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

while, ana IL Will all come right. L
will be kinder to you, you shah see
DIR. Peele, you shall do anything you
like; but you must not, shall not go
away
| There was pause. Then came the
answer TO this outburst in a very
weak voice.
Ned Ned What do you mean?
You don't care for me-you almost
hate me. Why do you want me to
stay?'
Why do you want to make a scan
dal? For you know it would be a
scandal, whatever reason we might
give. What would people-what would
Lord Kildonan say?"
''Oh, Ned, For Heavens sake don't
let me think you only want to keep
me here for-thati"
Don't make a scene for goodness
sake, and fill the house with walls
and groans in the middle of the night.
| only want to keep you here because
It's right and proper and better for a
wife to remain in the same house with
her husband, whatever their mutual
1
that we are not the most ATTACHED
couple in the world, if you wouldn't
go about signing and making a long
race ike heroine of opera. Look
here; promise me you will stay here
quietly until-until the winters over.
and then If We don't get on any
better, and ii you still think a change
would do you good, you shall go away
somewhere for a little while. There
now, you've behaved beautifully all
this time for the sake of DIR. Peele.
that he might be satisfied you were
happily married. Bear up to the eno
for his sake, If you won't for mine. |
tell you you are quite wrong; it is not
as you think; it is not to keep people
from talking | want you to stay here;
1t is because | am harassed and over
worked and driven, anf If | a left to
myself here, the Lord knows what will
become of me. For mercys sake.
Alma, stay till the spring, and | will
be better husband to you, | swear
1T. Promise, Alma, promise"
There was a long pause, and an
other of those quivering signs which
had first reused Armathwaite from his
sleep. Then sound like a faint,
heart-broken laugh came to the young
doctors ears.
IF | stay till the spring / shall get
my change for nothing, Ned. L
promise"
There's good girl. Now know
you must be dying to get to bed
You look awfully tired Good night"
Good night"
There was the sound of brief. per-
functory kiss, and in a few minutes a.
mans steps came stealthily along the
corridor past Armathwaites room.
Again the young doctor heard the
long-drawn signs of the lonely woman.
But he could bear it no longer. I'm
derstanding by this time that com
munication had been established be-
tween the two rooms to enable the
late proprietor of the house to keep
constant unseen watch over any one
of his patients whose case rendered
such precaution desirable, he cut
the communication off by transferring
the pillows to the foot of the bad.
where he passed the remainder of the
night without further disturbance.
But he had little more rest. The
astonishing nature of the revelations
he had just heard, as well as of the
accident by which they had reached
him; the emotions reused in him by
the pitful story, and the startling
problems to which it gave rise. kept
him wakeful until long after the late
rising sun OF winter morning had
filled his room with dim and murky,
light
For to Armathwaite, who could not
yet shake off the effect of the un-
accustomed sensations and startling
incidents of the previous day. this
browning experience of the night had
a deeper significance than the actual
words revealed to him. He believed
to begin with, with perfect sincerity
that he had been drawn to this place
by something more than a series of
condolences, to render service to a
woman who was being unfairly used
In what .nis service was to consist.
how 1t was to be performed he did not
know; but the belief made him look
for mountains where, if his Judgment
had been less blassed. he would have
seen nothing but mole-hills. There.
fore, instead of seeing in Lady Kill
domains determined and successful en-.
deavour to keep husband and wife
apart either a mad and jealous pas
sion or cruel and hearless caprice.
he set about imagining what other
motive she could have for what
seemed to him to be ON the face of it
barbarity too inhuman or folly too
outrageous to be conceived. If Lady
Kildonan had been so frantically in
love with Ned Crosmont that the idea
OF his marrying another woman was
fnsupportable to her she would GER
tainly, being clearly lady of most
determined will. have kicked over the
traces of eastleprejudice and de-
finanty married him herself there
fore. since she had not done so. there
must be some motive other than
I jealousy prOmDtinc her, II, this uvicl-aa