Show I THE EV EVENING THE FIRST YEAR STORY I Copyright 1012 In by W. W Werner Discontent DI that for weeks had found faund a homo In Tilly Taggart's Taggarts ln arts art's eyes s 's had deepened deep deep- ened Into downright rebellion as she he trudged cl along long the cinder path bv by road tracks her husbands husband's dinner pall swinging In her hand All day the mercury mer moe- cury had boon been trying to burn Itself up lillys lips that had been let et In a R. hard straight line lIoe twisted up n ina n nasty little sneer as ng she law aw the tho group of nice work- work on a aspur spur about a block ahead of af her hor He looks about played ph out aho ho murmured murmured mur mur- inured Inward Inwardly Serves Sers Ser s him Tight light too I If that work isn't more killing than being manager of In the time Emporium basement Im I'm it wh vh n It comes came to lo kno knowIng knowing know know- in Ing nothing As AI she paused to let Jet a freight train trail rum rumble rumolo le bv by she thought thou ht of ot the tho twelve twelvemonths twelvemonths months which lay y behind her Tho The firs first I had seen her marriage to lo Jim Taggart Tas-gart I He looks about played out and the happy happ excitement attendant on their up th the pr pretty house on the small farm Carm Jim hall had tented In the time countr country country coun coun- tr try wh where re he had hall lived hi his twenty eight minus tIme tile throe three when the call of the cIty had Bounded illy had hall been happy happ dur during log ing time the bustling period mind and later when there Ic seemed to be nothing to lo do but look about with proudly possessive e 1 eyes and oneself Her lIel Jotters Jetters to the thc girls she had left l In Neckwear at the time Emporium were masterpieces of af eloquence when she described the time glorious glori ous freedom of oC a farmers farmer's life and amid the beauties of the country through which Jim and she dro drove In the du daytime and rambled In the evening It was June and Jims Jim's old friends friend delighted that he had bail broken away Y my from th the city came camo over o b by threes and fours four and Insl insisted ted on shouldering Jims Jim's work orl until ho Imo had made tho fo wife thoroughly hl fa familiar mill 91 with every beauty spot In the surrounding surround surround- Ing In country They how showered rC kindt kindly attentions on the lI city ty girl and for the tho first nut time in her hei life she eho felt that she ahe really was WM some some- thing Mrs Jim Taggart gart of oC farm arm was ag a a. very different person from fron No HD Ii Neckwear the Emporium a ahead head was wa carried several Inches higher In c consequence and she Rhe bloomed like one of Junes June's sweet roses In tho kindly atmosphere By the time Ume June had lad drifted into Jul July and nd July Jul Into August Jims Jim's friends s were wen not quite fIO o Insistent on omi Jims Jim's laying low how on an the tho work question and It wa was not long before filly Tilly found that the time she Rhe saw a Jim during during- the day dav could be bi reckoned In lu minutes nd And when ho he wa was around instead of the spruced d up young fellow in summery gray Jray tweeds tweede her hel eyes rested disapprovingly on an a man In s a coarse cotton colton shirt and blue overalls overalls overalls-a man who ho looked rougher than his hired man and who ho soused his perspiring perspiring- face under the tho pump spout and and whose mornIng morning morn morn- ing lug shave shae evolved Itself In into Inlo to a scrape on an SUnda Sunday Ho lIo was too tired after work wort was waa over avel in the time evening Sundown usually found him i U I. a R. hammock on the veranda sound asleep Yet Yot with all the work ork he seemed perfectly per per- happy happ When she Rhe openly rebelled at al staying staving home morning noon and night he only lau laughed hed heartily and said Of course Tilly rilly dear for the first nut few fen years It Il will wili be he mo me for the grind but bul after that that that- thatA A happy chuckle completed the sentence But Till Tilly 1111 turned away an an- an She could not nat bridge e the thc period of ot hard work and see aee Into tho the future she ho as as utterly at war with the ineffable peace that brooded over o tho still sUlI country coun coun- I try tr She forgot fOrat all about the days of ol I drudgery at t t the he Emporium Emporiums She Sho only knew that she longed for the city where Rh all RII her days day had been spent longed Inexpressibly In- In to get et away from life at Dee Deepdale farm life farm life that had become one gray ra monotony since Jim had developed into an ordinary hard working fanner farmer I Th The Th longing finally began to find voice In discontented remarks which Jim only i laughed at at first fiut and then ignored But Dut wh when n the thA rush of af the harvest was over oer I he ha was waft brought face taco to face race with the knowledge that life at Deepdale farm would be a long Jarring nightmare To a aman man of af Jim Taggert's peace loving na na- na lure ture there remained d but one thing to do and Jim Taggart did it The farm tarm arm was as sublet his hili old aid position at the tho Emporium applied for Or one lower ladder ee- ee cured sun and Tilly was wan made mede happy for a A. ai doln doing IlK light housekeeping In three i tucked up rooms rooms In a crowded apartment apartment apart apart- ment building running here and there ther seeing old friends rev reveling lIng In time the glories of af the shopping d district strict and In the evening even even- ing cl Inveigling Jim Into hate half a dozen dazen plc- plc ture tura shows er B time she sue thought of or what a n winter oi on the time farm would have been she he shivered ered and her imer mental never again was very firm finn Indeed Aftem Tiler time the new Aar year ear had imad been ushered In Iii in Jim was wai III ill III Nothing h but grip the doctor said Take rake sonic some ome quinine la lay oft off ii 11 few days daya you'll be bo all right But the fe few da days das s lengthened Into a few ew weeks and then when hen he e was back at at his post his hip cough clung to 10 him Most decIdedly h h he was not all right The ThA stuffiness of the his lils basement aCt after r summer sum- sum mer a and nd fa fall II spent In the open aIr seemed to lo str strangle him Weakened b bv by illness the place became bec absolutely unendurable It was toward the end of April that h ho he told old 1 lilly illy vry vr quietly that t his name had he leen l een en scratched scratch oft off the tho roll of employees at t the time Emporium that ther thereafter after arter lie would work worle wIth a road gan gang on time the C. 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I k P railroad that It ll would uld be bc advisable leable to o rr find n a home hame nearer the car shops The Time dumb amazement that seized her was quickly followed b by wrath that thal blazed forth rOIth In angry Incoherent exclamations But he cut in on her ruthlessly and In tim Ver very jery harp sharp decisive words she Ahe siw saw a very different man tram from the Jim Jim Taggart laggart who md had been cen completely subservient to her herI WI will hi I l gave up to jou OU on the time city qu ques- ques lion lie he wound bi UP I-UP up a a as 1 lie he C turned l. l to tei lea e the room but bul Ill I'll be hanged If Ill I'll stick sUeI to o the time Emporium basement for tor you vou just juat because Il IotA 10 to b be K it i depart depart- than one ot of a gang carr carry carry- log Ing It a pick and shovel el Im I'm going to have hR S time the open Ollen KV see Jle AThe A And It its it's down near nar m my work live too The llie middle of or May fn found Cound th them m In a Un tIn Iny cottage collage a 8 fe few blocks block from the time railroad rall rail ra road oad d tracks track Then Theon began for Tilly a l life far more mor dissatisfying than had b been en the one H on the farm farm but buta Ii a certain steely glUteI glitter mi in Jim a eyes ees whenever an protest trembled d on her lips told her tha that open pon rebellion would b be worse than thon use use- Jt'S less Ills III cough Was a disappearing but the theu all rIght staKe stage Ke wa was ver ver- very far tar fr from m being a 1 reality u Your Your m mAn nian n dont don't look good Till Ka homel homely nel neighbors told her The work on an the roads road l too hot for hIm these the days lay It was this thin warning given h her hr r Just as all he she wa was leaving with his hi lunch that had nt lief her mind fl thing flying n f over v r the year that had Passed a an u the trel freight ht crawled b by J If iVf all I wives Ive have hav an as hard A time Urns the tInt first year ar she ahe thought ht bIU small wonder r In is It that there so happy ones case onesto to be b found foundAs V A As she sho he han handed ed JI Jim Jim his hi d dInner I came camo to her for tho the r fIrst t time ho bo thin he how bow was very pale The be long she he tr ha hu to back p go o to tho EmI be all 1111 au right there now his hi Mr cough i g And o na as she went back over O path petit ahe she decided that despite the she he was wall sure to to receive she would rebuff it out with him that eV evening ne took worse than I I-I I I knew she A worried light grew In tn her herey eyes eyel out the discontent the anger become habitual Then a thought that filled them with terror that br CI her to a IL u sudden Oen top stop that s sent lent nt i her wildly longingly back o OVer er th the JJ path path- I had come What Wb t If nothing Jim look better if it were too t lat For a moment she stool motionless 7 T Tb Ir 1 J i f t I I must aee see see- 1 t. she hurried on T ith ey eyes even that saw aw n naO Jn ing f un until the little cottage came In yv and she became conscious that a II woman 1 clad in somber black stood on th the core porch leaning wearily against a post 4 Anne Annel she cried as she d her Anne Anna BarkerS Barker Then a. a th the ii sig Ir of or the mourning garments can am ar to her sho slum stammered Why Why wh why Ann Ann Ani what ha t Is 13 It I I-I I I haven't heard hurd- 2 Th The womans woman's figure drooped There were no tears In the weary ey but bul an on infinite sadness as she It was a week ago aio Tilly It It-It It it Was Jim rj With wide Ide horror filled ey eyes eye till i look looked d at her She was U barely of leading her Into Inlo the house houle of the mournful hat of ot listening to heat hta breaking details tho the one ane parAmo thought was was was-It It was as a a. a Jim who I dead And her Jim was U sick lIck as u Ann Aim had be been n and she had d been blind b band and made of af this first t year ear a horror a ho Anne she gasped Ivo Ive got to lri le you for tor a while I must see see see- seeThen Ther Then something I I Ive Ive I've got fot to take tk to She fumbled wildly In the tin Un box wh Vh Jim kept his hiI few valuable papers un en she came to those pertaining to the o lease of th the farm arm Then Timen she war ha haon on the cinder pa path th poa aln iain In flying Hying toward Jim the tile s 's clutched in In M hand Why sh she carried them to him i hardly know Only they might make I easier euler to explain in her h r excitement thi thai nia they must let leave tho the city at once once tha this thiR first year ear had been a mistake h mistake nhe he was going to him forget target all about It It make him wi w wand wiand and strong and happy down In the coui cou try where his hH heart was as j |