Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-18
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my fingers to help him? 1 tell my
husband don't care to wear jewelry-
he thinks what trinkets 1 once mad
are locked up in my dressing-case.
But they are not. They were sold,
long ago, to pay Ned's debts"
But how did you manage to dispose
of them without your husband S
knowledge?"
"Oh, Ned goes to Liverpool once a
month, sometimes oftener, on my hus-
bands business. He sold them"
ITO pay his own debts II was an
infamous thing to dol"
Don't tell him | told you," she said
frightened by his tone. 1T is all right
now. | assure you it is all right now.
| only told you this to show that / am
not the heartless creature you seemed
to think me. But now, now cant you
understand how it is / want to get
away, out of this wicked deceit | am
forced to practice, this life of little lies
and excuses, which make me ashamed
to look my husband in the face? In
few minutes he will be here. He al
ways comes to me before eleven to
wish me good morning. Can't you
persuade him that If he would only
take me away somewhere, to Paris or
the south of France, he would get
quite well and strong himself aud |
should eat and sleep again as well as
ever, end we could come together
again, and end by being a regular
Darby end Joan"
IF you can't persuade him to do
what you wish, Lady Kildonan, | am
afraid nobody can. AS for your hus-
bands health, | seriously thinF you
nave the care of that in your own
hands. III you were to put 4 stop to
his night studies, and were 20 take
him with you on your long drives, 1t
would not as you fear, try him too
much, but would, on the contrary,
brace him up and tire him just sufn-
GENTLY to make him too sleepy for that
killing and unnecessary night-work he is
so much attached to-
Lady Kildonan could not conceal her
distaste to this proposal,
Really" she said with irritation,
"one would think was to blame for
his fancy to work at night"
"Oh, no, am merely showing you
how to cure him of 1t. II you care
and / am sure you do care, Lady Kill
donan-to begin the cure by taking
your husband for long drive every
day-three hours at the least.
promise you | will do my best to in
duce him to finish his cure at some
foreign springs"
She seemed to be balancing the
future gain with the present sacrifice.
Springs, she echoed at last with
q sigh you don't mean some place
where there is just pump and an
Inn? Because one might as well be
here"
mo. don't" said Armathwaite
smiling, 81 mean place with big
hotels, and bands, and balls and a
promenade which shows off pretty
dresses and-their wearers."
Agreed" she said hastily. and she
gave him her hand to close the bar
gain just as slow rat-tat was heard
on her door, She ran to open IL her
self. and received her husband with
an effusiveness which, to Judge by the
flush IL brought to his plain face, was
KS unusual as II was evidently well
come. She had prepared for his visit
during the last few minutes by twist
ing up her disordered hair into a loose
coil which she deity harpooned with
a quantity of little gilt pins. He took
of his spectacues a. she led him for
ward leaning on his arm with 1.-THE.
Embarrassing inclination which had
the appearance of rendering him stiff
and constrained, but which caused
his grey eyes to glow with tender
light as he glanced shyly down upon
her, To Armathwaite, as they ad-
vanced, they made a beautiful picture
until Lord Kildonan withdrew his
right hand from his wife to shake
hands with the doctor. and lightly
patted her shoulder with his left as he
did so. At the aGectionate touch. Lady
Kildonan gave slight but malicious
grimace ana shrug of the insulted
shoulder. both directed 10 Arma-
thwaite and unseen by her husband
In an instant the young mans admira-
ton turned TO disgust and repulsion
as surely as IL he himself had been
the victim of the heartless trick: all
the faisehood that disloyal women can
use TO their masters seemed to be en-
bodied In that hypocritical caress,
and he felt on the instant in arms for
his sex, the more that he felt inclined
to doubt whether few minutes previ-
ously he himself had not had narrow
escape. The rugged face of the elder
" Seotchman. beaming with honesty
and kindness, seemed 10 him, in this
new frame of mind. 10 show onl'- more
attraction. but absolutely more beauty,
than the fair features OF wife who
could he Indifferent TO so much afrec-
ton.
lord Kildoran's one thousht. snd-
ting thu doctor so early with his wife.
was anxiety lest she should have hesr'
~ without letting him know. She
told him. sinkiug asain into her chair
nv the FIRE that II was nothing more
serious than her old enemy. sleepless-