The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-07-21

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happy to say 1t was.
We didn't fail to be recognized.
What pleasure is there In being Q
bride IL people do not know It?
The Professors sister welcomed me
kindly to my new home. She seems
to me colorless sort Of person-jus1
background, you know. The PROBES
sor Is not the sort of man that needs
background.
He doesn't stand out himself.
Now, I do.
chose my husband with that dis.
tinctly in mind, and I am glad to find
that his sister is like him.
have been all through the house
looking for that fine old mahogany
furniture that Cousin Elsie saw. There
is not piece to be found. All the fur
niture is cheap, tawdry stuff that
might have been picked up at the
secondhand stores. There is not q
decent room in the house. Even the
Professors study is painfully shabby.
There is no silver, no cut glass, no
china; and (indeed, / blush to say it,,
there is scarcely anything to eat.
don't believe the professor is properly
nourished.
What does It mean?
Why am ! not given the keys and
put in charge? Do they expect me
to occupy subordinate position In
my own home? Do they take me for
child?
When will all my new dresses be
worn? Shall we be invited anywhere?
Gould we ever entertain in such
house as this?
What can it mean?
I must know or I shall lose my
mind.
I have had talk with the PROBES.
sor about his income. His salary is
only two thousand dollars. Cousin
Elsie was mistaken about that, as she
was about the furniture and silver.
/ have been deceived.
told the Professor so.
Things are much worse here than
they were at home. l had better re.
NAMED there-far better.
said so.
The Professor looked infinitely sad,
but he made no reply.
have talked with his sister also.
She begs me to let her keep the place
she occupies, as the many petty econ
omies she finds necessary would be
100 humiliating for me.
She told me more.
When the Professors father died he
eft his estate encountered with debts
There were also many debts of honor.
rhe Professor insisted that they
should all be paid, if he had to live in
poverty all his life to do it. Also, he
his mother and an invalid
lister.
Instead of having two thousand dol.
ars for the household expenses, we
re living on two hundred, for any
hing / know. | am sure it looks like
Now, indeed, is the time to act.
Let me consider.
If there were any difficulties, was
Ding to say: II will return to my
lther's house." Well, suppose I say
lat. What then? Suppose the Pro-
'ssor were willing to sacrifice every
ling for me- What is 1t that I should
,k him to do?
Repudiate all debts of honor?
Send his mother and sister to the
,orhouse?
Could do that?
Isn't the Professor the noblest man
! earth?
But might 60 home and wait. 1t
ould be pleasanter there.
Would it?
Could l forget that look in the Pro.
ssor's eyes last night?
Do l love him?
That question has been asked be-
re.
Kate, my dove, can you come to
e?"
The Professor is always calling me
5 dove. Is there anything dove.like
out me?
my darling, can see that you are ;
ffering. This is no fit nest for such s
tender bird. was wrong in bring. (
g you here. was selfish, brutally
fish, to think of tightening my bur. 6
MS by sacrificing your young life. 6
~ were happier in your childhood's
me. 1t is still open to you. You I
n 60" .
"And leave you! Leave my noble
sband! And be tortured night and !
y by the sight of your sad eyes? If
an tighten your toll ever so little, If ,
IAN bring one ray of light into your .
I'd life"
MY precious dove!" .
The Professor asked me to-day If +
ed old mahogany furniture. l don't +
actly dote on it, but it is better than y
lat we have: so he took me I'm IN