The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-24
The Woman
He Married
A NEW HoME-A NEW LIFE.
BY JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER 76.

CHAPTER 76.
The agent had sold our lot, and we
had lost nothing. Dick was SO CRATE
full to be able to pay Up few small
bills, that had it not beenssad it would
have been almost ludicrous. We adj
vertised our furniture for sale, but
most of it was bought by people in the
house. We realized fairly good prices,
because it was new, or practically so,
II suppose. We kept only enough to
take US west. Then quietly one night
we took the train.
There was no one to bid us good
bye, no one to care, in all the great
city what became of us. Only Mrs.
Gray knew we were going, and she had
refrained from coming to see us off
when 1 begged it. But held a large
box filled with delicious sandwiches
and cakes she had prepared for US. So
we left New York, sad, unhappy, poor,
our ideals smashed,two very different
people from the two who had entered it
years before with hope running high,
and all youths brilliant dreams of the
future.
A new home, new life was to be
ours henceforth. I determined that,
as far as I was able, it should be
better home, better life. The picture
of Dick ready to take his life because
I had failed him was ever before my
mind, urging me to do right for his
sake. Not that for one instant Dick
had allowed me to take the blame for
our troubles without a protest, but
knew. it was true-that but for me.
Dick would have been an honorable
and honored young man.
PART TWO.
Mother received US joyfully. Dick
was to remain with US over Sunday,
then go to Lansing, and take the posi-
ton in the bank. 1t was Friday when
we arrived at Holden, my mothers
home. So we had all day Saturday
and Sunday to talk things over with
her.
Our spirits had risen every mile that
brought us nearer her, and when that
might we gathered around the dinner
table we were almost gay. ! spoke OF
1t. Mother said
1.-The past, what has been done, is
over with. You can undo nothing But
the future is yours to make what you
/ will. Your debts must be paid as
Iquickly as possible. Then you can for
get all that has been so unpleasant in
the past in happy future"
please Godv' Dick murmured.
Yes. dear son, please Godi"
| Junior was delighted with every
thing. Here he could go out and play
whenever he wished. In Holden every
| one, even the very poor, had yard.
Mothers was nicely fenced in SO that
he was in no danger from passing mo-
tor cars. He shouted with glee when
The found he was to be allowed SO much
| freedom. He said to mother:
81 loves you, and L loves your out
doors"
isn't my out doors like New York p"
she asked, to see what he would say.
"Oh, no, Why grandma, New York
out doors is all stone" thinking of the
sidewalks and streets of the city.
Its only natural that he should like
Children CD idl mother i said. u He had al
ready an Observation-Disclosures -pickets
acquainted with the little boy next
| door.
Mother insisted we get well rested,
for she knew we needed to badly.
| You both look very tired-Dick
! even more than you, Man." she said.
Things will look brighter when you
are thoroly rested in body. Our minds
are always affected by our physical
| condition"
| On Sunday we went to church and
sat in the old pew where as child
had sat with father and mother.
Junior never had been in a church
before, but mother insisted he was old
enough now to attend services He
was as good as gold, altho I had been
| afraid he would talk out loud or do
something else to shock the staid viii
| lage people.
Monday morning Dick left us. Ex-
! cept when his father died we never
had been separated since we had been
married. I felt rather teary, but
| wouldn't let him see me cry. He was
| getting very small pay compared to
| what he had been getting in New
| York. He was to have the same that
Blake and Ogden had paid him when
we were first married. 1t might be
years before he could command any
| where near what he had been getting
| the last year with them.
But strangely. we neither of us
seemed to think of this; anyway we
did not mention it. To have come
thru at all was more than 1 had any
right to expect. To have another
chance to make good. seemed to fill
! Dicks mind.
: Then after he left had a, long talk
| with mother in which 1 unfolded a
plan which had come to me while
talking with Mrs. Gray.
(Tomorrow-Old desires hard to over
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