The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-03

eral, my boy, take as many as you
like. / give two dollars apiece for
those by the box at my club, and you
can't beat them in the city or any.
where else"
Halsey listened almost absent-mind.
eddy, and Rawn returned TO his seat
ear his wife, a little apart on the gal
lery. The master OF Graystone Hall
was intoxicated more than usually this
evening with her. She sat now In the
dim light, a cool, dainty and beautiful
picture. In blue and ivory Duchesse
satin and hlmy laces, gowned at for
a wedding or a ball, as she always was
of an evening at home, with Just a
gem cleaning here and there In the
occasional glimpse of light which
broke through the windows at the back
OF the gallery as their curtains shifted
In the breeze. At that moment John
Rawn would have been glad to have
the entire world share boxes of cigars
with him. John Rawn. collector-what
man on all the North Shore Drive at
that moment could claim such sur
r~oundings as these9
II thank you, Mr.. Rawn," said Hal
sey, taking a single cigar from tho box
which his host had placed upon the
nearby tabouret. Il think I'll be con
tent with one. ! mustn't get into bad
habits: I'm afraid Jim Sullivan and I
can't afford them at two dollars apiece
Just yeti"
He moved now quietly and dutifully
apart toward the end of the gallery
where sat a less respondent figure.
that of his wife, Grace. She had not
risen to meet him.
"well." said he, as he sank into q
seat beside her.
"Well. then?" she answered, and
turned upon him a face dour, mex.
pressive, pasty, almost %frowning.
is that all you have to say to me?"
he began later, as he sat smoking.
Il haven't had much chance yet" he
commented.
No. | should say mott This is the
first time you've been here for four
weeks! Have you stopped to think
of that? You seem to care little
enough how I get ont"
Halsey paused for a moment before
replying. THAT hardly seems fair to
me-"
why isn't II fair? It's the truth"
We'll. I've been busy all the time,
as you know. Besides again, when Il
comes 10 that, IL doesn't seem to me
that you've been altogether anxious
TO have me come"
You talk as though you worked
day and night and had nothing else
to do"
well, | suppose I could come over
every night after dlnner-wash the
SCOT and the cinders from me. get out
my OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES go-cart, and
come over here to call on my wife In
my thirty-dollar evening toys, couldn't
I? She lives in Graystone Hall.
Where do | live? What dc / get out
of life, when II comes to that, Grace!
When ! do come here. you begin to
nag me before | get settled down. I
always used to say when | was a
young man, that II 7 ever found myself
married to a nagglng woman, I'd Just
quit herr"
What do you mean by that?" she
demanded imperiously.
Again Halsey was deliberate. al
though he half sighed as he replied:
Pretty much what I say, Mrs. Halsey.
since you ask me. The truth Is, you
quit me when | needed you. have
had worry enough from this business
at the factory. | don't particularly
carr to have all other kinds of worry
on top of that. You had all this place
to fall back on. Your fathers taken
care of YOU. But he hasn't taken care
of me very well. The fact is, I've been
scapegoat about long enough"
"You seem to have learned the fac
tory ways of talking!"
Yes, I don't know but I am rather
plain, and common. and vulgar. It's
q little different here-even from KEEL
|ly Row, let alone our place on the
West Side. / fancy you're getting the
North Shore accent. along with other
|things.-lt all only means that we're
that much further apart. Grace. Did
you ever stop to think of that?'
I've had time to think of plenty OF
things" she answered bitterly. /,
"You had plenty of time to think of
ONE of them before you came over
here" he rejoined. you didn't like
what your husband could offer you, I
and you chose something better which
father did offer you. You've quit
me, practically. You've not been In
u home twice since you came to
live here. I've seen hat poor baby
of ours only once in a while since you
left our home for this. You've not
been O wife to me. That's the truth
about it, might as well not be mar
ried! That comes mighty near being
the situation, since you put 1t up to
me to answer" T
Then what do you mean?" ]
The courts would make II a case
of desertion. II you force me to say
that" answered Halsey. Nov, I
don't want to live on this way for
ever! I'm a young man. and my ca