The Yale expositor., 1913-04-17

lust like a fash in the dark what my |
son had let himself in for. And then,
not a month after, j 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 1t contained a recognizable
note OF sympathy. She went on, abb
sorbed in her recital. anxious to pour
out her griefs, now that she had be-
gun.
Right there from the start i
thought OF divorce. knew II was the
only way out and was bound to come
in time. The woman had married
Dominick for money and position. l
knew that, saw IL 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 it 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 I'm so many words, Not
cent Of this for you l thought she'd
tire of struggling along in a fat with
one Chinaman and not a soul 10 come
near her. But she's stood it 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"
shes pretty smart. / guess" said
Cannon, raising a gravcly-comment-
ing eye TO his companions face.
That's what she is-smart and
long-headed. She's more farsighted
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
chance for divorce. She's not going
to make any breaks or mistakes.
> There's not a more respectable wom-
an in San Francisco. She doesn't go
with any one but her husband and her
own sisters. two decent women that
you cant believe have the same blood
3. In them. She's the quietest, most do
nestle kind OF q wife. Ii don't mat
ter. and nobody knows, that she's
2 making her husband the most miser
5 able man in the country. That doesn't
r cut any ice. What does is that there's
e no ground for divorce against her. II
she had the kind OF husband that
J. put up with anything from a woman
z all he could do would be TO leave hel
5 and she'd so around then getting ev
= erybody's sympathies as a virtuous
deserted wife"
J.. 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.
@ the future that she's banking on. In
? nearly seventy years Of age. Bill Can
n non, and this has broken me mp NOR
than anything that's gone before. In
!, not the woman was before my bo,
s married. And what's going to haT
d pen when | die? I've only got twt
Z living children Outside them there
nobody but some distant relations tina
4. Con made settlements on before h
e. died. If left all I've got 10 Cornela
!. CT divided IL up between Cornelia an
10 charity, cutting off my son becaus
q, he'd made marriage ! didn't like
n, would such a will as that stand? VIII
s. had | left nothing to my only son
Because he'd married woman
IL didn't think good enough? And wha
| hnnn
g typewriter and her husbands NIL
d. tress for six months before he ma
t. ried her. The mistress part of 1t ha
ID been condoned by marriage and goo
m | conduct-and after all, how man
10 families in San Francisco and otht
he places were founded on just thos
g. beginnings? As for her being a typ
tn writer, Della Ryan herself had bee
Is. a washerwoman. waShed for the mil
ers with these hands; she held OF
10 her blunt, beringed hands with one
T.. those dramatic gestures natural
NJ the Irish-"when Con was working III
10 derground with his pick l was at II
10 wash-tub. and made money that wa
:" for him to run the mine. Where's n
or California Jury that would hesitate
d. award Dominick. and through him h
adj wife her part OF the fortune that CO
ed and made?"
nd We'll, that's all possible" Canno
lis said slowly, but it's so far of. 1t
by all surmise. You may live twen
he years yet. fancy she'd find twent
Mt years wait under the present como
IN. tions rather wearying."
at The old woman shook her hea
as looking very sad.
I'm not the woman I was" she 7
ne peated. this last things broken n
m more than anything that went befor
I'd I 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 Id
as that he hasn't. You don't know Dol
an mick. He's the best boy In the worl