The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-07-17
Unheroic Victory.
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things even seasoned and iron willed
man OF the world will sometimes do
when Josiah Sewall impulsively thrust
his hand into his pocket and drew out
handful of bills and loose change.
by heavens" said he, lit is brutal
shame! You shall never AGAIN.
Pauline was on her feet in an instant
flushed and angry, her hands clinched
at her sides.
Il will not touch one cent of your
money because you pity me"' she cried
eXcitedly.
Her husbands face, arrested a mo-
ment in his surprise, hardened again
into the old stern lines He thrust his
money back again into his pocket and
went on as if he had not been inter.
rupted. You shall never again touch
it for any other reason" The anger and
defiance e. her eyes faced the stern
scorn of his, and neither fell.
Then she famed out again. You
were cruel TO me before" she cried,
"cruel and unjust. You condemned me
before you heard, and when | told you
| married you for money you must
have known lied. But you have no
right TO treat me so. | will not touch
your money from pity but | tell you l
will make you give IT 10 me as my
right. | am your wife and it is mine
as well as yours l will make you
Josiah Sewall sat leaning heavily for
ward on the table. His eyes were keen
through lids nearly closed. His face
was white and set, but it was not bit
ter, only the face Of n man who pits
| himself against a well matched oppo-
nent and longs for the bout To begin.
II bet you $4,000 you will never
make me"
Pauline stared at him curiously, with
parted lips. startled out of herself. III
remember that" she said, but mechan-
ically. and then she went past him out
Of the room. Yet by the time she had
reached her chamber she had once
more that self control, had said what
she did not mean. had made Il fool of
herself
Pauline suffered for many days. Mr..
/ Sewall treated her with distant cold
ness. There were no more drives, no
more conversations The poor girl felt
with Il bitter sense of injustice that she
! had lost the precious results of all
these long months for the sake of
moment of bravado How could she
make him give her his money as her
right? she asked herself scornfully.
Should she go I'm her brougham, in her
well made clothes. with all the evil
] i IA. l. L.,
! yer and accuse her husband of nonsup-
/ port? Why. indeed. did she want the
money now at all, excepting for poor
/ Johns sake? To gain her end would
/ be a barren victory if she could not
/ win with it the love and respect of this
/ stern old man whom she had married.
And so Pauline set to work 10 storm
! her husbands stern heart through the
/ twinkle in his eye, to bring about her
rights with jest. which is the only
I way they will ever be gained while
men are men and women are wise.
one day Mr. Scwall was surprised by
a request from his wife to visit i'm BoS-
I ton an elderly aunt whom she had not
! seen since she was little more than
! child
1t was early i'm June, and the request
was the first she had made To him for
J over year Il shall be obliged to ask
/ you TO buy me a ticket" she said
haughtily 1t was evidently an effort
/ to ask so much. Her husband stared at
/ her in surprise He had had a sudden
vision of her, his wife, alone and penni-
less, In u strange city.
"Do you realize he began and
/ broke off again You are not accus-
toned" he went on, rather awkwardly,
ito travelling by yourself. 1 am going
on next week myself. as you know. To
make my quarterly visit ut my Boston
shop VIII you not wait and go with
me?"
Thank you. | believe not" said
/ Pauline quietly II have made my ar
! rangements To go sooner
| Mr.. Sewall saw her off n few days
later with rather curious sensations.
! There had been Il terrible struggle in
| his masterful mind as TO whether he
should not force upon this willful girl
! the money she had so lately refused,
but pride had held him back. He had
also perhaps suspicion that he might
not succeed. He watched her serene
] departure with a mixture Of Impotence
and admiration. but found himself alb
surdly relieved when he got a brief
note a few days later announcing her
safe arrival.
The house seemed lonely enough
without her Josiah Sewall was a stole
at heart, but he caught himself during
these days imagining nervously all
sorts of predicaments into which Pau
lines penniless condition might betray
her and there were sometimes mo-
ments of unaccustomed doubt as TO
whether he had acted always for the
hest toward this second wife of his,
/