Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-07
CHAPTER viii-(continued.)

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So she determined to try and earn
her own living, She was clever with
her hands, and her father, who was a
practical man, had let her serve an APP
premiership as a milliner in her own
town.
She had, therefore, a means OF live
Iihood if she could get a situation. She
went about the West end for several
days in search of one, and at last OBJ
tanned what she wanted at a big estab-
lishment in Regent street.
May wrote to the address her hus-
band had given her and told him what
she had done. She received one or
two letters from him, and then she
heard no more until he wrote to in
form her that he had enlisted in a cav
airy regiment and was stationed at
Canterbury.
She went to see him twice, and each
time he endeavored to induce her to
obtain money from her father. He eX-
planned to her that it was to get him
out of a mess"
May went down to her home and
confessed the truth. Her father was
very sorry for her, but declined to
give her a farthing for John Wilson.
Some little time after the old man
died. He had left all he possessed to
a charity, with the exception of a sum
which would give his daughter 81 a
week for life.
He also left an affectionate letter for
his daughter, in which he explained his
reasons for disinheriting her.
Had I left you the little fortune that
| nave accumulated by years of indus
try, every farthing would have found
it's way into the possession of your
scamp OF a husband, who would have
Squandered it,
May Wilson mOurned for her father
without resentment In her heart she
knew that the will was a just one. Her
love for the man who had deserted her
did not blind her to his real character.
The love remained, but the illusion had
vanished.
Before she had recovered from the
shock of her fathers death the I'M
happy girl had another bitter sorrow
to bear
Her husband wrote to her from pris-
on. He had been arrested on a charge
Of forging the check Of one of his
officers and getting cash for it.
Now the girl-wife was widowed in
deed, and there was no one to whom
she could confide her trouble.
She had gone into her situation as
Miss Wilson, thinking it better, and
she had taken the lodgings to which
she had moved after her husbands de-
sertion as Miss Wilson,
Her wedding ring lay locked away
among the girlish treasures she had
brought from her home
She had told her husband of her de-
termination to pass as a single woman
and had explained her reasons, and
the few letters she had received from
him since the commencement of his
penaF servitude had been addressed to
Miss Wilson.
May Wilson went out alone and did
of the crowded pavements, amid the
glare of the endless lights and the
cries OF the hawkers and street sales
men, she tried to put away the thought
that had come to torture her.
But the effort was in vain. During
the years she had been fighting the
battle of life alone she had gradually
separated the lines of her fate from
those of her husband. But now again
they began to cross each other and to
intcrmingle.
1t was as the wife of John Wilson,
convict, that she had to consider the
future, now that she had learned that
a young man living under the same
roof as herself had, believing her to be
q single woman, fallen in love with
her.
No thought of such a thing had en-
tered her mind until the landlady sug-
sested it. She liked Frank Allister,
and had accepted his friendship and
that of his sister in a neighborly spirit
Loyal i'll every thought to the hus-
band of whose existence her compan-
ions were unaware, the possibility of
another mans friendship for her ripen-
ing into love had never suggested it.
self
But with Jane Cheney's words ring
ing in her ears she saw things in a
new light.
A pure minded, gentle hearted wo-
HIrith of nf
quetry il her nature. she knew that
she was still young and attractive, and,
remembering how frequently the
young novelist had sought her society,
she did not attempt to comfort herself
with the thought that the kind hearted
landlady had misinterpreted his senti-
ments.
What should she do? What ought
she to do? Mr.. Allister had said no
word to her that would justify her in
asking him to accept her condolences
on the subject of her true position.
But he might speak such word if
she continued to meet him daily under
the same roof
Her proper course would be to leave
The Winery and seek a home else.
where
These thoughts passed rapidly
through her mind as she made her
way through the gay Saturday night
crowd, so oblivious to what was going
on around her that more than once she
was sarcastically addressed by the
marketing ladies with whom she col
lided.
The noise and the hustling of the
crowd became irritating to her. She
turned out of the busy highway into q
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