Show 1 5 5 6 i m K I 1 ai J 1 0 i k I 1 I 1 I 1 WHAT CAME CA el OF F 1 by dranoel there was no doubt that they were ere very much in love with each other otherwise they would not have 1 ave dreamed of marrying sadie fremont was a pretty tair fair haired inconsequential moral 1 ot of humanity the least said about her parents the better they still made their home borne in the wandering tumble down cottage which had been a trim cosy enough little box when they went into it as bride and groom the acre of land was now devoted principally to weeds and old fremont was devoted especially to nothing which accounted for many things mrs fremont wasi waa in a placid state of contentment so long as she ehe was not bothered sadie made fitful pin money during busy times in he little millinery store on the main treet street 3 gus bradley was unattached as far as family went and intermittently so BO in the business line principally he be drove fine horses which belonged to other men who paid him for risking his neck behind their fractious colts at other times he admired sadie their united capital was too mall email a to be considered save as a fund for an ice cream festival or a fourth of july celebration therefore there was not the slightest excuse for their marrying and several forcible reasons tor for an opposite state aate of affairs in the face of all this they chose the in the eyes of the community path to ruin and returned from one of their drives gus with a marriage certificate in his pocket sadie with a brand new gold band on her left eft hand her father growled petulantly for a day her mother after a helpless shrug of her shoulders went on rocking and sadie and gus set to housekeeping the house was a one story white affair which had numerous broken window panes and a duplicate array of the fremont weeds in the front yard gus explained that he was going to clear them out but time slipped by without the accomplishment of the act acl not that sadie was conscious of minding it dimly reminded her of home in all her car careless elees life sadie had never been troubled with introspective musings unexplainable things were cast aside indignantly and this life long practice added to her bewilderment the first time a rift appeared she bad been married six months 1 I wish I 1 might buy those curtains she said one morning at breakfast her glaring windows were a constant 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 11 I 1 az I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 9 I 1 i I 1 I 1 ili V THRUST THEM APART horror to her not from their ugly effect but because her soul longed to outrival the lace before the windows of an old school friend cant no money her husband anaw answered ered laconically reaching for more bacon 1 I 1 thought wilderman wanted you to break his bay colt she objected a trifle indignantly arent you going to do if it her husband frowned 1 I dont know as I 1 am and I 1 dont know as it makes an any y difference I 1 spose you think its ita nothing for me to risk my neck behind those kicking brutes women have no souls its money money money all the time and the devil they care for a man without his knife and fork tell fell with a bang banfe and he be left the room presently sadie heard his heavy shoes clattering over the bare little hallway and he slouched past the window carrying his fish pole he was most evidently not going to break horses she sat stricken for a few minutes with a remorseful feeling su per induced by his accusation then an indefinable reaction crept in which sent a bitter sparkle to her eyes and set her mouth a bit it was the first time in her remembrance she had paused to think and the process was so painfully painful y new n e w it left her at seal sea next morning she closed the green shutters shatters on the front windows the light is too strong it fades the carpet she said gravely to gus gas who looked first at the bare bar floor then tentatively at her and then frowned when he perceived she ehe did not smile at her own evident joke when the inevitable baby came gus made spasmodic spas modle attempts at working and sadie relaxed into a wan cheerfulness ful fai ness nesa though never again did their brief honeymoon happiness descend on them the shabby little hu hoose showed no improvement and betrayed the rash of time mechanically the round of work was done the baby cried or laughed in itz its coiled little garments as ai it chose and more mom and more there in sadies mind a dark image go as j would aronld fall on an gus lying on j the ui ideas half balf asleep or shuffling past the thed window in a purposeless purposed sei ess waa lj j ind aad the image aza her tather father of akiam she had never thought but 1 W L sometimes I 1 there was waa 1 anse to th ou batand an d qa I 1 ee a W ai m jj 4 WV 10 mia a g V gl 4 I 1 M MOM r 5 11 q 4 M 1 1 za p W V I 1 1 V 0 1 4 1 S 1 en ants gus swore in a tense fashion tk lb al an n air of considering sadie and fid id to blame and behaved as aa aa J and abused man he wail was so 90 ahti 0 ly unapproachable on oil th these ese occasions that sadie against her will was invested with apologetic a atmosphere life had begun to branch off in strange pathways that bruised bruise J her un willing feet wrinkled her forehead and dragged down the corners of her once curving mouth when her b boy oy was 4 and the twins came her eyes had bad in them the sullen hopeless look which comes to pretty flighty creatures creat ures unfitted for the buffeting they inva invariably receive her gowns were of calico long faded her hair straggled she was 25 and looked a bent 40 existence was but endurance uncomplaining because unavailing the dark image which had disturbed her mind became a reality at times when she looked at her husband stripped of romance churlish lazy rough rouga animal lounging and thought of herself broken spirited mechanical old there was a bewildered feeling in her heart bean that her life and her husbands were but the continuance of her life in her shiftless childhoods home her had been bright in its thought thoughtless lf SS way appealed to her now as a story long ago dead and nearly forgotten I 1 0 then there dawned a day when gus came home m with a darkly kly flushed face and sodden eyes in spite of his worthless life drunkenness had never been numbered among his sins and today he was not drunk he stumbled up the steps where sat the oldest boy clear out he growled pushing thi child aside with his foot he sunk gunk moodily into a chair and stared into a corner glaring if sadie or the children crossed the room what is it gus his wife finally asked roused from her absorption by his unusual manner he did not answer for at the moment there came into his eyes a gleam of fear he bent forward ready to spring and listened on the gravel walk could be heard advancing steps and with an inarticulate cry be gathered his forces and sprang for the back door on the sill sat the twins at play babbling in meaningless baby fasi fashion ion but the man mad with terror was instinct only with self if preservation and wi with th heavy feet he thrust them violently apart against the unyielding door A half hour later he was led back across the green meadows and between the rustling stalks of green corn past his bis house by the three men who had startled him into flight he was whit now and his up lip was bitten between betwee nt his teeth he did not once glance at his home in the door stood sadie with drawn face and piteous staring eyes with arms tight against her breast she clasped the cold stiffening form of one of the twins twine the one that had been nearest the hard door her white lips moved dryly she could not speak for these moments of terror and suspense had paralyzed her throat the sheriff paused a moment in distress he he be hit a man mrs bradley he explained uncomfortably and the man is dead it was waa about some horses then the grim little procession moved on months afterward sadie bradley stole up to the cemetery in the dusk to lay a few poor flowers on the tiny grave of the dead twin it was very quiet and peaceful there with the sun setting behind the dense trees and the crickets chirping in the short soft grass the woman stood upright on a little ridge looking down the valley her thin figure showed pathetic against the crimson sky and her flower laden hands hung listlessly there was a wordless sad bitterness in her soul the rebellion of an untutored nature that sole emotion was waa all of which she was conscious up the winding road outside the cemetery fence sped a light buggy and the two persons seated therein were smiling at each other the man was a reckless young fellow and the girl a pretty harum who worked in the same shop that had been sadie bradleyd Bradle yr stay in the old days their marri marria ag gp license had been issued the day before As the woman by the grave looked after them her lips formed into a slow line of anguish poor girl she ahe breathed poor girl and then she ahe suddenly dropped down in the grass and tore her heart out in sobs such as had never before shaken her frame for these were mingled with pity tor for another and in the birth of that new emotion the old one of blind bitterness was crowded somewhat aside and life was made possible for her ARCTIC 6 tolu t caulis 1 I r vat I 1 vom om furn Is uke alme A t t er su so tr ff r from recently returned dr na nansen usen who neV says that tin an arede arctic Jour journey anro rom m hirst induced by the irksome labor of gedge dedge hanling lq is the se severest discomfort though thou h the polar world to lo the explorer ia Is covered with frozen water there Is win non that which is 14 i thawed aw am to drink q save the march it is almor impo isible 1 on thaw it other explorers colli plain of tb effects of the wind and son un it is we w known that a low desree of calil can 1 borne without discomfort so lone hang as th tir air is still but the i it int motion it strikes the skin like tile the blas bid the st si louin gloia lolk at r a furnace says democrat its effects h have ire often b en ib zeril ta j preel precisely selY similar to thoe of a burn th ili when it L is s visible is IK liot hot and pl IWI sun ann and blisters the skin skill makins it iu in auit fluitt the attack of 0 ti ly more sensitive to wind others ag again ain say any that tile the warm warin relaxing damp of the polar stint summer mer aviel all the diseases that ll it brings bring sq Ls i wor worse e than the intense old cold c of wint but perhaps after all tin 11 griott afi latest irl and misery which confront th the polar ex clorer spring from he be depression depress ion iun and phy physical of the lon long g of 2 and hours of gloom and semi dark ne ness under its influence men seem to suffer uke like plants deprived of A weta or so will often completely petely change theil enforced idlean s uni lini ebar characters acte rs slid and the versal veral gloom and bitt bitter er old cold conia t reduce life to its bowl lowest t misery |