Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-11-09

| had dreamed that Bob was so wretchedly poor-I don't care, l will say it-I would never have married him, so there!"
 There was no one to hear this pas sionate outburst of Bob Pages young wife, unless one counted Bob's homely bull dog Flinders who crouched on the dusty rug before the empty fireplace, his bulbous eyes fixed on the girls flushed pretty face and his black lip curled in it's habitual sheer of derision. Nellie had always thought Flinders sarcastic expression was cute to de- gree but tonight as she saw his steady gaze fixed on her, as if he suspected disloyalty to his master. she hated the curl of his lip above his row of little white teeth-she hated Flinders be- cause he was Bob's dog.
 It had been a miserable day, day like a hundred others since she had married Bob Page. Bob had left hasti- ly to catch his train into town and Nellie knew that he had scarcely tasted the wretched breakfast which was the best she could prepare after several months of experimenting in the kitchen.
 Henry Borden had so provided that Nellie could have accomplishments of showy sort. depending upon the beauty and charm of his daughter to consummate the sort of marriage that would lift her above all the petty de- tails of economy and housewOrk. There fore Nellie Borden was brilliant pianist and could sing prettily; could paint a little, embroider exquisitely. could make a concoction of creamed eggs in the chafing dish-and that was all
 Nellie didn't fall in love with man who could immediately place her at the head of a retinue of servants who might relieve her of any responsibility in the home-making. Nellie fell in love with a struggling young lawyer and Bob Page was struggling, slipping, sliding, scrambling to keep a foothold on the running board of an overcrowd- ed profession
 
 that most unfortunate of women, discontented wife, and Bob was being as slowly disillusioned of his dreams of love in cottage.
 Nellie reread a letter she had re- ceived from her mother that morning In the epistle Mrs. Borden had said that she and her husband were about to take little southern trip and If it were not for the fact that Bob needed his wife at home they would take Nel- lie with them. Nellie rebelled now because she could not go. She had nothing to wear
 Suddenly she jumped to her feet and tossed the letter into the waste basket. She looked at the clock and saw that it lacked two hours of Bob's homecoming. ''Ill do it-it will frighten him well-and serve him right!"
 For half hour Nellie Page worked busily and at the end of that time she packed suit case, dressed herself for a journey and sat down and scrubbed a note to her husband. She wrote it in pencil on scrap of paper and she managed to convey within a small space and in few words all her dis content with their mode of life and her disappointment in him and she told him that she was going away
 She was vexed that she had to walk the quarter of mile to the railroad station. One of her neighbors passing swiftly in motor car, apparently did with life was deepened.
 There were not many persons going into town on that train but the woman in the motor and another one who lived next door to the Pages subur- ban cottage were in the same coach and in the semi-darkness of the win ter afternoon sat down in the seat be- hind Nellie without recognizing her.
 The train started and the voices of the women in the rear were lifted with unconscious clearness so that Nellie Page heard every word that was sad.
 Jack says he will put the case in the hands of MT. Page-he thinks Bob Page Is clever lawyer ana bound 10 get to the front"
 If he isn't too heavily handi- capped!" was the other woman's start ling remark.
 Handicapped? Oh, you mean his wife"
 ''Yes-I long to shake her. some times. I wonder how sensible, am- bilious young man such as Bob Page was, ever fastened himself to such a ball-and-chain affair as his wife has turned out to be. She's a pretty girl, too, in a way"
 "Discontented looking. She ought to be thankful to have gotten such a clean, whole-souled husband as Bob Page. He's one in a thousand"