The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-07-17

on John Cowden." The girl had stiff
ened and redeemed, opening her lips as
if TO speak and then sitting silent. She
had her own ideas on this subject, AS
surfing herself sturdily that man
and his wife should have equal right 10
their united resources, and from her
personal allowance she had long since
decided that helping john should
take whatever she could spare. even
though in open rebellion against her
husbands wishes. she should make
no secret of it, nor yet would she seem
either to beg from him or defy him by
mentioning it beforehand.
Nothing more had been said on the
subject until this evening, when she
had been summoned before her hus-
band He was sitting at his desk in
the library, and his expression, stern
and forbldding, had warned her that
the expected was about 10 happen.
There was no preamble. Il have Il
letter from your father" nc began
abruptly, lin which he says your broth
or has been boasting that his sister,
who has 'bagged millionaire viii
keep him i'm tin hereafter Mr.. Sew
ais voice was very hard, and the
words "baggod a millionaire were
said with a sheer which made Pauline
vince.
1T is quite true" she said evenly,
that | have given him money from
my allowance
4
broke in furiously. The loss of self
control i'm this man seemed 50 impoSsi-
ble and 50 unexpected that his wife
started back in alarm. His voice had
in it all the dCspairing rage of a crea-
ture which feels again the familiar
grip of the trap from which it had
thought itself forever free. Woman
as you are, | wonder that you own 50
much. Before we were married | or
derCd you never TO give one cent of my
money to your worthless scoundrel of
a brother. Have you forgotten it? An
swer me-"
Pauline'S twentieth century spirit rose.
1t was my money, not yours" she
said dcfantly, and why should YOU
order me to do anything? l am not a
child"
You are my Wife
Il suppose you mean your slave"
Il married YOU. Pauline" said Mr.
Sewall, with contemptuous bitterness,
because | thought YOU would make
me an efficient and obedient housekeep-
er. | trusted that your fathers daugh-
ter would have some good sense and
discretion but | see" he continued.
that you are like the rost-without
reason or honor. 1t is not your fault,
l suppose. since you are woman"
Josiah ScwallS miserable experience
had made it impossible for him to
realize the effect of such words as
these on Il sensitive woman who loved
him. Pauline dashed out wildly. You
married me, then, 10 be a servant with
out wages who cannot give up her
place. Very well | have my revenge
for | married you, an old man who
might have been my father simply
and solely for your money Then she
had turned and fled from the room
without another glance at the frozen
figure at the desk.
Pauline shut the eyes Of her imagi-
nation when she thought of the future.
RemorSe, together with many eXtenua-
lions of her husbands words. was al
ready hard at work within her. She
did not 90 downstairs again that night
In the morning when she went to
breakfast her husband had already
gone. All day long she wandered from
one uihing employment to another,
restless and discOnsolate, feeling for
the first time the disadvantage of being
Il rich woman with servants hands to
fulfill all the necessary duties of life.
over and over again she reviewed
deSpairingly the scene of the night be
fore. wondering how she had ever come
TO fling that cruel. haunting lie. but her
own calmer reflections had brought
such quick forgiveness for her nus
band that she grew hopeful for herself.
SO that she was woefully disappointed
when he did not appear at dinner time.
1t was only ut o o'clock that she
heard him come i'm and 20 to the libra
~. Presently lie sent for her. and she
went to him with most contrite spr-
it, determined 10 do her utmost by apol-
ogy and Cancellation. no matter what
he might do or say. But she was scarce
~ prepared for the ominOuS wilderness
of his set face or the iudgelike stern
ness of his demeanor as he sat at his
desk with a couple of official looking
documents under his hand
Pauline stood before him. hesitating
appCalingly. Her husbands eyes met
hers without change from their stony
calm. All at once it came over the girl
what task she had undertaken 80 TO
make this hard old man of the world
love and trust an undisciplined and i'm.
experienced creature like herself-and
how miserably and soon she had come
~ utter failure.
Josiah Sewall looked at his wifes
face, paling and flushing. and at her
quivering lips. He believed she had
spoken the truth i'm her anger the night
before. He saw nothing in her express
sion now but fear of the consequences
And Pauline. OH her side. saw only the