Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-11-07

one certain event OF mortality. wa
calculate the probable effect Of ouy
demise, as we do other changes In tho
mercantile and social world. Bv the
terms of this will, as was about to
remark, my property, with the excep-
ton of legacy to Harriet Field. Is di-
vided equally between yourself and Ed
ward. And he Is appointed sole ex-
ecutor. In the event Of my death he
will be your nearest connection and saf-
est adviser. | wish you to remember
this. 1t is hardly to be expected that
you, although fair judge of character
should be as conversant with the oual-
tiles that At him TO assume these re-
sponsibilities as ] am. who have been
his business partner ever since he was
twenty-one."
He was astonished that his wife. in
stead OF rendering a submissive verbal
acquiescence to his spoken and writ
ten decree, began to weep so violently
as to hinder herself from listening or
replying to his speech. She had never
conducted herself in this irrational
fashion before in his sight. and he was
naturally exceedingly perplexed. Aware
that any attempt to soothe her would
be awkward work to him. ne lay quiet
for minute, hoping the emotion would
expend itself without his interference.
Finally, he adjudged It to be but reas-
enable that she should set the bounds
of her grief at point somewhat short
of Mysteries or commissions, and adj
dressed her with the most stringent APP
peal he could think Of.
Really, Constance 5your agitation is
exciting me most unpleasantly. | fear
| shall be feverish when the doctor
calls, II this sort of thing is kept up"
He did not mean to be unkind or sell
fish. He believed his health to be of
supreme Importance in her esteem. and
that the recollection Of this would set
her to rights. The experiment succeed
ed to a charm. The sobbing flow Of
briny drops was stanched on the in
slant.
81 beg your pardon, stammered Con-
stance, Strengthening herself up. 81 will
control myself better hereafter. 1t is
time for your cordial. May | pour 1t
out for your"
1t was inevitable that the confession
she had meditated, while he told her Of
his arrangements for her future, be-
traying with child's artlessness the
perfectness of his trust in his brother
| and in herself, the full outflow of pen
itence, and depreciation, and entreaty
for pardon, of which the tears were
but the type and premonition, should
be checked by the querulous reference
to his personal discomfort But the sud
den and disagreeable reaction induced
| by it was hardly an excuse for the hard
ening of her heart and dulling of the
sensibilities, just now 50 tender, which
filed her mind with sullen resentment
against him who had repelled her con-
hdence. He will meyer understand
me. We are as antsg6nistic as oil ano
water" she excused this by thinking
The more closely initiate his icy pro
priety the better matched we shall be
was a fool to imagine anything else. ;
And thus slipped by the fairest chance
OF reconciliation and real union that
was ever offered the ill-assorted pair.
With Mr.. Withers' returning strength
everything seemed to fall back into the
old train. Except that invitations were
less frequent as the season waned, ant
that Edward and Constance passed
fewer evenings abroad and more a
nome, that Mr.. Withers rode TO hi,
once every morning and returned a
noon, to spend the rest Of the day upor
the sofa In the library exchanging hi
after dinner for an easy chair in tn,
parlor, the mode of life in the house
mold varied in no important respec
from what it had been prior to his acct
dent.