Show et redemption by MARGARET A NORTON by mcclum newspaper Nw apper it was a crucial moment rachel recognized it without a seconds hesitation she grasped the steaming coffee pot lint and with an alarming agility sent bent it contents and all right through tho the 11 big pane of glass in the dining room window then with a slightly heightened color but apparently otherwise calm and placid she liegau began filling somo some glasses with ith water to substitute in place ot of the ii usual beverage I 1 ralph astonished aghast against his mouth open stood as if turned to stone and ched hla his cifes movements to his astonished gaze she appeared as aa cool and chilly EN a winter morning ali they ey had told lier her why even Pl ralphs alphs own mother had warned her that ralphs ugly temper had spoiled his first cifes life that he wag given to fits of meanness which while they lasted jasted made life near him or with him a misery and a terror they lind had sald said that she would rull rue the lay day slie she married him for lie he was tas overbearing and tyrannical and had no thong I 1 it for anyone but himself I 1 to ill well meaning critics except ralphs mother rachel had turned ft a smiling but unmoved face with mrs s she lie had talked earnestly for some months her tactfulness anil the love ralph undoubtedly bore his handsome and cheerful ali wife held ilia his tyrannical temper within bounds lint but this lovely april morning he had ilsen with all ail lifs his disagreeable sites on the surface Itne raechel chel had not uttered a word of remonstrance not even when her lius hus lidid kicked the unoffending cat threw A chair in ills path pat to the other side of tile room and nearly broke the covers of her new range when he replenished the lie fire she pretended not to notice that her merry remarks were unanswered or glared at it was not lint until through his own carelessness lie had spilled a few drops of hot coffee on his wrist and had with a muttered oath thrown the offending cup across the room landing it in scraps on a pretty and prized brug rug that rachel acted it vas nias thou then that she followed his pan ale but to LIs horror borror and the sil sudden ilden cooling of ills his pettish resentment not only followed its ills example but went his several better for the window pane was a valuable one and the coffeepot one of their best wedding g sifts gifts neither spoke during the hasty meal that followed at di dinner she acted just as usual ralph palph was very silent ile he noted that the debris of the morning explosion iny ily where it had fallen ills mother and uncle were coming to ten tea after dinner lie gathered up the broken glass and cleared away the coffee L sr rounds that she prepared ii a letter it x wn oz not lorig long inot in it rachel told lier her husband that she had bad been warned about his inflammable temper that she loved him dea despite alte that very bad blemish and she believed he was manly enough to conquer his ruling passion she told him that she meant for a while only for a white and just as an object lesson to show you how terrible such behavior is when I 1 ce e that my acts are not bearing fruit and that eliat you are not bearing fruit and that you yon are not worth my descending to such tactics then I 1 shall siy good goodby by and forever good byll byi 1 I Tinn nt live lire wh a husband unworthy my respect I 1 should still love you ralph 11 but I 1 should leave you just the same ns if mylove had departed for I 1 nm am an individual with a right to t ImP happiness and it would be unobtainable eulth you think it over husband ins ralph never mentioned the letter aut I lit it ins many months before he allowed I ved his bis besetting vice to get the I 1 etter of him bim again and when he did ot it proved to tn be the last time this iiii herton cd and killed a hen that tad dane wine dat damage ilage in the garden when rachel who loved all helpless arn tren hires raw tile the mutilated body she acted that night flight when nhen ralph went out to feed his poultry which he be fari fancied cled despite its ills occasional cruel ties his poultry house was empty had given every bird away when biou QU rm can ue creatures humanely 1 r she he sold said ill agree to have more here rut but that hen hens s broken ribs and ini body inde me understand that yon had to learn humane principles before we could trust animals of any kind in your hands it was the last lesson necessary 11 ralph alph saw the point lie ile began ega n to respect as lie he had never d done one before with any woman who bad come into ill hi life tile the will which refused to sub tamely to fro injustice and tyranny 1 I mut not losis her hei 1 1 he e lip thought for lf sh e goes it will be forever abear abar later inter as the pair were were looking angat at someno colne faw 1 that rachel herself had installed in fhe he poultry houses ralph ralphi d braly dalgi mighty tj glad hachel rachel that you had the gumption to lilt hit hard from tile slip ulder when I 1 merited it anil and rachel her prophecies fulfilled 1 I never lilt hit you honey but I 1 idid edid did hit the black moods that were killing you |