Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-27
The Woman Who
Changed
By Jane Phelps
GEORGE GOES AWAY
CHAPTER XXXVI


George remarked at the breakfast
table. 1T is not convenient to take
you so I have requested Mrs. Sextor
! to remain here with you while I an
! gone"
For a moment 1 couldn't speak
70 have that woman living in the
house with me-to be under her critical
eye every minute of the day, was toe
terrible to grasp quickly.
But George, 1 don't need anyone
to stay with me! With five servants
1 surely am safe"
''I WASH t thinking of your safety
/ You will have nothing special to oc-
cupy your time while L am away, and
can learn a great many things neces-
sary for you to know. By the way l
have arranged for Signor Torctti to
help you with your music"
"Oh, thank you; that will be love-
! ly." Mrs. Sexton, almost forgotten in
my delight at the idea. L had intended
to ask George TO allow me to have a
teacher. ] feared l should get rusty
if l practised alone.
81 am glad the idea pleases you
Perhaps you will sometime give me
credit If doing what ! do in other
directions for your good. y
The distressing thought of Mrs
Sexton IS being with me, returned at
his words.
Pleading In Vain.
"But George 1 will do my best to
learn all she wants me to if you
won't compel me to have her here. I
would be so unhappy while you are
away. | shouldn T. have happy
minute
"Don't exaggerate, and don't work
yourself up into such a frame of
mind. 1t is already settled that she
is to come. And it may please you
to know that she was no more anxious
to oblige me, than you are to have her
here. 1 really had to urge her to con-
sent'
Broodingly I stared at the coffee
pot With all the luxury of my beau
tiful home around me, 1 felt 1 would
willingly exchange it all for little
flat where ] did the work; and where
George was satisfied with me as I was.
"Why did you marry me, Georgeg'
I looked closely at him as L asked
the question. If I hoped to see him
show any sort of emotion at the ques-
tion, I was disappointed.
"Beeause I wanted you for my
wifo|,
"Apd you always get what you
want"
: 9 Yes. Always"
"But you are trying to make me
over George. If you loved me well
enough to want TO marry me, why |
don t yon love me the same way now?
Why do you want me so different9"
al suppose it is hopeless to try
to make you understand, but when ]
married you I was not blind TO your
faults. / intended from the first to
do all in my power to eradicate them.
knew that, as my wife, you would
have much to learn. | imagined you
would be pliable. That you would for
my sake, if NOT for your own try to be
the kind of wife I needed. l counted
On your cooperation in my efforts.
But even without it, your training will
20 on just the same.''
L was throbbing with resentment.
Then Gectge never had loved me for
what I was; but for the possibilities he
Jaw in me, He thought he could take
he little country girl and mold her TO
lis desires. A girl of greater expert
,nce wonld not be so pliable.
George Shows Impatience.
"But George, there are many girls
II your own class, or crowd, - L would !
lot concedo that 1 was not in his
lass that were already trained.
Why did you not choose one of them
Why hunt out girl to train9"
'FThat is my businessl he answered
1 chose you That ,
nough. +"
"But 1 cannot yet see why, if l was
then, am so all wrong now"
persisted.
you were all right in the environ
nent in which | found you. As a girl
mall country town. But you are not
n that environment. And l expect
ou to become the kind of a woman,
wife, who fits in my home. That is
Il, believe, except that 1 shall expect
-ou to treat Mrs. Sexton with every
is hard enough for a
roman Of her former position in
ociety to have to earn her living,
without your making it harder be-
ause Of your childish objections to
er. -
When George left, he kissed me
ood bye. He would not leave town
ntil the afternoon; but would not
ONE up home again. AS always, when
e left me, 1 felt that 1 really loved
i'm That he was more tender in his
aress at that time, that he kissed me
lore hngeringly, may have had some
hing to do with it.
TOmorrow-Mrs. Sexton Arrives.