Show I 1 I 1 J I 1 I 1 WAYS AYS WIFE ADISON J AN eway 0 was always pointed out as a I 1 X 1 self made man I 1 I 1 4 and was well satisfied J 11 1 1 with his hia own 4 handiwork tor for content I 1 y I 1 1 radiated from V his f ull full face and 0 rc from his figure vu IN I 1 I 1 1 1 which had lost its youthful m muscle u a c I 1 e I 1 waves of flesh mr ader dar cree creeping pill way haeway had satisfied his ambitious ambitions as as it is possible tor for a man to do it ur fortunately tor for his content these as aa kind that are guions were of the 0 t often realized he had a hand W wife and three bright children V ge vs ras president ot of the state bank an ie known to be founded on the mck of sound finance he had been aktor ot of and was a member much of earthly ithe tie legislature so had fallen ao 40 his share then he be read the obituary of another if made man he always nodded his lead bead sagely as much as to say 1 I bow how it goes I 1 started with i inz myself in tact fact mr jane 1 I 1 ays election to the legislature came j the admiration the electors had for I 1 man of the people when his con clients hired a band and went to cou con matulate cat rit him they found him blim read ready y nth ith a speech he said fellow citi teas I 1 will not try to hide from you ly ET deep gratification at the result of t tit election I 1 wanted to be elected teve wanted a good many things and fre generally got them but not with ou oat working I 1 started with nothing I 1 did chores for my keep I 1 went to school when I 1 could I 1 picked up a penny erty here and a penny there I 1 did iny any honest work that I 1 could find and abere e am aa I 1 now president of a bank ex mayor and member of the legislature I 1 thank you friends for your votes rotes yet 1 I feel that I 1 have won my cm way that I 1 am one a private perhaps in the great army of self rade cade men he bowed and retired cud d loud applause in another this tech kh would have provoked criticism tat one of the privileges of the self tide man is to praise his maker with ra at stint yr mr and mrs janeway had just come from a visit to their new house which their architect assured them was in the purest style of the gothic renaissance but ba they were sare too which seemed to niem of far more importance that a i was as the finest house in town and hilti ault eclipsed mrs morgans red brick al mansion luion they were to move into it at once md ind mrs janeway went about the old house planning what should be left behind as not coming up to the artistic standard of 0 the new place e come here a minute Nl madison adison she called from an obscure entry back of the dining room mr janeway laid down his paper and vent ran to her followed by florry their longest chili chih what is it my dear tasked asked we better pack this away tie te frames so shabby that it fit for far the new house she pointed to i faded photograph hanging in a dark amer it was the likeness of a plain woman with a broad mouth an and eyes videly nely separated the hair was parted nd ind drawn back from the forehead like tro ro curtains a watch chain picked out b alt it encircled her neck and her lips nd chaks were touched with carmine tying pring the face a ghastly pretense of life fife mr janeway stared at it meditatively I 1 noticed it for a long time he aid fe W 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 m n 11 1 I I 1 1 I 1110 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 4 1 I 1 ak I 1 17 I 1 I 1 1 A V 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 P I 1 V 5 WHO ARE YOU 7 who is that lady papa florry I 1 I 1 asked ed looking at the picture as if she K all it for the first time why florry florov that was my first wile wife he answered surprised that she W not known it before was she my mamma too no nn no he replied hastily she was as sarah deering she any relation to me the child hd persisted she was but eight years old and the ramifications ot of unship were yet a mystery to her ot of course not her mother tt ir sharply your papa was married to her when he was very young long ut afore re he lived here or knew me 1 I aught you had heard beard this before ea turned to her husband madison ahll U I 1 lay this picture www away aldr r janeway looked at her attentive ly awaa was it zeal tor for an artistic ensemble or was there a lurking jealousy of the woman who had come before pack it away it if you like he said turnings away it Is shabby long ng after his wife and cadrin were leeping mr ar janeway sat smoking and thinking inking complacently of lils his success lie e madison janeway had begun with noi nothing thing and tt fia I 1 ba biad won the he had I 1 longed aged 0 tor at 20 the len lag G pr A 0 7 r R PU A i e aa U r 4 1 AK Y q i vr k t iz 4 r ia M I 1 M i e 1 1 mm W A z 1 MV f I 1 erak Ey ayrey rey t I 1 his attention he looked up A woman walked across the room A plain woman with an honest ugly face and a short thick figure who are you mr janeway asked frowning at her intrusion dout dont you know me ine maddy she returned return id he was startled started when she called him maddy it was more than twenty years since he had be been een called that are ao you are you but you cant de be sarah he stammered she has been dead these many years 1 I am sarah she answered tou iron have changed maddy 11 addy yes yes we are apt to he replied uneasily but you look just the same he said this to see it if she would account tor for her presence the living can only see the dead as they were in ill life she returned you sold the farm you mr janeway felt as it a reproach lay in the observation yes I 1 sold the jarm fane he said 1 I needed the money to put into other investments 1 I worked hard on that place she said crossing her hands worn hands 1 1 I 1 w corked worked very hard there those years I 1 tried to save all I 1 could maddy you were a good wife sarah he replied and both of us had bad our burdens I 1 guess and it was my money that bought the farm you had nothing when you came courting me did you maddy laddy ani you said that my being thirty years old and you being just of age made no daffe itice yes I 1 suppose I 1 said that and im sure I 1 always tried to be good to you he said in answer to that unspoken reproach that seemed to lie behind her spoken words 1 I tried to treat you well e 11 1 ilie A he money that came to me just before I 1 died from uncle john must have been is help 1 left it and the farm to you maddy her dull eyes seemed to force him to bedre e his debt yes I 1 es sarah I 1 amow that I 1 owe owa much to you ou V you our help and money I 1 should hie have had a much harder time getting on en my m feet yet I 1 think I 1 should have hae slie in any case mr janeba y could not forbear offering athis this tribute to his self esteem however I 1 grate gratefully full y acknowledge your aid I 1 sarah I 1 you have another wife now maddy and children she said mit bin I 1 was first I 1 believed in N ou on and I 1 worked for you oh so willingly I 1 knew that you were different arm mr me 1 I knew w that you had hopes s that stupid sarah could never neer understand I 1 knew that I 1 was your companion in your our work but not in your hopes I 1 knew that we were growing further apart every year that we lived lied together I 1 knew that while I 1 was getting to be wo worked aked out and middle ag a ld ed L that you ou were only coming to your our prime I 1 knew that it was best that I 1 died when I 1 did before I 1 came to be a drag on you ou yet maddy bea before fore her and your our children I 1 think abu you ought not mt to shame me for I 1 was your faithful wife the wife of your youth and I 1 gave gar you ou all I 1 had to give my money anny inv love loe m ann toil before mr janeway could alwer she was gone and he sat alone the next ja lay however how pier he be took the old photograph downtown and ordered for it a gorgeous frame when it was vas returned he hung it in his new ne library ii brar where it looked ly ilien alien beta between eeik a st cecilia and the arabian falconer bought at the instigation i of the architect florry with a child s a quickness noticed the fine new gilt frame that surrounded I 1 rounded the ugly good face what have hae you ou done to the lady 5 she asked arent you going gon to pack her away i like mamma said I 1 no the picture is is to say here do you remember who I 1 said it was yes it was your our first wife mr janeway took her on his knee florry he began soberly when hen I 1 was a little boy I 1 was very ery poor as poor as the gaits a family celebrated in the town for ill luck and poverty 1 I went to school when I 1 could but that was mighty little for I 1 had to work most of the time sometimes id get most discouraged but I 1 had to work just the oni on year I 1 worked for a man named deech ig he had a daughter and when she found how much I 1 wanted to go ga to school she lent me some money money she bad saved by pinching and scraping after awhile her father died and she married me I 1 had ini nothing thing and she owned a good farm abut but she married me in six years she idies died and left everything to me she sha I 1 gave me my start she was a good woman and believed in me when nobody else did the other night papa dreamed that he saw her and talked ta her and it made him feel ashamed that le ac had seemed to forget her mr janeway felt that he was making a handsome reparation but he was waa a man who aimed to do right it was necessary to his self esteem the child wriggled from ME his arms and walked way away with an awed glance glanc e at the picture mr janeway stared at it musingly are you satisfied now sarah sam ha he caught himself saying pshaw that teat dream holds to me still he be exclaimed but anyhow ive d done one her justice and though the architect declared that th the 3 photograph quite spoiled the effect of 0 the library and begged thatis that it I 1 might be banished to some back room 1 mr janeway was firm and the dull good face of his first arst wife kept its place between the st cecilia and the arabian 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