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Show try 'vi M I CHAPTER CLXXV. t ' W rit mi oftn. Lot not itu mri ! ami m me Mltocether different. - In r.uni- I., in.. My I. hi. hn.- viiml l'l feel end when I think of you Iwo. A Period of Depression. nut I nnauaced Iji a vi.-n irmi ': i Hl nnil I arc happy IH write me I I hrt l.n an l.itev ttltic aettlr.1. woulil i.nlv t. t'i- m.,re ,IB-" i ! an mtTeatPil in flnilinc a aultnl.le home , h-n v..u I, rt. Then. I ii.. nut wl.-h t.. CLIFFORD LOOKS ILL. for th mnnth, I should spend in Ren... - ' In '-, 1:1 . Clifford ww l...ki.,sr I ,-nt '. I hut I h;i. tittlt? tliiu for nl or j morbid rlioiivhin Now th.it vTvthln I khi ;iithi;;kI -h'ui.s, iniiHir, I c J -1 ' ; foil linn m itnrt f in. liirn holv- that. In j , yt nf all viv flfrt!, Ui.it. 1 fur days, j 1 'urine thm tim 1 writH 1j4iimi-0 ' "I don't know what has come over j m Ittit I f'''t ii" tnttTfst In any-; any-; thinjc, Hlmcl'itflv none. I try to lose I rinst-lf in my mnit n h "k. 1 t j t witli-j witli-j f it jtir--v Thts npheavHl of my t lift, rity -If. h m l. ft rnf fwling Ilk- .1 j si r; ml-'. K.clor mimt t whi h ; find hlm-'lf rut off fi-om him fi-rtrit)s. 1 ' h h ship, a Ion on ?i dlirt mlafd. 1 j I ha th- t.d i-f jishn in my mouth; j thn fM-injt lhnt noihimc matters is' i mnstnntly with nu-. Ni. I 1 n-t j ! WMiit to ' you I ant iritmti. yon oh- j j nrvt. I must work thi wtiol prob- j J lorn out my myself. It t my iiml1m, j you know. I "I Jim wll. us alurt Krtith nd Maml'- ur tltt!f nirnaVf Is in work-! work-! mtf i.rtl-r. snil to a ttMual ot-srv?r I ni'Khi h.:v t hvinic her.- all mjr I llfr. It m strjiniM hnw soon one d-j d-j liiftn nnf"lft isn't it---thHt js. to lin-J.matprlMl lin-J.matprlMl thimrs ' ln one ever mm-J mm-J lttel ro-tdjust th htK thlncn of life wh-n oine thrv have hen 1lsTuitHdT j 1 think not. I A REQUEST. . t "1 wish you otild select nd send j ! n" some now mu-i'- -om tru;ht snd '..,t. hv .no ,, whirh' 1 "in !a when ; I I f 'I its 1 do lod?it A'o Mme ntr- ; Sri y foriKS t' dease )-;d:th l!"" tls ; ' I..- , in.- ; ureal ret with M'S. t-'slr- j ' i-hdd vmi remember I w rote n nf j ! her Man-lv keeps well Hhd i a ' ' erft- t wonder In her rare f-r rie . j Suinetimi i I wonder if I relly urn crown tin or if I am siill only a lit-, 'tie Kill in pint fills and pinafore. o i j f " ' f v ''"t" ""K nfter n'e j I hour wonueriiifc why. Wai he rewlly ! ilivsuallv ill. or was l e reirrttlnx anythfrifc..' Hew I wished I knew. I immediately wrote Muriel, askfnic he: if h had seen him either before he left for iMiimrro. or If he h d returnrd. hHd she seen h m after that? Then I dismissed him from mv mind. and cal ed myself a foolish woman for even ini;cimn h Wes at all affected be- an- nf either KdiLh or me. I'rohahly he hud some little mlsunderwtandins with .Main I Hortnn an. I that wa tin-cause tin-cause of hi lookina badly. Klsie wrote me that she was join to atay abroad ffr an Indeterminate time; that she was not aurprised that I had left Clifford, although ahe could not see how I could endura the ttrandai. Zona, dear Utile Puritan, had written me urn in ma tn o bark to CUlford. Hhe wan ao happv with Curuun they werw livln in the o!d home that she Couldn't conceive a hustmnd and wife living aimrt. even wanting to liva away from ecli other. Khe anul all our old fr'Hids and neichbors would be shicktxl when limy kiifW it. and lieicaed me to return r.ef(r they fotin.l It otit. While she tried not to appear blame me. I 'could ee that he thonieht 1 had not I heen as patient as I nupht hava betm. , land that she had no reIiwuon of the I causes which led up l my evlna? my I i home. Why should she? I had told j her nnfhlnv "f mv nnhsppv year with j Clifford, sod I'.hir, 1 wax suro. had not; nieutioiit-d what I had confided to I her. Vitui-Hlly Zona ioHKlne it some ! whim n my part, sont- sudden c-.-j pri-e for wli'ch I would be sorry. When I answered her letter i simply told her iht I had not taken the step without arat diiU-rnon. That it was not necessary to xu into detail, but tnat my life for ear had been unbearable, and that I could not feel it mv duty to endure it loner. But I knew that neither she nor our ntlgh-tMna ntlgh-tMna would understand how I. my father's fa-ther's daughter, could t uch a thing-. Yet nuw I Wit happy. That Is, I enjoyed a quiet eon ten linen t. My time wa filled each da. My music, tiki with M.sa Newton and IMith. calif and visits with a few congenial friends, and my reading- kept mm too buwilv j employed to In unnappy. Then my ! li-tl household ran iUetjy. ao teasily. There wis no frtrtloii. no un-. un-. km-! word, no f-iL.lt finding, I some-I some-I times thouaht that I wa happier than I eer i-ad been in my mnrried life, j nd Wondered w hy I cntderd. even ifor a moment mnking any chanye. Tomorrow Muriel ISee Clifford. tCop right by George Matthew Adams) "With tovma; thoughts from vour pet pi x-d MIUiKKh." I W . onea rtftei had pouted my liH-r. Why had I allowed mseifj to write in such a vein? I feared leonard would di.-oi.ey me and come I to Keno, a he threat ned to do every letter he wrote. 1 wanted terribly to set him- to hear hi in say he eared , for me Vet. had l:e come. I hnild i h'tve i"fus d to (i'e him. 1 mum not ! be influent I'd by his dear pre nee to! .i-i ff.nifthniK 1 might mt do U Teft IiHiI in melf. GOVERNESS FOR. EDITH. Anotht-r thinK which had worried me, I aiith wa not happy in the kinder k art en So I advertised for a nursery nur-sery rovei ness. a refined, d liiMte. looking t-'irl. Miss Newton. . wa the uiiu I s l' ctd fern a motif eight or ten applicant I wain you r. manage RdlTh til your- own way. at ' fust. " 1 told her. aflt-r v.- had talked a while. I could see that he t'nd'TStood her work. I real'xed Immediately that she was not a mere mime, but an eourated. inter-est inter-est i rig; r-irt a ki I who would be an addition to any household. From the hei;mnlna; she find Kdith not atons; wonderfully well, hdtth had fairly ex'ided happine, Instcid of whinina- ami fret i in because she did not w mt in l-o io mi hind. Her I' sous wire inaut- attractive th:f h w.i artxioua tu b-K:ii tlxm each inorn- mic i'rtd loath to l.n. i.'K-rn w ht n it wa tim; f"r 1. ok tirt hr md l!duh hd their dtn-ni'is dtn-ni'is alone. Hut after a little I told aI'ks Newton to aive i;dith her tllnner. wlin h wan ver impie, earl) ami take hi-r with me utiles 1 had Kuetts. This at rtina-em.'nt worked admirubty. I was le lonel. not so apt to spend ihe eenin. brtK-dinc I soon dlscov-eied dlscov-eied that he w musit-al, and we s;itnt many everunK study inn duet. I CHAPTER CLXXVI. ith O.e advent f M s New Ion my j 1. helmet. was neuiiv If not n,uit over , She was bright snd witty, well read, and when alon with me charnilnjr onip in It ii Sh tte er pie(-nmHl, and alitiO'iKh frequently meetinif my K'lets he'.i'-xer emhai rs-cd either me or Ji.t-.. if ! her altitude. Sh had told me little shout her-e.f, im0ty because there was httie to t-ll. An orphan, ahe hd le-n educated by an aunt who expected ex-pected her to become a. achool teacher. She had tanwht in a country school for a ternL hut finding it and her ur-roundinas ur-roundinas tineinicen:al. had answered mv ,S rt i" t -. While I had n t entered Into th-' social so-cial a- LiVltii-s td the place to any jr.U il-Kret. I had n.-'t m-'ny e'exer nnd inii r"t mt ji. i.pie nver have met m.-re muital woinet ci:lturel. hi:hlv ne(tiind worto-it. il. in I met in Keno And 1 was RtudvitiB hanl to peifect mvRelf, I found O m )Mih he.pful and delightful a quatntaiicea. - I uiwd oft it to wonder whv they were there, what their live had been. Hut they. 1 ke m e'f. never volunteered volun-teered anv information a to thefr rea-vn rea-vn ft-r livin in IU iu. - T'i my surprise . one morning, u foinc 1 lrekftit. I found a letrer fmin Iota tianlner on tha table She iK aeit ol in ht'-Afc-o. and uierla-ttvely uierla-ttvely happy. "Clifford spent the night with u Ut week." ahe wrote, 'and tsoth Hal and 1 thoucht him lookm ; very lut y. He aiso ! tc. |