The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-21

Y 1eVef WeekS hope and dread. their ecstacy and torment, after shame that scorched, and joys so poignant as to be- almost pain and doubt that kept her wide-eyed through long, wearisomc nights, decision had brought with it profound calm. She seemed have passed beyond the storms of love and suffering and rapture into a tranquil harbor.
 Her husband was reading his paper as she came down-stairs, and he did not raise his eyes at once That gave her chance to look at him. The inminence of the crisis had sharpened her senses. She him with that clear-sghtedness impossible under normal conditions between two closely associated It IS only been the dawn of doomsday the real man was revealed and even if she had not gone beyond the turning point the tatuous egotism of the unconscious face would have convinced her that she had chosen wisely His armor proof against any hurt she could give him. It was relief to feel that in taking the ire rievaole step she would leave wretchedness behind her, nothing but the nereduous protest of injured vanity.
 At the rustic of her dress her husband looked up
 'Yes ?? she said, turning. Tn their twelve years of married life they had never passed beyond that formal and the anguish of his going had neither been sui-- clent to bring to the lips term of endearment He had been glad in his way He had suffered oyer the knowledge that there no longer to hand down his name, but neither grief nor gadness had bridged the 'ehasa between these two souls.
 he woman remembered as she stood waiting, when the other man had first spoken her name Margaret, he had said his deep voice touching the yl'ahes ever so lightly. touches the cheek of sleeping child Its music had kept her wakeful many night Nothing that he could say again would stir tho depths like neh ildIIlc upon ms IDS TOT the nrsf time
 Mrs. Eln1slic!" The paper rustled crispy the reader thrust it aside T was surprised to learn last evening that you had not called on Mrs. Warren. "No' she acknowledged. and stood looking down, like child taken to task Her husband drowned
 Most inconsiderate amazingly so. The WaTrens have been our neiahbors for three months. Warren and l are closely associated in business, and it. IS desirable from every standpoint that our families should be on friendly terms. What excuse have you to ofer:"
 None at all" Her voice was wearily indifferent.
 You hardly say you have no time for social courtesies woman with three servants and no chil- dren to require her attention"
 T have time eno:gh" she said, with bloodless lips For the instant her calm had gone and she hated him. all the more that his cruelty unconscious. He did not know how his taunt would wound her. He had lived with her twelve years, and did not know. The worst was less tban his desert.
 MT. E1mslie consulted his watch. "Are we going to have any breakfast" he asked in tone of forced self-control "This is the third time this week that I have waited from five to fifteen minutes for my meals If you used your leisure in discplinng your servants there would not be such frequent occasion for crtcizing your household management In my otnce punctuality is insisted upon. No employee IS allowed to fee1-"