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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1899)
HIS LETTERS. We had been three months married, and lived in the blessed expectancy of a secretaryship which I hnd been promised on a commission appointed to inquire into some abuses the government dTd not want to find out but the preliminaries dragged, and I found myself doomed to a period of en forced idleness winch did not im prove my temper, and I fear tried my wife's sorely, for, though happy, we were human. Our first, and thank heaven, out only tiff, took place one memorable day when we were both gardening on a plot of soot blackened ground at tached to our modest dwelling. In making a border I had planted a number of carnations and picotees together, contrary to my wife's directions, and on discovering the mistake she said what I suppose nine out of ten women would have said. I answered tartly, being preoccupied with bitter thoughts, and so acrimonious did our dis cussion become that Edith went into the house. After some minutes reflection I felt the childishness of my conduct . s r n i . . wann iciimvpn in mnLp ir tin .mk was no: in tneauc-i ne ooucioir at the top of our mansion, so I de scended to search for her in the drawing room, which had doors opening on the conservatory and hall. By chance I chose the first and had almost entered the room when I heard the sound of a well remembered voice, and, drawing the portiere aside cautiously saw my wife face to face with Arbus- culia. 'I daresay you know who I am?" the latter was saying. Editbdenied the implied honor. "Then is your state the more gracious," retorted Arbuscula. "But your husband does, and that is the chief point. The ser vant told me he was at home." She looked just as splendid as ever and swept our modest little apart-j ment with a scornful glance. "My husband is engaged," said Edith. Anything you have to say may be said to me." "Indeed?" replied Arbuscula. "Well, I have got a good many things to say." My wife folded her bands and, finding one of her gardening gloves on, pulled it off and threw it on the table. , 'Guard!" thought I. "And first," continued Arbus cula, "I want to say that your husband is the writer of those letters." And she deposited a for midable bundle on the table beside the glove. "They were written to me. You may read them if you choose." "I have no desire to do so," re plied my wife gallantly. "They would interest you," the other went on. "You could com pare them with these he has, I daresay, written to yourself." "I fear you misunderstand, though the error is a natural one for you," replied my wife con siderately. A spot of light shone in Arbus cula'seye. "They would be use ful," she continued, "if you wanted to-make things hot for him as yon undoubtedly will." My wife was silent; she played with her wedding ring. "Or perhaps you won't care to see them in the public press," the other added viciously t "I know a literary chap who would dress 'em up well; they'd want a little drap' ing for a paper I know of." "I conclude then, that the lawyers have marked 'no case?" observed Edith, . and Arbuscula glanced curiously at her. "I do not take any wrongs to a Jaw court!'? sbersaidnngnifi cently. "In that you show your wis dom," replied my wife. Arbus cula looked at her again, with something approaching respect, but there was a snarklc beneath the eyelids. "Come, what will you give to prevent it?" she asked. "Nothing," responded Edith quietly. "He would be of a different opinion!" observed Arbuscula. "Hardly," said my wife. He is not a fool." "You are the first woman who ever said that of him," rctortetl Arduscula. "I do not doubt," replied my wife, witn much significance, and the other redened slightly. "Under the guard," thought I. "All women are the same to him." continued Arbuscula, re covering herself. "What is the difference between you and me? A "And all it symbolizes, re joined my wife softly. "That's a house on a fifth rate terrace, witn only one stopcock for eight of ye, and the lady next door cuts off the water when she has had a few wotds with you over the hedge I know it!" sneered the other. v "Oh, it symbolizes more," said Edith, but her tone was weaker. The thrust has gone home, for the stud' of hydrostatics had been forced upon us of late. "And what is that, pray?" de manded Arbuscula insolently. "To axplain would be to insult your intelligence and yourself," replied Edith. "Beat in carte, lunge in tierce!" thought I. "Oh, I am not thin skinned!" laughed Arbuscula. "I made allowance," rejoined my wife. Arbusbula's lips became a thin line of scarlet. They parted, and she smiled. I knew that she had al ways possessed a most unfeminine sense of humor, but I was not prepared for its assertion at this supreme moment. The two women stood looking at each other across j the table. Arbuscula's dazzling smile lighting her face, my wife's pale, yet never so beautiful, I thought, though now, enlightened by the contrast, I noted the lines of anxiety which bad been creep ing there during the past months, and violet shadows under the sweet eyes. The other gathered up the letters and began to shuffle them as one would a pack of cards. "You are dying to read them!" she said. My wife's voice said, "No." Her face was not so explicit. Here's one it's poetry," con tinued Arbuscula. "It was written for a stays ! invented, the Arbus cnla busk you might have heard of it?" "No, it must have been before my time," said Edith innocently. "Possibly you came rather late in the day," retorted the other. "But come to stay," answered my wife. " Arbuscula laughed. Edith put her hand upon the bell. "You surely will not compel me!" she said, "I have been very patient." "You'll want all the patience you have in the good time coming," rejoined the other. "And you, what will your future be without patience?" asked Edith. "My future can take care of itself," cried Arbuscula, laughing a laugh short as the snap of a than the butt en oln roue." "Using the Hilt," thought I. My wife lnnghcd gayly now. "You know the old adage," she snid, "the best husband is a re formed rake. Men's follies often serve as beacons to guide them past the other shoals and shallows of life. Experience enables them to appre ciate things it is a good light for a man." ' 'And a useless one lor a womnn ," answered Arbuscula, with a sudden change of tone, "It's like the poop light which shows the foam upon tie reef that hasjnst torn the poor ship's side out much good, when the masts are going by the board." She gathered the letters to gether. Whatever had been her purpose in coming, I could see her grasp upon it was gone. Catching at that moment the reflection of my own face in a mirror opposite, I was so ill pleased by the sight that I stole down stairs, hearing another hacking laugh and the tinkle of a bell as I went. I returned to the garden and commenced to patiently dig up the border. Presently Edith came out also with an armful of plants she began to sort, singing a cradle song I much admired the while. I went over to her. "I got those carnations up," I said, "but for the life of me I can't say which is which!" She ran to the border. "Ah, you took tar too mucli trouble, dear," she said softly. "And after all your labor, too. I'm so sorrj 1" she pressed my arm, and the touch covered more than the words. "But theline was not straight," answered averting my eyes. I passed ray arm around her waist and kissed her. She put both :ier own around my neck. "My wife!" said I. "You old goose," she whispered, biting my ear. 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