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.El VAGRANT WIFE
Br F. W.canirs,
Author of "' THE Hoose on ons Afmwn,"
"kr rus Wonon's Memo," Era.
bo angry with me—or with any one,"
"I will promise to listen quietly, an
not be angry with you. That is all."
Annie hesitated. She could not bu
know now on whom the blame of Chi
miserable misunderstanding betwee
herself and her husband lay. No expla
nation of Stephen's infamous conduc
to both of them oecurrod to her yob
but, even in the midst of hor indigna
tion against him, the pity she felt fo
the forlorn weakly cripple urged her t
try to shield him from the consequence
of the torrible anger sho already saw
gathering in Harry's blue eyes.
"I don't think I ought to toll you any
thing," ale said gently, "until I has
found out whether there isnot some ex
planation to bo given of the matter
You are looking angry already, Don'
Iet us spoil this beautiful happy avenin
by unkind and harsh thoughts abou
, Harry. an body
y - a y. Won't you wa-----
it'
" No, I won't wait f " interrupted he
very . sternly. Don't shrink away
Annie; I love yon for your sweet forgive
Hess; it is right for a woman to be ready
to forgive. But there is something also
for me to do. Now tell me all about it.'
"Not while you are in this mood
Harry. I will toll you when you have
pro.nfaai to let it pass witbnut a word
of reproach, except just what you may
say to me."
" You will toll me now, and without
lny making any promise, my darling."
said ho very softly, drawing her up from
her knees to a seat by his side.
Annie bad never before felt her will
unable to carry out her pnrpoees. She
strum -nod with herself now as she sat in
the firm but gentle clasp of her hue
bend's arm, and saw his head bent in a
listening attitude towards hers. Then,
feeling at last the irrestible force of a
re -•,lotion stronger than her own, she
submitted—submitted in the most win.
ning way in the world, placing her little
hands on either side of his neck, and
looking up at him with hor sweetest,
softest expression of face bo coax away
bis auger.
Thou I must trust to your generosity,
Barry. And, if you don't behave ge'ter-
ously and forgivingly about it, I shall
think you aro not glad to have me
again, for happiness ought always to
make peoplo's hoarte softer."
He kissed her without answering in
words ; and she went on—
" Whoa Stephen first came tome witb
a letter from you, looking very ill, very
miserable—I thought he was going to
die—ho made me very jealous and hurt
me by telling mo bow much happier you
were now you were away from town and
among countrypeople again. He did
not know how fond I had grown of you,
and that I was silly enough not to like
to hear how well you were gettiug oa
Without me. Were you as happy as he
said, Harry ? "
"I was happy just than, becanse uv+u
Lytham was beginning to show con-
fidenco iu me, and I saw my way to
earning money and being with you again.
But, if he said I didn't miss you, he told
lies."
' Ho did not say that ; and he had not
the Moat idea how much ib mattered to
me. But I was angry with you for send.
ing mo such a short letter, and I thought
you were enjoying yourself, and very
likoly didn't care; so I tore up the long
loving letter I had wribton, and sunt you
a abort one saying nothing, like yours."
" Oh, you little spiteful creature! I
wrote that note four times before I got
ono fit to send you; I was to afraid
you would be offendod if I told you what
I was going to do. I thought I would
wait until I bad got on, and then corns .
to you and show yon that I could be just
as fond of you as if Iliad never been in a
stable in nay life. And, at any rate, ]:
thought if I succeeded, you would think I
it was better than idling."
"Better than idling! Oh, Harry, it
is better than anything for you to be '
snccessfnl and happy and—and fond '
of me!" After a pause, she continued,
"When he came the second time, he
said you wen) not getting on as fast as
you wished."
" That was true; I was'in low spirits
about it. Well?"
"Then ho said it was very hard for a
man without money to get on. He said
that himself, not that yon had said it. j
A.nd I was afraid you wero perhaps in
sorions chilionlby for want of mousy, and
I bogged him. to take some I had put
away and didn't want."
" And lie took ib? "
"Wait, Ho minima for a long time,
and said you would not think of accopt.
in.; any many; so at last I puebod it
into his baud, and told hirn nob to say
ib camo from mo, He was very reluctant
to the last; I expect be was afraid to
give it to you and afraid to give it back
to me.."
" Wan that tho only time ho took your
money?"
"N -o; I gave him soma two or three
times—not much, of couxso—and it
gado no difference to mo, for it was '
looney 1 had put aside.'
"And what was that you said about
jewelry? Coins, Annie, yon mustn't
koop back buythiogl It isn't fair to
toll ouly half."
" is only that ones, when I was
short of many money, and anxious, in
spite of poor Ste hen's entreatios, to
and you same, Ip ave him a pair of
oar -rings andtwo other little trinkets I
mover woro, bpd asked him to ae11 them
for me."
Harry starteO up restlessly from the
sofa and togas marching up and down ;
then ho stripped short in front of her.
"Why didn't; you waits to ono when
ryool,go,t no,a,elq owledginent ? "
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"I didn't like to. I thought that
Stephen had kept from you the fact that
the money camp from. me."
"And you thought I was smell a booby
as not to have Pound, and suoh a bear
as not to have thanked you ? Annie,
that is impossible 1 You are hiding
something from me still."
But Aunfe did not anawor or look at
d him, Her eyes were) fixed in front of
her as a new light broko in upon her
bewildered mind.
H"Harry," sho said at length, raisin;;
n her glittering oyes to his with en ex-
prossion which was ahnost fear, " thoou
e flowers—you stub—by Stoplan---a few
• days ago--"
' " Oh, you did gob elitism then ? lie did
' not condescend to--"
r "Wore they fax rue ? " she asked, in a
0 low smith.
"For your Of course they were for
you; who else should they bo for ? " said
Harry irritably, his excitement gobbing
• I the better of him,
° " Not for—not for—Afuriol West I "
• Sho murnurod the name so low tho had
to repeat it.
▪ "Muriel West? No. Who on earth
, is Muriel West ? "
" You don't know i" she cried joyful.
ly. "tut, harry, 1 saw you talking to
her on a coach at Ascot,"
"Do you mean an actress named
• West? Why, Annie, how jealous you
aro 1 I scarcely spoke to mer, and
, shouldn't have done so at all if Stephen
hadn't been with her. A fellow I knew
' I took me to supper once at her house a
long time ago—it was tho very night of
my annJd.eno-•-'+:ud T have eovar anon her
since, excepb bhab day at Ascot."
"" Then how was it that sho was wear-
ing my ornaments?" asked Annie quiet-
ly, and as she spoke, the truth !hashed
upon them bath.
Tho mean Jitbie scoundrel 1" growled
Harry, clenching his fists. " The little
crooked, lying rascal He shall suffer
for this clever trick. Then ho got all be
could out of both of us, and kept us
apart by his lies 1 0f course you never
said it was disgraceful fax me to turn
trainer?"
I never knew you were a trainer
until this afternoon, when I heard those
two gentlemen talking aboub you in the
carriage as I came down. He refused
to give me your address, saying you bad
forbidden him to do so, and 1 found it
out only by this card." She took from
her purse the card she had found in the
hamper and continued, "" I went to 8e0
. Stephen last Friday, d°terminad to find
out where you were. I saw a hamper of
flowers with the lid open, and inside I
found this card. I looked outside, and
found that the direction was to ' Miss
Muriel West.'"
" The direction had been changed; I
directed it to you, and gave it to that
wretched littlo hunmhbaok fax you.
And, Annie, do you mean to say that,
when you saw your ornaments on that
woman, you thought that I. had given
tier:,0 to hor 2" he asked, looking at her
aimn.st with horror.
What else could I think, Harry 1"
" And you never wrote to reproach
mol"
.t could not write about such a thing
• —11 was too dreadful! I thought 1
would a00us0 you of it faro to face. But
don't talk about it, Harry, please—I
Can't boar to thiuk of it now; ib was
wicked of me taex to think it could be
Ibrae."
"" And you tame down hero to -day still
believing it! And you could kiss roman
you ub lieved capable of such as infamous
"" No, no, Harry ; don't look at me
like that 1 The ntoneut you spoke to
me alone in this room I felt ib could nob
1, be trim; because, you know, I was sure
yon loved me, and that cleared it all
away."
And her husband drew her again
into his arms, with a mist before his own
eyes.
Dusk had fallen, and they wore still
sitting there, when they wore roused
from a silence of perfect happiness by
the prosaic sound of the dinner -bell.
Harry had great difficulty in keeping his
boyish high spirits under proper control
during dinner, and, when it was over,
Imo said—
"Lot us go out of doors, Annie ; thero
isn't room enough for my happiness in a
stuffy house."
So he put on her hat and mantle very
carefully and very clumsily, and they
went out into thermic.
"Take me to see the horses, Harry,
Here's your cigar -case; I saw 11 up-
stairs, so I brought it down."
" I may smoke then 2"
"Yes, of course, You aro going the
wrong way, Isn't that the way to the
stables."
"Yes; but I'm not going to take you
there ; you only ask to go to please
nee."
" On my word of honour, I ask to go
to please mysoli,; ,and, if yon don't like
to teylco ono, I shall go over thorn with
one of the stablemen, while you aro
Bulking over your cigar by yourself.
Now aro you coming 2"
So they went through the stables to• t
gather, and Harry was quick to note bho i
genuine ring in her interest, for what
concerned him conn°r nod her too now; a
and they walked all round the pant to-
gether, and bo said— • a
"Do you think you could ever live t
happily with me baro, Annie) 2" a
" And gloom-) the stage ?" 3
"Woll, act only now and then, You r
might take an engagement for therm a
months or more, but not give yourself o
up to it altogothor. 1 know you aro a
too olovor to just settle down to hoop- to
lug house for a dull, ignorant husband,"
" You're not dull and ignorant, 1
Harry I" b
"Well, not so ignorant as 'woe" said
lie, with mysterious complacency, " Do
you think that wontd be too groat a sm.
orifice, Annie?"
in f" No, indeed. I couldn't throw m
wholo heart into my noting now if
thaughb I was noglooting yew"
" And you will cool° and see mo ever
Sunday, and stay till Monday avenin
now, won't you? I mustn't ask mor
than that yet, I. suppose."
And she consented readily onopgh
And then same the crowningp, triumph o
the day to Barry, Ile led his wife int
the library, the volumes of which Im
luckily been collected long before ill
ocoul,ation of Kirby Hall, and said
Wooing proudly to her—
" You never thought I sbould go
fond of books, Annie. Well, I have
and I' lilt° thio room butter thou say in
the house."
There were tura° photographs of he
on the manbolpiece, there was a liqueur
case on a side -table, and the room wa
strongly perfumed with tobacco. An
pie's eyes twinkled, but she only laughe,
contoutedly.
"And now you shall hoar rho read
aloud," paid he.
So be put her into an arm -chair, and
sat ou a footstool at her feet, and tend
bin a couple of pages out of the Nine.
bemtth Oentery. Ib was a very poor per-
formance indeed, hesitating, badly em-
phasized, with the long words slurred
over. He was not at bis best, for be had
Annie's fingers in one hand, and his
cigar in his mouth.
" You read beautifully now, Harry 1"
said she, when Lo looked up for appro.
val; and the ale ver, well-inforwedwoman
really thought 80.
"It only shows what perseveranoo
will do." aid .1Tarry gravel,. "I've
read thn' •.n0,.` ....I to myseil ..enty
or thirte t moo."
y alarmed at the effect he had produced.
1 "You aro nut angry with 11)0, are you,
darling? You iook as if I had been
y scolding you, as if we) had changed
g places,"
o "' Ohanged placos, Barry 1" cried sbo,
looking up in astonishment.
She had already forgotten the long
f period daring which she had looked upon
• hor husband as a Giresorne, unreasouablo
d child,
s "' Yee, when I was g' bting well at the
, Grange you didn't always Croat m° with
proper respect, I fancy," said he, flush•
t mg, but looking down into hor eyes ra-
; thou misolliovuusly,
"' Oh, tall—then you were ill 1" said
oho, blushing too.
z Tho last words she said to her bus.-
- . baud. as the train wont off were—
" I Remember you are not to be with
- ; mo later than four, Promise."
I " All right; I promise."
And, trying to look ,,as if ber mind
was at oath, Annie gave him a last 0011.
ling " Good-bye" as the train started.
On arriving iu town, she drove straight
to the booth where Stephen lodged, and,
' finding that ho was out, oho sat down in
the sitting -room to wait fax him. Long
ere bide an explanation of the cripple`s
cruel and decoitful conduct had occurred
to her, and it seemed more and mote
probable to her, as she sat in tho shabby
sitting•room, with its low weather•
stained ceiling and ill -papered walls.
Evidently the money which be had kept
back from her he had not spent upon
himself; it must have gone where her
1 jewelry had gone, and Harry's !lowers
—to ;14uriol Wont., 1nn'r tones well to
what depths of meanness he would des-
cend in his devotion to a woman, for
she remembered with what dogged and
disinterested fidelity he had fulfilled
every command, every wish of hie cousin
Lilian in the old days at the Grange, be-
fore her marriage with Air. Falconer. In
spite of her contempt fax a man who could
stoop to such acts, Annie was torch.
ed by the cripple's hapless attachment,
and a great pity Ailed her heart as she
beard the slow thud, thud of his crutch
upon the staircase. Her compassion
deepened when the door opened and
Sbrplien stood before her, wilcl.eyed and
pale with a pallor which was like that
of 'loath. She sat qquito still for an in -
„r • Table to speak, unable to express
.0
telb at the dreadful change in
Ll., ... carance.
But, when she rose very softly and
held out a band to Hilt, sho discovorod,
to her horror, that he still stared blank-
lyin front of him, making no sign. Ho
did not see her.
Stephen 1" said she, in a low
voice.
Ile started, and fax the first time
knew that he was nob alone.
" Annie 1" he said apathetically. "It
is you, is it 2"
With moohanical courtesy he moved
forward feebly anal afforest her a chair;
but sho took his hand and loci him very
gently to tho hard littlo sofa, mall made
him sib down l,oaide hor there. Sho
thought the fooling which bail evidently
overmastered him must be remorse for
his conduct towards hor and bar ,.hus-
band, and she tried to thiult of Cho
sweetest words she could to soothe his
disb'ess.
" It makes me vary unhappy to soo
how deeply you aro suffering," said
1 she, " If I bad known you would fool.
it so much, I would have come be-
fore."
He played idly with his crutch, not iu
the least moved by her words.
" Ib would have road° no difference,"
said he, in a dull cold tone.
" Oh, lent I think it would 1 I would
not have let you think ao much aboub
it."
,"How could yon help that ?" said ho,
turning upon hor his lustreless oyes.
" I tell you I was not rioh enough, and
she would have thrown me over just the
same."
Annie started. Inc) was thinking no
more of the wrong ho had done her than
if it had been a deed of a hundred
years back. But she was not angry.
Her pity rose higher than ever for this
unhappy man, who had sacrificed all,
even to his honesty, for. the sake of a
woman who did not care a straw for him
now that she had got from him all ho
had to give.
" Stephen, I amp. so very; very sorry
fax yon," said she, in a quivering
voice.
" Are you ?" said he, waking for
an instant into something more like
life. "And you—you have no reason to
be."
A feeling of shame seemed for the
first time to conic over him• as he rea•
lased wbose sympathy it was that was
offered him ; and he drew his hand away
from hors.
"" Boozy one has reason to be sorry
for any one else who is unhappy," said
she. "And, when you soo that even I
can feel sympathy with you, you will
sec that you have friends who aro worth
livfn" for yet."
' Not I, not I," murmured he, in a
broken voice, " There is nothiug b it
for rho. She had promised to marry
me --sire is not a lady by birth, you
'know, avid I could have made Imo one by
position, I would have worked for her
—I have worked for her -1 have done
more. But I used up all I had too fast
—she saw 1 bad no more; she said, if
she married me, we should starve. And,
she looked at me quite coldly with her
beautiful eyes, and said sho was nob
well.oducated enough to moray a gentlo-
man—a gentlomau 1 1, a poor cripple 1
It was that—it is always that. Those
is n0 happineso, n0 love fax me- •nothin
but pity—wretolied, miserable, scornful
pity, that stings mo more than taunts,
01000 thou hatred. She pitied me, I
darn say, and laughed at ono, and let me
go ;" and be broke down into iacoheront
words aur] sobbing.
Annie) tried bright words of on0onr-
agement, asked him if ito thought no.
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Anon" 'nlsm' „e night at Kirby Park;
and, when the. ..ud Harry wero Ribbing
at breakfast the next morning, he tol
ber he should come ono and see her alit that
night.
" Then will you come op to town with
me 2" she asked eagerly.
Her husbaud besitated.
" I don't know whether I can, Annie.
I have some things to sae to down here
before I start, and something to do in
town when I get up there, so that I can-
not be at your rooms till about four."
Her face clouded,
" Something to do in town 1" sho
echoed, watching him narrowly and no-
ting the expression into which his face
had set during the last few minutes.
o Is ib --to see some one, Harry 2" Sha
asked timidly.
"Yee, a business appointment."
" Oh, Harry, it to see Stephen, I
know 1 What are you going to do?
What aro you going to say 2 You look
as if you would kill him!"
"" Don't be afraid. How could I con-
descend to touch the littlo misshapen
wretch, who has not as much strau;;th
fn his whole body es I have in ono Jig-
ger? But I am going to sae biro, and
to -day."
She saw that it was impossiblo to
alter hor husband's resolution, so sho
desisted from her persuasions; but
thero was a terrible) fear at her heart
which she could not shake off. Site
knew the violence of her husband's
temper, and feared it all the more tmdor
this new aspect of repression. Sho
made up her mind to go to Stephou and
warn him of Harry's coming, and to beg
him not to exasperate ber husband fur-
therby any attempt at concealment, and
false excuses, but to make a frank cote
fossion, sueh as would, sho felt sure, be
more likely than anything else to avert
Harry's auger. Once resolved on this
course, she tet the conversation turn to
indifferent subjects, and it was not until
breakfast was nearly over that she pre-
tended to remember an appoinbmeut
with her dressmaker which would matte
it necessary for her to go up to town bo•
fore`lunoheon. She did it too naturally
to excite in her husband any auspicious
of her good faith, and he went to the
station with her, and parted with hor
very reluctantly, although he expected
to be with her again in a few hours.
Annie herself bit something more
than reluctance ; she was seized with a
foreboding of evil.
" Ah, Harry," she said, laying a brew •
bling hand upon hie arm, "I wish I
were not married to yon 1"
•• 0 ny ,••• aeae4 ne, ammo.
"Because then perhaps you might do
wbat you did long ago, fling all con-
• sidoratious of business and duty to the
winds and jump into the train with um."
"" Do you think my love was better
worth having thenthan now ?" he asked
softly.
"le -o, perlhaps not. Still I wish Cho'
' wife had as much influence as the girl
had."
If tho train had been in the station,
she in . Le, and he at the dont', tlzaso
words would have carried him off. As
it was, standing on the platform beside
lar, Harry was soisod with a groat
troubling+, and, ,walking away from her
a fele stops, he cam° hack and said to
lier, low and ropxoaehfully.
"" That is the .first Limo you have) over
eniptod me to what was not right, An-
aie, If the train had boon hero your
words would have made mo jump in,
ncl, for the first time Muth I have had
�vorlr to do, I should have nogioctod it—
rid through you, :1 bavo a lob to see
o at time sbablos this morning, and
n appoiutuienb to ,.Coop with Orepbain
Ong before Igo up to town. Bub I can't
osist you; so, it you lovo nio, Annie,
nd if you caro for what people think
f leo and say of, me, don't ask mo
gain, my darling, for I can't say' No''
you,"
The yyoung wife, Self-ppossessed and
ndepondmet as she usually was, hung
er head, Thos° words of his, inspiring
in her a strong fooling of respoot, did
much to restore boo confidence in his
self -command •tvhen dealing with his
troaeheroua cousin. As she took the
rebuke silently, Harry began tp be
thing of her frioodahip, of that of the relit
of hie lousily ; but aha spoke to deaf -(
ears, When at length she rose to go, a) i-✓
he gave her bis hand and said, brit still
coldly-- ped
"',.°hank you. I shall be gladlpresonb.
ly that you came. It was good of you
to come--generous—and I thank you,
If I had a loug life before me, I would
try to do you some service ; but I ora d�r�
played out now, and there is not much
of my life left to run, Good.bye, An. (1) 0
hie.' a '
Sho C'�
could not stay. His last words
were almost a command to go. She had .
uob zuanbionod her husband's name. 02
She thought that, in the state of mind C�
in which;she was leaving the cripple,
the dread of an angry visitor might
make him desperate; and she knew
very well that, when Harry eew the
miserable condition to which his sensi-
tive cousin was rednoed, he was no
more likely to be unmerciful than sho
had boon.
But she could nob shake off aforebod-
ing that the meeting between the coo.
slug would be productive of evil, and
she reached home anxious and thought.
f ul.
Her misgivings woro not withoub
fonndatfon.
Within.an. hour of berdepazture from
Stephen's lodl;'ng, Harry drove up
iu a hansom and was directed, as his
wife hied been, to the little room on the
top floor. Ile entered with a very
stern face and firm tread; but the sight
of the cripple, lying half on the sofa,
half on a chair, in a state of utber pros-
tration of body and mind, made him
pause. The other looked up at him
without fear, without feeling of any
kind.
"Ile) you know mo?" asked Harry
abru#ably.
" los ; whab do you want here?"
"I want an explanation. If you do
not feel fib to give it to me now, I will
come again. But I must have it, and
the less delay the better."
"Ask your wife then. She has a
better lead than you,' nd understands
withoub so much talking. Go to her
for your explanations, and leave mo in
peace."
" Not yet. I want some reason for
your stopping my'letters to her and her
letters to me, for taking the presents we
intrusted to your care to be given to
each other, and for giving her money,
my flowers, and even her jewelry to a
greedy, extravagant, worthless woman
whom you couldn't satisfy if you had
gold -mines to give hor. That is what I
want you to answer."
The cripple had raised himself, his
eyes glittering with fury, and he sat
frowning maliciously at his cousin until
the looter had finished his speech.
"Tbeu I won't answer you, except to
say this; you are very good now, and
look upon extravagance and waste as
very wrnhed things. But you haven't
been a saint so very long that you can
have, forgotten that you yourself were as
greedy and worthless as any ono I know
Duce, and that you forged your father's
name to supply your own extravagance,
wbich, it seems to me, is worse than to
stoop to meanness for tho saga of a
woman you love and for whom you
would die. "
The last words ho &pogo in a ]ow voice,
looking straight in front of him with his
glittering feverish eyes; and lais hand
moved restlossly towards kis coat pocket
as he flnlshed speaking. .
" Look brrn1"said Harry, in a softer
voice. " I don't want to bo hard on you.
I know I've done as bad things myself,
if not worse ; and, if I'm a saint now, it's I�r
the hast I'vo heard of it. But, if you're
so fond of this woman as you say, I
wonder bow you have the heart to play
such confoundedly nasty tricks with the
love of another man, and to ouch an
angel as Annie, who had always been
kind to you too 1 "
" Your love ? Your lave was nothing
to mine 1" Stephen burst out contemp-
tously. "A woman may have a place in
your heart; but your dogs and your
horses fill the rest of it. You are hand-
some, straight; if one woman will not
smile on you, another will; while I, who
love sweet eyeo and fair faces with a
paesiou you cannot dream of, can only
buy kindness from a woman by the
oeaaoless labour of ministering to all her
wants, all her caprices ; and then, when
at lash the time comes when I can give
no more, I am cast aside and forgotten
for—for ono of your sort, with a pair of
blue eyes that say nothing and a head
that can't put two idsos togotbor, "
The passionate bitterness of this
speech moved Harry.
o It —is rough on a fellow, " ho mur-
mured, in a low gruff voice.
But the pity in his tomo woke the
wretched lean before him to frenzy.
"Yon can spare mo your pity," said
he fiercely. " 111 our lives through you
have gob easily what I might work my.
hull to death for, and never got, after all. i
You always got enjoyment, admiration,
love); and, now you have sobered down,
you got respect, themes, money, If ,you
had boon In my place, Muriol would
novo have thrown ,you over. She had
soon you only once, at a supper -party,
months ago, at Bookbam. Yet, when I
mot ler in Loudon, sho xemomborod
your stupid red facie, and sent you nes-
sages which I took caro not to givo you.
Bub I will be oven with you ab last; tho
remedy I prepared for my own wrongs
Will do as well for yours. "
And S to, hon drew out from Ins breast,
vvnere nig nano Hatt 0000 1114(1511 rtr_
a0010 minutes, a revolver, dud, aiming
bolero the othmr had time) to realism his
ntontion, tired it at his cousin.
5 {, * ,F * 0
Four o'clock coma, and still Annie
waited for her husband. Ho had promis.
cd so sorionbly, so many times, not to
be later than that hour that her imps. I
tither) grow quicltly into anmtioty as the 1
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