The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-12

the poor. She thought also OF using it
TO establish a ward in some hospital In
memory Of her grandmother. and doz-
ZEN other splendid schemes presented
themselves to her.
At the end Of the first six months she
found that her savings amounted to
eighteen dollars. She had bought an
lextra hat out of her surplus, so that it
was not as great as she had expected
lit to be.
At the end OF the year, however. the
eighteen dollars was gone and Mrs.
tspooner had to confess to her husband
THAT she was seyenty-four dollars ''iif
the hole"
They sat down to consider the mat
tier. Evidently something was wrong
somewhere They found out before
they had figured very long what it was.
Things had been going up. 1t was ne
cessary. therefore, to fix the allowance
with a new set os estimates. When
they had done this Willie found. not
:without certain misgivings, that he
would have to give his wife two hum
bred and twenty dollars more for the
lsecond year than they had originally
agreed upon. But she braVely prom
ised to get along on the new allowance.
mo matter what happened.
In few months it became apparent
to Mr.. Spooner that something had
come into his wife's life which she was
| keeping from him, 1t frequently hap,
.pened that he found her with pencil and
paper deeply interested. At such times
she would quickly put her writing ma
tterials away and evade his questions.
He became convinced that she was
leading double life. When this
thought first suggested itself to him he
staggered as if some one had dealt him
a blow with a bludgeon. As the days
passed the conviction that he was a
Wrongad man grew upon him.
He searched in his wise's desk when
she was not looking for letters from
the other man, but he found only re-
ceipts from the butcher. the grocer, the
milkman, the iceman and others with
whom she had regular dealings. Still
it was clear that she was wronging
him. She would start and look guilty
when he approached her stealthiIy
4 from behind, and always she kept putt
ting her paper away and refusing to
explain.
/ AT the office where Willie spooner
was employed 1t was noticed that he
could not keep his mind on his work
He would often jump up from his desk
and pace the floor, and deep lines be.
gan to appear in his broad, high fore
head. He got excused for the purpose
Of shadowing his wife, and he followed
1 her from the butchers to the grocer's
and watched the entrance of his house.
one day the icet1an remained in the
kitchen rather longer than was neees-
sary and Willie Spooner harbored deep,
dark suspicious against him.
i ALI this time the once beautiful Maui
die was being steadily and relentlessly
crushed BY some powerful, wicked
4 force. she never laughed any more;
Il she had dark hollows under her eyes;
her face was drawn and the shabbiness
OF her clothes caused her husband to
make up his mind hiatt she was delib-
erately trying BY assuming dragged
out and poverty-stricken appearance,
Ito throw him off the scent.
Sometimes she made irlcoharent re-
marks about his salary and threw out
hints about the horrors of going to jail,
and she frequently asked If he thought
his employers would ever give him a
raise. Perhaps 1T was because he had
no appetite thatehe failed to notice that
I their meals were not as elaborate as
they had bean at the start, and of
course he could not know that his wife
went to her mothers almost every day
for luncheon merely to save grocery
bills.
Il The inevitable explosion came one
might when the distressed little woman
\ limited that they never ought to have
gotten married. Then Mr.. Spooner
jumped up and shook forensic finger
under his wise's nose and shouted:
Aha! You are tired of me, are you?
who's the other man? Tell me his
name and I'll plunge my arms up to
the elbows In his hearts blood! You
needn't try to conceal him. for I'll hunt
him down if have to follow him to
/ Ceylon or Sleepy Eye or any other OLD
place"
After he had rayed until he was ex-
hausted his wife flung bundle OF bills
lat him, showing that she owed nearly
two hundred and fifty dollars which
/ she could not pay out Of her allowances,
and wanted to know IL her creditors
could put her in jail Remorsefully he
i took her In his arms, promised to settle
/ her debt and assured her about the jail
| business.
But she walled, what are we go-
/ ing to do next year,"
Never mind, darling he said.
There's political campaign coming
lon and I've been reading about the
promises that are being made by the
Headers on both sides. If they shut Off
the trusts and go In for further expan-
sions it'll mean more good times for
Everybody. # they knock out the la
Iriff and set the islands free everything
will come our way. We can't miss it
either going OF coming. Cheer up.
Let's see IL we cant find some cheap
| little fiat where YOU can do the work
yourself and we'll not have to pay for
coal or water Or cutting the grass"
Willie" she whispered looking up
into his glad, manly face.
What is It, darling? #
what will become Of us after they
get to charging 50 much for things that
we can't even live In the little flat?'
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