Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-16
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FLORENCE WARDEN

more than tears? II was not in human
nature to bear that-and on ones we'd
ding-dayl All the time you were away
| was full of remorse that had been
hard, but | knew even then that you
never thought about it. If you had
would you have stayed in Paris three
weeks after your business in Russia
was done, with bride waiting for
you in England. OF course not
But was in Paris on business, you
know that, with Lord Kildonan!"
And Lady Kildonan. Only the poor
old fellow unluckily let slip, in talk
ing to me afterwards, that it was some
business of your own, and not his,
which kept you so long in Paris! But
don't want to go over the old ground
of wearisome reproaches again. When
you all returned to England together,
you took me on from London with
them: We did not even travel by our
selves. You told me a relation of
yours was going to live with us, and
when we got here we found Uncle
Hugh, who had been my good angel
and my consolation ever since. | was
wounded to the quick; and frankly
own that all the love | had felt for
you when you were kind to me in Lon
don and seemed so passionately, few
erishly anxious to marry me, died
away out of my heart and left me only
bitterly hurt and Disguised But |
was too proud to show it. You remem-
Der how | received your shamefaced,
apologize attempt at an explanation
that first evening, when poor Uncle
Hugh. thinking he must be awfully in
the way, left us in the drawing room
| together"
by Jove. do, II you hadn't treat
ed me as If | had been a dog, II you
had made one appeal to me as wife
to her husband, | should have taken
you to my arms at once and told you,
what ! swear to you solemnly now,
that there has never been between
Lady Kildonan and me the"
Armathwaite could imagine the
dignity with which she interrupted
him:
There are some explanations to
which wife of years standing may
listen, which ought never to be needed
to a BRIDE
well, you were old enough to Know
that you must take a man as you find
him"
How can you complain? listened
to you; made you the only promise
which even at that moment you cared
to ask-that would not let DR.. peele
know the circumstances of our honey
moon. I have kept my promise, and
your place In his will is quite safe
what rubbish are you talking
The doctors will is nothing to me;
he's got his own wife and daughter to
provide for, and I'm quite Independent
fof him or anybody. l only don't want
to hurt the old man by letting him
know We have made failure of IT,"
''Yet you gave the expense as the
reason for selling poor old Gray
Friar,"
well, 1t looks ostentatious for you
to be riding and driving about just
like her ladyship; and besides | want
to save, And you are not strong
enough to ride since you have taken
to these nervous fits"
"You have forgotten too the dangers
dangers of the slippery roads,
Anyhow. I've sold him. and that's
enough. No woman has a right to
poster her husband with questions
as to what he does with his own
money: IL he chooses to cut down
any expense, or in fact whatever he
chooses to DO she must accept the
fact quietly as long as she is kept In
comfort without having to work, and
he does not treat her cruelty
THAT is really your view of married
life?"
Not under all circumstances, per
haps, though most men would even
go so far as that, can tell you. But
there is something in the way you
look at me. the way you have looked
at me ever since we have been In this
house. so repellent. so utterly different
from what any man has right to ex-
pect. that can tell you would pass
the night in the snow on the top of
Skiddaw rather than so much as look
at you
Il think the feuit of that must lie
In your own conscience and not in my
eyes, Ned, For If you would look at
them. you would see as much sorrow
for you as for myself. You are not
happy For weeks past you have
looked harassed and worried. It is not
only my eyes You avoid. but Uncle
/, Hugh's, DR. Peele's. everybody's. Do
you think would have submitted all
: TINS time with scarcely word to the
, humilitating position occupy. not a
|, wife and yet not a free woman,
neglected and vet obedient to YOU, II
| did not feel for you and pity you,
and shrink from giving you tbs least
: annoyance But we can't go on ike
this; think my very presence exas.
perates you now, Let me so away
for my health; since 7 have grown 60
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