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SHORT

STORY.

DANGER ROCKS IN MARRIED LIFE.

THE WIFE OF A GREAT MAN."

What Part I Played in My Husband's Career.

THE STORY OPENS. permit it to he his home, because

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its last wrench and something hadn't changed, it hal bocomo for. Either to know that I was I took the photograph from the new was born in me, something moro and more fixed. Anyway, the wrong, or that Don might be

can't name because it so trane- fact was that I found myself pos- converted,

scends what we know as love. It Beesed of certain fixed principles Then I saw a great light and

gave me an insight into his heart, and Esliefs. Touldn't change came out of a great darkness

a vision of what his soul was them. They were myself. And The darkness began with a vague

meant to be, a yearning over him Don didn't know their meaning shadowy dusk. Wherever I went He didn't want to know it, lethore was

* murkiness in the thought them ridiculous and use social atmosphere, almost as if less in our présent life. He was whispering had suddenly consed or as displeased at my holding them the air had become charged with as if I had still said: "I seen unspoken thought. Then some- The real Don was ambition. At thing new, something I only sen loast so I imagined then; later Ised and couldn't identify, entered saw my mistake. Tragedy, like into my relations with Don. It was hydraulic presme, squeezes out as though the tie that held him all one's imagination and leaves was slowly rotting, turning to real knowledge condensed. My decay in my hands. And still I principles and his conception never suspected what it meant. of how to ring were incom- The knowledge came in one patible. At least fo be said. I disagreed. If the heavens had great blow.. fallen Don would not have bean: more surprised than he was to find me disagreeing, and in pos session of an idea of my own.

it

dresser as if might help me to think. He smiled up at me again, the same old confident smile, the same don't-care smile, the same winning appeal to my heart, the heart that was breaking so

"Well, what of it"?

I sat down on the edge of the bed and told him all I knew. It wasn't much. But it made me understand nach more. A friend brought me a photo-divorce," he said.

"I suppose that you want a graph she had seen dropped in right with me.

"Well it's all the hotel corridor by another would have to come." friend. notoriously the most

I thought it

No, I don't care for a divorce,"

such as a mother feels for her

babe-no, as a shepherd has for his

I love

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I didn't hear Don's carriage; He was in the room before I knew sheep. he had come. I handed him the No, Don, I shall not get a photograph and leaned against divorce. You forget. the bed. Again I felt myself you." possessed by something big- "But, Velsie, I've just told you gor than myself. Pain, fear that I can't love you. Don't you anger were all gone.

understand? I'm sorry, but I love "Well," Don demanded quick- her too much. And I'm not res- ponsible. I can't help it." He groaned aloud "If you only knew now, she possesses me. She absorbs me. Every one knows it. And I don't care. He brushed his hand across his fore- head. I saw that he was think- ing of her. Then he looked back at me, frowned, and remembered. beautiful woman in Carltona I found myself answering him.

"I am sorry, Delsie, honest I am. Now the joints on which I widow. Of course she began

But when a thing like this gets took my stand seem s puerile with hema and laws, and "Feel-titled to it. Look here, Delsis," long breath-"You must get the "But why not? You're en-hold of a man "-He took a deep, and weak that I wonder at myself. ing it to be my duty," and "Ihe went on "you ouglit to know divorce. It's the only fair thing Yet even now that I am broader don't know how to begin," and the truth. I adore her. You to you." And wiser I see that if I had given. I feel that you ought to know," myself up in those lesser things it But something bigger and better would have been the opening than that woman warned me. wedge and our whole lives would She handed me the photograph. have been ruined. Though they Don's smiling face looked up at may not be wrong in themselves, me. I turned it quickly away. such things would have been And there, on the back, was writ wrong in me, feeling as I did. Then the only steadfast thing so well: To the loveliest lady en in the dashing letters I knew about me, would have been gone. in the world."

He wanted me to learn 10 dance.

Don wanted me to play cards. I have no idea how long Isat He wanted me to drink beer and there. I have no idea how I look- to serve it on my table. My

closer

for to me

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ed or what the friend thought. oburch for ade me. He requested was as if thought, motion, will, that I leave my church. I said had moved outside of me. But presently I managed to nod my I had made me I could not. what I was.. It had been bead and motion the friend to go. Still thought was inhibited. I than he. I would be a craven got up and put the picture away and a coward and an ingrate to and went about my tanks. Thon leave it. Besides I couldn't live in the middle of one of them without the help it gave me. I putting away the boy's olean didn't tell him so, but I saw that, suits, it was the tears rolled down my cheeks. But I went on ideal of him was shattered, now my I should need it as never before. working. Someway I didn't care

I had to have a me ideal and a support.

him, a sort of lesso connection,

**

ought to get the divorce."

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