Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-01-09

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with me-make him take a. third. q
fourth. of what I'd won. He'd have
to come to terms He knows that. All
right, I'm not going to do it! Failure
as am. I've got few ideas which !
think are right Maybe got them
from Ann SULLIVAN don't know! Go
ask her about things
And you won't put back the ma
chimes? Not even for me?"
mot even for you,' he smiled. Not
that know what you mean by that
He looked at her keenly. His toll
stained hands twitched uneasily in his
lap
You're talking about things that
never came into my thoughts in all
my life," said she, with the same
strange direct look at him, But you
couldn't expect an ignorant woman
to learn 1t all in one night, could
your
I'm not trying to convert you, Mrs.
Rawn I'm going to leave this place.
You'll not see me again. But I'm not
trying to change you. / wouldn't
''Listen!" she broke out sharply
I'm set to do that for you--Pm ex-
pected by him, out there, to change
you. Isn't that the truth? Didn't
you see?"
Eyes, it's easy to see" he answered
grizzly. tits up to you"
''It's up to you and me. Charley. yes.
You can ruin me and all Of us by walk
ing out that door You can break the
lives Of those two people out there.
and mine, yes, of course you can, ana
your own.-You can do all that You
can make me come down from THIS
place where you say everybody envies
me. and you can have everybody
laughing at me and forgetting me In
less than six months time. You can
get me snubbed. if you like; you can
make me wretched and miserable. II
you like. OF course you can. 10 you
want to do .hat?"
"It isn't fair to put 1t before me IN
that way
81 do put it before you in that way.
But that isn't the worst Of what you
could do-you'd leave me unsettled
and unhappy for ever II you went
away tonight that way-Charley-
what can you mean?"
"Things are moving fast tonight,
Charley, and we're discussing matters
pretty openly"
eyes, he nodded. 81 don't want to
set a wife against her husband
Neither must you. But the truth is.
Mr.. Rawn is not what good many
think he is"
DO you think that's news to me?"
she asked Of him. and looked full into
his eyes.
Good God, Mrs. Rawn! What do
you mean?"
much what you dol"
But you loved him-you married
him.
"Oh. yes, surely That was some
months ago But you see. there's
distinction between master and SUI
perior."
I'm very miserable was his sim.
pie answer. Things are getting too
much confused for me. And now you
say you'd never be happy if left you
now, tonight"
"Then why go, so long as We are SO
confused? Why don't you wait? I've
asked you to! Do you expect to set
tie all this in a half-hour's time. in a
passion of anger? Now listen. Al
though he's my husband. and she's
your wife, don't blame you. I'm only
asking you to wait little. I'm ma
king it personal. Charley"
How dare you do that, Mrs. Rawn?"
Because l have the right to do it!
don't intend to have you make me
more unhappy than / am. I've just
told you I'm not happy. l don't know
~" She laughed little amused rip
pie of laughter-"but I'd have been
happier if he had handled you as you
did him! I'm not talking just the
way / meant to when | came through
those doors to stop you. I'm like you
its all confusing-IIl have to wait,
the same as you. There's lot of
things to be figured out! I'm covetous
of everything in the wOrld-that any
woman ever had-from the queen of
England to Ann Sullivan! Yes, I'm
ambitious, I'll admit that. And you've
set me thinking-I'm wondering
wondering what really is the best a
woman can get out of life"
Mrs. Rawn, you've got success as
you understand it, by marrying a
middle-aged man. You're young"
She shook her head ut isn't pos
sible,'' said she frankly. catching his
thought. Pm far enough along to see
that!"
tTo BE coNTINDED.)
Erratic Traveller