The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-04-07
Neglected Wife
BY ALDEN CHAPMAN

| Infb UuI tuAur TOT Hiushrits anu frfa
lessly submitted himself 10 the conss
/ qusnces In D desperate sort OF way
when he realized what wreck he
had made Of his career and sought
20 cast The responsibility Of wife he
did not love upon his mother and sis-
fer-
There vas 40 qualifying the stern.
sober truth. lie had wayered and
wandered from the path of rectitude.
ignored the duties OF young man
with great opportunities 10 create a
successful carver. had cut away from
TO justify himself. had placed all the
blame on his stspfather. John March.
The latter had married the widowed
mother Of Llonei III forty. He was
man Of wealth and position and had
given Mrs. stoddard. her two daugh-
tiers and Lionel truly regal home.
All that luxury could suggest was
rendered them, and Mr. March was
proud OF the family he had adopted
until there came 10 the surface some
of the reckless dolngs u his dissi-
pated stepson. He had ut once cut
short his generous allowance and had
quietly. bu, firmly demanded reforma-
lion, OF he would Danish Lionel from
the family circle and disown him for
all the future What Lionel took for
high.spirited Indignation on his own
part WAS really the perverted suilen-
ness Of a mind nlled with distorted |
IDEAS Eyerywbsrs Lionel censured |
and abused his stepfather.
lie has such u grand idea OF his
social and business prestige that be
treats me like some bootbiack." he
bitterly. well. I'll pay
him on yet. m take a pleasure IN
pulling his proud name down into the
lust" and never needing the suffering
md pleadlngs OF his broken hearted
mother Lionel went 10 a Wild western
district and abandoned himself to com
,anIonship with the toughest and
sickedest ia a rucs mining camp.
Lionel met and married Meta
)ruse. She was the daughter Of the
most notorious outlaw and cattle rus
Ter IN the district. He was shot down
n one OF his raids and out Of q pass
Nc impulse OF pity Lionel married the
ereayed daughter. He regretted II
alter She WAS a sweet. innocent girl
4 eighteen. and was all good whore
Ter father had been all bad. but he
ad Gagged her up from all outside as
collation. and she was kept 30 iguo-
ant that uhe could not even write her
wn name. Her great merit was her
incere devotion for the man who had ,
gedded her Lionel lived with her for ,
month. wearied Of her. told her be
sd great prospects I'm another section
{ the country that would take three
ears 10 exploit, and sent her East.
nth letter to his mother asking her
D care for her until he could recoup .
imself financially. &
He received y week later letter I
rom his mother telling him that his I
lie was made welcome Then Lionel y
ractieally forgot all about her and
he old home ties He sought . new
environment. reformed aud within two
rars hnd made fortune.
Lionel never thought Of Meta save
: the uneducated girl she was He
al taken a sort OF malicious sstisfHcS
on In burdenins HIS stepfsthsr with I
guest who. while not AZ all uncouth. v
as scarcely his equal socially. He b
ecided 20 20 haek home. wondering
his wife had been happy In her Dew >
,vlronment
In the meantime Mrs. March and
rr daughters had learned 20 love the =
'iendls~s xiri bride. Thsy had a. y
nee with the consent and spprobs- q
on Of John March. seee TO her educs. n
on and she had become . peerless a
ling In education and refinement. a
uch ss she loved Lionel she received
M upon his return almost as . r
ranger. she had not become worldly
Iss but she dstermInsd that he should
ln her back through true snsctios
not az all
''sbe Is my wife" be told his moth 8
yet she s>~sns TO forget the 81
et~ 2"
F"@f@t"ttyt "af8 yVtk tvta uskfett. | W
- ihs reply. You love this Dew "
Eta. my son. - I plainly see. Make N
urself worthy Of her -,
Then real sffsctioa aroused all that
Il better aud -hlshsr In Lionel stod.
I'd 7, was the patient labor Of 81
'sks 10 eoavinee Meta that he real 20
priced her now. Step By step they NJ
M. bsck 20 the old compsnlouship. In
y this tims made lasting because or
the nsw hove lnstilisd into bis ua- "a
~,
L was q happy day fer the entlrv -
nily whsn husband and wife sp-
srrd IN harmony with the changed
III, 81 . new birth IN an sr~cticu
u Il bad taken the years to dsvsscp
Its completeness.
Md Lionel stoddsrd was proud Of
wife Who. for his sake. had BE-
n. An stIuasf..f ana x~ar..t .~ iii