Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-19
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receive you WHEN ne HedI5 YOU nav
fnsulted me- AS for the people whit
encourage you to this disgraceful be
haviour, we shall take care to have
them stopped from spreading sedlfioI
and discomfort among our tenants"
She called the groom from thu
horses head sharply, wheeled the dog
cart rapidly round, and, still with al
angry and excited face, encountered
Armathwaite, who was standing in the
road. Though unable instantly to as
sumo her usal gaiety, she stopped
wished him good morning with great
cordially, offered to drive him bach
If he was going her way, and appeared
annoyed by the excuse he made that
he was going to see old Blake.
"Oh, he's all right. I've just been
calling there" said she hastily. by
the bye, DIR. Armcthwaite, I've a quar-
rel with you. | hear you have been
encouraging them not. to pay their
rent, which is, l think, little exceed
ing the duties of your profession"
1T would be, certainly, your lady
ship. But am quite innocent of ever
having done such a thing"
"Well, you advised them to go and
worry my husband with their griev-
ances, which Is much the same thing
What Is the use of his having an agent
at all If he is to be leased with trifles
of this sort? You must know, surely,
that a scene such as this old woman
would like to get up-half-a-dozen
dirty-nosed little boys and girls on
their knees on the drawing.room car.
pet, surrounded by all the spare rela-
tives who could be hunted IN and Turn
ed On for the occasion, ana headed by
this old heg herself all weeping and
gna5hing their teeth at opco-would be
quite enough. In tord Kildonan's delt
cate state a. heeitb. to give him an
other fit of the kind h2 ha1 last
autumn. Why d you do i'3
"Wel the.e IS no need to repeat il
at any rate For now that your lady.
ship has once been to the place and
seen how very genuine the distress Of
these poor people Is, you WIN prove
much better mediator for them than
any ragged regiment Of weeping boys
and girls could b"
Lady Kildonan was disple3sed with
this speech though she had to affect
that she was not
"Of course you take their part; you
are not the loser by their obstiuacy.'
II am by their poverty though your
ladyship. Where are my fees to
come from, do you think, unless you,
for instance, beg me TO remit them?"
"Oh, my influence would do nothing!
Mrs. Crosmont had better use hers
No woman can now be in the right,
either with my husband or you, but
Mrs. crosmont"
well, YOU see. no one seems to be
so much in the wrong with her own
husband"
His manner and look were so per-
fectly frank and ingenious that Lady
Kildonan examined his face with great
curiosity as well as mstrust.
"Ah!" she said at last, bending down
and speaking in very low voice, so
that the room should not hear. THAT
is the mans view, of course. You think
that pretty lady. with gold-brown
hair and soft eyes, must be a model
of all the virtues, and a martyr into
the bargain"
'Not quite that" he beean
But she would not let him continue
Something very like it. at any rate, .
she said Now am certain that yes
terday you thought poor Ned was very
harsh to her. But If yen knew what
he has to put up with, your pity
would | think be for him and not for
her. The fact OF the matter is that She
has delusions, and these demsi0ns
lead to esCapades which put the poor
fellow at his wits end. She rambles
about at night like a sleep-N alker; she
shuts herself up In unused rooms and
fancies she hears music played with
out hands; and all the time that her
erartic conduct is driving her husband
mad, she walks about with long face
ana makes everybody think he illtreat,
herl Now don't you think it is rattle,
hard on him?"
why doesn't he try sending he
somewhere for change of air anC
scene, and association? l am goinl
to get DR.. Peele to prescribe her goinj
away at once for
Lady Kildonan's face clouded sud
denly. She drew herself up am
frightened the reins.
You are more complaisant in you
prescription for Mrs. CroSmont thal
you were for me-" she said coldly,
And with a stiff and naughty littl
bow she drove of and left him free Z
enter the little inn. Here he had I
listen to q doleful account of her lady
ships visit. and of her unexpecte
harshness.
Il dunno what's come over her lady
ship of late" said Mrs, Blake, VIII
had begun now to take heart little
as Armathwaite assured her that tn
threat of eviction would certainly no
be carried cut. She was always high
spirited and bit hasty-like, but it,
only the last month or so she's beef