Year: 1878

NO mere WOrdS can express tne pas
sionate iervor with which the wish wal
uttered.


80, we'll" said the other, In q care
less, sneering voice, ''it's pretty Ger.
tain she don't care shncks for you now.
So let's 60 in somewhere and have a
drink"


"No, she don't care for me any more, -
seemed to come involuntarily from the
half.closed lips Of George, as he turned
on bis heel and walked away. He ramb.
led down by the wharf, thinking as he
had done, in years before, and score
Of times tempted to jump into the river
and end the aching weight at bis heart
that pressed him down like lump OF
lead.


One astonishing thing grew out ofthe
scorn his wit. had cast on him. He
would let her see that he was not the
lost object Of loathsome disgust she had
so pitilessly set him down to he. Not
another glass Of liquor would he drink
never again would he gamble.


The next morning he presented him
self before a man who had formerly
employed him, after such cleaning Of
his person and attire as had not been
effected in years before.


"Mr. Truman" he said, ~ want TO
try and be a better man. Will you give
me position 7 You may give me any
salary YOU like-or none at all till
prove that | am w1-thy to be trusted. "


George, / gave you up long ago.
But III try you"


A month later the first three dollars
were sent to Mrs. Tudor. And 80 with
the second and third. He could have
spared q little more, but he had a SET
tied purpose in his mind. He was bent
on saving every possible dollar until
he could set himself up in business,
aud show his wife that there was the
right stuff Of manhood about him she
had cast away.


But the messenger he employed to
take the money informed him that his
wife had been sick and was suffering
for the want Of sufhcient food. He
straightway sent five dollars additional,
and began to double the amount of the
monthly pay.


II was now late in The fall, and the
hard gripe Of winter was fast approach
ing. He learned that his wife's en-
ployment had fallen away so that her
means Of subsistence became yet more
circumscribed. lie still further in
creased the amount OF his remittance.
With feeling Of pain that struck him
like blow, a portion Of 1t was return
Cd with the information that she would
not permit herself to sncroach on his
requirements.


George took this as another proof OF
how utterly she had cast him from her.
1t hardened his heart to bitter feeling,
and he came very near seeking to
drown recollection in another dsbaucb.
lie said to himself she was hard and
cruel, and he would care nothing more
about her.


But he found this was impossible.
CHANGING to see her one day, his heart
jumped with the old, quick bound,
and his pulse beat in hot glow as he
watched the white, beautiful face.
What fEe woman she was, and what
a double<yed fool he had been TO lose
her. He watched her graceful figure
as far as ne could distinguish it. amid
the throng, and still gazed after the re-
treating form long after it was gone.
Every harsh feeling vanished from his
breast, and he felt an ineTpressible
longing to win her back to bim.


And yet he knew it was ussae ass. All
love fcr him was dead in her heart.
The fse was extinguished and would
not be relighted.


As If to prove that this was true, the
next money he sent to his wife came
back, with note stating thkt she had
acceptei the position Of companion to a
lady of wealth, which gave aer such a
homt as would precinde aay further
need assistance.


"She's lost all feelingi she's as hard
as astone," he said.


Bat he vas mistaken. When some
days later the messenger who had car
ried the remittances to his wife sought
her presence with the announcement
th1 her husband was lying seriously
i'll, she at once said:


~ will go to him. aud she did So
there and then.


She found him delireus, raving of his
wife he had lost. She nursed him az
only true wife can. The doctor gave
but little hope of his recovery. At
least, he said, he would have to suffer
a long, wasting sickness before there
would be any chance for the better.
Mrs. Tudor bowed her head and
patti 'ntly fulfilled her wifely duties.
Thanks to her tender caremore than all
othar things, the crisis was passed, and
he began the slow process of getting
we'll"


BY this time their means were ex.
hausted, and the wife set herself to the
task of earning bread for both, first re-
moving to couple of cheap rooms to
get away from the very much extra
cost 'of boarding. Friends assisted
them to few articles of lurniture, and
Georges employer was very kind to
them. He not only gave of his abun.
dance, but busted himself to secure a
finer Class of needle-work from his
lady acqaintances than could be acquir-
ed at the stores.


In his delirious rawlings Mrs. Tudor
learned Of the struggle her husband
had made to be better mau, and the
knowledge sank deep into l.er heart.
She said nothing, but never was man
more tenderly cared for. Never in
heir first days of happy prosperity had
he seen such watchful solicitude for his
untiring efforts to secure
ais comfort.


She had always been proud woman.
Brought up in a house of plenty and