The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-11-03
husband and Aunt ,uli. were in tn.

NU0oon0 ana Aunt Julia were In the
same room.
Aunt Julia, It seems to me that |
we've been awfully selfish, Nell and I.
We have kept you SO busy looking aft !
er u comfort that you have had no
opportunity to go ahead with your spir-
itualistic researches. This, cheese In
cident has decided me. I shall hunt p
really good seance within tw%enty-four
hours"
His evident sincerity treasured even
Eleanor, while Aunt Julia emerged
from her baptism of tears radiant al a
rainbow at the prospect.
Jack, I've simply got to go, too. I've
always been simply crazy for a chance
to see one OF those delightfully."- spooky
seances. Don't you think you could
manage 1t SO that we might go to"
My dear wife" interrupted winth-
your levity on such a subject is pain
full to say h least. Religion, whether
1t happens to be our W or not, is
never to be made a matter Of anuse-
ment."
Eleanor looked as If she simply
could not believe the evidence Of her
own ears. Jack had always fairly
hooted at he idea of S%piritualism, and
now he was encouraging Aunt Julia
in 1t as II 1t We're something really
respectable Inc orthodox. Eleanor her
self was the product Of a long line OF
Calvinists OF the most i-rreproachable
type:
There. there, Jack; Eleanor is just
t~houghtless. She didn't mean a mite
of harm. Not but what. I think you're
right. Young folks today don't o
did In my day." then relapsing into
te%arfulness. If this is the means OF
my hearin' your dear, dead uncle's
voice again, Jack. every mite of my
money goes to you and Eleanor out O.
sheer gratitude"
Winthrop, but a long suffering diges-
ton is not conductive to virtue, and
Jack was not SO. ashamed as he might
have been. Besides the situation a
arrived at such dimensions that ac-
ton, and prompt action, was neces-
sary.
He and Eleanor had been surveying
the diminutive balance in the bank
book with misgiving, but Winthrop had
inwardly decided that he was willing to
reduce 1t still further. Moreover he
was a business man, and of the cor
price, and that with a due amour OF
caution he might manage.t to corrupt a
medium. To all Eleanor's pleadings for
light on the situation he remained OBJ
durately silent, n when he sailed
forth with Aunt Julia, arrayed in all
SAAS 6A0OA4A ,O4 ANO 0SSS ON ON4 uPO1x
his arm, there was a wicked twinkle
in his y which i'll beftted the situa-
ton; u Eleanor could only guess.
They returned an hour later-in q
cab. Aunt Julia was voluble and tear
full.
"oh. my dear. my dear, I'VE seen It
Il mean Ive heard shim-Oh, I am that
Mustered I don't know what I mean
your dear uncle-he-he wants me to
go back to Massachusetts right off
says he can't rest when anybody but
me tends to his grave-and he don't
think them red flowers I planted Is h
proper thing for a cemetery The
rest was drowned In q flood Of tears.
Eleanor's eyes flashed angrily at her
guilty looking husband. as she drew
the weeping woman into the house.
"Dearie, I've just got to pick right
up and get back home; but I'll cook
you plenty of pies and things 80 you
Won't starve for a whiie. It don't seem
right to leave you two innocent lambs
here without any one to o o q
mite-but I'll nave to go. To think of
me keeping your poor dear uncle from
his we'll earned rest'=
There, there, Aunty, we shall man
6 very we'll. We can board for a
while until we are able to get a good
maid"
able to Worm out of the obstinate
Jack, but the enormity of his offense
she judged by the fact that his peni-
tence took a practical mode Of express
sion in the purchase OF a handsome
travelling rug for the deceived Aunt
Julia, which nearly finished the bal
ance." When she ~expostulated with
him he said, stoutly:
My dear girl, I saw that things had
arrived at such a pass that even our
mutual affection wouldn't stand the
strain much longer. 1t was O case of
divorce or d~eception-and 1 chose the
latter-anyway, 1 believe the poor old
thing was homesick all the time"