Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-01-01

harsh with her. She Shrank back nurt
and frightened. why. good Lord,
Dan, you never did that before"
Then, with quiet dignity, she began
to pick up the basket, the hated darn
ing cotton, the needles and scissors,
and the little worn thimble. Slade,
watching her slight, STOPPING figure,
ought to have been ashamed, but his
anger was flaming hot and he didn't
as much as offer to help.
Mary's mood changed, too.
81 believe you're doing it to get your
own way" she sputtered, but you
amt going to get II. I've got as much
right to my life as you've got to yours"
AS she came up to him. he stood
grim and silent, suddenly determined
that II she wouldn't go he would. II
she refused his offer OF home In the
country, then she could have this great
house to herself and he would live at
the club
There amt anything you could ask
OF me | wouldn't except" Mary's
troubled face was looking into his.
Except what ask he finished, sar-
castically, and hurried from the room,
CURLY ordered his dressing bag packed
and then, hat in hand, his overcoat on
his arm, came back into the room.
Did it ever occur to you, Mary, that
you're a mule?" he asked. You're
sweet and good tempered and amiable
but you'd have given the mule that
came out of Noah's ark points on how
to be stubborn"
How often have / failed you In
these years, Dan?"
You're falling me now. You won't
look at things with my eyes"
Were not one person, we're two,
DAN" she reminded him, quietly.
well, that's the trouble, we ought
to be one. That's just what I'm get
ting at. We ought to be of one mind"
Whose? Yours7" and Mary's sweet
mouth puckered into a very little
smile.
Pm DONE" Slade decided. hope
lessly.
81 can remember the time when you
would have thought that was cum
ming" she reproached him.
"Tm going to my club. Mary" he
announced, disregarding her playful
attempt to smooth things over.
Mary gazed at him, bewildered by
his swift changes of mood, hurt by
his attitude, almost angry because he
! was SO unreasonable.
Then love came rushing up into her
= heart. After all he was her Dan. What
did this crossness or his nervousness
matter? She went up to him, pulled
, his scarf bit closer round his throat
n and as he turned away with a NUT
/ tered word, waited patiently. Then
laying her hand on his arm-such g
n thin little hand, with his wedding rims
\ hanging loosely on it-asked: "Shal
l wait up for your"
= SHADES face worked convulsively
8 She didn't understand, poor little soul
e He was going away for good, for al
: time, and she was asking If she woul'
" wait up for him. More than once be
q fore she had asked that question o
him, the question that from a wife
8 lips, carries with it unspoken, tende
e pleading. For a space he was tor
with emotions he could not define, ha
[. hardly expected himself to feel. Some
W thing babe him turn back upon amb
is ton and pride and clasp into his arm
this little woman who had worked 70
=" him, with him, who had had faith i
le him when he was poor, and who ha
struggled and cooked and shaved fo
g. him that he might rise to his preser
In position.
~ But he struggled against the feeling
fon0bt ~ haolr opd oOnnparad
n mo, don't wait up for me-"
" "All right" Mary agreed. Il won
is II you don't want me to-" and thel
We with a roguish smile, "but l will wa
Sc up for you all the same"
nd Slade was touched, but he stiffene
ly his shoulders. Wealth he had wol
honors he meant to have-and Kat
NJ crime Strickland.
he Goodnight, Mary" he called, coldl
oh as he hurried out of the room.
ne Left alone, Mary stood watchin
oh him, forlorn little figure.
why, he didn't kiss me-" She hu
ried to the door Dan, you forg'
p" something, DAM"
or Slade, Fastening to the door. halle
hesitated, turned back.
re You come right back here and XII
?" me-" Mary demanded, affectionatel
w Such didoes; You kiss me-" 81
raised her face for the kiss she thougl
lis was goodnight" and which he meai
nv as "good-by." Slade stopped and la
oil his lips on hers, gently, reverend
nj then hurried out, almost as If he we
,st afraid to stay minute longer.
he "Such didoes," Mary laughed to he
self. She looked around the gre
ed empty room. 1t suddenly struck h
sh that she had never really been hap
MT in this room. Riches had proved
IN burden rather than pleasure. Tn
yas had robbed her of Dams devotion,
confidence, his gaiety. She hasten
ed. to turn out the lights, shuddering
the she did so. She grabbed her VOL
~ - basket from the table and sudden