Show HER HUIER BLACK SILK by JULIA PELT FELT 1003 BY DAILY STONY co tee yes sir air that there machine will do the work of a half dozen men and do it quicker and better ill have my alfalfa stacked before the neighbors have theirs la in tho the cocks and john prince complacently surveyed hie his latest purchase ills difo poor tired jentle stood in tho the kitchen door looking at tho the new now stacker in a dissatisfied manner every year when john went to den ver tor with hia his catto cattle he brought her a new now dress but it was never a bilk silk one she had asked him again and again for the much coveted article but was always refused on the score a farmers fann cre wife had no need for a dress when eho she went to church he she always took note of tho the ellk milk dresses most ot of them belonging to poorer people than herself here elf As she stood thus in tho the bright ra morning orning sunshine Buna hino a flock of nearly a hundred geese issued from tho the barnyard and marched past her on their way to tho the irrigation ditch john came leisurely up from the barn it Is lo nearly time those geere were picked ho he remarked yes the she an acred scored listlessly 1 I believe we will hare have fifty dollar dollars worth of feathers this year maid john i jennie started doll dollars arst why that was just what cousin kittye silk cost making and alit fifty dol laral and as an jennie looked and thought a sudden plan formulated it self lir irr her brain she would have the aboney for the feathers herself her ber solf she net met and tended them she watch watched ed and fed led them during tho the cold winter and now sho she was ex pecked to pick surely she had earned the early monday morning john start ed on an a twenty are ave mile horseback ride to buy calves and drive them home ho he woula woul be gono gone all week this was her chance As an soon aa as ae e was novt of algat jennie called andy the hired man find with bis his assist anco ante the geese were one by ono one talc OR a from the poultry house anel robbed of their pretty coats after hour they worked all other work for the day being neglected when night came a row of wheat sacks filled with feathers stood on the barn floor tuesday morning saw jennie and andy kudy driving to emporia Em roria with tho tile sacks of feathers piled in the wagon behind them arriving at emporia they drove immediately to a produce dealer who purt based the feathers what a bound ler heart gave when the dealer counted the money into her hands fifty five dol laral with a smile of exultation jennie started for cousin kitrys kittys Ki ICI telling andy andr to return homo home and come after her on t kitty can you go to shopping with me this jennie asked at dinner why certainly I 1 should be glad to you going to get a spring dress 41 4 t k his ilis face changed to the flinty expression she the so much dreaded no not exactly im golub to get a black silk A blank black silk in great astonishment a john really given you the money fop for it at no he give it to me I 1 carped it IL yott Youell earned rued it itt how NOVI but jen ale tile seemed embarrassed oter kitrys kittys Ki XI questions and only said sald ru al tell 4 YOU about it some other timo time lets go down to the city right away I 1 when she started for home home ou on thursday afternoon the crebs was veil well under way with thi th promise that she could have it saturday after noon she spent the intervening time ang how to present the matter to john at last saturday afternoon came and andy dove d ove tier ber to town in the buggy procured the drees dress and then drove home as quickly as possible jennio jennie fearing lest john should arrive uit ui t andy was not to toll tell h you are probably a dying man mr prince of 0 her visits to emporia that week as she bad had been preparing a surprise for him arriving at hora hotra just at sundown jennie was ril roll eved to find that her husband was not yet the dress was hidden upstairs her clothes chau change chaugen geI and sup per ready before he did come sunday morning john was tired and only arose in time to drees hurriedly for church and so did not go to iho the barnyard every circumstance accrued to favor jennies carrying oat har her plan of surprising him john was shaving in the kitchen his favorite place jennie was in ir their room all ready to put on the dress with trembling hands she took it out of the box and looked at its beautiful folds but her spirit failed her and sl at e laid it back again she went into the closet and brought out the brown flannel tha tJohn had given her last fall and began to put it on then she remembered tho the geese and thought tho 1 I will at least try the plan of surprise ng ing him for in any event be he will know by night all about 1 it V the brown flannel came oft off sad mad the silk was put on how ilow nicely it fitted her slender figure fl yire surely john would not harden his heart towa u her when he saw hov how tal it made her appear with a faltering step and a falling failing heart she crept down the stairs across the sitting room and through the dinin dining groom room until sho she stopped in lit the kitchen door john bad had just hung up the towel lie turned and looked at her his lit 3 face lighted up with pleasure her ber heart jave a great bound and with a joyful cry nhe phe took a step or two toward him he lie then saw for the first time that the beautiful dress was silk and his face changed to the flinty expression son which she so much eadel drea dr dett jane prince where did you get this droast ho he ald said seizing her by the arm am 1 I I 1 bought bought it 11 you bought it and where did you get the money T sarcastically 1 I 1 1 I picked the geese and sold the feathers she said much ucb rs if it she had been reading her death sen son tence john pushed her from him jane ano prince you my may wear our silk dress bought by trickery and with stolen money but you can no longer be my wife HI ill not forgive yon you until my dying day for this base bass dwelt deceit ill not turn you out of the house jouse for youve been teen a good wife to me in the years that are gone ill use the west bedroom and you stay where you are but dut dont speak tor to me ale agal until myr dying day then and not till then ill 1 forgive you the days came and the day dayn went bow jennie s sicely acely knew know each seemed harder to endure than the lal last she cooked the meau placed th on the table and then rent want to AA A A 1 buu j some other part of 0 the uhe bouse house while john and andy ate often she longed loused to throw her arms about his becic aud bew be for forgiveness but was afraid of doing no lest sae should be denied the measure of dl asuro ebe she had in serving bin john tor tero allo hie his temper cooled and ho he had bad time to think tho the whole alter matter out came to a realization of 0 how meanly he had bad acted in ta many thine things toward bis his wife he ile phout cf all his acre acres and acres of land of the money which they brought to him every year of the barn and buildings of the machinery of the horses and stud cattle which he bad bought for his own pleasure and then he thought of nil that he bad denied his wife tuua the summer and autumn passed early in december john became violently ill jennie immediately sent for the doctor who pronounced it pneumonia jennie nursed him day and night but he grew grow rapidly worse he ile bad had ra now and then a tow lucid moments one of theeo these occurring durler the doctors viell visit john grasped the doctors hand and begged him to toll tell hie his condition doctor he said 1 I want to know juat just ehlt you think of my cas casa am I 1 dying there Is to one thing which I 1 mist do before I 1 die tell me truly doctor what you think well mr prince it you have hire any affair affairs unsettled my advice Is settle them at once you are probably a dying man but we will hope for the heat best it you want to see your lawyer from the city I 1 can send him out to you at once thank you doctor but there Is no ono one to aad for it if you see my wife as you go out pleaze tell her that I 1 want her with her heart beating almost to suffocation jennie came swiftly into the room ami anel up to the bedside john caught her land band pulled her down to him and put both arms around her he ile held her thus moment after moment before be he spoke then he be whispered softly my wife will ion ou forgive me ine can yu forgive me nhe sobbed for answer ho ha held her close to him and covered her face with kisses and all was aas quiet peace in their hearts A week later when john know that ho he was to live and not die he said to jennie 1 I said once that I 1 would never forgive you until my dying day will you consider last wednesday as my dain day the day la in which I 1 died to all my hardness and and lot let 0 ae o live again to make you happy wear your black silk as a pledge of our new mew found love without that dread we should never have known thia this happy hour |