The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12
THE BITER BITTEN.
By Charles Morris Butler. (Copyright, 1905. by Daily Story Pub
 fishing Company

t ny OmaElC8 mOHMn8 DWAhCks | (Copyright, 1905. by Daily Story Pub | fishing Company.
 | When Isabel Stanley married Jason f sturtavant her family thought she was | marrying well" The Stanley family l were quite highly connected" that is | to say, there were rich Stanleys. and | Stanleys who travelled in high so- ciety." who made up the family. The | father of Isabel was an educator | teacher, who at different periods in his | life had been a teacher in country | schools, a principal of city school, and once acted as professor" in col Iege Of course Professor Stanley was not a wealthy man--no teacher Is, who only has q school teachers salary to depend upon. But because ne was an ! educated or professional man he ana l his family had entree in fashionable | society, for a brain worker is always considered better" than mere toiier --or trades person--no matter whether | the latter makes more money or not. Isabel had been educated by her fam- | fly with the intention of making a teacher of her. But she dishked the Idea and chose rather to take position as of1ce girl with the firm of Sturta- want & Crandall. The firm was young. l the owners young also. and finally gturtavant proposed and was accepted and Isabel became Mrs. Stuftavant. Sturtavant was self-fnade man, that is he had started" life when quite young without a dol1ar--conceived of i a machine which would save" human | labor--patented 1t by aid of Crandall's money and straightway become rich. The richer he got "by aid of his own efforts alone" the more pompous and overbearing he became.
 When he married Isabel, 1t was hard
 ly probable that he thought that he | kn ~Aal AU vy,u n At that time. undoubtedly. he thought | himself none too good to marry in the l Stanley family.
 I After a while, however, if he did not regret his marriage. he at least came | to the conclusion that he had not mar | ried the whole family when he mar | ried Isabel. The Stanieys did not press I their presence upon him In the least, but Jason headed off the possibility of | them doing so by refusing to let his | wife pay visits 10 her family or have I the family pay visits to her.
 | One of the Stanley brothers. did once | call upon Jason and his wife, but the visit was cut short by George, when he | became aware of the coolness in the ate mosphere and discovered he was not | welcome. Later cn .the same George. 1 who was man working for living | and at the same time studying law, so- I licited q situation of his brother-in- law. but was politely refused. George | afterward won a case in court, from Jason. which tended to widen the | breach.
 1t was never known what really | caused the breach, but 1t came. Jason | thought it would be real nice to be free agains-and when Isabel had
 "dared" to pay visit to her home, he | began proceedings in the divorce court l against her. Isabel had dared" to be- | Gs.1 fr. An AAe A sick In the midst of wealth and luxury. Of course Isabel put in claim for aIimonY. To thwart Isabel. Jason placed all his financial interests In the name of his partner, "Squint" Crandall, so as to be able to make plea in court that he was but paid empioye of the firm, which was known as the Clarkviile Manufacturing Company.
 'sauint" Crandall--so called on ace count of a peculiar leer he had in his evea. was the man behind the guns of inc Ciarkvilie Manufacturing Company. He had the money and the brains for business. while Jason had the fnven- tive genius" 'sauint" was as homely as A mud fence on a rainy day, but he had a heart that was a heart. diFerent from what Jason thought he had.
 Before the suit came off ''Squint" and tha sfirm" got into a little difiiculty over an infringement of patent, and to complicate matters. assigned all his interess (inciuding Jason's) to young man by the name of Lawrence<1who owned one share in the firm to make the "company" part legal.
 Lawrence had been with the firm since the beginning. He was the first cashier and booitkeeper ever hired by Jason. Isabel and he had been fast friends before she had become the wife of "the boss" Lawrence was model
 aaAs TNFA thing he did was for the Interests of inc firm, and he had proved" himself thoroughly honest and reliable.
 Jason and "Sduint" had perfect con- fdence in Lawrence, for the time being he became the figurehead president Of the firm. When the divorce case came up, Isabel did not oppose the bill. only hung out over the amount or allowance she was to get. She had to compro- nnise on a very small sum when she was toid that Jason was but paid em-
 ploye and did not own a cents worth or Stock in the firm of the Clarkville Manufacturing Company.
 "At last am rid of the Stanley fam
 fly" said Jason to squint, as they sat
 n their private club room. T guess
 that I have paid George Stanley back for that dirty trick he played upon us throu9h that Farnum case. It will
 tai<e that sister of his long time to gst over the stigma of being divorced
 sroman. I hope the few dollars she y,iii get from me and my salary will | So her a lot of good" and he laughed l heartiiy over what he thought good l joke. .z,... +o rasor "9t is A poor way to get revenge upon c.eorse by punishing Isabel. She was a true and loyal wife to you.
 i NO preaching old man said Jason. ..xUhst right had she to go home when sa-hade her to do soT'
 ..xo,, couldn't expect the girl to cut ofg her folks just because you nave
 taken a dislike to them IT sne was
 anvthing like me, I'd just be buil-nead-
 ed enough to resent any sucn com
 yoand as that Suppose she mad re-
 sented the presence Of your reiaeiVes'
 aT,ve cut 'em all out" responded Ja-
 sor hut if I hadn't that would be a
 SJegarent matter. It's my money that
 foots the bills"
 s,Not SO, according to my idea. ..,,fa has tust as much right to nus
 hand's money as has the husband.
 ys,st hacause she marries man is no Stcn That sheN is that mans slave.
 SoS,;t blame George, either, Tor that
 "attar He saw an opening to. become
 nIah and he took 1t. Of course he
 .rornnled on your toes in doing so.
 sIo,n if we had given him any one of
 hsIf dozen jobs in our firm that
 ",ouIdn't have happened, If you did
 W. vsant him in your offlce where you
 o,,Id no see him every day, you could