The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-10-22
Err xlV-continued.

CHAP Ek NiH-SOiti-
"a oazed at me without fiinching.
4 suppose," she said satirically,
|7.s' wonder why why you are re
e,t 70 me. Haven't you learned
u. .ss though may have been made in
moral coward I'm not physical
.-a2 Don't bully and threaten.
NS useless
mt nv hand strongly on her
81 ,idar-taunts and jeers do not
- me- aside. What did you
MI M" l repeated
FAKE your hand of me-" she COM
4 landed
...rrly Don't be afraid to answer"
H. was very young-so the taunt
wssspg her. Il was about TO tell you,
saId she. when you began to make
III Impossible"
took advantage of this to extri-
cafe myself from the awkward po-
agsgon in which she had put mel |
.ook my hand from her shoulder.
am going to leave" she an
nannced.
you forgot that you are my wife"
saId 1.
am not your wife" was her an
4usr and if she had not looked so
xhEdlike, there in the moonlight all
III ehite. l could not have held myself
d iii eheck, so insolent was the tone aud
III helpless OF ever being able to win
HILL did she make me feel.
You are my wife and you will stay
here with me-" I reiterated, my brain
hi fire
III am my own, and l shall go where
III uaease. and do what | please, was
w. contemptuous retort. why won't
yoxa be reasonable? Why won't you
eee how utterly unsuited we are? l
A9n't ask you to be a gentleman-but
5Hss a man, and be ashamed even to
wfkh to detain a woman against her
viii .
drew up a chair so close to her
thai to retreat, she was forced to sit
ID the broad window-seat Then l
Keated myself. by all means. let
Nh be reasonable, said L Now, let
ese explain my position. have heard
Y9u and your friends discussing the
xaews of marriage you've just been
wxpressing. Their views may be
rE@bt, maybe more civilized, more
a8sanced' than mine. No matter
Xaaey are not mine. hold by the
sla standards-and you are my wife
e~mine. Do you understand" All
snIs as TRANQUILITY as if we were dis
Sassing fair weather. And you will
aVe up to the obligation which the
kAarriage service has put upon you 4"
she might have been a marble stat
Ne pedestaled in that window seat.
You married me of your own free
ilE-for you could have protested to
preacher and he would have sus-
sasned you. You tacitly put certain con
Aasaens on our marriage. l assented to
AAern. have respected them. |
khaal continue to respect them. But
when you married me, you didn't
NaFry a dawdling dude chattering
aFanced ideas with his head full
lbertinism. You married a man.
NM that man is your husband"
waited, but she made no comment
even by gesture or movement.
= sshs simply sat, her hands interlaced
d Is per lap, her eyes straight upon
Naae
gu say let US be reasonable" l
4 MSRt on. Well, let us be reasonable.
i - may come a time when woman
I ss De free and independent, but
r sA tlme Is a long way off yet. The
ald Is organized on the baisis of
h "ohans having a protector
ei! ueeent woman's having a
b ss panu' unless she remains in the
IA 'ms OF some of her blood-relations
A, *ATfe may be women strong enoush
y #@s 'he world at defaace. But YOU
N4s ~ Que OIL them-and you know it.
Ill @3 nave SHOWN it to yourself again
. @ S".n IA the last forty-eight hours.
III gS s'us-up has kept you a child
80 8..4s Nho"ledSe of real life. as
plas s2.ss = u.shed from life in that fash.
+ q &slss 9le nothouse, If you tried TO as
"a VII ! ~ so'ealled Independence, you
ii M. - 'he easy prey of a scound.
II.Na =, :, When /, who have
sss -, 'e IhlcE of the fight all my
Z VINO have learned by many a sur.
q asss w ana defeat never to sleep ex-
y -'u tue sword and gun in hand
cil Ss. eye open-when | have been
VII 81 as Roebuck and Langdon
ino ' : trapped me-what chance
I { woman like you have?"
va sion VI chahse eS-
r wnat say reasonable or nm.
~ aole? asked gently.
7 !, "s sba a, = from your stand
~ sazed out into the moonlight
H. me sky. And at the look in
,vA ace the primeval savage in me
At aeu 70 close round that slender
ID throat of hers and crush and
r % sbt pntil it had killed in her the
take io. o. that other man which was
h al s aupming her from marble 10 essb
wood = slowed and blood that snrpe5
ards PACK my chair with a snddsn