The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-30

the graceful pepper trees, were TILED
with smart carriages and-of course
this won't be very interesting to YOU
but you must remember L mad been
for a year living on the desert-there
were any number Of pretty women
exquisitely gowned. 1t was the first
sight I had had of civilization since
left home, and I'm not ashamed TIC
confess that just for a moment l felt
rebellious against my lot. | had never
known what poverty meant until that
moment when l was positively gaping
with astonishment to see people nv
ing the kind of life which used to
only a short time ago. Ny love
seemed to guess what was in my
mind. He urged me again to leave
him and go back to the life to which,
he said, my gay nature belonged. You
can imagine 1 didn't allow him to talk
like that for long.
81 must tell you there was one
house particularly which I thought
was the most beautiful l had ever
| seem. 1t was built in the old mission
| style with a large open courtyard.
| The walls were covered with creepers
| of every hue-a mass of a hundred
radiant blossoms blending a hundred
perfumes. Around the house was a
big, smooth 1awn-a green lawn,
grecner than any green you have ever
| seen--and here and there were some
tropical plants and spreading palms
and orange trees and several big gold
en- oranges were lying OF the grass.
You can imagine that it seemed hard
to have to turn ones back on such a
paradise to go and look for cheap
lodgings for the night!
81 wonder whether you will be
ashamed of me if I tell you that the
tears came to my eyes. l blinked
hard and wouldn't let them get
through, but l couldn't help them
bursting up. Yet when l felt my dear
husbands hand in mine l knew at
once that I was truly happy. Imagine,
please, right in the middle of the
street a big live oak with a little seat
underneath it. Here we sat for a few
moments to rest and watch the car
riages drive by, and to admire that
enchanted garden with it's fairy-like
house that really might have been
built of flowers.
"'Do you think we should be any
happier if we lived there?' my hus-
band asked.
Yes l said, but I am much hap
pier just to have you than any thing
else in the world. l don't envy any
body their beautiful homes or any
other thing, since they have not got
you
Suppose lie said, you could have
ME and that house, too, and
LETS imagine it, I said.
1--WE ought to know what the in
'ide looks like he said.
- was just thinking of that 1
aid.
I'm going in he said.
We'll, do you know, he got up and
inferred the gate and strolled across
he lawn and into the house, and
here was I actually trying to drag
lin back, thinking he must have gone
mad.
PIease don't go any farther 1
said. What viii people thinko You
me dreadfully ashamed
Well, its our house he said.
"And-weiI, it was. that's all. VIII
you believe that this ridiculous hus-
of mine, for all of this time. !
las been putting my love to the test,
He pretended to me, from the first.
be poor-and he has all this wealth.
He wanted to see whether my love
would stand the test of poverty,
"And-oh, there is so much to saw.
and this letter is really too long all
ready, but I am to ask YOU to come
and stay with us, and when the win
ter Is over, we T to go EAST for
awhile. and then go to Europe for
our honeymoon-'-Chicago Daily
News.