The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-29
orER XIV--Continued.

.onder why why you are re-
~ me. Haven't you learned
aongh may have been made in
soral coward, I'm not a physical
4, Don't bully and threaten.
seless.'
1, nv hand strongly on her
,,,-taunts and jeers do not
"a aside What did you
4 | repeated.
IL your hand off me-" she com
A
M did you mean?" | repeated
Don't be afraid to answer. "
!. was very young-so the taunt
her. 81 was about to tell you"
4 ne when you began to make
possible"
ook advantage Of this to extri-
myself from the awkward po-
in which she had put mel
nv hand from her shoulder.
am going to leave" she an
ed.
h forgot that you are my wife"
am not your Wife" was her an
and if she had not looked SO
kDke there in the moonlight all
Mite | could not have held myself
leck, so insolent was the tone and
euless of ever being able to win
.di she make me feel.
n are my wife and you will stay
with me-" reiterated, my brain
be
lam my own, and ] shall go where
Rsse, and do what | please" was
ROntemptuous retort. why won't
Ne reasonable? Why won't you
bow utterly unsuited we are? |
ask you to be a gentleman-but
man, and be ashamed even to
10 detain a woman against her
drew up chair so close to her
10 retreat, she was forced to sit
De bread window-seat. Then |
b myself. by all means, let
\ reasonable" said l. Now, let
Explain my position. / have heard
and your friends discussing the
5 Of marriage you've just been
fsslng. Their views may be
maybe more civilized, more
hnced than mine. No matter.
are not mine; I hold by the
Ftandards-and you are my wife
ne, Do you understand" All
as tranquility as if we were dis
ing fair weather. And you will
Up to the obligation which the
page service has put upon you"
might have been a marble stat
HedeStaled in that window seat.
| Oh married me of your own free
Tlor you could have protested to
preacher and he would have sus-
Fayou' You tacitly put certain con.
Is on our marriage. ! assented to
| have respected them. /
continue to respect them. But
Fsa you married me, you didn't
4 a dawdling dude chattering
[lced ideas with his head full
|oeTunlsm. You married a man,
'nat man Is your husband"
Fated, but she made no comment
even by gesture or movement,
|Hmply sat, her hands interlaced
4 zap her eyes straight upon
~ say let us be reasonable" |
w. Well, let us be reasonable,
may come a time when woman
ree and Independent, but
ule Is long way off yet. The
10 organized on the BASIS of
soman's having a protector
|e! decent woman's having a
s4u, unless she remains in the
VI some of her blood-relations.
Iay be women strong enough
ue world at defiance. But you
Ole OF them-and you know it..
.s.' sc SHOWN 1t tn yourself again
san IN the last forty-eight hours,
~ s,'Hslhgup has kept you "a child
y, knowledge OF real life, as
Il tsu,Sned from life in that fash.
), W. no'house If you tried to as,
sVur so-called independence, you
|, u' the easy prey of a scound-
= 'ouhurelS. When /, who have
NJ. '"e thick of the fight all my
nave learned by many a sur
WIN %au ueteat never to sleep eX-
M" 'u me sword and gun in hand,
VA eye open-when / have been
a h. as Roebuck and Langdon
, 'a'' trapped me-what chance
woman like you have?"
H. uld not answer or change ex-
MAXI "ot ! say reasonable or UNI
s saole'' asked gently.
> ss 49, from your stand
M 'a ~ out into the moonlight,
n. '"e SKY. And al the look in
ma me primeyal savage in me
~ 10 close round that slender
H m,oal of hers and crush and
M ~ VI IT. had killed in her the
b,r'' mat other man which was
pon1 her from marble TO flesh
4 reu and blood that surged. /
udcd my chat. .,-i.L aa.,