Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-09-27

boy II she was q day. You didn't
have to tell me any more. | saw then
Just like fash in the dark what my
son had let himself in for. And then, |
not a month after, l heard the rest |
about her, and | knew that Dominick |
had started in to ruin his life about |
the best way he knew how
Cannon gave another grunt, and |
this time II contained a recognizable !
note OF sympathy. She went on. alb
sorbed in her recital, anxious to pour |
out her griefs, now that she had be-
gun.
Right there from the start !
| thought Of divorce. l knew II was the
only way out and was bound TO come
| in time The woman had married
Dominick for money and position. ]
knew that, saw II in her face along
with other things There was no love
in that face, just calculation. hard and
sharp as a meat ak. | shut down on
the money right there and then. Dom
! mick had three thousand a year, so
| knew he couldn't starve. but three
thousand a year wasn't what she'd
married him for"
She's got along on 1t for over two
years"
That's It. She's beaten me so far.
I'm the keeper Of Con Ryan's fortune
and Just closed my hand on It and
said to her in so many words. Not
cent Of this for you | thought she'd
tire of struggling along in a fiat with
one Chinaman and not soul 10 come
near her. But she's stood II and she's
going to go on standing it. Where
she's concerned, did something the
smartest men and women sometimes
do-underrated the brains OF my en-
envy"
She's pretty smart, I guess" said
Cannon, raising a gravely-cOmment-
ing eye to his companions face.
That's what she is-smart and
long-headed. She's more far-sighted
than women OF her kind usually are
and she's got her eye on the for
tune. She's not going TO give us a
l chance for divorce. She's not going
to make any breaks or mistakes.
p, There's not a more respectable WON
I an in San Francisco. She doesn't go
! with any one but her husband and her
own sisters, two decent women that
d you can't believe have the same blood
!, in them. She's the quietest. most do
nestle kind Of a wife. Il don't mat
a ter. and nobody knows. that she's
e making her husband the most miser
8 able man in the country. That doesnt
T cut any ice What does is that there's
e no ground for divorce against her. j
she had the kind of husband tina
l. put up with anything from woman
& all he could do would be TO leave he
S and she'd go around then getting ev
r erybody's sympathies as virtuous
deserted wife"
!, The old man gave his head an ap
r preciative jerk, and murmured:
k "A pretty smart woman, all right
u shes all that-that and more. IT.
e the future that she's banking on. In
p nearly seventy years of age, Bill Can
n non. and this has broken me up NOR
than anything that's gone before. Ir
4, not the woman l was before my DO
Is married. And what's going to hal
d pen when I die? I've only got tw
I living children. Outside them there
nobody but some distant relations tina
n. Con made settlements on before h
e. died. If left all I've got TO Cornell;
H. or divided it up between Cornelia an
so charity, cutting off my son becaus
n, he'd made a marriage | didn't lik'
n, would such a will as that stand? VIII
s. had | left nothing to my only son
Because he'd married a woman
IL didn't think good enough? And whf
at was there against her? She'd been
g typewriter and her husbands mi
d. tress for six months before he ma
It, ried her The mistress part of II ha
I'd been condoned by marriage and GOO
m conduct-aBd after all, how man
no families in San Francisco and ,oth'
be places were founded on just thos
g. beginnings? AS for her being a typ
to writer, Della Ryan herself had bee
is, a washerwoman, waShed for the mi
ers with these hands; she held OF
ne her blunt, beringed hands with one
n. those dramatic gestures natural
nj the Irish-"when Con was working u
no derground with his pick | was at II
ne wash-tub, and | made money that Wa
=" for him to run the mine. Where's Il
or California jury that would hesitate
d. award Dominick, and through him h
ad wife her part of the fortune that CO
ed and made?"
nd well. that's all possible" CannC
lis said slowly, but it's so far off. II
by all surmise. You may live TWEEN
he years yet. fancy she'd find a twent
mt years wait under the present conc
IN. lions rather wearying."
at The old woman shook her hea
as looking very sad.
I'm not the woman | was" she T
ne peated, this last things broken n
m more than anything that went befor
I'd | lost three children by death, and
to wasn't as hard as losing my younge
ew boy the way | have"
to Have you any idea whether Dol
i'm mick has ever thought of divorce
he asked.
in I've the clearest kind of an i'd
as that he hasn't. You don't know Dol
an mick. He's the best boy in the worl
ar He'll blame himself for everythil
that's gone wrong, not that woma
She's smart enough to let him, tC