Show armets wife hugh All sight had a good crop ill hat al lycar year ifor for that matter lie ile always d did have fine crops even in oil off years when mien his neighbors gathered in their scanty harvest his barns and cribs were always tilled to overflowing blowin not because lie he was more righteous than the other dwellers along but tile the great secret of his big success lay idy in ili his always having el things 0 done just exactly it at tile the right time everything around his farm denoted thrift the fences were in excellent repair the alic outbuildings buildings out always looked fresh and new and I 1 the lie live stock in which lie he so 0 bucl prided were of lite best quality and never looked jagged 0 or sickly like those belonging 0 to t 0 the highlands bi 0 blands choti though a h bv no menus extravagant he was 1 ti I firm believer in ili the laborsaving system anti usually was anion among the first to introduce new machinery into his farm work cy by so doing lie not only husbad ded his I 1 own sit eng 0 lb 9 but saved the wages and board of farm hands good management 0 and economy had enabled him to go on oil adding a field to field until his broad acres overlooked no farm that rould could compare with nith his in point of number and fertility in the midst of his prosperity and while carin caring for the health of his horses and and cattle and never overburdening his servants there was 0 one his patient long suffering wife who was permitted to toil on oil with no one to uphold upheld her tired hands or to speak in an appreciative word to her drooping spirit taken front from 1 a I refined city cit home she was like a hothouse plant in the rambling lium 0 old farm farmhouse house where everything 0 se seemed em F d to ba 63 arranged 0 with an eye to inconvenience sorely did sho she miss the dainty surroundings 0 of tier her cultured home but a more did tier her hungry 0 licit beail L crave tile the delicate attention with which site she had always been surrounded As the 3 cars went round and little children came rapidly into her ter home 5 she he lavished upon them the love that their father had never ap appreciated precia ted if lie he would only stroke my hair slid and pat ray my check as is lie he lid did when lie first brought me to this his dreary old house I 1 could my ringers fingers to the bone one and never feel fed tired she biad ila told herself over and over but lie he was avis not discerning 0 enough n to see sec that she was dying for lack of sympathy had ilu hugh 0 h All sight 11 dis displaced plad the same shrew shrewdness dues s in I 1 a batchin watching 0 over ill alie health of his wife alit ali lie manifested toward the lite dumb brutes that lie ha called tailed liis his own owl lie would it have aye seen the silver threads creeping in among aanon e the brown tresses he be would ha have ve known that mary All sight of today to day was not the same mary who took his name twelve years rigo ago but if she ile was not as bright P n and I 1 I 1 d winsome ns as she was in their courtship days while she attended allend cd to the lite s house ind kept his children cl clean call I 1 ind and tidy lidy lie he thought C all was well if a nei neighbor 0 libor chrin chanced ced to speak ak of liis his cifes pale face or sug suggested 7 ested that site was mas overburdened wit with h her many cares lie would answer ilof of bourse course mary is not very strong lm she never wis but site she is quite finite well ieti I 1 and never complains no mary would never complain she w wis 0 is too proud and in d sensitive for that once ind and only once she had bid suggested that ii at stout irish 0 girl would not be butof out of place in the kitchen but hugh had looked at tier her in astonishing astonish astonishment ine ailt anti then lau laughed tied at the idea of tier her neediom needing 0 licup hel why by mary he s said kid mother never kept n girl in ili her life site she would thin think k very cro y strange if 1 it I strong 3 oung woman like you 3 could not look after tier her lins husbands bands affairs but you have alt all tile help belp need ind and I 1 never object to bour our purchasing 0 new I 1 machinery a abi nery when you van can thereby save saie your yourself elf from toil continued the young wife timidly but ilont dont vou iou sic that is is very nery different every dollar I 1 invest in 1 firming farming implements brings iu in albl a hun dred fold while intile the mere matter of keeping a house tidy and seeing I 1 to cookin cooking I 1 the meals when mien everything 0 is pro provided aided ati amounts lounts to just clothing nothing 1 dont be fo foolish olith mary if you fe feel ci a little tired put fewer stitches in those smart dresses 3 oil ire arc making mili 13 for the a girls and let them leave off wearing Nc arin their mafte aprons to school after this daiy 11 til never spoke of tier lier tired lifo gain again a 0 but as site biad id done before she went on oil wal washing shill and churning baking slid and bre brewing vinly 1 I tilli filling IT I 1 sill all the hours hour S 0 of f the lay day with wilh unceasing and then alien tile the children tucked in their litile atle beds and husband sit sat donn doni i to enjoy his paper she drew her great basket filled to willi tiny garments close up tip to the lible label anti 0 the click of the ru machine achille might haye have been heard far fair iulo the ili lil but bu finally there came a 7 1 lime flifle when mary All sight 0 took a rest a almit when the basket of sewing dewina 1 was I as not brought baroli ailt out I 1 when licit tile ti teeing ticking Eing of the iok clock seemed to h the lie quiet quid of the darkened datke ned chai chamber riber ind and the low sobbing of the failed to the ear of mother all the ion long hot summer she hid been steadily failing but hiigli was too busy with willi liis his sowing and reaping it liis ills moneymaking money moncy makiji making and anoney 1110 iley geglii get etting lii to notice tent she is as slipping pill aai anay ny from him forever for wee abells ls the food had remained almost untouched upon lier her plate nod and ahe long II 11 wearisome iii nights gats had been qC pent Ill in restless to tossing sin that ended curled only alien with willi t the lie fir first st gray ray streak of dawn she arose to pre pare food for hubp hungry 0 3 ho household chere cattle came a day clay ho however eer when ilien the dinauer bell failed to send foith its is usual prompt pt TI alic ile I 1 hay makers listened eagerly for its welcome delcol invitation Lt anti and lih hugh looked uneasily toward tile top lop of the old chimney ind and alered why ully no sign of smoke V W was 15 visible at last lie stilted stalled inith tin in impatient step for the quiet dwelling citing passin bussing through the lite ang low till diu ing ingi i coin hv he discovered no vi viii eign ii ol of life chit pt tile the regular hir ul tile the infant asleep in its crib glanc ili ing qu quickly bickl Y into tile the tidy lilly kitchen lie he was to lo see that thai tile vegetables intended for dinner diviner remained uncooked ell upon the table mary mary lie he sli shouted hat the he clock vile gone or cr W 16 yo if been napping to allow the men to go c C 0 dinnerless lie ile paused abruptly for there stretched upon tile old fashioned settee lay mury mary while ard motionless lie ile called tier glicr nime anti and tried to arouse Arous elier her but her tired brainwash brain was wa busy with pictures of its on own n are tion aud and hugh it at last came to ill understand der stand what the nei neighbors bli ors had known for weeks lint tant mary was sirk sick it might be unto death lie called the men and dispatched one of them for a physician white while the other oilier went in search of ft a kindly neighbor 0 for once bluga t forgot ills his hunger and gave ave ills his UL tit divida at to abe woman lie had neglected for unto a dozen docu years well the thread lias has snapped at last muttered the gruff doctor as lie he bf lifted led ills his finger from the fluttering pulse my aldy only wonder is that she did not die years ago she has had enough 0 work to do 10 to kill fl a dozen women trembling like a 1 leaf the wretched husband turned ft an aay ay to hide bide ili his emotion for tie lie was just beginning m to realize that tile bitter taunt was nas well deserved weeks passed mary ilary All sight still layupan lay upon tier her sick bed aud lier husband still watched by tier her sile side I 1 while lie her r wit wild immings ra ings were only the mut of delirium to others to him the they were terribly significant no matter how confused tier her thoughts though 0 tt or wild tier her fancies fauci cs hr lif r one 3 barning car earning ning 0 cry had been for a sympathy for love i a cry tit at once so I 1 full nil of sadness and hopeless misery as to stir his soul to its most bitter depths As she lay there in tier glicr unconsciousness ness tier pale careworn face brou brought 0 glit vividly before his mini mind another bright ind and happy a sweet 0 girlish face without a title line of trouble to war mar its beauty such was marys appearance a dozen years ago fehd lic was ivas 18 then now slie she was 30 and alid her brown hair was full of dilver 0 grey while tier her plump checks ila had 0 grown rown hollow and tier glicr lit brilliant illiana eyes faded all and sunken and this aias M as all that was left of the woman he be had promised before god to lovo love antl and cherish what as account lie ho would have hare to render for promises broken for vows junful fillad file ilow how nobly site she lind biad kept lier ter part of ill the compact loving him working in for him suffering C at his hands ands hl in silence once for a moment only an all intelligent look came into her eyes and lie he hastened to whisper lit in her ber cars 1 a I few words of devotion iler her face lighted up tip with a glad smile for nil an instant then the blush of reason died out and tile while whilce face became as sad and c expressionless onless as before thus it was that tle aie weary worn out woman went on oil her journey before c her time unblessed with 1 tile the knowledge I 1 that hat at list last site she was I 1 oved loved anti and app appreciated r coated too late lalo had tier her husband learned lite ilic import of the word loie loc cherish anti and protect for the vow broken his children must e go motherless thIO LIall 1 life while in tile bitterness of his soul ito he will 11 ill go om mourning 0 all his days exchange |