Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-03-02

suppose" she said satiricallS
onder why why you are RI
to me. Haven't you learne
ough | may have been made in
)ral coward, I'm not a physica
/? Don't bully and threaten
eless."
t my hand strongly on he
r-taunts and jeers do no
e aside. What did 20,
repeated.
yoVr hand off me-" she com
It did you mean?" | repeated
Don't be afraid TO answer.
Vas very young-so the taun
en-. 81 was about TO tell you,
e, when you began to make
ssible."
k advantage of this to eXtri
yself from the awkward pc
IN which she had put me
Y hand from her shoulder.
a going to leave" she an
1.
forgot that you are my wife,
not your wife" was her an.
nd if she had not looked so
2, there in the moonlight all
;, | could not have held myself
(, so insclent was the tone and
less of ever being able to win
she make me feel.
are my wife and you will stay
tn me- | reiterated, my brain
my own, and shall go where
and do what | please" was
emptuous retort. why won {
reasonable? Why won't you
utterly unsuited we are? |
k you to be a gentleman-but
lan, and be ashamed even to
detain a woman against her
s. up a chair so close to her
retreat, she was forced to sit
broad window-seat. Then |
myself. by all means, let
easonable,' said |. Now. let
ain my position. | have heard
your friends discussing the
{ marriage you've just been
ng. Their views may be
laybe more civilized. more
I'd than mine. No matter.
re not mine. | hold by tho
,dards-and You are my wife
DO you understand" All
TRANQUILITY as if we were dis
fair weather. And YOU will
TO the obligation which the
= service has put upon you.
light have been a marble stat
stalled in that window seat.
married me of your own free
: you could have protested to
icher and he would have Sus-
on. You tacitly put certain con-
IN our marriage. | assented TO
nave respected them. |
ntinue to respect them. But
YOU married me, you didn't
a dawdling dude chattering
ID ideas with his head full
tinism. You married Il man.
t man is your husband"
ed, but she made no comment
ven by gesture or movement.
ply sat, her hands interlaced
lap, her eyes straight upon
say let us be reasonable"
We'll, let us be reasonable.
nay come time when woman
free and independent. but
he is a long way off yet. The
S organized on the BASIS of
Tomans having a protector
v decent woman's having a
1, unless she remains in the
4 some of her blood-relations.
nay be women strong enough
he world at defiance. But you
one of tbem-and you know it.
We shown it to yourself again
in in the last forty-eight hours.
inginS-up has kept you a child
knowledge of real life. as
ished from life in that fash
dollhouse. If you tried Ia as
ir so-called independence. You
Ie the easy prey of q Sound
coundrels. When ]. who have
the thick Of the fight all my
. have learned by many q sur.
nd defeat never to sleep ex-
IA the sword and gun in hand.
eve open-when I have been
as Roebuck and Langdon
st trapped me-what chance
woman like you have?"
lid not answer or change ex-
Ia.
hat say reasonable or I'M
ble?' | asked gently.
'onable - from your stand
she said.
,azed out into the moonlight,
the sky. And at the look i'm
e. the primeval savage in me
to close round that slender
hroat of hers and crush and
intil IL had killed i'm her the
| of that other man which was