Year: 1872

you have found it out by bitter expe-
rience.


But where can go! Y on know I've
not a relative left me-


You should have thought of that
before you proposed parting. 1t is
not my business To look you up
house.


i don't know whose else it is. You
might do as much as that for your own
wife,


For my wife I'll do great deal
more But you are not nv wife any
more only the legal tie remaining TO
be severed, and Ill apply for divorce
at once


And disgrace us both?


But what can fellow do? Now I've
got used to having home, want one
aud once free from you, there are doz-
ens of girls that will be glad to take
up with me, careless good for nothing
scapegrace rs ! am


And pretty life they lead YOU
too


1t cant be worse than YOU have leu
me the last six months. I've been a
fool to bear it so long. Fret, fret. fret,
fiom morning till night. Thank Heav-
en- IL is all over at last = and he wbis-
tied gaily.


You seem to be glad to get rid of
Ie, sir


'lou have made me glad. madam
lie put on his overcoat drew on his
rubbers. aud gathered up his hat and
gloves. Was he really going and with
out his dinner


When will you he ready TO leave,
madam" I'll order carriage at any
hour you name


You are an unfeeling wretch George
Graham you are that's the truth. lou
might for decency's sake give me dill
Tomorrow, to pack up my things and
decide what to do.


| You can have a week madam i: YOU
wish. thought you were in hurry to
GO Yes you may have week Near
while Ill 60 10 the hotel.
| And have the whole town talking
about us Why cant YOU stay at home
just as well:'


Because | never like to be in any
boiy's way


But II - IN your own house, and
and-if YOU have any regard for me.
you'll stay till-till I'm gone Her
voice was not quite so steady as il had
been


Well Ill stay, then. But not now.
I'll come back tonight. You need rot
sit up for me Mrs. Graham. IL will be
late when get in and will take the
spare chamber, till you are gone.


The frxpt door closed after him in
another minute. He was gone Gone
without his dinner gone aud not com
ing back tIll-nsbody knew when. and
thch gong up stairs To sleep alone.
They had quarrelled. They had as good
as parted. They would be divorced.
He could get another wife and bring
her here and she-she would 90 out IN
the cold dreary world and earn her own
living. She didn't know enough about
divorce,poor thing, TO think OF alimonv.
And all this because he neglected TO
leave his things" in the hall and she
found fault with him for said Neglect.
Careless husband, figety wife, and be
cause he was careless and she iigety,
they must live apart.


Mrs Graham looked about her lust
then. Everything was neat aud or
DERBY. There was nothing to worry
her Nothing There was everything.
And she sat down and cried; she who
had been SO resolute only ten minutes
before. But that resolution, and def
ance, that had been born OF anger.
was all gone nov.


How sorry she was she had been 50
cross to him. for she had been cross :;
real cross. wickedly cross. What if
he had tossed his things any and ever,
way 1t was a mans trick, and here
she sobbed outright; he never had u
mother TO train him. Poor fellow, he
had been knocked around from pillar
10 post all his life. till he got married
and now he would have To knock around
again, for Of course he could not get
married right away no, he would haye
to get house-keeper, and she would
worry the life out of him: and when
he did get married, could he find one
who would love him as she had and
did! Yes, did the love wa, there
, yet, swelling and Overlooking.
She went into the kitchen. hardly
knowing why, driven, perhaps, by the
force of habit. There stood the table.
laid for dinner. and 50 neat the cloth
white IN Its creasrs, the plates and
glasses shining brightly the knives
and forks polished TO almost silvery
whlteness. She gave it one look, and
mechanically opened the stove oven.
, The chicken was browning nicely /:
, George liked Il roast chicken better
| than frlcasse, SO she had cooked it IN
: that way. The potatoes aud the tur-
, nips were dancing merry jigs in the
pot, and the teakettle was softly hum
: ming. The mince pie stood on the
hearth warming Itself quietly, and ex-
haling spicy odor that was tempting
} even TO dyspeptic stomach.
Such nice dinner and no one to
eat wIsll-l wlsh-I--l hadn't been
SO cross TO hun. | began it, and kept
1t up, too he wasn't cross at first; he
) held out until made him mad. wish
he was more careful, though-such "A
Gear. good fellow about everything
else. Never scolds when bills come
III, like Hannah Benton's husband.
r Mercy. If | had such IA man I'd leave
him, If had to work my fingers to
the bone TO earn my living. And he
wants me to have a girl and be dressed
up all the time, and read, and practice
and go out with him and there's poor
little May Miller, that never sits down
once week; but forever in the kitch-
en-, and never word of thanks, Joe
always wondering why she don't 90
more than she does. lie ought to go
TO the treadmill himself. And he new