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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS One of the Greatest Mystery Stories Ever Written By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. (Copyright, IMS, by Anna Katharln* Green ) TO DAY’S INSTALLMENT. “No—you ” she murmured, looking down at his hand with a midden and violent change of color “I—I ” She turned away and laid her hand on her husband's arm “Do you wish to stay any longer**” she asked “It seems to me we ought to be going ’* There was confusion In her tone, while her manner to the doctor had certainly savored of rudeness, but Dr. Molesworth seemed neither to notice the one nor the other *1 am In no hurry.’’ said he, “to lose the doctor's company, espenally as I have another rase here which I am sure it will Interest him to see ’’ And he looked af Dr Cameron, who at once cried t . T am on band for anything of that kind.** “Come, then,” cried the other ”Bwt first ex cum me while I take off my cuffa I can do nothing at a bedside with them on.” And while the two waited this strange man palled off hie cuffs and put them In the pocket of his overcoat, after which operation his brow looked lighter and he pasted with them up the hall, chatting quite genially Genevieve felt lick at heart. This business was not as pleasant In reality as In anticipation, but she kept by their side, thankful that she was not ex pected to say anything On their re turn she again expressed a wish to leave, and thli time no demur was made But Just as they turned to go n startled cry made them look hark Tt was from Dr Molesworth, and the word he had uttered was: “Loatr “What la lost?" Tt was Dr. Cameron wh© spoke: h1s wife semed Incapable of uttering a word. Dr Molesworth laughed “Excuse me.” said he. “I did not mean to be so tragic: but in our short absence my cuffs have been taken out of my over coat pocket, and though the loss is not great, It Is certainly annoying” T know who did It,” cried a voice near them. "It was that slim small man who came 1n after ” But Dr. Cameron did not keep his wife waiting any longer to hear these simple explanations; the affair seemed altogether too puerile Would he have thought any more se riously of It had he known that written on the Inside of one of those cuffs-the one which had beet, on the hand which Dr Molesworth had extended to Gene vieve—were written in large characters these words: "Beware! I was not released so sud denly without a motive.” Husband and Wife. 1 -T must not he supposed that the sud den and remarkable change which had taken place In Mrs Cameron's physical appearance had passed un noticed or uncommented upon by so ciety. It was only too widely discussed, and while It formed the basis of Innu merable compliments. It also awakened, an equal number of surmlsee and qnM- | tionable remarks. They were sitting In the parlor, and Dr Cameron, anxious to behold her smile again, was talking gnllv Sud denly he paused and asked her a ques tion about some one they had seen. She answered but vaguely Her thoughts were elsewhere Judging from the di rection of her gar.e. they were on her- I self She sat where she could see her own image mirrored In the glass before her. and it was upon this elegant figure, j clad in gray velvet and pearls, that j her eyes were fixed with an Intentness ahtch might have suggested the pres ence of Innate vanity. If the disdain which curled her lip had not shown that she half despised the beauty which re quired so much splendor to adorn it Her husband's eyes followed hers and glistened merrily “An imposing figure," he smiled “Did you think you would ever he a famous beauty. Genevieve*”’ She rose up with an instantaneous Impulse, and. coming to his side, knelt down at his feet "Am T pretty," she asked, “to you?” "No,” he returned, “you are not pret ty. you are beautiful, and Just a lit tle awe-inspiring I love you. and I wonder at you You are so different—” She did not wait for him to finish “You love me.” she murmured “How much do you love me, Walter** Enough to care more for me than for my beau ty? Would your heart still glow and your arms still embrace me If. instead of pleasing your eye. I only appealed to your sympathies and your afTectlors? Do not say yes carelessly. Walter. How deep have I sunk into your heart? Tast the first boundary or not, Walter? Speak’ 1 am strong enough to hear ” Affected deeply, for her look was even more earnest than her words, he drew her to his side, and answered gravely: “You are my wife; you are the woman I have chosen and would choose again out of all I have ever seen for my own. I love your beauty—how can 1 help It!—and I love what gives that beauty life Had I to choose, were It given me to have this lovely form, these brilliant eyes, this whole harmonious and speaking figure, with a cold and treacherous soul within it: or to have your heart, your intellect and ‘your na- ♦*»ra In a faded or marred body, I should take ** “Which?” Her eyes were burning her lips were farted; 8he was breathless ‘Nur heart and nature. I know I and I rejoice in It You have eharmed ?ie, Genevieve I cannot re- •Sei: your spgjl nor do I try any longer ? do so. Were these features all o^r- cast, there* wouW stllf be yr»«r* depth of her regard, which was always remarkable, never struck him more forcibly, than at this moment, while the smile that Just touched and sweetened the corners of her lips poasesaed a melancholy for which he could find little reason, save In the strength and fervor of her fully aroused feelings “I think the day will come,” she re marked. “when you will no longer won der at me Will It he also true that you will no longer love me*" Rhe did not se»-m to expect a reply, and he did not give any He felt sure of himself, but why rej>eat asseverations that were as old as love He merely smiled at her and waited for the new question that hovered on her Ups. It seemed to he a serious one, more se rious than any which had gone be fore It looked as If she dreaded to put It. He encouraged her with a kiss on the hand that lay In his “I see; you want to know wtiat I am going to ask next,” she pursued “Well, I may be a foolish woman, but I have a fancy to probe your heart to the bottom Would you love me” — she dropped her eyes from his face-* “if you found that I had kept some thing hack from you which I ought to have told; that that I had ever been Th love before, or- or thought I was; that I was not Just what you Imagined me to he when you married me, and that— that I had a secret In my life, as many women have, which, while It argues nothing wrong In my heart, still lends to my hours many regrets, and to my thoughts a shadow which all the pres ent brightness cannot quite charm away?" "Genevieve!" His fare had changed, his lips took a hard line “Have you any such secret In your life? Did you ever love another man 9 '* She looked up, met his eye and quak ed “Do you demand to know?” she asked His brows contracted: be thought of the promise she had given him to al- j ways tell him the truth, and hesitated. ; What If she said yes. would It In- } crease their happiness? They were married, she loved him Playing With Cupid—-and After This Is the Way the Game with Cupid Begins— OVE comes like a summer sigh,” goes an old song, and those who have known nothing now, and any ! I^ove, or know It only in Its begin- such raklns up of old hyRoncs wan eer- J nln*. think, calm-eyed, that Love Is talnly unwise as It was unpleasant j always a summer sigh—a lutellke strain, Besides, who could expect to have the sweet, settling, telling a story of flow- first love of a Genevieve Gr-dorex? A j era shaking their heavy, honey-bur- ■woman who has counted , suitors by ! dened heads drowsily In the sun; of scores might be pardoned for having \ b 'r<]s Klvlng sleepy twitters froip un- ylelded one Jot of her pent-up woman- ' der the shade of the leaves, and of laxy ly emotions In return He would not ! streams, droning and crooning their way One' Woman’s Story . By VIRGINLA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER By BEATRICE FAIRFAX “L he found he loved pres* his question her too well. “I demand nothing.” wee his reply. "The past Is past, and we no longer have anything to do with It As long as your heart Is all mine now —and I am sure It Is what Is it to me that you once smiled for a we^k or a month j upon some one else? I would dare wager that no one but myself ever j touched these lips .” Her smile flashed out bright and daz zling “No one ever did,” said she, and at that word and at that smile his brow cleared and he almost laughed. “Most every life has had some harm less flirtations In It,” he remarked "I adored a girl rnyself once—for a fort night But that does not make me un- ; happy now On the contrary, I think It j adds a little to my satisfaction The j lelsi t>f true gold Is more apparent after sontf slight handling of Assb^ " She Ar<»rped her head *T%»re was a i far-away look ir her eyes Rhe did j not seeilj fr> hear what he said "I wish I Jould see you roaUp cheer- 1 ful again,'* he ventured. “You are not 111 enough to l^.>k so sad ’’ Brought ba^ to realities. sf.t moved a little farther from him, whlle^ a reck- less gleam shot from her eyes. slowly, and j of thought, j powerful with soi^ men. j That no ambition Is considered too ! dear, no hope too precious to stand in the way of their passion Is there j truth In such tales” Is there a man ! , between warm, mossy banks, and glv- ' lng no hint In their songs that they j were ever turbulent : That the summer sigh Is followed by j tempestuous winds and devastating | floods that tear down and sweep de- I structlon where all was lazy peace, Is j nevffr credited by those who do not know Hove. The girl whose love tale Is In the be ginning regards Dove as she would a i plaything She tosses him In the air, I sometimes catching him with fervent arms and loving kisses, and as often i letting him fall that she may laugh at j his woe-begone face and make merry j over his bruises. I She tweaks, pinches, slaps and throws the little god about, finding renewed merriment In every moan and protest. “Love," she sings, "Is more than a sum mer sigh. He Is a game. He la the greatest joy In the world." First hot, then cold; first loving, then disdainful; the plaything In her hands would be driven mad entirely did he not know that, Just as surely as to-mor row's sun follows to-day's, hla time will come. He Is the plaything to-day. He knows who \rill be the juggler to-morrow, and with a face which bears no sign of the malice In his heart he submits to every torture she imposes And bides hla time! What hour marks the beginning of the new game where Love is the juggler and the plaything In hla hands la the bruised and aching heart of his tormentor no one knows. The inexperienced declare that that hour never strikes. The love-scarred know that it struck when they were merriest, and that in a twinkling they found themselves the sport of that which The Cry of the By BEATRICE FAIRFAX eart Tl ie One You Qidn’t M . BY DOROTHY DIX. arry \ “I ”i ''ave read," she began sl<v is Vailing hsT *wn train of that\»s’e Is powerful with soi OVE. courtship and marriage are not passing sentiments or accidents. Romance and science must become fast friends. Sentiment and reality must meet. I want the young man and woman to know each other and to greet each other sanely and well under the best influence 1 know of—the church." The Rev. John R. Gunn, who made this statement is pajrtor of the North Baptist Church. No. 234 West Elev- among your acquaintance, for Instance. . .. . who would hr willing to sacrlflc. any Mn,h N< ‘ W T ° rk really good thing he possessed for the sake of an unfortunate woman who was dependent upon him for happiness?’’ “I hope ’’ he commenced. But she stopped him with an Impe rious gesture “Do you know of one man.” she asked. “who would share disgrace with woman cheerfully?” "Disgrace is a hard word,” hr assert ed, “and cheerfully dj*s not readily go with it.” •But " "I am thinking of an extreme case. Perhaps you did not mean positive dis grace Such does not come often to a man from a woman It is more apt to come to a woman from a man." "You speak of an extreme case, softly whispered He has heard the Cry of the Heart. Ho has learned through his associa tion with young people that in the civilization and salvation of this gray old world the heart must be reck oned with as well aw the soul, the body and the brain. It is not enough to throw open the a church doors to save souls. The 1 work does not end with establishing schools to train the fingers and brain. The public clinics that teach the care of the body accomplish wonderful re sults. but this and all these are not enough. The man with perfect lungs and liver, skilled hands, a well-trained brain and a soul that he believes Is saved Is of no more account than a collection of dry bones If his heart has a longing that neither mental nor _ physical tiring can still. He wants to ,.s put lf.,-,7,il° v " nn<1 be 'overt. He wants the that I I greatest gift life holds. and the same she extremist Say that I had done an i **?*'•* ...... uono longing is Implanted In the breast of a ‘ t which If known would brand me with , ov «»ry woman. Infamy; that you became aware of It i in a small town where every one and also knew that the heart which knows every one else meeting and ality left: a ^-swackaJlty which I do not understand, rn*i which holds me and interests me more than any amount of grace or beauty could do.” "Then I am an enigma, only an enigma to you When I am solved ” "Will you ever be solved. Genevieve?" ue did :.'4 ooX as It she weuML The prompted It was not bad. only untu tored and Impetuous, would your love he so slight that It would give way under the revelation, or would It hdld firm, and. though changed, remain to solace and encourage one who- who— never realized —“ Her voice sank to an unintelligible murmur, her eyes, which were fixed on his. turned glassy, for his brow had grown threatening and his regard stern “Genevieve.” he cried, “these are not the questions of an excited fancy. There Is meaning back of all this What mean ing” la there disgrace lurking In the air for us? Have you done anything ’’ But here her laugh broke out merrily and shrill. A transformation seemed to he worked in her which made his words sound incongruous and absurd. He stopped In his turn and looked at her In a sort of cloudy amazement She arose and made him a mocking lit tle courtesy; then ale suddenly grew grave “Forgive me.” she entreated. “1 had % nation to test the extent of your love. I—I think there Is yet opportunity for It to deepen and broaden. But perhaps 1 do not understand men. I have never cared to study them until now I did not know my happiness would hang upon your regard Your regard.” she repeated, “not the world’s, Walter.” To Bo Continued To-morrow. mating are easy. A man sees a girl ht* admires and the next day a mu tual friend introduces them. In a large city he may see The Girl every day for an eternity, and the rules which were made for her protection prevent them from speaking without an introduction and there is no one In the world who knows him and her who cares. Their Cries. Th© girl a nice man wants for a wife is not the girl who lets a street corner stand aponeor for him. The girl who will let a wdnk or a smile serve as an introduction 1b not the girl he wants to marry. He wants to meet and marry the nice, modest kind of a girl he knew “back home,” and he know's, as every one knows, that the city is full of them. He also knows that his chances for meeting her ar© not any better than If she were stranded on an Island In the North Sea. and he were a nomad in the Sahara Desert. Love is too priceless to be lost through formality and too precious to be risked through Its lack. The re formists must in time recognize this and open social centers where decent young men may meet decent young women In a sane, decent way. On this the happiness of the world de- I pends. “I am a young girl nineteen years of age.” writes one who signs herself ’Anxious.' “and have no chance what ever to get acquainted with young men. While I have girl friends, they ! are »elflsh and would not introduce . me to any young man. Anyhow, they are the kind of men they meet in public dance halls, and I don’t care to know them. Will you tell me of a way to meet a few nice men?" “I am in love with a young girl," writes another, “who is working near the place I work. She is looking at me all day long with a great deal of Interest but she never says anything because we have not been introduced. I try to make her understand with my eyes that I love her, but she keens silent, Just looking at me all the time. Is there a way I can meet her and get acquainted?” “I am eighteen"—this time it is a girl—“and every day meet a nice young man who says ‘How do you do?’ and parses on. I like him very much, but have never been intro duced to him. Tell me how I may know him.” “I am a young man of nineteen and am very very bashful. Whenawith young ladies I do not know what to converse about. Lately I have been corresponding with a medical Institu tion that offered to permanently cure me of my bashfulness in twelve les sons but 1 have an Idea I could be cured quicker if I could meet more girls and be with them oftener. But I live In a large city and never meet any girls, and am tn despair." One Way. It is the Cry of the Heart for love, and the cry is universal The man ir woman who fails to heed It or who stills It pays the penalty all through life Only through satisfying this hunger for love may happiness £e se cured. The Rev. Gunn, recognizing this de mand, has opened a parlor in his church for the purpose of making it possible for well-intentioned young men and women to meet. He will act as the Intermediary of Cupid, and the poor little god of Love needs more in termediaries these days than at any previous time In his troubled exist ence. Let others who claim they want to do good emulate the Rev. Gunn. Sat isfy this longing for love first of all. and ambition, achievement, and all that counts in the progress of human ity will follow. Hamm 2d. Two farmers stoped to talk crops and the price of potatoes. ' Say, J!m “ finally remarked one of the agriculturists, “are ye In the market fer a good hoss?” “Wouldn’t mind buyin* a hoss if It suited me. Jake." responded Jim “What kind of a hoss Is It?” “It’s thet little roan mare o’ mine.’* answered Jake “Guess you've seen her haln't ye?” “Think I hev,“ reflectively returned Jim. “Yes. I know her, all right.” "Mighty good little hoss. ’ declared Jake, with a hopeful glance at Jim. "An’ she’s yours cheap fer a cash deal." “It’s Jes’ this way, Jake,” said Jim. picking up his lines and preparing to start. “Id like to have her. all right, an' I’d buy her this mornln’, only I hate to bust a dollar.” But It Ends So, had been their game. The girl who is playing with Love grows tired and bids Love go. He turns to depart, and there conies to her a swift revelation of the dreariness of life without him, and she oommands him to stay. The hour has struck! He refuses, and then she drops to her knees and begs for that which she once scorned. “Only stay." she implores, "and you may do with me as you will." And Love stays, and for every tear that she has made him shed he makes her shed a torrent. Every little pinch and bruise on his bod* has made a mark on his heart that is charged to her account, for which she must pay in humiliation and anguish. No cold-blooded, calculating enemy who starts out to destroy and lets nothing under heaven Interrupt or change or balk or defeat his plans, was ever more ruthless than this little God of Love. Love is, as the young hope, the only real joy life holds. And only thos© who have known tt know the depths of de spalr and sorrow. In the beginning it is the plaything; in the end the hearts of men and wom en are its toys. “I FANCY," said the woman who likes to philosophize above her tea, “that there are very few of us, either men or women, who do not cherish fhe memory of some rare and radiant being that we have met some where In the past, and who do not have moments In which we speculate upon what life might have been if only we jiad married the ideal, instead of the Individual that we did marry. “Of course, for the most part, we are fairly well satisfied with our own par ticular Darby or Joan, but in times of domestic strife we recall with a sad, sweet pleasure, the face of Angelina or Edwin, and reflect that he or she never would have been such a goose, or so pig-headed, or raised such rows about nothing as does the wife or husband to whom we are tied. “Ah, no! Angelina would always have been fair and beautiful, and slim and young, a perfect housekeeper, and a marvel of economy, far different from our own fat and grizzled middle-aged Joan, who is a hit-or-mlss cook, and apparently thinks a man can gather money off the trees. Our Edwin, too, would always have been a romantic hero, who could make us thrill at his touch, who would murmur beautiful sentiments of affection, couched In Booth Tarkington language for forty years at a stretch, and who would have lived on such a high plane that he wouldn’t even have perceived when the coffee tasted like dish water, and the soup was cold, and the ices hot And he would have been utterly Incapable of saying such things under such circum stances. as does the commonplace Dar by to whom we are united. The Retrospect. “Ab the years go by, and we get far ther and farther away from Edwin and Angelina and the gilt rubs more and more off of the gingerbread of matri mony that we are daily forced to con sume, the pictures of our early loves grow brighter and brighter, with a more and more roseate halo, until at last we come to the place where we privately consider ourselves blighted beings, who have made fatal mistakes In matrimony “I am convinced that a great deal of domestic unhappiness arises from this cause, and I think that ten years after marriage there ought to be a com pulsory excursion back to the scene of one's early romance, so that husbands and wives could get a near view of their first love. Take my word for It, that it would do more to make men and women satisfied with the life partners they did get than anything else on earth, for If there is one thing that makes you want to go out and burn joss sticks to luck It is to meet up with the one you didn't marry. “I have just been seeing a most illu minating example of the value of my theory. I have a friend, whom I will call Susie, because that isn't her name, who, when she was a young girl, fell In lov© with a good-looking and attrac tive young fellow who was one of those youths who live upon their mothers. “Fortunately for Susie she had a sen sible, hard-headed father who repre sented to her that a man who had never supported himself was not likely to support a family, and as Susie had too much independence to want to set tle down on a poor mother-in-law to be taken care of, she was kept from marrying the young man, and, of course, in time got over her girlish fancy. “Eventually she made an excellent match. She married a thrifty business man irf a distant city, who was able to give her a beautiful home, fine clothes, an automobile, and every luxury that wealth can supply. Also her husband is a man of weight in his community, looked up to, and deferred to.. “But always her early love has loomed in Susie’s mind as a fairy prince, and she has contrasted her husband unfavorably with him, and said to her self how blissful she might have been with a man who understood her poetic yearnings, and her grasping at the whatness of the what, Instead of with a sordid business man, whose soul was not on material things.. “Well, last month Susie went back home for the first time In many years, and saw her early love. Also his wife and children. The shiftless ne’er do well had gone down, and down, until he had become the village loafer. People spoke of him with sneering con tempt. His wife was a poor, pitiful, overworked drudge who supported him by taking boarders. Half a dozen dirty little children clung to her skirts. The Outcome. “You never saw such an Instan taneous cure as that sight of the man she didn’t marry worked on Susie. She scuttled back home as fast as she could go, and she’s been so busy ever since scattering roses in the path of the man she did marry that she has got him guessing as to what has happened." "That’s right," said the other woman cooingly, “I never miss an opportunity of inviting my husband's early loves to dinner. They are sure to be fat and frowsy, .or living skeletons, and I can see his ideal crumbling to pieces as he contrasts them in propria persona with the way he remembered them.” "But we also have changed since we Inspired love’s young dream," suggest ed a third woman. "Oh, our husbands are used to us," replied the woman philosopher, com fortably. “And they’ve quit looking at us, anyway.” CHAPTER XXV A S soon as Herbert Fletcher was engaged he brought hl9 mother to call upon his future wife That was the only time that Mary Panforth saw her soon-to-be mother-in-law until after her marriage Mrs. Fletcher was a large-boned, stout woman, florid of face and with a voice that was masculine In quality. She shook hands with Mary and eyed her critically "How do you do?” sn« said, adding, as In duty bound, “My son lias told me about you." “And he has talked to me often about you," Mary rejoined timidly. “1 am glad to know you. It Is kind of you to call." "Bert Insisted on my coming." re turned Mre Fletcher bluntly* "I was willing to humor him to keep the peace She Was Surprised. Mary was surprised to hear herself talking with assumed lightness of trifling matters—the weather, the noise of the city streets at this time of the year when the windows were open, the many impersonal matters that make what is known as “small talk.” Fletcher sat by and looked at her with uncon cealed admiration: her mother seconded her efforts to keep the conversational ball rolling, but Mrs. Fletcher said lit tle. Her quick eyes were taking In every detail of the simply-furnished room, and Mary felt that her gaze was an appraising one. She looked ofien at the embarrassed girl, and at last voiced her thoughts: “I guess you’re not very strong, are you?’’ Mary flushed hotly. “Why, yes,” she said, trying to laugh. “I hav^ never been really ill In my life. Perhaps the first warm weather may make me look a little pale, but I am very well, thank you!” Fletcher spoke up quickly. “It isn’t always the big women that are the strongest, ma.” he said oracularly “You, yourself, ain’t quite up to the mark sometimes.’’ “I flnow that,” said his parent as she rose to leave. “But,” turning to Mary, “my son tells me that you and he have decided to get married, and I think it only fair to say to you that, as he hasn’t a fortune, any gifl that mar ries him may have to work. But I guess you’re used to that here in your own home. And,’’ as an after-thought, “I hope you both will be happy.” Mary did not return Mrs. Fletcher's call—indeed, was not asked to do so. But she wrote a prettj little note to Bert’s mother asking her to come to the wedding, explaining that it was to be the quietest affair Imaginable. To this invitation the older woman sent a verbal acceptance by her son. Herbert Fletcher had always wanted to live in the country, and Mary wa9 willing to get away from New York and from all the old associations. She and her husband took a wedding trip down to Atlantic Clly and staying In an inex pensive boarding-house over Sunday. Then the young couple returned to the Danforth flat and began preparations for moving out of town. Decided on Small Town. Fletcher had decided upon a small village in New Jersey, the distance of three-quarters-of-an-hour from New York, making It convenient for him to commute daily. He and Mary went to Middlebrook one Saturday afternoon and chose the little house in which they were to live. It had seven small rooms and a diminutive bath, but to the girl who, for two years, had lived*ln a cheap flat, the cottage looked quite large. All the water used In the bathroom and kitchen must be pumped by hand Into the tank at the top of the house, the pump being close to the kitchen sJnk. “A good job for a fellow that’s get ting too stout—eh, Mamie?" Bert re marked jocosely. (He had insisted that “Mary” was “too formal” a name for a man to dall his wife by. Mary had suggested that she preferred it to any nickname, but her husband had his way.) “When I don’t fee! like pumping the water, the girl can do it,” he said later as the two sat together on the train taking them back to New York. “Are you sure I can get a maid?” Mary asked timidly. “I nave heard that It is sometimes difficult to secure one In a country place." “Well, we’ll get one from town then,” said the master of the house loftily. “I don’t mean that you should do rough work In my home—at least, if you can hire a girl whose wages make it pos sible for us to keep her.” ‘Ma Says You Were Right.” It was evident that he discussed this | matter with his mother, for the next evening he remarked to his wife: "Ma tells me that you were right I in saying that It's hard to get good j help In the country. Tou know she . never keeps a girl, and she seems to | think that you and your mother could do a good deal of the work of that little house yourselves. Perhaps you could.” Mary hesitated. “I do not want moth- j ©r to do housework, Bert," she de murred. “She Is not strong, and work I in a house Is harder than In a flat. If you can not afford a maid, the house must be attended to by me—but I would prefer keeping a servant, If pos sible.” She tried to speak firmly, out tn»r© was a tremor In her voice and her hus band noted It. “Well," he said, “let’s hope we can got a girl cheap somewhere. If not, my dear, I guess you’ll just have to put up with matters as lots of other women do, and as you and your mother have done lately and as my mother has al ways done. Your husband ain’t rich, you know.” His wife made no reply. She seemed these days to he slowly awakening from a stupor In which she had lived since the night on which she received the news of Craig’s engagement. She hed not allowed herself to look a day ahead, nor an hour backward. That was the way, she reminded herself, that she had lived through the past three month*. She Aroused Herself. She aroused herself to listen to her husband again. “Ma says she'll help me choose any furniture we need;,” ho was saying “She’s a crackerjacJi at finding bargains. I never knew such an economical buyer.” "I thought,” ventured his wife, 'that we might choose our furniture to gether ’’ “Oh," the man returned easily t'oo'ro buoy packing, so you’d better let ma and me attend to that. I saw a real bright and cheerful blue sofa on Four teenth streot the other day. and I’ll ee« what we can get it for for ©ur parlor. I'll let ma make the deal.” Suddenly the wife appreciated that if she would not protest too much she must keep silence. Sixth City. The city of Cleveland has a citizen who Is a great booster When he stons at a hotel he Invariably registers “Sixth City" Instead of Cleveland. He Is anx ious for every one to know that Cleve land Is the Sixth City In the United States. H1b zeal In this respect nearly cost him a lot of trouble last wpt-k. One of his New York business acquaint ances called up the Waldorf, where he had been told Mr. Roe© was stopping, and asked for him. “I want to speak with W. G Rose, of Cleveland,” said the New Yorker. After a long wait th* clerk told him that there was no W. G. Rose, of Cleve land. stopping there. The New Yorker insisted that Mr. Rose was there and asked the clerk to bmke another in quiry. “No.” answered the clerk, after an other long wait. "There Is no Mr. Rose, of Cleveland, here. But we have a W. G. Rose, of Sioux City." Hereafter Mr. Rose Is going to regis ter “Cleveland—Sixth City" to avoid mistakes. That Reserve. Boob—\Yhat’s this federal reserve th they’re talking about? Simp—Why, that’s the Wilson polii about doing nothing In Mexico. 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