The Prescott daily news., 1909-07-02

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 With disilluSionment came unrest. with unrest rebellion To the woman 1t seemed that all that life held worth while was being taken from her She was envied as the wife of brilliant man, one destined to acquire great wealth, but these were not desirable to her
 "Sometimes-Pm not quite happy" she told him falteringly one night when he remarked her apparent ill., ness.
 Nonsense, little girl! We're getting along famously." he told her.
 You are," she answered duly.
 'Well, it's for us both." was his re ply. but 1t did not satisfy.
 For three years she endured it, and because there were only the two of them life grew lonelier and loneiier until in moment of desperate aber- ration she fled his house and left a note bidding him not to seek her.
 .t turn. She had little money and felt sure she could secure a position as stenographer and that few weeks would enable her to regain her old time cleverness in the calling. Then she reflected that Sanborn would nat urnlly seek her in the field of her former employment.
 She thought of nursing, and 1t seemed q haven. To forget ones own griefs Tn comforting others in distress ap- pealed to her. A fortnight after her flight she was q student nurse in a private sanitarium under the direction of kindly old physician who had earliest days in New York. Wisdom had come to him with years. and he knew that a few months of the Se- clusion she sought would bring clearer vision
 At the first shock Sanborn was nigh to insanity. That his Katherine was discontented he had not believed. Yet in her note he saw what they had missed because of his money madness Right-she was million times right, he told himself bitterly. and could he find her again they would begin to- gether at the start and, please God go this time aright But search was nnavaillng.
 Then came the breakdown, complete, miserable, and the physician pre- scribed the sanitarium where his wife was learning the rudiments of nurs- ing. SanbOrn was put in a room in a part of the building where only the graduate nurses were usually allowed: consequently it was some days before Katherine knew the roof that sheltered her housed Dwight.
 The physician installed her in room adjoining Sanborn's and ex- plained enough of the situation to the nurse in charge to secure her as ally in what he hoped to accomplish.
 Hang your medicines. l want Kath- erine. Do you hear? Get her.' she heard one morning in commanding tones. She started, listened again to his voice in dclirium, then peeked eau tiousy through q half opened door.
 He was hardly recognizable, this sal low faced patient with sunken cheeks and bulging eyes. With quick little cry of pity and love she ran to him.
 Dwight, Dwight" she sobbed, here is Katherine! Here dear. Don't you know me?"
 Go away! You're not Katherine. She left me. I've lost 1T. and I want her God, I want herr And tears came to his eyes, as they did to hers.
 The wise old doctor permitted her to assist in the nursing, but there were times when she was rigidly excluded. The exclusion hurt her, but the doctor was inexorable, and obedience is the first requirement. in resort of the kind so she had to obey.
 It was the morning of the 1st of June. Katherine was in the room ad- joining her husband when she heard him call:
 ''Oh, Katheriner' And there was Il naturalness in the tones that indicat- ed returned reason. She dropped the book she had to rush to him. and in his eyes were remembrance and clear understanding.
 Katherine, it was you, then. I-I thought dreamed it."
 ''I'm sorry, Dwight, sorrier than can tell you. It was all wrong, my going away. I-I want forgiveness" she whispered.
 Forgiveness? You? Rather should ask it. It has been hard. It seemed cruel, but perhaps it was for our good, sweetheart Tho how vO,v mead to Iovo