Show A CHANCE FOR thiu SUMMER everybody also can go to the country airs rogers was beyond question varv indeed her face was hushed and hero traces of tears and her even leoro plainly than words that hc considered herself a much abused woman 1 I looked over iho groenil very carefully indeed mr rogers replied io i low even tone which seemed to be particularly exasperating to his wife and 1 am murii it cannal bo done with anny safety I 1 am sorry mary very sorry mrs rogers forced back the reply which was certainly at her tongues end and endeavored to be logical think a change is very necessary to every one mrs rogers had not once advised her husbands taking i vacation and L feel suro that such a trip as I 1 in mind will bo a good investment of money yes but if bouc the amonoy to invest you dont mean to tell me that you cant two hundred dollars mrs rogers face was painfully hushed now and her voice trembled with the intensity of her feeling two hundred dollars would not cover mary hall not bo able to tako even awo dollars from my business hiis tiis summer I 1 should like to know what yon do your amonoy it was a full minute before mr rogers rallied to reply to aliis question if his wife had made a business of trying to think of the thing alio could say to him alio could not have succeeded better 1 I spend my money mary or rather our money the gentleman answered at last in providing for my family in freeing alio house wo live in and in credit good I 1 have always tried to keep my business troubles entirely to myself but yon might as well understand now having a hard time to keep my bead above water if no can pull together mary we shall pull on to safe ground but if we dont well if we dont I 1 cant tell what will become of us if I 1 acro a man my difo and children bould not bo tied down in iho city nil alie year round 11 is just bail management and stinginess and I 1 should think would bo of yourself william rogers ili cru was no to alm but the mans face as lie turned to leave tho room looked haggard and drawn as if from a long illness mrs rogers biad always been an exacting wife but as up to alm time her husband generally able to meet lier demands there had been serious rouble mrs rogers was ft careful housekeeper and notwithstanding tho above showing was naturally kindhearted and helpful alio hail however n quick lomier Lo mior and nil bad habit of sneaking her mind then too she hau no conception of the amount of brain energy and money required to carry on lier husband business perhaps mr rogers was to blame in leep ing lie disagreeable details so exclusively to himself rut it was of conscience this gentleman and the results ho hod acted according to his light it biad been uphill up hill work nil and there vas still harder climbing to do but mr rogers was sure footed and farseeing far seeing how pitiful that hi could not tho hand and libart of his wife to help him in tho lat and most part of the journey that morning mra rogora spent in visiting she needed tho sympathy of lier frienda she told herself there arc always who aro ready and will ing to widen the breach between a man and liis wife and on this occasion mrs rogers acro unusually helpful well I 1 should go it I 1 were in your place aid one so would I 1 if to borrow tho money said another if n man finds out that his wife is determined ter mined he will generally coma to terms still another suggested men think a great deal moi moio o ot their business than they do of their hiie anyway in this congenial atmosphere mra rogers forgot all tho decencies of life as well 01 tho higher obligation of loyalty from 1 wife to her husband alio told of past disagreements and dwelt with real pleasure ou alio occasions when alio had tier own way in apito of ii r husband the gen croin dignified nal hard aith plethoric baafi a tyrant a a miser givlio begrudged im family alio acce of life at amt lails was alio llio could but pro ail when mrs roger had emptied bior budget nt complaints bot that she meant to so entirely misrepresent her husband but carried anway by lr desire to d as iier neighbors did and hut iho plo asuro could bo hem if her husband only thought so it camo to pass aliat it was not mr rogers whom abo hail hold up to her sympathizing friends but an entirely man twelve mrs rogers hail firmly decided to carry her point in of adv such slight obstacle AS her husbands inability to supply her with money about two mr rogers who had been too busy to even 0 luncheon received tho following noto by a messenger WILLIAM I 1 lave it if lately cary for me and atin to hutc n I 1 hau borrow amount our trip from harry to I 1 kusiv will bu to cwi nic I 1 I 1 ann cnn act to alart to morrow it jon cin c in let mo hivo tue bonev I 1 ghou ot course be belter linn alie wy I 1 leave mentioned I 1 any arte I 1 po on iho in front of mr rogers lay brother harrys cheek foreve hundred dollars rearing ho could nofa depend upon collecting enough money to nawt n noto duo that day mr had borrowed alio from his brodber in law ow ins wife informed him that sho was aboul to solicit a loan from alio sime all day mr holers biad planned and counted and ankun in every bit of sail that endangered busina ss craft would stand and still 0 o on and now liis wife alio should bo his best friend and real helpmeet hid proved not only crant to the situation but absolutely without feeling for or faith in her husband alic messenger waited for an as mr rogers A faco and trembling fiands fumbled over his pen ami paper alio man seemed to havo become suddenly numb and at last lio wrote as follows do not do it I 1 am already in harayi Harr yi debt and cannot stand any more it seems tome that a wife who will ask her to raise money for pleasure when she kiowa it is with the gret lest thai ho can pay his lioncio dobda h a fatal hindrance i of tho help that every honest min lia a right to expect this mr and dispatched and then willi n shudder ot glanced ocr hla cifes communication in liis nervousness and abstraction ho hid up had previously tucked tho check in alic envelope and now letter envelope and check torn into inch bits reposed in the waste basket then mr rogers put ou his hat to go to alic bank and nt lat discolored eliat alio check was missing twenty minutes past two now forty which to raise five hundred dollars this was alio birst lime eliat mr rogers had ever lost his head but il was gone now completely ely alu cc and his noto boull bo protested and his business credit ruined after searching every nook and corner of the desk aud iho noorun alio desk and peering into iho most impossible places mr rogers started for liis brollier in laws it was barely possible that lie might bo there hut no and not a single friend alio would be likely to oblige him could bo found twenty minutes of three minutes of and mr rogers in despair hunted back to his to hivo another hunt for alio llio missing check seran of ami brother harry entered the office mr rogers man it wn very hard work to aliat biad but tho man with i clear head looked into alio wastebasket waste basket and found what lie looked fur then alie two men rushed to the bank and biad just one minute and twenty to alio money was deposited eighty seconds only between safety and ruin mr rogers reeled like a drunken man after alio llio excitement was orar anil liis iii liw was obliged to call a carriage and like li un homo mrs rogers tho stains of tears upon her faco j again was picking icking p her trunk w lien bior husband leaning heavily on her brothers ami entered tho congestion of alic brain the doctors said and for long long weeks mr rogers struggled wearily for lio and reason his wife biad plenty of limo lu think liar liin binds insano and her brother s explanations slie found out the truo of cibe ind knew it was her letter that biad added alio llio lait weight to tho already overburdened ejrain sirs rogers had cause now for alio deepest sorrow and her faau during alio long trial and suspense wu boar stained most of iho timo alio llio faco itself it self t very different frum eliat of a few weeks ago and so alic dreadful dis on until came a d ay iy wn explained and mra rogers could humbly bog glicr husbands M harry kept the business straight and now mr rogers lias a liand in h n both lender and strong anido so by mccu sull oring and honest repentance query from one of tho friends have you observed mr and mra leave groan bitely Li tely elsinor kirke in |