Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-18

said her husband.
Then why, in mercys name, did you choose II
for me?" she exclaimed.
Il choose it?--Ig
WELL" said Harry, I'VE shall have plenty OF
time for all that when we are aboard And now
Won had better have good nights sleep, Tor the
RouDadnia sails at eleven tomorrow, and bought
out the Stephensons. I've left word with all the
others, and we'll meet on the pier Az revosr
Come, Sarah
ing to- Charles as the door closed upon the Others
that you have sent and engaged my passage over
my head and arranged for me to go whether
will or no? You treat me exactly as II were
child. | will never, never, never forget IT,
~ don't want you to forget it," said Charles,
with fatal Righteousness
"And YOU can lest when you are going to part
from me in twelve hours! You can make merry
|about putting that interminable reach OF plack
|water between us You can laugh, with me on
1.-THE brink of that black gulf OF death that jan
|uary sea is! Oh what relief you must reel my
going! Perhaps you don't want me 70 come
back"
And then Mr.. Severance with his grave and
|tenderly reproachful face above her had ciasped
|her in his arms, and she was pouring her tears
into his breast And she awoke, the night long,
every half hour to clasp him, and kiss him, ana
cry over him, and then turn away, and cry over
herself as a wretched wife whose husband wanted
her out of the way, and was sending ner oos.s
Journey with probably unlimited letter OF credit
ready to pay any price for six months freedom
It was a gray, wet day when she rose-rain
and snow and slush.
"Really. the next thing you'll be saying you
never said you wanted six months rest from my
caprices.'
Il never did
What did you say. then?'
"Now Sophy listen" said her husband seri-
ousy Let us have no more nonsense love
YOU. | hate to lose your companionship for even
six months. But | want you to enjoy yoursei'
And whether do or not, the thing is done You
are going to sail this morning with cousins Harry
and sarah and Helena and Madeleine, and the
Mongoliers and Van Stubs. You know that you
want to CO. and you know want you to go; every
arrangement is made, and there isn't announcer
word to say about 1t, for | won't be mortlnen
before the world as before Harry and Sarah
yesterday"
"It,s inst as you please" she said with immense
dignity and she sailed past him, and proceeded
to oversee Victorine's packing OF the little perrin
trunk and satchel. with much camness, break
tasted like one in a dream, and summoned the
housekeeper for directions during her absence
And then she came downstairs wrapped from
head to foot in her furs, and carrying an air
cushion, which she had remarked to Victor1ne,
might float in the absence of a lifepreserver
Il will drive to the pier with you and see you
safely on the boat" said her husband.
yes" she replied in the same dreary way, yet
as If she stated a mathematical fact; "a parting
is not likely to be so effusive that 1t can not De
public when man sends his wife away from MN.
"Sophy" said Mr. Severance then. as they stood
on the upper step, IF really took II all BACK,
and even at this late moment insisted that could
not allow you to 60
81 should refuse to be banded about like doll;
should CO." she said, distinctly. And SO they
went.
Joined them on the great steamer that their state
of feeling was contagious, and Sophy stopped
amazed to find herself laughing-and she SO
wretched!-at the list of Heenas luggage as II
she had committed sacrilege And then there
had been one long despairing clinging to charlie
and she had flung herself down anywhere as he