News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-09
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wife to take care of and can't ever
buy her the pretty things she wants
But supposing / take your money
What is the price l pay for it? Ny
conscience. I'd have money in the
bank, but fear and dread of God in my
heart"
Fear, fddlesticks! It's not fear IL
| your heart, but chill in your feet
that's worrying you. What you need
Bob, is nerve, and-money. Good old
American eagles are the greatest
nerve builders in the world"
Il know it, but I want to get mine
in the daylight like white man; not
in the dark like footpad."
well, you're mighty particular
about yourself, but supposing you
think of some one else. How about
your wife? Don't you think you might
do something for her? If you were
taking one nickel from the people, or
stealing cent, wouldn't argue with
you, but you're not. You're simply
taking advantage Of another mans
blunder You can't stop that blunder;
you can't go to that man and have
these specifications changed. But you
can take this money and put your wife
in 4 better position. If you don't do
it, it's your own fault. Bob, If you
stick to these specifications you're
throwing that two hundred thousand
dollars and your share of it away, Just
as if you dropped it in the river. I'm
showing you how you can save forty
thousand dollars. But, no, you won't
do it. Instead of that you talk about
grating and stealing and conscience,
and all Of the gibberish you find in the
yellow papers. Now, I'm telling you
straight; you're throwing away an op-
pOrtunity that may never come to you
again. You're stepping right over the
gold on the farm and you're handing it
to somebody else. Oh, I'm so sorry"
The sudden entrance Of his wife pre-
vented a reply by Reynolds. Both
men rose to their feet. Bob, in the
height of his moral combat with
Brand, had almost forgotten her PROV
Unity. He had not noticed that the
door to their room was slightly ajar.
Brand had, and in his peroration, as
1t we're, when he saw that Reynolds
showed no sign of accepting his offer,
he had purposely raised his voice so
that she could hear Jane extended
her hand now as her husband present |
ed the millionaire, and she smiled
welcome.
81 couldn't help but hear" she said, |
"and l thought l had better let you
know. Am l in the way?"
Not at ALL" Brand promptly an
swered. you see, Mrs. Reynolds, Bob
aud are old friends, and l would like
to be counted among his wife's friends
also"
Thank you. l can believe that"
She turned a more serious face to her
husband. Bob" she asked quietly,
don't you. think you had better con-
slider what Mr. Brand said?"
Now, Jane, pleased" he exclaimed.
I'm glad to have your advice in all
-hings, but l cannot have you inter-
'ore in this. Please don't"
Jane made no response. Her hus-
o0nd's answer permitted none. 1t cut
ike a knife and brought the blood
'usbing to her cheeks; blood that
seemed to forsake the heart, leaving
I chilled, and heat the brain with re-
)ellious and alien thoughts.
Observation-Disclosures" 1t was
he frst time he had ever used such
erms. They sounded like the clarion
totes of a trumpet. The walls re-
.eived them and hurled them back to
Ter; walls that recalled her long hours
f loneliness; hard walls, cold walls,
heap walls; walls that she had fought
With; bare walls, that after days Of
oil she had embellished with mex.
'enslve prints and such knick-knacks
S woman's taste can summon; walls
hat reflected their poverty and her
truggle against it.
'I-cannot-have-yO The
lords burned and ranked. They !
corched her flushed cheeks and
ounded her temples. They pierced
er brain; they ran humping and
umping down her spine and left it
tiff and cold.
She drew herself up to her full
eight and stood regarding the two
len in silence. Internationally they
called that she was very beautiful,
Ike some aristocratic animal at bay,
tartled, but not frightened. Her eyes
'aveled from one to the other; to the
Brand, in his proper eve
ing clothes, stamped with the indel-
lie mark of success, to the shoddy,
ut virtuous Reynolds, Haunting the
ice of failure. Despite the simple Sc
Gritty Of her own dress, blouse affair
blue serge, much worn, but en-
owed with such charm as an inge-
ious woman can impart, she looked
lore the mate of the millionaire than
the humber man. I
Brand, with his quick grasp of hui /
IAN nature and human passions, read
lie meaning of those glances. He read
lie mind in which now flashed the ,
sion of her incongruous life; the life {
a queenly woman lived in the en- ,
ronrneut of tho ho11rppois. ha read