hours work would
have set then. Lorinda had done
out" ar unusually large washing un-
der good many oificulties. The
wind was i'll a quarter that caused the
etn 70 fo, he 10
that the chimney ought to have been
built three feet higher The pump
was still out of repair, and although
Levi had drawn considerable water
from the well with a rope and bucket,
he had not drawn all that his wife
needed, and she had been compelled to
make three or four trips to the well
of her neighbor. For once in her life
Lorinda was thoroughly indignant. A
climax was reached when the clothes
line posts gave way, and Lorinda's en-
tire washing lay on the muddy ground.
She had been pioneering all day on all
that Emmelire had said to her on the
on the occasion of her sisters last
visit.
A look of fixed determination came
her clothes lying on the muddy
ground. Her blue eyes flashed. She
even stamped her foot in the high tide
of her just Indignation. Finally she
said in a voice quivcring with long
pent-up feeling
That settles it. Those clothes-line
posts will be set, the pump will be
fixed, the chimney will be built up
higher, and dozens of other things will
be done before | ever do another
stroke of work IN this house I've stood
this just as long as I'm going to-"
When Levi came home to supper
that night he found no one waiting him.
The kitchen fire was out. Lorinda
made no response when he called her
name again and again. Levi was be-
coming thoroughly frightened when he
found the following note fastened to
a door by pin run through it,
Dear Levi: l can't stand this any
longer. | mean tie way things are
olOuhd Ou6hb uOl W nave
stood it as long as | have. Maybe
things would have been different if
had taken this step sooner. Now /
am going over to Hebron to Sister EN-
meline's to stay until you have done
everything you have been aiming to
do for so many years. You must
finish this house up inside and out
before | come home. You must fix
the pump and build the chimney
higher, and set new posts for the
clothes line, and do many other things
that need to be done before set foot
on this place again. 1t won't be OF any
use for you to come for me until you
have done all say. / am not coming
back until all is done just as you
know that / want 1t done. You are
so handy that you. can do 1t all with
out much expense II you will only
stick to IT. am tired Of seeing you