The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-10-01
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hODerC gldrcQ at AiS SISTER. SHe
win come to this house to be my
wife!" he shouted, slamming down his
fist on the table. Susan, do you sup
pose believe those Infamous stories?
Do you think / am going to abandon
her in her trouble?"
Robert, you are mad To bring
that girl to our house"
"If she'll have me-" said Robert,
humbly.
ooh, she'll have you fast enough"
his sister sneered. "Only il you bring
her here l walk out. Thank heaven
am respectable woman. There is
a limit and / draw 1t here, Robert.
Why, do you want people to say that
you married a girl Austin Clark
wouldn't look at after he found her
out?"
Her brother, unable to trust himself
to answer her, stamped out of the
room
In her own home Daisy Dean sat in
chair and stared, dry-eyed, at the
newspaper
She had found her employers Office
| closed that morning when she arrived,
and the office boy waiting outside.
Mr.. Wright was habitually so punctual
that Daisy had telephoned to his apart
| ment She learned that it was closed.
| Mr.. Wright had come home the eve
ming before and gone out again. That
was all that was known. Mrs. Wright
was away on visit
Again that morning Daisy went
down to the office, to find the door
still locked. The Office boy had grinned
sheepishly at her this time He told
her everything except the one salient
fact, and that he would not have
blurted out for all the raises that his
Imagination had ever devised.
"The boss has had row with Mrs
Wright, Miss Dean" he said. "She's
left him, and he's gone after her to
bring her back. No, don't know what
troubles about. The colored mans
kid in the apartment house told me
about it,
What had happened was this: Mr..
Wright had gone, rather frantically,
to his father-in-law's house, thinking
that his wife might be there. Even
then he did not surmise the nature of
tho trouble. Yes, she was there, but
she refused to see him. Instead, the
old man had come downstairs, and a
stormy interview followed.
Mrs. Wright's father was a matter
of-fact man. He did not seel so much
the moral obliquity of his son-in-law' s
behavior as the scandal that he had
brought about He had heard the ru-
mors that were flying over the town
and had disbelieved them; but his
daughters hysterical return the same
afternoon had convinced him as to
their truth. He wasn't going to Fl.
nance a son-in-law who made such a
fool of himself especially since his
daughter announced that she would
never return to him.
you've played the fool, William
and you'll have to get out Of your
trouble as best you can," he said. "If
my daughter goes back to you again
I'll see if I'm willing to help you. AS
matters stand, she says she won't, and
that's enough for me-"
"But I've made all my arrangements
in view of that loan," cried Wright
Don't you see, sir, that my wife's
hysterical and wrought up about moth
ing, so far as can see? Why the
whole charge is preposterous."
II don't care what it u.s." shouted
the old man. 1--we done with you
and I've better uses for my money
than to lend it to fool like YOU"
And suddenly Wright's anger cooled
The utter malignancy Of the whole
thing, which had come home to Daisy
struck home to him also. He looked
at the old man in dazed way.
You'll be sorry" he said. "Bu
it'll be too late tomorrow
And he walked slowly out of the
house and back to his apartment
At late hour the following after
noon he pulled himself together ani
went down to his office. Seated alone
there, he went through the hopeless
task Of going over his affairs once
more
An hour later he gathered his pa
pers together and thrust them away
He opened a private drawer ant
pulled out revolver. Quietly he in
serted cartridge in one chamber
and raised the weapon to his forehead
Daisy Dean looked up to see Rob
ert standing in the doorway. He hest
tated, and came forward impetuously
He kneeled beside her and took hel
hands in his.
The girl, overcome by the frs
token of sympathy she had received
burst into unrestrained sobbing. Rob
ert drew her head down on his shout
der.
1T is not true, Daisy" he cried
Dear. you know how long l have
loved you. Be my wife and let us give
the lie to the world"
Before he left Daisy had promised
to become his wife.
AS Robert was leaving her, elatet
with happiness. Wright was raisint
the revolver to his forehead.
And he, too, suddenly became aware
that someone was standing in tn,
doorway 1t was his mother. She hac
seen the newspapers, had hurried tt
his apartment, and then, instinctivel,
guessing where he had gone, had hast
ened to the Office
She saw him seated at the desk ant
knew that a minute later would hav,
been too late. She ran to him will
a cry. The weapon dropped from hi
hand and rolled under the desk.
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