Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-12

| influence over her daughter. After the
marriage this was kept up, not to the
disadvantage of the young wife and
her husband, but to prevent breaks
that would have occurred had 1t not
| been for the mother-in-law's persuasive
powers with her daughter. But when
| the couple had been married five years
Mrs. Penrose died. and May was de-
| prived of her mothers restraining in
| fiuence. Then came the crisis of the
wife's completing the passage from the
| partial guidance of a tactful mother to
| the sole influence of her husband. 1t
proved crisis indeed.
1t would be impossible to state the
exact rock on which the couple split.
for a number of differences occurred.
which eliminated in the wife's an
nouncement, with great dignity, that
after the treatment she had received
she could not maintain her self respect
and remain in the same house with her
husband Mrs. Penrose's house had
been closed after her death, and her
daughter determined to remove there.
When her husband went to his Office
one morning she packed what articles
she needed. and when he came home
in the evening he found the house de-
serted.
Mrs. Fenwick did not go away in a
huff. She had been thinking the mat
ter over for some time and decided
that life was not worth living tied to
a man with whom she did not get on.
Doubtless there was a way for her to
get on with him, but she had not
found it.
For a week Mrs. Fenwick occupied
herself in putting her abode to rights.
After her mothers death she had in
tended to weed out the accumulation
of articles whose value had passed
away with those who had treasured
them. Old schoolbooks. children's story
books, packages of letters, even her
own dolls. were got rid of. The work
of selecting what should be destroyed
brought before her a dead past and a
corresponding. loneliness. 1t was a
work not calculated to re-enforce her
resolution in separating herself from
the only being who still belonged TO
her and whom. in spite of their disa- |
greements, she loved. However, she |
kept at her work till it was nearly fin |
ished, when one day she needed an ar
ticle that she had left at the residence |
from which she had departed.
She would have written her husband |
TO send il to her. but could not direct |
him exactly where to find it. A search /
would be necessary. and she knew by |
experience that he was no hand for |
such a purpose. There seemed to be
no way open to her but TO go and get |
what she wanted. At least she con-
WINGED herself that there was no other
way. but the truth is she desired 70
visit the home in which she had pass
ed. despite connubial quarrels, many
happy hours. Had not her resolution
forbidden she would have liked TO go
when she would have chance of fad-
Ing her husband there.
She chose the middle of the afteS
noon Tor her visit. she had taken
latchkey with her when she left,
though why she desired to let herself
into house she had resolved TO leave
forever does not appear. But when she
put 1t into the keyhole she found that
the door had been locked. She WINGED
IT being locked out OF her home and
inwillingly rang the bell. Expecting
20 see the maid she had left there, she
was disappointed to see q stranger.
II am Mrs. Fenwick." she said. II
I'm going upstairs" And she endeav-
red TO brush past the servant. a strong
girl. who placed herself In her way.
Go into the parlor." said the domes-
ic. and III call the Mistress
The mistress! 4 pang shot through I
irs. Fenwick's heart. She was no
onger mistress there and. still worse, {