Show JOSS WIFE by KATHLEEN NORRIS none MARRIED MARD LIPE LIFE this 1 la a star atory of at A iad life and worse alf 1 staat in love bat at there I 1 nothing humdrum bout about the baine malrid fil life f ar from it th there I 1 ideal i oo 00 lov a in and I 1 jealousy y and 1 even I aad and 1 the end ad no clr triumph aph of A wife 1 11 love in th A Isid ns au ellen loid latt mer do dod disclosed d As sorl girl A pretty at 1 I ad ini ed par be her to in parla ilion and the then to the I 1 or life f a of fall wealthy till now new york fate m biar ale her be to 1 I an A all t I 1 lellow lella on of rich roan id ana I talented abed an artist pat fate star gives her ft d demoted ted longob hubband d an and it the joy jay of 0 on lor A n at idell ideal the then tat fote it i la A young anil a love tenth ten th ill her way ato between in husband and no wit wife TO I 1 t by Js ev finally bhe he believe bell even the he worst root her hao husbands husband rather father lien alno be b ils clevea I the worst F father the accuser 4 on in and nd or alks lit him ordering him him III from hs and ta then tat fate it ita hard tbt at law blow th the father la 11 1 found d dead a 1 in hla his study too wrol under circum arc euln that point t to murder arder TD the 1 I on j arrested eso of to tor murder order TI the wife I 1 la obliged to till tell of the A quarrel at circumstantial evidence de r od light round Is bus dead band but he be convince ce c her the that he be 1 IB 1 innocent I 1 her 1 I love triumphs or he and nd ol 01 bie ands by him to the be end A A which all la I 1 something far inter different irma from telo being executed led for murder the ruth kathleen N 1 I 1 ona of if the has best of 11 our american novelist va list she he we ws b born brahl br ahl up bad and married in san francisco no at or fart A wrote role hort t to for the calet cale t her bar A first noel 1 RA romin ended dof b by w william arnn brame howell at since ill than b her has be barn larg bhe ills a han be a lonar lint of A f ab a b to in her r credit loalbo lo including almo mollier ill the at story or of julia JOUA aba A the H art of if rachel the her rich ich ti mra rs hu bur r koyne in sinter in rod nd harriet ana A the piper CHAP CHAPTER TER I 1 i 1 ell ellen latimer reached the big ar ata bar lust just before th the a ind ruin do b began ellan t to a f tall all she went past the paper atana anere laden men over were mapping down don pennies and bishing on with hardly B me his pause and where an all the pretty girls in the war world lit were smiling WAS it the brilliant covers cover of magazines gaan c ifill girls peeling pumpkins in ID it demure ire lit kitchen ae ging lains and girls furred to the going to football games gar 8 with will demount pen nania 01 er at tl their vir aboul b 0 ider dere far or thanksgiving ras c close at t hd hand she went past the clock that we waa w watched at ched by y so a many it patient and eager elea evea and it came to the special gets gate a anious an g a dozen domn gaev git anair where a red boxed d tell showed the words express P part r washington B 5 22 she had spent ill the in morning craim as amt usual at the art deats league but she tied deliberately dellb loitered inhered about bout the ell all 11 afternoon fay 1 la the hope hapa ti that ell ahls thorpe would n join her on an this train A ediin lit a at destination alido port pon V aa lilii ton a quiet old village at ill the fe terminus rada ot of ill the ius hue but E 11 U ud lied d at Don glaston which wis nas a fashionable modem ad colony cajole four milea it nearer new york ll 11 allen did not at know how idal him well 11 they had ad been introduced on can the train and it never met elsewhere Isef thre hills was waa only u nineteen n et em still 1 in high school rod and the firl lir j as more then three years older illey hie talked only of themselves as axy the train tore lure an it its fi ny nay illon hllen tallied milked of hr her do dav Is B tsaan ps Aan A at lie art legue league and it lee her starry trout bennt and the rush flush of her blue ev eves under the tur f trimmed hat be and the too in filed gaiety gayety ot at her laush h lent the dull sub act ridden add ill A no young arile I 1 was vas per and 1 in his hia replies replica his the ape that tender renders personalities in offensive and lit leleu flushed with fill amusement and ad idallan a and ad turned from lit hla me merciless refie stare in to smile at her own ova reflection in us the dark cur car win do flow it WAB us a lovely reflection le neeti the th tough laugh ing inc evig were ains a deep irish frish blue blu ran wit ort Kh adova and long sooty booty cashis so ac conot no tag their essential the skin km bad a pope and healthy pal lor if aillet on if atie laah cheekiii ea where he a there was a biLlI bt lilian tInt touch if af caloo end and bihin a mouth was As wide ride ilk like her irish mothers kindly humorous the be fill thin lips iely red mje be big becenti her indr was a alffa thin iva thought bought herself cht she atie wag pret pretty t y but the thought rare hareli gave ba isay me of t mer era beauty if one a I 1 lacked e d every riet other rood good thing than in the sea worldly 1 ahe was poor am b irions eager for life holes local rion as to in the means of gaining ner der place in he ill the world rid her ather lathers focher b had he been so ea ore p I 1 Us he a an old aid man at now A alv it lo 10 le I 1 w with I 1 th a vigorous widowed dir daughter it ellen lien aunt elsie elate the two bad made home tor ellen g us ainu d ollile iw n nhen h tre em Is aate ellen I 1 father r several i y yeara after h her r mother hief ad died denra ra as ago ellen elie was wa twelve un theo hen end and end and joe w at shim eight n an to in be 1 foe ihmle grandpa idle bald ad shelved D after fter 1 ftfe of 1 hill high id adventure tu revand resent cd ad din noise adi and their and aunt riste vay of at enjoying enjoy ini me life WM was to te worry and fret fume and abiu scold and nd fuel ellen went I 1 to the be village gme 1 and then to high school chool always with the hand freud ill ID br bar joung bean that mat high big h school she die would he hare to work to he her there them learned something d dieal it tut rul in the idea of becoming a working women woman slit sh decided that she would world go 90 away aay it if this thia necessity came in upon her she lit would become became a nurse in a firm white uniform and there here would be 1 in the h pital a stunning young doctor however just before her graduation a miracle happen happened on so 2 july tre lay day when a hen there were a million rules in bloom in the lie old gloom anroen mrs E B sewell sewall rose came to c call all 11 on no aunt hl el sic is she was ras on AD her way to blind point the fashionable colony of a store of aid bones battle two IRA milet 11 way away she was ras 1 targe arge perfumed beautiful and kindly she totaled kissed ellen and called her ber anville buckley a girt and she told fallen lit that she ali had bad loved her moth in er they had been girls together la IU a convent boarding school the buckles Bu chles were lovely people said this enchanting visitor and net nel it lie we was A an angel 91 lilley had bad I 1 a great deal of mone mona then I 1 went to dah delse n till her many a time behind a pair of the handsomest horses hornes yo you ever saw whatever happened I 1 aunt abd aisle said aid something of spew nations it was all aft long ago the bulk bul III levs were era 1 all I scattered alered and A del dead S ahe he sighed 1 with I ill bd aid e enjoyment joyin ent the visit visitor r mine came up upon some am of PI III I 1 lens chool work and ad ellen elic q questions eions and ellen told her wit with it shy any caga eagerness meu that site had hoped to be an artist I 1 at mrs men E ross kose asked her bar where I 1 she lie was going to lady aunt file allen amo answered cled this q qu eatton ahm ellen elie had d no do time for foo fooling fing she was as 9 1 9 t to work owes they bd ill the boy bay to a raise and ad father felt that they tied had dune dion all ali eliat duta ot required it HIS s ahat id time now tor ellen lie to nealise realise lilee that bill life et all 11 prettiness aesa and it pa pl ehe bile sold said it pleasantly enough and the background ormund of at the comfortable home and pretty ellen in her care c fall fully made ad gingham and file 06 plate plat of crullers crul lers and the decanter of wild cm bild cherr I 1 wine win wine were all ill there to soft soften I 1 it I 1 61 f s 0 Vs she W was poor ambitious eager f for gp life ignorant I ant as a to the means mean A of gaining he her PI place 1 in the world but a week eck indar mrs mra E 8 senall 11 rase itoe wrote to aunt elsie and bent abnot a closes check that was ras to coer all ail the expenses pro for far se ellas that quarter at t the art ar st stu dents dent 19 1 league 9 a ellen mount 0 acted pil stra tilot into paradise ali ah how she would work law how ell w ouid aid nd alece aiice how olad they would all I 1 be some gome dy I 1 ahe fairly rushed into it she bile was the an moat clar earnest reat the call most a gly h happ of all 11 U ohp earnest t aiding be it gennera s unit thai fall and she did succeed her foual and her bar sino plo end and her pure and flery fiery landoll made ad be her a m marked ked figure in the he classes room the he beju lie Binning ning ihre am A it great t m round silly girls IF in the a art canan and a 1 few seram ones use kle lilen tin th to auva were am dark bloome earitt t edg Hi hebrew hislaire for the most part it risen irom emigrant eiolf nant homes b pa poor be alb et on vandline hungry but making steadily only to for their past goal other bo ere file thare to too lounging unkempt illa who to oa get I 1 into to it newspaper soma game perhaps Per lops two or atnee times arr during m the later sira mrs iliae as her I 1 pro begee to lunch wit with her she he be on an a shopping trip fu aed and id with ill ill violeti and rhe he ma all make it P alen an order oder all sort orr of awn I 1 ive dishes the girl went bk baik 1 tn h fr work sark with so rallied fare face and a ohm ing torn cunil so two A is terms three films terms a went ant by A and nil bow no elfen was well all mon into s forrill and it tell felt her herself elf a no R nearer 8 fivel kland the than he be bad ad ber been at the end it of be it ill how did oman bond to up port pon hervat if by art 7 some som of 1 the ill by buy did really 11 drift into newspaper nett paper office ah but what at they did there that deemed 1 to be b erra ena iida bolso rod and answering the and rushing about town upon onto eating investigations rather then sit 11 II ting at t drawing boarde board ellen could not no do that nor nop could she hb open a audio on an squares squar and dd a co about from office to office of we the wage maga line fines elling selling pictures picture A deep discontent fell upon her and she ahe began to to turn to the world old refuge of women ia she he would marry mant then when the urgent financial qu ques tion was a laid at reef met she might begin to make her way A A joe with an umbrella met her with the first brat rush of pure country air at the station ellen whose base celtic heart wes was always eagerly rea reaching croli tor for evl dences of if affection 1 in till this adored younger brother thought this vil wonder lider fulia sweet to ID jo joe he was in a big 1 III alluring loosely bg 4 built out is lad d of at ea eighteen al ites 1 in muddy y boots bonds rough corduroy trousers and with tt gray sweaters rolling collar touching 1 liia I ie ears winter and summer joe lived 1 in this or a similar sweater elio big un on this black hot hair fell 1 in a 1 long 19 9 lock lack b between tween his handsome black eyes he grinned amiably nt at his sister joe had der declined derliner lined high school find and had driven file th village grocery wagon rano during his fifteenth year vear then he had worked with the plumber and the elso elec after affer that bost he hod had whorled ld upon a private yacht for K R whole sum war load llred lived in hew joel for a few months deeply enjoying hla his initiation into the work wark ot of a cub reporter and only two weeks sea ago upon grandpa boothe latimer becoming distrustful ad f u of M the s ef 0 ap n nov feet upon so an young a bov of to boarding unit in the dinv inv joe had indifferently and good returned home and en ell himself to bates joe us was ut of terly devoid ot at Arob ambition tun ills latimer house wis on the right aid of mat main street perhaps the t tenth th or twelfth in an unbroken line of fenced fen sit old a 1 it fashioned village homes all these thes houses were rare wooden ddn and simple ot of design tour four windows separated by a porch door downstairs down stair the me windows in an unbroken row up upstairs ups tail taira looking king out ant upon the pore porch to m root of there I 1 was a definite primitive beauty about them their they then were old and age had somewhat somei hat softened their ugliness their small paned window a radiated hogetv cheer but ellen saw no beauty here she ile longed in for one of the he modern sha smaller tiler houses house up toward fower hill houses house with bathrooms in them and electric light and ad fireplace dimp a and fur far naces houses house with wide windows and oad ghar and ad white bite pit paint llor aunt nodded to her bar from the loi kitchen thc jhc stoie state and cei ellen who h had hung up her hat and coat t smiled b buck ell as A she warmed d her adt hands over the he gla glow w i there was a delicious smell emell in the kitle kitchen elien elie 9 gave a depp dej it 7 raal sign sigh at the might bight of creamed mutton 1 1 bew wew I with dumplings dump lings I 1 corn pudding padding and it fried sweet do potatoes tat e 00 0 oo A until what a good djel dinner and an d I 1 on in starving at 1 I g ia well ell I 1 hoj hat a you 11 I 1 get enough ell mrs baldwin said with will the little ner ners ous twitch tw itch of hot her countenance that pissed for a smile T lie I 1 a letter for low ou up by the clock ge go A tell ill grand pa la suppers readi sn and see it if I 1 e left A talog off the ill table r ellen lien escaped the tireless ile rhe he went cut into the I 1 ahing t g room a rather small room where e llo the a round table was already set for far ap supper pp 11 A an airtight icove alove was ras lines hare and 1 it R ant it at old captala latimer with ill his thin ill I 1 silly silky white w bite taft brushed scrupulously I and it to his 1 old carpel upper slippers resting on an the be nickel plated shield of the stove ile he wore ore old gray tro trousers uc and A it a h brown I 1 jacket he filled ioa d 11 his cadorin Cado cin and ad A over 1 his bliest c a 1 I iid heard id flowed a white as mm milk slurp eves were t blue in a dean clean weather beaden do falln ID he es ined 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