The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
(Coutluued From Yesterday

"Now'-and he grew fierce again
Il do not choose to play sec
ond fiddle to any one. least OF
AL my own wife. So | shall clear out
end leave you to 1t. George Fairfax
aud Frank Adair feel the domestic
wretchedness of their positions as keen
ly as I do, and they are going out to
The Gold Coast With me l shall pro-
VIDE you amply with means-and they
will do the same on behalf of their
wiyes-and we shall be absent for a
considerable time. In fact who knows
whether we may ever coIne back at
! al?'-here his voice became ~sepulchraL
Fortunately, our wills are nade!'
He ceased Throughout his somewhat
lengthy TRADE, his wife had sat quite
still, patiently listening, her hands re-
posefully folded over a book on her
knee, her eyes regarding him with a
clear steadfastness in which there was
a soft. lurking CLEAN of something like
compassion. Now that he had finished
what ne had to say. she spoke, in gen
tie, deliberate accents:
IT am to understand. then, my poor
john she said, almost materially,
that you are leaving home on account
of your dislike to the way I try TO
employ myself tvery Intellectually, l
admit) in doing good to others?
He gave q short nod of assent and
turned his eyes away from her. III
rather troubled him to be called my
poor john"
"And Mr.. Adair fnds equal fault with
his beautiful girl-wife Laura"
Poor Adair has equal reason to find
fault was the stern reply. IA man
may very we'll become crusty when he
finds the woman he loves to alteration
deliberately rejecting his affection for
that of a Pioneer"
\ curious little trembling appeared
to affect Mrs. Dennison's full white
throat. suggestive of q rising bubble
of laughter, that was instantly sup
pressed.
"Mr Fairfax, you say, is going also?'
she murmured, gently.
He Is. Not having the necessary
qualifications for a dog-trainer. he is
not required in his home" replied her
husband, with intense bitterness. Dogs
now occupy Mrs. Fairfax's whole time
to the total exclusion of her domestic
: duties"
Mrs. Dennison was silent for a little
: while, thinking. Then she put the boob
e she held carefully down on a side able
g and rose in all her stately heigh ano
elegance. looking the very beau idea
e of a handsome English matron. Cross
@ ing over to where her husband stood
she laid her plump, pretty hand. spark
I ling with rings. tenderly on his bald
l spot, and said In the sweetest of voices:
r "Well. John. dear, all ] can say Is
that / am delighted you are going. II
will do you good; in fact, it's the very
|, best thing possible for all three of you.
I think you've all been too comfortable
and lazy for a long time: a voyage to
the Gold Coast will be the very tonic
you require. OF curse I'm sorry
I you've no sympathy with me in my
humble efforts to do a little useful work
among my fellow women during my
leisure days and while the children are
at school, but I don't blame yo a bit.
OF course you have your ideas of life
Just as / have mine, and there's no
!. need for us to be rude to each other or
. quarrel about it. An ocean trip will
be just splendid for you. I'll see to
your things. l know pretty we'll what
; you will want in Africa. I fitted out a
5 poor fellow only the other day, who
was convicted of his first theft; the
/. gentleman Inc robbed wouldn't prose-
: cute. because of the sad circumstances
z It's too long a story to tell now, but we
got him a place out in Africa with a
kind farmer, and I fitted him out. So
| know just the kind of fame and
) things required"
Exactly" said Dennison, quivering
/ and snorting with depressed wrath
t and pain. Fit me out like a convicted
theft Nothing could be BETTER! Suit
me down TO the ground"
His wife loked at him with that kind,
0 maternal air of hers. and laughed
u She had a very musical laugh.
e "Oh, you dear old boy she said,
t cheerfully. "You must always have
a your little joke, you know?'
2 And with that she moved in a queen
e like way across the room, and out of it.
Left alone John sunk into a chair and
= wiped his fevered brow.
was there ever such a woman!' he
groaned within himself, despairingly,
'aTo think that she once loved me! and
now-now she takes my going to d
r~nalarial climate as coolly as If it were
a mere trip across the channel and
= back. What a heart of stone! These
handsome women (she is a handsome
woman) are as impervious to all senti-
rnent as-as icebergsl And as for tact,
she has none. Fancy bringing that
convicted thief into the conversation
Almost as if she thought I resembled
him! oh, the sooner I'm out of Eng
land the better! III lose myself In
Africa. and she can get up an 'eX-
; p~loration fund with a working COM
: mittee, and pretend to try and find me.
And then when she hasn't found me,
she can write a book Of adventure
make up at homel entitled How
Found My Husband That's the way
regulations are made nowadays, and
! by the Lord Harry. what devilish hum
bug It all is.'
/; Plmging his hands deep in his
| pockets. he sat and stared at the pat
! tern Of the carpet in solitary rcveric,
) angrily conscious. through all his
; musings. of having felt smalp' in the
presence of his wife. inasmuch as
throughout their conversation she had
maintained her wonted composure and
grace. and he, though of the superior
sex. had been unwise enough to lose
~. $1,000.