News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-05-06

ually at first and then by leaps and
bounds. Now that he had become
wealthy and successful she wanted to
decide for him that he ought to let
| well enough alone. To her it seemed
foolish to bother about being COVER
/ nor absurd for him to fret about the
way she dressed and did things.
So, for awhile they sat in silence
and the fire dying down left the room
chilly, so chilly that Mary started up
to get a shawl. Halfway to the door,
she was peremptorily called back by
her husband, who, ringing for a maid,
dispatched her for the wrap, while
! Mary, Inundated and with something
of the air of a martyr, went signing
| back to the big, uncomfortable chair
to resume the mending that was such
an irritation to her husband.
why can't you learn to be waited
on, Mary?" her husband asked, not I'M
kindly. "Other women do"
Pm slow-slow and old-fashioned,"
the woman answered, quietly, but with
AM air which plainly showed that she
Wis perfectly satisfied with herself
aI that she thought he ought to be.
"Fve never been with women who
knew how to do these things. You
didn't know any such people until
lately. | don't want to know them"
she concluded with an engagingly con-
fdng smile.
But | can't go everywhere always
alone" Slade eXpostulated. "A mans
wife ought to go with him and meet
the right kind of people-otherwis
he's an outsider. What do you think
/ built this house for? | don't work
in the mines any longer with my
! hands. I've got to use my head.
don't drink. l don't smoke. | don't
ssipate-keep yachts and horses-or
women. a mans got to do something.
I'm going into public life. and l want
10 entertain here. You'd have me sit
back and take it easy and-rust!"
You deserve everything you've got,
Dam" answered Mrs. Slade, incense
quentially, entirely losing the point
Of his TRADE. You struggled like
dog. Nobody knows, only you and
me. We've been through it together"
Well" demanded Shade eagerly
and hopefully, why don't you march
along with me then, Nary"
His wife turned to him earnestly.
For a moment Dan Shade thought the
woman he loved was about to rise to
he occasion.
Dan" she said, "I'l tell you some
thing. These expensive laundries ruin
your shirts right off, and when l
washed EN- they lasted a whole year.
They amt ironed right, either"
"Oh, my God" groaned Slade, help
lessly, plying her lack of understand
tng rather than being angry with her.
q wish you'd forget, Mary, that l
had to let you wash and scrub once.
We're up now. Let us kick the lad
der out from under us and stay up
forget how we got here"
But don't want to forget" remon
strated the little wisp of woman OPP
posite him. q was perfectly content
ed those days. | amt now. l hate
this house. l hate it. It's too big.
The help scare me, so many Of 'em.
I'd like jest one hired girl and my old
sitting-room set" She stopped medi-
tatively her thoughts wandering back
to the early days when her husband
took his pick and dinner pail and
tramped off to the mines, and she
sang as she bent over the washtub
and busted herself at the kitchen
stove.
Her husband sat with face averted, |
his Imagination carrying him far into /
the future-a vision of honor as chief !
executive of the state and power in /
keeping with the untold riches he had /
accumulated.
That's it," he finally exclaimed, Il .
want to 60 ahead and you want to (
stick over your washtubs. / need the /
support of big people-got to mix with /
'em, and be one Of EN-. And you /
won't"
NO, I don't have to-" replied Mary. |
Il needn't"
You don't see the necessity of join /
ing me?" he asked, testify.
Il don't know how"
do you want to know howl? he
persisted.
NO" came the provokingly indiffer-
ent answer.