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NORTHERN WISCONSIN ADVERTISER, WABENO, WIS. Pharisee you deny It to meT’ passenger the pavement. I disapprove this “Do “From another woman that mlgnt descended to particularly you wife has something give crushing given moment woman, I felt like a cad when “A to hvt be a retort. I’ve you At that a whom he business. apol- But you— What is it you very little. But, happens, recognized as one Unity’s familiars, caught us over there. I want to husbard. as it it’s of though it have to say? By your manner I judge been all you wanted. You wouldn’t approached. He lifted his hat and ogize for my part in it, you think it important.” take, you never wanted, the only bowed. She looked squarely at him wasn’t a speaking part.” worth his cigar. “It is. You’re too ill to work, but while thing I had to give.” He paused and passed on without greeting. Red “All right.” Mark lighted it seems not too ill to go driving In again, his manner hardening. “How- surged into his cheeks. “You’ve done your duty.” duty. the park w ith striking looking wr omen.” ever, all that is ended. I go away to- “Cut!” he muttered. “I suppose “But this is a little more than r hang The Ambition i With effort kept his morrow morning. given our I—” Baker hesitated. “Ob, it of Mark an he voice I don’t think I shall Unity’s version of Truitt her painful cold. “And you object, is that it?” ever see you again.” smash-up. Unity would.” all! Some things become so plain speech serves, hou don t By Author of “I do.” Even then he might have relented, He paid his fare and entered the only of stories going “ “Very well. You’ve registered your if she had given him excuse. But she portals from which no rich man had need to be told the THE m P hI[SRISE to me HENRY RUSSELL MILLER protest. Is that all?” gave him no excuse. ever been excluded. At the desk a around. Lately it’s occurred To"oTer.” eL‘ them “No, it is not.” She leaned sharply “You’re asking.for a divorce?” well dressed and usually very polite that you’ve been letting us take forward, forgetting to pose and to “Yes.” young clerk so far forgot himself as at face, without trying to contradict myself smile, the delicate prettiness of face “I suppose,” she sneered, “you want to look his amazement. them. That’s the thing I’d do right. But it can be by eclipsed by a cloud of vixenish tem- to marry that woman, your mistress.” “Mr. Truitt! I supposed you were —if I were in the (Ccpyright, 1913, The Bobbs-Merrill Company) your per- 9 per. “It is not. I have some self- He held himself under rigid self- out of town. I thought—” He stopped carried to extremes. Have I SYNOPSIS. came awkward, self-conscious. Neither respect and regard for our position, control. "She isn’t my mistress, in confusion, remembering that it was mission to say that the stories are seemed able to break it. if you haven’t. Do you suppose a though I lovo her. She was the girl no part of his business to think. let us say, overdrawn?” Mark Truitt, encouraged by his sweet- Rounding a curve in the tortuous nothing to me but a I gave up years ago out of loyalty to Mark hard at “You “You have not. Life’s too short to heart, husband means looked him. Unity Martin, leaves Bethel, his driveway, they met a a beau- you.” into with rumor. native town, to seek his fortune. Simon landau, name?” thought?” enter a contest Truitt tells Mark that it long has been tifully enameled affair drawn by high- He glanced hesitatingly towr ard the There wr as nothing lovely about “I thought you were out of town,” “But your silence—” his dream to see a steel plant at Bethel stepping horses in elaborate silver- Then, Unity Truitt affair,” gruff- and asks the son to return and build door, meditating retreat. with just then. stammered the clerk. “Is my Mark answered one If he ever gets rich. Mark applies to mounted harness. In it sat two a grim tightening of his lips, he re- “And now you want to renew the “I was. And now I’m back,” Mark ly, rising. “You may say to your Thomas Henley, head of the Quinby Iron women. They bowed to him, the turned his gaze to her. broken romance. Very pretty! But,” answered dryly. “So I think I’ll ar- meticulous friend that I’m about to works, for a Job and Is sent to the con- younger pointed struction gang. His success in that work with a smile. “You really want an answer? Then, she laughed in vindictive pleasure in range for rooms here indefinitely.” resign from this club.” wins him a place as helper to Roman Kazia heard him mutter: “I had for- I had supposed a husband means to her fancied ability to thwart his de- Nor was this all of the city’s greet- Baker, too, rose, looking at Mark Andzrejzski, open-hearth furnaceman. He gotten'.” sire, becomes a boarder In Roman's home and you a name—and a check book. With “you shan’t have her. I don’t ing to the returned wanderer. The keenly. began, assists Flotr, Roman’s Bon, in his studies. “Who was she?” inexhaustible leaves.” choose to be a divorced woman. And rooms arranged for, ha turned away “Oh, come, Truitt,” he Kazia, f.n adopted daughter, shows her “The older? w as Mrs. Thomas money know you get —” gratitude in such a manner as to tkror.se That r “So you begrudge me the I I can’t a divorce without "that’s Henley, you may —” least Mark’s Interest In her. Heavy work in of whom have hoard.” spend! You grow my consent.” But Mark cut him short. “At the intense heat of the furnace causes “Yes? But I meant the other.” fully “I think you his sort the ne- Mark collapse and Kazla for “Your expense account, met, Is will consent,” he said it will save him and to cares dry him. Later Roman also succumbs and “That,” he answpred in a con- the best answer to that, I think.” quietly. cessity of setting a precedent that Mark gets his Job. Roman resents this strained voice, “was Mrs. Mark Truitt.” “But I want more than money. Do “I will not. I don’t choose—” would decimate the club. Good eve- and tells Mark to find another boarding Five years elapse during which After a while: “Ah!” she breathed you think a little money—a little pal- “The choice is with you, of course. ning.” \ Blace.lark has advanced to the foremanshlp, “She is lovely.” try money—can repay me for your But you must understand it. You’re Henley, wTho had been out of the while his labor-saving devices have made “That makes unanimous,” he said through city returned, came back him Invaluable to the company. In the it neglect and selfishness?” with me In any case. But if when Mark meantime Kazia has married one Jim shortly. “So you scorn money? It’s news to you consent to the divorce, I’ll make soon after the latter took up his resi- Whiting. Mark meets with an accident It had ceased to be pleasantest you’ve nothing to a settlement that will satisfy you. If dence in the hotel. Mark approached which dooms him to be a cripple for life. the me. But I think He returns to Bethel intending to stay time he had had In years. A heavy complain of.” not, I will make only the allowance I him with the inward shrinking that there. He finds Unity about to marry an- cold cloud had settled upon their inti- “Is think you’ve preceded every new’ meeting just then. other man and wins her back. Unity “Nothing!” she cried. it noth- earned.” urges him to return to his work In the macy. Why dream of the possibility ing that I have to go everywhere alone, She went pale at that, the one threat “You’ve picked up physically,” Hen- city. Mark rises rapidly to wealth and of a mighty primitive passion! It was always having to listen to whispers which could reach her. “Why,” she ley remarked after a cool handshake. power in the steel business, but the so- . cial ambitions of his wife make their mar- not possible. But it was a char- behind my back of my husband’s fool- gasped, “you couldn’t do that. Even “Six months in the woods accounts ried life unhappy. The big steel Interests acteristic of the man to want most ish attempts to play the man about you couldn’t be so brutal—” for that.” are secretly anxious to get hold of stock things away, things keep “Choose.” doing you so In the Iroquois Iron company, supposed the farthest the town? You see, you couldn’t “I’d think, if it was to be worthless. Timothy Woodhouse forbidden. your escapade of last year from me. “But you couldn’t. You—I must have much good, you’d have stayed.” seeks financial assistance from Mark and “We’ve gone far enough,” she said. you’ve turned the set time to think—” “In other words?” buys Iroquois Or that old the latter Woodhouse’s “why stock at a small figure.