El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-25
XXXIV.


ZANE and Augustus Reeves had
been married for six weeks before
the subject OF the brides clothes
was again mentioned between them.
There was TO be church sociable
the following week and Augustus am
J nounced that he wished his wife to
attend it,
Il don't care to have YOU running
around the country without ms "'
said but [ am willing to have YOU 80
J TO church affairs when I am along. IL
would look queer if anybody as I'M
portant i'm the Church rs l am ana NOT
bring his wife to sociables and SO iorlh'
What have YOU got to wear
MY new suit replied Jane.
You've worn that to chutcn pom
Sundays since you've been back ne
objected Besides that it isn't fancy
enough"
1t is very pretty Jane inslste1a
Before | was married. my plain Ht-le
suit with a silk shirt waist was quite
nice enough for me to wear TO soclaDIes
and church purposes
When YOU were a girl you were NOT
my Wife Augustus reminded her.
That makes the difference between
you then and now. ! want people TO
know that I can dress you better than
you ever were dressed before. And ]
want you TO look nice when you re out
with me-"
Again she understood that as his
possession she was expected TO do him
credit
7 am sorry" she forced herself to
say, but as l told YOU when we were in
town I have no handsome dresses, nor
any that are what you call fancy ana
as I am going out so little ] don need
them"
Going out so Iittle?" he repeated
You go out as much IS most wives,
guess"
She summoned courage to dispute that
statement. Il don't Augustus. Most OF I
the girls in Milton who have married |
have kept up their intimacy with their
girl friends, and go to their nelEhbors }
houses-or their negihbors run in to see /
them. ] am not beginning that way, !
and I'm afraid people think I'm not very /
sociable."
Il don't care what they think" re- /
torted Reeves At least I don't care /
what a lot of silly chits OF girls think. !
You married a mature man, with sense /
and position, not a boy with no idea Z
outside of having a good time. I've no 1
desire to CAD about the country. and {
Stree that's so, you, as my wife, ought 1
not to want to go anywhere I don't
want to go
He stopped. then. as she remained
silent. resumed But that's got moth !
ing to do with the matter i'm hand.
When l do go out and when I do take
y .
make over clothes all right, can't
you2"
YES" she said DULY. II cln-but
I have none that could be improved
by making over"
well. / have some for YOU" he an
Ny first wife had some very
good clothes-things that cost money.
] can tell You. And they're packed in
a chest up in the attic. I'm going TO
give YOU some of them. She was
Fnn col 1ar-
alter them all right for yourself"
"Oh, no." Jane gasped- mo, I can't /
don't want them, Augustus-please
I don't
He regarded her. with Indignant
lmazement- You don't want them, /
Perhaps you think they're not good
enough? Wen they are-better than >
inything YOU ever had in your life.
There's q good black silk and a dark .
ed one. The black ones extra fine
or Henrietta wore it only a couple of r
lines. She would buy if that last ,
winter she was alive, though I thought
the time shed never get the good Of Z ]
t. But ! always let her spend her
wn money as she pleased. She had !
plenty. She wasn't poor like you :
Jane felt a wild inclination TO laugh
E the grOtesqueness of it all. and at q
he same time felt as if she would i
cream at the horror Of it.
',But-but-' she stammered. they ~
-ere hers, not mine. I don't want
hem. Augustus"
''I can't help it if you do or not he y
eturned. You may as well quit thar
lily notion here and now. because Pm ! T
ding to give some OF them to you. q
OF all of them at once--but a couple
rst and maybe later III let YOU have I
lore. Come on upstairs to the attic e.
it'll me now" ii
He STROBE upstairs and Jane, with
nc a word, did his bidding. At the a
Dor leading up into the attic he
lused, went into his room FOR =
inch Of keys from his dresser drawer, o
len mounted the attic stairs. mo- | O.
oning Jane to follow. she came, still : a