The Washington herald., 1914-08-09

~ and she refused him and laughed at
him. Really their marriage would be
most unsuitable"
She was tired OF poverty. No. the man
who married her must give her some
thing beside love. Love was all very
well. but a woman like herself required
more TO I'LL ont her life.
Edna and William were deeply grieved.
but what could they do? One could not
reason with a woman like Lefty.
They saw little ot~JuliHS after that for
a long time. He formed new acquaint-
ances. found new companions-and not
always desirable ones. In fact. he be-
came mildly dissipated. and when any
one spoke of love wholly morose and
sarcastic.
The Right Way to Get On.
Edna and William, like all married
people, had. now and then. their little
family jars" An example OF them
and OF how she had fully come into her
kingdom and ruled it by shere force OF
righteousness and calm. good judg-
ment was when the doctor said: MY
dear. I am thinking of setting up a
brougham.'
But We cannot afford it. You have
not the money to pay for one"
But I can get trusted for it,
Why do you want it,"
To increase my practice. Just make
people think you have a great practice
and you get II. People flock to YOU,
one after another. like sheep.
That sawbones' in the tale by some
funny fellow called Dickens which you
were reading last night, who sent his
boy about delivering unordered medicines
and had himself fetched out of church
every Sunday on imaginary messages,
had not a bad notion OF the right way
OF getting on in the world"
The right way?"
The best way. mean; the cleverest."
But Was 1t Honests
to get on in the world without deceiving
people, making them think we are better
OF than we are?"
Why" replied the DOCTOR" half Lon
don lives beyond its means-peers. min
listers Of the crown, professional and
business men. Why not a poor. strug-
why not responded Edna; IF he
can bend his pride and reconcile his con-
science to such a life. 2, Only should
despise him so much that I should not
like his name to be William Stedman."
He sprang up. annoyed. angry. Give
MN MS uut-ne was SOOO man, Il very
good man. better than any woman be-
cause he had so much more temptation
TO be otherwise.
But the best man in the world. who
knocks about the world. cannot quite
preserve that unstained instructive ideal
sense OF right and wrong which seems
to be set in every good woman's breast
like a deep pool in a vergin forest.
Happy the man who can always come
to its pure, safe brink and find heaven
and nothing but heaven reflected there.
Back from the Continent.
They talked the matter over some more,
and at last William said: We'll, then.
won't. But little woman, remember. If
you have to trudGe your poor little feet
of your whole life long II will not be My
fault. Now kiss and be friends"
Aye, they were friends. Neither god
dess and worshiper-tyrant and slave
simply and equally friends
In due time a child was born in the
Stedman households boy.
Julius was in Paris, and WROTE home
that he had seen much Of the March
monts, who were travelling there. They
had a daughter Lilly. whom he consid-
cred pretty.
Edna had once been a governess in
the Larchmont family and Lilly had been
her pupil Lilly Larchmont pretty
sneered Lefty. Well. she must have
changed then since she was your pupil.
Edna"
Julius came home from the Continent
and saw the doctors family again-and