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SHORT STORY.

DANGER ROCKS IN MARRIED life.

THE WIFE OF A GREAT MAN.

What Part 1 Played in My Husband's Career,

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grasps greedily for anecdote and know enough to wonder, as I historical data to antisfy the have since, how he happened to ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- RAYMOND, co S. J. DAVID public's interest in his career. be that way by instinct. Now I land Lot No. 1154. But I cannot tell you that name, think it must have been the out- for this is the story of his wife, cropping of some ancestry away and, though her career is as re- back... markable as his and really far It was then that I was convert- more unusual, so doth public ed. I had one neighbour. She prejudice mock our frankness that took me to the revival. I suppose what, to myself, I acknowledge that my great sense of happiness, as my great success might be of thankfulness for what I had Harbour. For Rent, etc., please A Hacienda East, 74 Mount Balle called my shame. Man seems to received, of the miracle that had apply to YAP HOK LING, No.. have added to the old saying, been wrought in my life, must 4, Ripon Terrace.

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with his wife is moredly secret." it came-an emotional upheaval futurist picture of my impressions thankfully receiving. My love In fact custom has interpreted tho that turned my whole nature up at that time would have been a turned over in my breast and word "sacred in this relation to side down. And after it the conglomeration of deep blue eyes, demanded that I know this man, mean ceoret. Perhaps. it is entire world was changed for me. dark curly hair, great height, be part of him, a helpmate. wise that in the whirling pool of 1 had become a centre of some-n commanding manner, books, Gradually thie thought became active life there should be a little thing bigger, greater than myself, parties, pretty clothes, and a little embodied in acta. I tried to make inlet in which none but the man didn't analyze it then. I can's fair-skinned baby.

our life together. I reorganized and woman enter. At any rate now. It was as if from being a

It was a veritable fairyland ex- our home life. Where before I will not do violence to custom by little governor way off at the end istence. I never asked a question had been thankful for crumbs

of the machinery, flying around as to ways and means. giving you my name.

consideration I could demanded Donald was a section hand. and around aimlessly, I had gratify every whim I had. We thought. I suggested courtesies was the stepdaughter of his land- found rest and quiet in the axle must have spent money like water that he had never paid me. I lady. Was there ever a more of the biggest wheel, the one that and fools. I know that now. made social engagements that in- conventional beginning? But turned the whole machinery, and People must have wondered at us, cluded both of us. I strove to Donald was not like other section knew that it all went through me We were such successful deceivers establish a relation of interdepen- bands. You would know this if and because of me. There were that they never knew it was all dence. At first he responded you had ever seen him ushering no questions to ask-I had only because we didn't know the rela- joyfully. Like a boy he poured millionaires around the offices, to accept, to love and to live. tion between debit and credit. out to me his pride, his vain-glory, dining with Senators, and, yes,! At this time the first big change Did you ever hear of a cow let his hopes. And he took me about with a President. Donald was the came in our outer lives. Don was loose suddenly in an apple orchard with him, as if he, also, were head of the section gang. Aud made division freight agent. We that didn't founder?

proud of me. he was very handsome, tall, moved to Carlton. It was a big

Our club then gave a big party And then I made a discovery: Blender (now that be weighs two place to me-twelve thousand.some theatricals and a dance Don and I were aa far apart as the hundred pounds he still is too tall Doa picked out a big house afterwards. It was the first time poles. I had never really known to be fat), with dark hair, curly, oight rooms, And there my baby that Don's desires touched mine. him. and deep blue eyes, eyes that was born. I hadn't time for any We went together. I took part (To be Continued on Next Week.) can sparkle and cut and command thing but him and my church in the play-acting. I have a gift all at once. His men loved him. I had joined, one after the that way. I made quite a And so did I. But Donald was revival. It became the centre of hit, but the surprise of that was different from me. Even then be my social life. I suppose that I quite wiped out by my greater looked like a gentlemen. Sun- duin't notice how Don was chang-surprise at seeing Don as a social days, when he dressed up and ing, because everything else creature. Why, where I had a went into the town, no one would was so changed. I had lost my crept into favour he raced. As I dream that he was only a section sense of proportion. And it was have said, he was handsome. foreman. Night he studied. When all that I could do not to make Now I saw that he was more I was just fifteen he went away, mistakes. I had a fixed idea that than that..

He was charming, Ha bad received that vague re- Don would never forgive me a gracious, with the knack of ward promotion. He had never mistake. So I tried to do just as popularity. And I found out that noticed me, though it was I who my church friends did, And they he knew these people as I did not. kept his books and papers in did everything so differently from He led, no, he dominated the order, and, yes, kissed them, too, what I was used to. Now I know party. My, I was proud of him! as I did it. And yet. I didn't that it was one of the poorest, More than one man said to me: hotel, and on Thursday, the 8th, know then where those books most insignificant churches in the would lead him and me.

town. Then it was so beyond me that I thought the people, their societies, and their customs were very grand,

Two years later he came back as telegrapher at the little station. My stepmother had given up the charge of the section house and

After a while my neighbours opened a cheap boarding-house came to see me. They were all so on her own account, I was then jciety people. At first I had a horror! seventeen and very pretty. Of of them. The word society meant course I knew it. Every one said to me all sorts of bad habite, eo. I was as conventional in my loose morals and queer ways. prettiness as our beginning woa. But I soon found out that society I had goldon bair and light blue people were just like church peo- eyes, and was very, vory white ple, only a little more precise in below my collar, where the sun manners, a little more vivacious had not turned me red. I had no in conversation, and a little more good clothes to set of my looks careful about dress. Then I was though. I remember the disgrace invited to join a club. Inever I felt that I had to go barefoot. spoke a word the first year I was My stepmother abused me fear-in that olub. But I never missed fully, too, but I was afraid to go a word or an action in any one away from her. Donald saw all else. I'would go home and prac this and pitied me. I tried to tice everything I noticed, the read a little to. Like the on-broad "a," the way to shake hands, ventional story girl I wanted to how to say "Beg pardon" as if it be like him. He was my hero. were one word, how to hold a fork Then, one wonderful day, when and bow to acknowledge an in- I had been crying over a parti- troduction.·

cularly hideous remark of my The second year I began to stepmother's, Donald found me, take part. Fortunately I never put his arms around me and said nerded any help about alothes. I it should never happen again. had a gift for dressing. I foun We were married within a wook. the best dressmakers. I was still Afterward, when I remembered slim and pretty.

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