: His Desperate i a. Remedy By CECELIA A. LOIZEAlX J it "1 toll von. Mary, 1 cannot atTord it, atul (inn's thoro is to it!" John liivnt nnioidod 1 1 is- evening ;;hv ami held it under the lijrht, w Li. 'l wun s.uuled to an artistic dim nes In many rnllle oi erape paper. His wife lironglu her hand down i;'oii t tie piano keys in a crashing diM'ord that made hint slmor and set his teeth. Presently she seated herself in a low ehair at the other side of the table, the soft light fall ing full upoi her pretty, petulant fai e as she bent over her fancy work. John Brent forgot that he had been reading the political editorials and looked over the top of the pa per at his wife. "What makes you want a diamond rin-. Mary?" he asked gently. Her blue eyes brightened. She thought he was relenting. ''Why, I've wanted one all my life. When I v as a little bit of a girl 1 had one with a glass set. and whet I grew too old for that 1 used I dream of the time when 1 would be old enough to be engaged, so that my lover would get me one." "You should have ehoseu a richer lover." said her husband, with a tinge of bitterness. "Young hard-' ware merchants can't quite go at the diamond ring pace." His wife hardly heard what he said. She sfetched a dimpled white hand out across the table ami was admiring it. "See," she said, with a flash of co quetry, "it's pretty enough for dia monds, isn't it ': That Mrs. Bur rows on Tenth street has hands that are big and red. She has one dia mond as big as a robin's egg al most." "Her husband can afford it," smil ed John, looking at the dainty hand that lay in his rough palm, lie was wondering just how long he was going to be able to keep it from do ing any work, hardly considering the diamond question. Then he put it gently d I'.vn and leaned on the table, looking at his wife close'-.'. "TV; haps I haven't told you so that you fully understand, Mary," he said after a minute. "You're a good deal of a child about some things, and you don't think. Rut business is bad not mine only, but every one's. There's that new --tore here, a branch of the big one in the city, and they are cutting prices murderously. And we have heavy expenses too. I don't know how, but we 'nan : re to eat and drink and wear ahot more than we can pay for. And then there was the hos pital bill as well as the doctor's. It took months to pay tho-e." "I suppose you wish it had been a funeral bill," said Mary sulkily. 'Mary! Don't you dare to say such a thing again as long as you live! You shall not twist my mean ings in that way. Can't you be a little reasonable!' Then you decid ed that the house was too shabby to be lived in, though the things we ;ad bought wfien we were married -eenied very fine to us at the time, md it wasn't so very long ago." "We were awfully green," she -laid. "Well, you've got over the green ness." said her husband dryly. "And the rugs and furniture and hangings have not yet got the last payment, and the furnace needs fixing, and the house needs painting. We must go slow, little girl.'' Mary Brent's lips quivered for a moment, and then, hiding Iter face on her arm, she sobbed like a spoil ed child. Her husband was first -wry, then angry. This was too childish. "The trouble with you and all the rest of the women like you is that you haven't enough to do to keep interested. You sit around and think of yourselves until you be lieve you are martyrs, when a little work would be better for you. It isn't all your fault, though," he add ed slowlv. "If the baby had lived you would have been more. grown up." His wife sprang to her feet. "I I'm almost glad he didn't live," she sobbed. "I wouldn't want him to hear his father talk like that to me." And she whirled from the room. John Brent spent it wakeful, un easy night, but by morning ho thought he had found a solution, lie ate tits lonely break fast Mary never got up to breakfast any more and went downtown early, lhtr ;m: the forenoon he went over to Hit olnce of Jim Ueade. the most ;-rs"crous attorney in the town and ,. f 'end. The two were clos eted in the consulting room for over an hour, and as he came out into Om reco'.tion room John said: "I'M take $,ood care of it, Ueade, and bring it back tomorrow. The fact that you aren't married makes it easier. 1 wouldn't want any other woman to know ." As soon as he got to the store he went straight into his private olliet' and called up the police station. Within a lew moments a detective whom John Brent knew well passed through the store and into the little room. The clerks looked at each other furtively and applud them selves vigorously to their wprk. They could not help hearing the burst of laughter that came front the ollice, however, though the en suing conversation was too low to be heard. That evening John Brent went home a little later than usual and sat down to the waiting dinner table without changing his coat, which he usually did to please his w ife. Mary, apparently entirely recovered front the headache she u.-ually hail after such stormy times, sal opposite to him, dainty and pretty in her pale pink house gown. The dinner table was attractive and daintily set, and Nora, in a clean white apron, lum bered awkwardly around the table serving the ,-imple dinner. John seemed to be very nervous. He ate little and kept glancing fur tively at his wife, who was seeming ly indilferent. but who knew the signs and thought he was about to present her with a peace olfering. She wondered what it would be. They had reached the pudding and Nora h id retired to the kitchen when the doorbell rang, and John started to his feet as if he had been expecting some one. He sat down again, however, as he heard Xora's step in' the hall, and in a moment she opened the door, and Jack Bur net appeared in the doorwav. "Come in ! Come in !" cried John heartily, a trifle too heartily, his wife thought. She wished John would not associate with this class of people. "Sit down and have a bite." said her husband, and she was forced to echo the invitation, though she felt greatly relieved when the man re fused. He leaned over the back of a chair, S"euting at a loss how to begin. His feet shuffled nervously. "I I just dropped In," he stam mered. "Fact is, I'm working on a case. Can I see von alone, Brent?" "Oh, lire awav!" said Brent. "My wife would find it out sooner or later." "Well, some one stole Jim Reade's diamond ring thi morning. They got me vvorkiii r on the case, and I've got to do my duty." Mary Brent, looking across the table with a sudden, lurking fear in her eyes, saw John's hand make a sudden involuntary movement to ward the breast pocket of his coat. She turned white. "Of course you must do your duty," said John. "Who is the thief?" He tried to look uncon cerned and natural, but something clicked in his wife's throat, and she was not surprised when the detec tive laid a hand heavily on her hus band's shoulder. "John Brent, 1 place you under arrest," he said solemnly, and then, "I hate to do it, John."' "I'll get my hat and come with you," said Brent, rising. "Mary" "Xo, you won't," she interrupted, running around the table and stand ing in front of him. Then she stopped back and put her hand through John's ar.rn. She looked steadily at the detective, her small face very pale and her blue eyes flashing. "If any one has to go I will. It isn't his fault; it's mine. I I made him do it. He told me he couldn't afford it, and 1 acted like a little beast, and so he did it to satisfy me, I suppose. He isn't a thief. You know he isn't a thief." She appealed to the detective. He stammered, "But the ring" "Take the ring back," she said, "and I will come and explain the whole thing to Mr. Ueade. He wouldn't let you arrest John any way if he knew who it was. Oh, please go! (iivo him the ring, John," she begged. John drew the ring from his pock et and threw it down on the white tablecloth. She picked it up and handed it to the other man. "I don't ever waul to see a dia mond again as long as 1 live," she said, beginning to sob. The detec tive went to the door feeling some how as if he'd been robbing w idows and children, lie looked back oneo as he reached the door and then hastily let himself out. "(See!" he said to himself as ho went up the street. "II was a mean trick to plav, but it did the work. I'll bet that by tomorrow morning that little woman will lie thinking she'd rather darn his socks than make tidies!" Punishing Court Fool. Ivittt the Terrible, I'eler the Great and the Kmperor Paul had rough wavs with their fools. A dag ger thrust would follow a poor joke and batiMiment anv sign of declin ing wit. Once when I'ougere, the jester of Czar Paul. olTended his roval master he was permitted to depart in peace. In the middle of the niirht, however, he was aroused ami ordered to get up and prepare for immediate banishment to S' beria. In vain (he unhappy man pleaded. lie was bundled into a dark van and driven awav on his lorn: journey. 1hv after day, week after week, it lasted. 1'pon arrival he stepned out into the presence of the czar. All the lime he had been driven not toward Siberia, but around and around St. Petersburg! Prohibition In Cities ' Ilelovv we pive the results of the votes in the several cities in Oregon as contested in the elec tion November 4th:" WET For. 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