Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-25

and exhausted, she ever welcomed him
with eager gratitude and satisfaction
which would shine in her eyes, throb
IN her heart and tremble upon her
lips, control it as she might. And he
thought it was well worth all the trou-
bic and hardships of his task to be so
greeted when he came back to her.
Winter had set in unusually early
and with unprecedented severity. Any
kind of winter in the mountains
would have amazed the girl, but even
the man with his larger experience
declared he had never before known
such sharp and sudden cold, or such
deep and lasting SHOWS His daily
records had never shown such low
temperatures nor had his observation
ever noted such wild and furious
storms as ragged then and there. 1t
seemed as if Nature were in a con-
spiracy to seal up the mountains and
all they contained, to make ingress
and egress alike impossible
A month had elapsed and Ends
foat was now quite well. The man
had managed to sew up her boot
where the knife had cut it and al
though the job was a clumsy one the
result was a disable shoe It is as
tOnishing the comfort she took when
she first put it on and discarded for
good the shapeless wooden stocking
which had covered the clumsy band
age happily no longer necessary. Al
fhnI7oh ho !,
had healed and she could use it with
care, her foot was still very lander
and capable Of sustaining no violent
or long continued strain. Of neces-
sity she had been largely confined to
the house, but whenever it had been
possible he had wrapped her in his
great bear skin coat and had helped
her out to the edge of the cliff for
breath of fresh air.
Sometimes he would leave her
| there alone, would perhaps have left
her alone there always had she not
imperiously required his company.
Insensibly she had acquired the hab-
it-not a difficult one for woman to
fall into-of taking the lead in the
small affairs of their circumscribed
existence, and he had acquiesced in
her dominance without hesitation or
remOnstrance. 1t was she who or
dered their daily walk and conversa-
ton. Her wishes were consulted
about everything; to be sure no great
range of choice was allowed them, of
liberty of action or freedom in the
constraints with which nature bound
them, but whenever there was any
selection she made it.
The man yielded everything for her
and yet he did it without in any way
| derogating from his self-respect or
without surrendering his natural in
dependence. The woman instructive
Iy realized that in any great crisis in
| any large matter, the determination
of which would naturally effect their
present or their future their happin-
ess, welfare life, he would assert him
self, and his assertion would be I'M
questioned and unquestionable by her.
There was a delightful satisfaction
TO the woman in the whole situation.
| She had a womans desire to lead in
the smaller things in life, and yet
craved the woman's consciousness
that in the great emergencies she
would be led, in the great battles she
would be fought for, in the great dan
gers she would be protected in the
great perils she would be saved.
There was rest. comfort, Joy and salts
| faction in these thoughts.
The strength of the man she mas
tered was estimate of her own power
and charm. There was a great, sweet,
voiceIess, unconscious flattery in his
Difference Of which she could not be
| unaware
CTO BE CONTINUED,)