Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-20
HIS BROTHERS WIFE
BY RUBY M. AYRESl
CHAPTER LXU
The Little God Satisfied

Y T was some time afterwards before she
l could make him talk sensibly," as she
- called it; some time before she could
make him tell her how he had found her,
and all about young Evans.
Poor Mr.. Eyans!" she said half sadly.
"David, he was 50 good to mel"
Il know. | suppose l ought to be glad,
but I'm not. think I'm jealous of everyone
who speaks to you, Mary
You need not be- she told him shyly.
"But if you could help him little-I should
like to help him little, David"
You shall do what you like, my queen!"
David, does Miss Fisher know about
about me?"
She flushed up to her eyes, meeting his.
He kissed the hand he held.
"Does she know that I love you, you
mean?" he asked tenderly. "Well, I should
think she must guess, though I haven't eX-
actly told her" He hestated then: what
are you thinking now" he asked
comfy that-that I used to be jealous Of
her. She is so beautiful and Il
you are the most beautiful woman in the
world to mel
And then-but after that even bright
eyed blackbird up in the tree overhead lost
interest in the conversation, and flew away
to look for something to eat.
And the only person who was not at all
pleased with the arrangement of affairs ~-as
Dora Fisher. She declared that David had
been forced into marrying Mary, and per-
sisted in alIuding to him as poor DAVID
until even Monty lost his temper, and told
her it was pity she could not hide her
cha9rin instead of showing it to everybody.
This brought forth the usual burst of
tears.
"How unkind you are! Nobody cares in
the least how unhappy 1 am, or what be-
comes of mel"
But Monty had heard the same plaintive
wall so many, many times it had lost it's
hn Of q
room and shut the door rather forcibly.
That was on DaYid's wedding day. He
and Mary were married very quietly in Lon
don, with nobody to witness the ceremony
but Miss Verney, who wept copiousy the
whole time because she was SO glad and a
gray-haired old verger, who smiled and
wished everybody Good luck!" half dozen
times over
1t was nearly the end of June then
'The most wonderful June in all the
world" so Mary said as she and David
drove away together. 81 only wish everyone
could be as happy as I am"
Her thoughts went back to young Evans
and Dolly: and she wondered if it We're very
selfish Of her to be so utterly happy and
contented.
mad then the picture of a lonely grave
somewhere In France fitted through her
mind where lay all that was mortal of the
man she had once loved, and for moment
a little shadow fell over her face.
Life was such a puzzle 1t seemed hard
to explain why he.should be there, lonely
and already almost forgotten whilst she, who
had loved him best was here with David,
and happier than she had ever been in all
her life.
what are you thinking about, sweet
hearth" David asked her.
And she lifted her face to his, as she
answered.
"Only how glad I am to be your wife!"
And David said
But here the little god who had been sit
ting between them with folded wings, chuck
ling at his own cleverness in having brought
about yet another loVe-match, stretched
them YEARLY and yawned before he flew
away. For, after all, what David was saying
was only what he had heard many, many
times before, and it bored him stiff.
1t was very ill-mannered of him; but
neither David nor Mary would have cared,
had they known. For Davd's arm was
round her waist and her head was on his
shoulder, and both their faces were turned
to the sunshine, and a future which they
would share together.
THE END.