Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-10
TWO AND THREE AND ONE.
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first they began to drift away from
each other and to cultivate a diamet-
rically opposed set Of interests.
With constant and unfailing success
In all his business operations, Stuart
did not relax his devotion to their pro-
motion, but rather became every day
more and more absorbed in them
His wealth increased by leaps and
bounds, and a statement made by him
on the witness stand, viz, that he
could not tell from day to day with
in $5,000,O0O. Of what he was actually
worth, was perfectly true.
Mrs. Stuart devoted herself more
and more to purely social life, and
found In this some qualification Of the
same love Of excitement which actu-
ated her husband In his stupendous OPP
erations on Wall street.
Both were envied by the world in
general, yet neither felt that they had
achieved such happiness as to be ft
objects for the direction of envy.
With the birth Of their child, they
seemed drawn closer together for a
time, but this did not last. The child
grew and thrived, but the mother, alb
sorbed in her social duties, and the
father in his business, saw little Of 1t.
The child was boy, and for him
Stuart cherished great ambitions. AS
he had himself taken up the work laid
down by his father, and increased the
family fortunes to a tremendous size,
so this son Of his would in time take
up the work and make the name OF
Stuart rival that of Rothschild in the
markets OF the world.
Yet in the midst of all his successes
Stuart would often stop and ask, him
self IL the game was worth the candle.
He read SchOpenhauer occasionally.
and was much impressed with what
this philosopher had to say upon the
inevitable loneliness and isolation of
the human soul.
was this isolation inevitabIe?"
Stuart asked himself. And he an
swered himself that but one thing
might prevent IT, and that one thing
was-loye
Then he laughed at himself for his
folly. Was not his wife the most truly
admirable woman he had ever known?
And did he not love herr
yet we are not one, as we should
be, to escape that isolation. We are
two-or, rather, three, since we both
love our child so dearly" he rea-
sOned.
"Only a trihing cold" said the emf
nent physician, called In to diagnose
the case Of the child, who did not
seem to be well.
"Only a trihing cold" Stuart reas-
sured himself as he went on, absorbed
in his business.
only trining cold" his wife muir
INJURED as a salve to her own con-
science when she went out to a re-
ceptiOn.
The telephone summoned the man
from his sOfice, the woman from the
drawing-roOm Of friend, to meet by
the bedside Of their dying child.
As they watched the child die there
welled up in the mind Of both hatred
OF that God who could permit such a
thing, and when the fnal moment
came they turned to each other In
agony.
And then, in this moment Of rebel
liOus hatred toward their maker, each
seemed to grasp some measure of His
motive, and, laying his wife's head on
his shoulder, Stuart said softly:
First we were two, and then we
were three-but now, sweetheart we
must be one"
SO ended the loneliness Of the soul
Of each, and 80 began the romance
Of the two who were one.-Utica
Globe.