| Show HUSBAND A KNOCK at ab the squires door an eager 11 como come in 11 from tho the squire te nhom noy any outside diversion is an inadi beati mablo mable boon ho he having just reached that uncomfortable masculine macu liuo convalescence who when life becomes burden not only tc t tho the to KO called 1 patient laim but nine able to unlucky relatives ft how duty ri it JB I 1 to officiate chate as 03 kia his ministering bobs n hinry ry the abo servant ger Tant came caino jr io Plea HOMr me healey llos lcy theroa theres a woman downstairs I 1 ulio ossis ms she aho must sea BOO you sh is a been horo here before since on wat nick cud aud now tako liko no for or ana we r t slow her right up blary M iby eaid tb met bare alertly brightening up visibly lit ILL tile the warhorse war horse that ace acetates tates the bittle star off not all tho the cosy comfort comfor tat of his bid our eur rounding roun tho the sleepy hollowness 0 of ilia hn cany chair the pl pleaseant eastant pictures or oo the abo wall tho the wood firo fire vi which llach now that tho the u wintry twilight won WM mottling down eyes the bit of gray sky left viable by the our cur turns laws heavy folds danced tind and limbed a aa over tho the room la in rosy shadows could reconcile tho the squire fairo to his hia enforced social toa sion secretly ito ho pined for bin diny dingy old pert pen of an office and chafed chafee at the abo doctore doctor restrictions bibich as yet forbade for bido oil all thought of bummers but noy now tho the mom binom police force represented by his hia wife and daughter being luckily off duty duly there in afu to dothan nothing to prevent tor this probable client blaaw show her up mary diary said the ell cheerfully straightening himself nud and ns an cuming as ad much of legal dignity as broam to ais go irown n nod and slippers permitted alary tory disappeared presently tho the door 0 opened bened again why babby Is taid said the squire is i it you ho how do you do f yes squire acquire its me said and nabby drop bartz pin do donn i n witia with a haravy olgh into a chair and I 1 dout dont it do very we it y 07 nabby dalsby was waa a Z briardy built woman of fifty with considerable kelly in the tbt coarse I 1 black hair draven stiffly and ilia back under a bonnet about fifty acon ears out of data dalit she hid head pharr black eyes and A resolute go ahead abend man inan lier evidently A hardworking hard bard working wom in yet ret in looking at aci on could bothell not ho thell help the conviction that something moro more thau than bard work ork bad ploughed sloughed hed the deep wrinkles which r in nc her forehead and threat i atud tie t lift liar her eja up tip to lo hor her hair bair nabby had lived with tho the squires mother cara bearta from the timo time when mra dim ko ley lcy took hor her in it a ton year old orphan uh a an an the good old ludy lady sometime 6 1 I pleased a it more plague than profit 1 until 1 she grew into the abo steady and reliable handmaiden who vi he finally with every on CB good wishes married young josiah boriah gould mail and pet fet up in 10 the vi world orld for herself old nn hoiller hod had long ion since gono gone to her nard but the family still atilt kept up friendly frio Dilly interest inter cut in nobby nabby and herfor licar tunoa fortunes the squire to in particular being her guide philosopher and friend in all emergencies cies of tito aby v viti vitiates hatel ats the matter now nobby nabby mid aai d the squire good da are you sick bick 7 1 yen I 1 am paid nabby kabby emphatically with ill a gnp snap of her bar black cyca im ilo salk bick to death of josiah I 1 cant etan it any longer and ivo ive como come to talk with you about citta a divorce you nor bes bo been grost grott grottini in iii worse and vi gorec area and worse now for a agoo good dhilo halo ive ITO kept clopto to myself pretty much bees became I 1 wits was entrained ont and then hen t I 1 lep hopin hold hol do better arvo albed and talked to him and said nod dono done everything a woman coull coald bub bob it an it the moro more I 1 talked stalked abo boroo ho be grow I 1 aho bo squire looked at rather ishar ahara phard hard face fac enod aud perhaps was hardly so no surprised as nabby expected that josiah jobiah bail bad riot not been reformed by the tiger rigor aeolia jalkio tal kio to he bo bad undoubtedly received B no ile grow more and more and good I 1 for 0 ar continued nabby till hoffy lio lie sl adiele do much but set round the I 1 t theu hen firo fare half balf boozy if theres an any Y I 1 I 1 bate burnt out nabby Ws a i I 1 forever round tho ilia house under i out foot and there I 1 was it in wishful and a 11 alalvin early and lato late to bo be kinder decent a and ild forehanded and him no better a dead IT coil man on an my hands so RO far an aa belpin tiny any was waa concerned and so 60 I 1 told him timo time and again its ho worked just about enough to keep keel himself in armil lie ho knew lift lie get any of my money for that lilt elbit I 1 stood it ill fill tin till about a fortnight ago id been working hard fill all day holom mia dorber barber clean bouan bouso beuan and it it seemed os as it if every cry lane in my any body relied ached I 1 was SAS bo be tired I 1 came homo boom tb inkin hawgood how good my any cup of 0 tea would lute tho the first thing abin I 1 sue when I 1 opened tho the kitchen door unit old hank slater koltin there in chair ho and josiah ro both drunk ax as hog said slandering an issue inno cent tit fit her hasto hafto for a sin kimito trucked tracked the mud sill all over mr int BI call floora noon tire cookie above was cra crammed f ull full of N i bed liko like all 11 II emed I 1 they burned tho the house up till before I 1 got thero there and got my best teapot out to heat beat some como water nod the maferd n all ailed away aw ny nil and tho the bot bottom toul i je IP out but tho the worst was to see co my bubbins hub tanil a 4 with such scum of 0 the earth up an that low lived hank I 1 toll talk you squire amro I 1 was mad I 1 was waa mad 1 I just juit flamig g that kitchen door wido wado opelan open and d aj 1 I I 1 G git it out of thu thin thomao L could cad and dont egarter lot lob ore mo sea co your tie fico rest do out dut again 11 beat ho he meek block me bosc Dies cis 0 who where c abail la I 1 go to nabby I 1 e sti 1 I I 1 doof caro care w here 3 oi go to M w longa you dont daut com como 0 me inc rv FT 1 buaya aya been a 0 oman and lont want nono of hint S Sl atra round bond my any hemle homle u well vol queried lol tile tho esquiro as na AJ j R 0 Is como came to a t well said aid nabby kabby to in a latici tono ho be went off and lie conr back and I 1 want A divorce now nobby remont rated tile on oil squire you dont want ant a divono I 1 juav kunai on oa bettor better than that yon tire aro not the th woman to give josiah up aud alid let in hint him go t tile tho ball bad without is a you foci little vexed with him now and I 1 don t blame it in if bard very hi il litt you know t hatt you took him for L liliar r for u norm ons do you yon think yourself jonn elf it I 1 t quite ight to break your fACt ht IKU ul it II perta tho the worse for you bo casties aion oil at aru e tho marong ono one and lio lie tho the wank call one vt of th tho n two that tbt dont strike mo me all aji gu go hible bible doctrine nobby nabby avat V 0 that tire mn aili ni ought to bear tho ilia in dirmitt fir mitt of the u n i il and not to lease you latou 1 ir I 1 durno dunno ail a id nabb tit artlin alio the corner or of her har shawl bawl 1 I 1 thought ont ui in that tisch I 1 1 say bay it in ia so 0 o agrava to tn ism hao a adels abich n m maa fur it A hubb eind besides Ici ide I 1 dunn an vod old conio come back if I 1 wanted him bun to ho be been back at ill hy yes yea he crime came bak once for p pair ir of plu sWoons but I 1 tako a sin atice of him 0 ow V abby you may y append Iloe ml tart upon 1 ic il WIM nod ilia 1 bonn he w as after lie planted to 10 see MC it if you wouldn 1 relent if le be comes come again abu bo ft A little PICA to t 0 him bills and ill warrant uit ho he mil stay ilvo giva him another chance noisily josaiah Is not the worst follow in the world by nor iny meana ila ho time ban hu am redee redeeming eming traits after all I 1 bolusi alicio a ho he will do csetter it if you will try to help laina him you yon lichow chow that jonh I 1 it one that acara be A encouragement r t nabby N well vol luini are rc ill think a it it over A any or boa I 1 am oble aged to OIL you ta will k M borter comfortini to a body yon conr 1 t i own son aon just abt the earno heart baar i I 1 im ll 11 you oil be able ble to cat of loy any L Is ce squire kimrod try T ry mn m 0 nod nn 1 B e 0 0 nobby nabby aftic the aquire smilingly not to Nabby N ft easier 00 m p li mn t 1 ab abby b y m ditulo ado fact her te loi exa exit sibby jirec aa sim DIM holley rushed iu in full 0 wifely fe y in dig di cration nation that the eluiro had been allowed to homod are a let client 0 tit a home was over at the iho cents a ahrea ill miles from the village sho she wilard wilk it rapidly along in the taut ant thickening blaik list k new uth ft ith the iho is toady strong gait becomer beco mur tho the seela reliant woman thirst eho was wa yit her unimaginative nature waa not proof alost the abo of tho the chilly raw law november evening tho the vaud is jud whistled through ilia haze baro tree ft inch creaked crik cd and mournfully and waved wildly up and nd do donn n in the dim light oer bead tho the wind seemed to cherish A special spite pito olga mist nabby kabby it blow lier ter bonnet off and her hiir hair into ayr eyes struggled madly with inith her for her chami took hor her breath away find and firmly finnly Mit ir mitsa detol sd her step finnity it 16 began to mond cadies of cold rain drops drop in her a erain e rain that seemed almost to frenzo as it f josiah jobiah listed lifted to como com a after tile mo nith an umbrella Qui larella wheat I 1 was call out la in the rain 1 thought cablay llo ile WIM w always re reit ki kind had aud and good t to 0 00 0 offer after all nt L I 1 da darabos ho he ever gave mo me bemal 0 a I 1 croaa ro word 0 r a I 1 hi bi 8 lifo life 0 oon e is vs hon hen hod hed acou d dankin n kin 1 1 I 1 tore tho the driving dri viny aleeth ran mill in and as it PC s r a an wind pounced down upon X nabby abby eiith oil t it T 10 a fierceness hustling her he V aid laidly I 1 y in n gleo glee an awful night to lobo be homeless ballay 20 etling seemed to say my I 1 dont care calro raid paid nabby to herself beginning to feet feel cross ogan again gait generally ill III used need rut an she grow grew ft otter and colder it serves him right gioi he mado made lis lid bed and can lie io in it at the corner light streaming cheer fully out into tho the night flight recall from other homes mado dabbas A fabby little house gloomy gloom and uninviting nabby fumbled under tho the mat for tho the door key fumbled with stiffen attl fingers for tho the key hoto hole and finally succeeding in opening tho the door felt her ber way in through the little entry thera la in alwa a something uncanny 1 going alone at night into if a dark and shut up honse ean ei on people of tho the befit regulated d minds experience a vague sue lius dicion of something behind them a bonse of possible hands bandi about to clueth bluitt ILL them in tho the darkness dark nabby WM wag a donvan liko like atra lAl cound sparkler with fill 1100 no non rense about her ber but nevertheless a cheerful tile tale she had read only yesterday in the ibo chronicle about ft a burglar and a lone const woman kept coming into hor her head and she carefully avoided tho the blackness of tho encores ind tho the pantry door an 01 she ho groped itsou I 1 ilio ilia kitchen for a candle of courso course tho the fire licad gone out 11 two are better than one if it one is a pheope bonds head kobby might have hato been heard muttering out in cho N cod house to BB she aho stooped painfully down done picking up olt chips by which oracular utterance I 1 BUH anis hect sho she was thinking what u bat a good supply of kind hug josiah always kaplon hand band for liar and how much moro more comfortably comfort r Ablo it was in an tho the old tallies coming homo to 1 a I house bright with light and annah nod coil jo biah welcome for josiah jobiah tile tho most profound admiration for nobby nabby an radial admiration admira tiou with avio lie ile thought the light her 1 ter most moat wonderful iss woman omans sho was waa list beautiful cauli tul to hum ban now as M in the old courtin cour tiu days tay before the and quickness apu V c mino dealer with bi 1 1 the mccrianey sea w ming a returned prod prodigal gifted 4 bitaut yon ia of course I 1 do said mid habby ahby I 1 bear heartily y como right atone along in I 1 im going to have Idd lecakes for supper ir abd I 1 you 0 u must tend thom it nhue bile I 1 pet met tits the bablo ile griddle cakes were aure effect jam lahs and till nabby know knew it josiah ell cam in if he bo ever get acta into has probably hr b animations III not bo be ono one whit more delightful than they note thou an from the bleakness aarl 1 gloom of tho the flight the forlornness or of arim 11 hafl wretched stretched ho he come coma into the cosy bright now of the kitchen and let fall L dint he won wan home once more how good tho the ton tea swelled I 1 tho the firo fire roared oared rand propped mapped the tea kettle boiled nod nad bubbled and bobbed itji ipa hd bit tip nod and down and from the iho grid dlo allo the iho pillory odor of tho the chikes ascended like ft face ing with wilh mail roi glod beat and happiness happa as aa ho he turned the iho WM was something ft orth boeing babb stepped briefly round getting sup me ready it he 0 o alea bant to act cl tho the table for two agate to hiro have dome ono one to pro 0 so o find and 0 her cooking coo king tito tim november i bi omber wind and might ho hol I 1 its iti wont now DOW alt I 1 ta hold on oil nabby WM we pono g one in place of it ull 11 file utter am thai bid bad hung ann heavily too 4 hor her heart WM was it warm feeling of liap bar plate of comfort and hope all the explanation the they y bail bad was this jodah show diew from under but is an shabby coat an aa axe awkward and knobby bundle ivo 1 T brought b rought for you nab ild I 1 by 1 mid b bo the thing undone proved to be a tory cepl th the follot foll ot cwb bavo bare gnoun that it me A a peace paco offering with such preternatural did it share abino and gl grantell antelL some th n net in kabby Na bleys ryca eyes share anil and listened tro although sho m winked inked bard ars and scorned the abo lems of a poo ket think thank you jobiah she raid it ita ra a I 1 lar beauty ond and I 1 hau get act lota by it lee which so KO long loner As aa they understood each 0 other tor nor v as perhaps as aa well as it if josiah jonah had bail I 1 niu 1 10 lo a long worded 0 of f repentance ft and nil r reform and I 1 abby A another of forgiveness 1 I ibb I 1 could bay that nobby nabby never dotor it figures but lit I 1 cant calit however aal drew it mild and there choro wan a gen g n era eral auden dian tu cen thorn them that this u nab as only n ty ft a sort bort of exercise mado made noc emary by habit A barlin aling by no borms involving biting an and it ia man w so BO rcck tornch to it that lie he would havo have mimcy oil it and not folt natural without being wound up tip and set bet 9 ding for the iho lay day by nabby ono a day liter later in tho the winter nabby wag waft for dim floley II 11 so a youve taken Jossi josiah all ilick again art after er nil said mn holley 1 well yes yc I 1 base said nabby giang ft fast in lwft lot to the alicei she was wringing out ont josiah bo be I 1 acry cry much to brig bray of but ait iban I 1 I 1 C D ou see ce hoa hes my own omi still and nil LIT avo V 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