The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-07

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drive the other to friendliness.
thought YOU and /, two wonief
might help him. He is engaged il
a great work just now. He is ahou
to carry to success d wonderful
undertaking. You-surely yo,
wish only to be a help to him.
too. would like to help him.
There was something of evil il
the other woman smile.
I don / want to help him, sh,
said fatty.
but YOU say vou re his Wife?
7 am his wife.s
And yet you want to see hin
ruined2
he ruined my life-left ne Il
go 10 the dogs. Now LET him go
They eyed each other again
The good hlFucr. The Invitation tt
confidence. was still in Edith 5
eyes.
I'm afraid You distrust me,
She said.
No. the Other denied. why
should distruS1 xou?
That is kind. IT is fair. When
you came TO my house Tor help
would have given ii 10 YOU. Now. |
have come to Won. | thought that.
since you are Ills wife. you might
try to think back 10 the tlne in
Shanghai and see, in your own
mind. whether there kadn t been
some good IN him. some kindness.
enough 10 excuse what-what you
say he did.
She was talking very rapidly in
her effort to command the others
attention.
In such things, You know,
there is always some fanlt on both
sides Neither the husband nor the
wife can be wholly TO blame. Sure
" there was some extenuating cir
cunstances. something to keep
you from being so very bitter now.
something 10 make You think be-
fore You condemn him wholesale
before the eountry!"
Mary Leslie looked at her in
establishment. and then laughed
ia crednlously.
Look here!' she said. What
do You want me to DOR
4 want You to tell the truth.
the whole truth, about all your re-
with him.
Why?''
Because / am sure that. If YOU
told it all, it could not discredit
him-could do nothing but help
him. Think, Miss Leslie! He
t even remember having
known you-everi'
Mary took the hat from the
bureau and placed it on her lap
again.
You don't expect me to fall
that bunk. do you7 she asked
lnsolently.
She made a show Of resuming
work on the hat. Her head, bent
over. put her face in shadow and
somehow made it, with the sneer
On her lips, hideous. Suddenly
she became repulsiye to Edith, an
impossible creature. For a mo-
neither of them spoke. While
the country rang with its enthusi-
asm for the agitator and while the
streets of the cities were alightI
with the glow of torches carried
BY many marchers shouting his
name, the two women who touched
MS life most nearly sat in a taW-
Try room, each utterly uncompre-
lending of the other.
Edith stood up. Mary did not
.ook at her.
Then you wont talk with
net Edith put a last question.
There is nothing to talk
the other said sullenly.
q distance TO the doorway,
short as it was, was not long
snouggE. Before she could put herl
land on the knob, Edith, outraged
md bitterly disappointed, lost her
,emper, gave way to her righteous
Indignation.
Yon will regret it, she said,
a a fierce, low tone. You Who
IRE you to arrogate to yourself the
right to injure him The time will
tome when you will weep-when
your heart will break, il you have
! ~heart-for what you have done.
q tried 10 do. But listen to met
You will not succeed. / don't
know whether You have been
Dribed to tell q lie. / don t care
whether you are telling a half
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