Show GRIGBYS WIFE 19 4 a 49 by CHARLES SLOAN REID it 5 0 a 41 copyright by ca gribby und anti I 1 am wrt whet we were ore bos on irving hi la the country wo we wore were rs though our homes were two wo miles apart hut but these two milea viere as nothing between gribby and ico wo kne know vury etry sim dimming ming hole in the round about and a wo we know thu the home of 0 tho the red diwi and tho the wild grapes together ROther To wo 4 mado made many man to tho the tillage and b inck bick ick abtin it ot of elx aft miles rc returning bufore our were the wiser for air absence we ive romped anti and anti aero us 03 nappy as two tuo boa could be lie then came our school liya ond and afterward our college day during which and I 1 biere still chums gribby ana im nn tin apt scholar ind a hard student ho lie had ambition anti was eg gressle in 1 ile 1111 11 11 been tho th idol of his family in boy hood hooda a college grad grannatt natt he became the lion llon of tho household though he did ilot sa eit 0 nguie e tho the honi horn ige paid him hut but mere was wits la in gri orl bya mature that I 1 never that it until scars afterward ncr ward ho lie aa as an obedient eon son a lall neighbor and a constant cone tant lover and gert rudo rude mauldin bad hail been mince childhood anti as they had grown aldor clie hd md krown grown stron stroner gr until had hail the not them eeles become tri ins aped the neighbors would ha arranged the for them for arted that should bri have brive ve gertrude and that gertruda should have gribby griggy had turned his to and anti hid md won on a scholarship in tho the collage 11 I 1 remember the day grixby w nt away lie ile radke or gertrude Gertru dp how bow much he njord hor tier and how d chiv ho he regret tol tod tho the necessity of gol a ang owai away from her for even one hort short dwir he lie told me at parting that the wedding would take place just na as soon ad as he had flu asbed wei course in lectures I 1 heard froni from til tit to te often during Ms his absence hut but during the last two eara ears of hi attend nce upon ko ice turca he did not come home at all nut when tho the time came for his final homecoming home coming I 1 ono day reminded Gert nitle that 1 I wn a to ho grifton GrIf tOy s boat beat arifin land that I 1 hoped the wul aul t dins ding uri alil vike tik place without delay islay gertrude anti her pile colored dippl lit lint eho she did not reply when return returns at d I 1 met nip him at it the station and what was as iny sur britie to find him bt b a it ix t 11 r f 0 0 an apt scholar f oman a trail flower of limmar ity that gribby might bave carried in 74 4 if arms JILO a thild but she was beautiful me ot of ine es sence of ctet t grigis would look took down upon her tier with irth ho tho deepest admiration i jed ita lr his hi and anti bho she would return the look 1001 with mth all the devotion or a surrendered soul my ay iy wife said gribby jimr pr her to me ine und find I 1 excl timed in ma n soul oh Ger gertrude trudel afterward griggy ald id are that his wife wan waa un tin orphin and that he hie hirt md mauled her only days b before leaving baltimore yon you sec he addad I 1 could not wait to so go back for her gribby aad his wife took tool up tit their abode alme with GrIg grigbys Gri gbye bys people who ho bo be it bald said were ere totne timo time in rec recovering from the shock which they luft ha sus sits talked gribby began to practice I 1 do not know what were hia his aspli 1 tlona for the future but ho he evidently intended to ret get all the experience he could ne its a 1 country doctor at first gribby was everywhere ho he went by his hi wife she waa wait iwaya always like a new blown lower and anti I 1 never saw nich such nit aimy wimy aly devotion gribby to bo be her whole thought nut but before the year brew grea old thero there came a change in the bumb ind s conduct toward hia his wife ile gradual lit tit firby then n decidedly dl marked ho ile wag as no ion longer er accompanied aed by him afo anwye kocl social 11 in lo 10 them both were accepted by hm min rilent ile was ris as kiy ay iy as ever and went so tar far ns to bi bo compliment ary to boung irla with ith whom h hj ant thrown hut but what had hail becom of rl gb ifo I 1 visited him at his hu homo home ono one day not ions long after this change e bal ha i so notice noticeable ible it was a chilly day in october and unit I 1 ws incited if into a cold room 1 I aill hivo hie a flit in a roo mo and ani hf hc retired hut lie hp m 1 few low roo I 1 JA I 1 av 0 1 11 I 1 01 that one wai wat gribby s wife mint tp Fol following louing him on hie his retura return came carne some one with an armful tot fi 1 I 1 loukia up ahat but aortic one AUH wife I 1 arose i jun jus keap sour our seat till ili aind ht h sat domi opposite me M vl h Itt lingis I 1 cannot le scribe I 1 0 1 C rig bys wife ife place tho wood on 1 flit and anti kindle the alre while hile I 1 F ri 1103 lab tamed IL me not one word ord i of his ids roner howader can I 1 clor u 1 a wife had bad a real lost most of the bloom oc of her and she as habbley shabbily c clothed nut but I 1 shall never borgi t the thea 1 look tool of loe aho sho sao gao or it waa as i lik ilk that a faithful might site i in Is irs moment to to he the master 1 who ho in a of passion had flam plain it t and when griggy spoke t her almut some task of its dihe ho turrell tra to go the hamlinck cs ii of hia his tone brought loara tears to her eyt ays eys a k cut my visit hort short the atmosphere tit u i the room grow too cuse use for me altur this I 1 heard frequent reports amm th neighbors nelch bors to 10 the effect that grisby s wife vaits treat only as eenink int in n the muse sh mat a but not permitted to dine with the re rest t ol 01 me the family but was com POled to take her meala of coarse fool tood in the ki kitchen visitor visitors at the house taw her only in the execution of some menial office I 1 on a ni morning ornIng in november I 1 bad had oc i cast n to visit a man who ho lived on gribby it place I 1 was as riding horse aback j back und my m only ia way ay iy to reach the mans house waa wab to ride through gri 1 i by a yard ard down the hill amu in 1 across a 3 little thorp ther tb wind was ihas old cold und and slurp sharp but with ro big coat buttoned c about m neck ack I 1 managed it to keep tole tolerable rabb comfort abic lia I 1 cropped the lie stream into the wagon agon road I 1 chanced to rn in mi head a little and an A a lev fc bards ards awa aua a beall curl of moke I 1 1 heavins I 1 inwardly c clammed i doing ashine 1 here in ilie the open IR I 1 on a d ly ty ilka like this A sm ill fire was as burning bur ni under a i large pot leeral 1 wash tubs were vere standing mar and rand ur tint of them was bending the forro form of a t wonny cloel closed ed in a chirse wool molln n I 1 cred as I 1 saw the him hurt white arms exposed to the tuni wind and the women was ao i wife my heart bick cne as is I 1 rode A a I 1 recalled the to ow conar contrition irions I 1 hal hail had hall with thit rail trail but lit tit tic oman and find I 1 romet ber ht he hish high tono tone 01 0 1 her tier in evera eve respect to orid irli lut but no i I 1 rode on tin could hp love him so leott adly still 1 I yea yes the neighbors nilEth bor said m they said sald that she spent nil all her spare pare ino menth ments aich arre few fes indeed in pre preparing honic bonitt hinR thing to inase gibby and anti to remind him of 0 her ioe loic I 1 it mas in november ember ai 14 I 1 hive have bild slid I 1 when hen I 1 sa saw 1 wiep ift at the wash nash tub now NON it v la is in 0 t f 1 11 11 wing 1 1 may the ars lad bad just begun beglin to twitter about tho the ad th r rose ses I 1 vitro tro in bloom 1 I was calle I 1 to rig bv s home in the little aro front tit room where I 1 had seen gribb a wll wil mike on the atre o 0 only a few niwatha bufore atille grixby sit wit MT by hy I 1 now non look tool cd ed hyun the julit less of I 1 beautiful corpse and my heart leaped with the emotion of ofa a prayer of thank 11 thu the follow ins da she was hurld I 1 at the grave gravo it to few tears ears fell toll from front GrIs byH bys eyes which tt it skei soei ned ried gods wrath rath would hao bao turned to livid cols upon uron his hi checks As we ve f irne arnid d iway tway from the cried took my arl arm ns as if it for support j fit I 1 crie 1 l away from him as tron fron tro fro n snake which had attempted to coll coil itaf u if about me rue 0 Grig rigby by I 1 I 1 faced him that he lie j might aftel the loathing of ray my soul in the tire of my tes tiie gribby Grif fhy sou ou are art A mur derTI ithon gh you ire safo safe from front thi ellit cli cht of human law lam Al alright might god hns has rt acir if 11 it the cri je against you 0 As on an autumn from bo be side the grave of orige s wife abe had been some late flow flo erg ers a rose arose a malden lad whoso hair had bad taken iti first few silver ris r is qs As ehe she basped ed tho gateway a roan man stopped his big horse horge in n the rout roid near irr 1 ind slipped from rom tho the s to 0 o tho wound ho he stood alit alt ing 1 gertrude ac 1 rulle called as tho the ft on a a a pas ed near him Ger ler trivie la Is there slip still no hop fur fr me mea nut but tho wom u fit did not turn her lipoid nIl ther did she answer anser aa as she her tier va mal imong the tal tat trie and the qa rath cring tw light |