The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-11-08
HIS WIFE'S ]
REVENGE
CHAPTER vIII-(continued.)


CHAPTER VIIl-(continued.)
When he had gone the young girl
wife was in despair. To go back to
her father would be to confess that
her husband had deserted her.
So she determined to try and earn
her own living. She was clever with
her hands, and her father, who was
practical man. had let her serve an ap-
premiership as milliner in her own
town.
She had, therefore, means of live
| lihood if she could get situation. She
went about the West end for several
days in search of one, and at last OBJ
tanned what she wanted at big estab-
lishnlent 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 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 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 sum
which would give his daughter Ell a
week for life.
He also left an affectionate letter for
his daughter, in which he explained his
reasons for disinheriting her.
Had left you the little fortune that
I have accumulated by years of indus
try, every farthing would have found
it's way into the possession of your
,, scamp of husband, who would have
| squandered it,"
| May Wilson mourned for her father
| without resentment. In her heart she
knew that the will was 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-
! OH. 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 single woman
and had explained her reasons, and
the few letters she had received from
him since the commencement of his
penal servitude had been addressed to
Miss Wilson.
May Wilson went out alone and did
her shopping. In the crush and push
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
gested it. She liked Frank Allister
AID had accepted his friendship and
that of his sister in neighborly spirit
Loyal i'll every thought to the hus
band of whose existence her compan
ions were unaware, the possibility o.
another mans friendship for her ripen
ing into love had never suggested it
.elf.
But with Jane Cheney's words ring
ing in her ears she saw things in {
1ew light.
A pure minded, gentle hearted wo
nan, without an atom of vanity or co
! 'uetry IL her nature, she knew tina
he was still young and attractive, and
remembering how frequently tn,
Young novelist had sought her society
:he did not attempt to comfort hersel
!, with the thought that the kind hearte
andlady had misinterpreted his sent
;ments.
What should she do? What ough
ne to do? Mr.. Alhster had said n
.. word to her that would justify her /
!. asking him to accept her confidence
IN tie subject Of her true position.
But he might sneak such a word