Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

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Reel LM® Oh-h-h — -my God!" (The words and her action stung him as nothing else could have done. A moment before, he would almost have died before using a rough word to her — before saying that which he knew would have the force of a blow in her pretty face. But, at last, the primal man was aroused in him. He knew now that nothing short of a shock and plain talking would rouse her to an imderstanding of her own part in what he had done. Slowly, he got upon his feet and faced her.) "Look here, Kits — we might as well have this out ! You and 1 could have lived, very comfortably, on half the money we have spent. You've known for some time that we were living way beyond our income — but you never made a single suggestion that we might cut down expenses. For what I did, to-day, you are directly responsible. But that isn't what makes me sick at heart. I'll manage to work out our own proposition in a better way, after this — and it won't be in a rotten community of thieves, either! After I had banked that ten thousand, I went to Trowbridge and told him about it — told him of Murtagh's dream yarn, and my giving them the contracts, to-day. And he never turned a hair! Said he didn't see how any possible blame could attach to me for accepting a legacy which I'd inherited under a will I Said Murtagh's concern would undoubtedly carry out the contracts satisfactorily — but that was none of his business. Said, as long as I didn't interfere with contractors for material which he knew zvas all right, he had no reason for interfering with my department. I went to him with a confession of grafting which should have meant my instant discharge, even if they didn't prosecute me — and I was laughed at for over-scrupulous ideas. Business in this great city is fairly reeking with graft ! My firm assumed as a matter of course that I was getting mine on the side for years before I to-ok it. Nothing would have convinced them that I was absolutely honest. That sort of thing has gone out of date. Well — I told Trowbridge I was done with him — said my resignation would be in by the end of the month. But I mean to leave this town on some steamer to-morrow morning — and somewhere — under better conditions — begin life again." As the full significance of his intention became apparent to her, she forgot what he had done — forgot his unbelievable accusation that she had been responsible for it — -and remembered, only, that he was her husband — that she loved him— and that he was leaving her. "Harvey — what do you mean! What am / to do?" "Put all our stuff, here, in a storage warehouse ! Go and spend a couple of months with your Aunt — she's the right sort ! She'll gladly take you in and keep you until I can make a start in some other place. When that time comes. Kits — it's up to you. We'll have no more of this society life with its criminal waste and false ideas. We'll begin again — as just a very human man and woman, trying to get our share of happiness and beauty out of the world in a sane and healthy way — turning our time to some account instead of frittering it away on leeches and grafters. Or else — if that doesn't appeal to you — we'll part — forever." She was stunned. In the whirl of his preparation for departure, during the next eighteen hours, her former, care-free existence seemed being torn up by the roots, leaving shipwreck of all her ideas and expectations. When he finally left, she was unable to go to the steamer with him ; in fact, it was two months before she even knew where he had gone. Finally, a letter, came — from a pioneer town in Alberta. He had taken a Southern Pacific steamer to New Orleans, and then gone to the Pacific Coast — eventually settling down as superintendent of a large stock-ranch not far from Calgary. He wrote her of the attractive little bungalow he had fitted up and enclosed the money for her transportation — if she cared to come. Two weeks later, he met her as she stepped from a C. P. R. Pullman at the station nearest his ranch — and, to give her no time for retrospection or comparisons, kept up a lively flow of talk all the way out to the bungalow. After an appetizing dinner had been served by a smiling and attentive Chinaman, Sloan had his horse saddled for a short night ride to look after some of the stock — and, throwing a light cloak about her shoulders, she came out into Justus D. Barnes and Sidney Bracey in "An Amateur Animal Trainer" Thanhouser