Two Cross Words. "Lucy, if you mean to sew on this but ton, Ido wish you'd do it— 1 can't wait all day." Tom didn't speak a bit cross, only em phatic; but I was out of temper that morning, and my head ached badly from sitting up late the night before. Tom had gone to a supper—for the second time since our marriage—given by some of his bachelor friends, and had come home the worse for it. It had provoked me intensely. ,So I had followed him to his bed in sullen silence, and awoke none the better pleased after my sleep, on the morning alluded to. To make the matter worse, just as he spoke to me about the button, the kuife with which I was cut ting bread for his lunch, slipped, inflicting a deep gash on my hand, and the baby awoke and set. up her sharp little cry from the cradle, all in one and the same mo ment. "You can wait as long as I did last night, I reckon," I replied sharply, really angry at last. Don't hurry inc—l do all I can, and more than I am able to do with one pair of hands." Tom dropped bis button and turned to me with a startled "Wqy, Lucy!" "Don't Lucy me," 1 retorted, throwing down the bread, and catching up the baby, while the blood streamed from my hand over her white gown. "You've done enough—you've broke my heart! I wish I had never seen you—l wish I was hack again with my father and my mother." I broke down with a burst of hysterical tears, and seeing the blood 011 my band, Tom came over and knelt dwvn beside me. "Why, Lucy," he said, his voice and eyes full of tenderness, "you've cut your hand. Why didn't you say so? Here, give me the child while you bind it up—see how it bleeds!" He held out his hands for the baby, but I snatched her away and went on sobbing. "Don't cry, Lucy," he continued, strok ing the hair back from my forehead— "please don't: I know 1 have done wrong, dear—hut I didn't mean it. I fell in with some of the old boys and they persuaded against my will. But it's the last time, Lucy—the last time." Why didn't I turn to him, then, and help and encourage him? Because my mean, tyrannous temper got the better of my woman's heart. "Oh, yes!" I said sneeringlv, "it is easy enough to make tine promises—you told me the same thing before. How can you expect me to trust you now?" Tom was spirited and quick tempered —great, loveing-hearted men always arc. Jle sprung to his feet like a Hash, and, be fore 1 had time to speak or think, had lefi the room. I tossed the child into the cradle and rushed to the door, but was too late he had gone. 1 just caught a glimpse of him turning the corner. I went back to the little breakfast room ; how blank and dear it looked, and what a •harp, stinging thorn there was in the Tery core of my heart! 1 loved Tom, and he loved me. We had been married only eighteen months, and this was our first quarrel. I sat down with the baby in my arms, heedless of my morning work, and fell to thinking. All the old happy days came back, and the one in particular when \vc sat in Dunborry Wood. It was in the autumn, and all the world seemed in a blaze of gold, as the sun slid down, and the squirrels scattered overhead, dropping a ripe nut, now and then, into my lap as I sat there, with the last 4o.se of summer in my hair, knitting a purse for Tom. 4 'Lucy," he said, as I wove in the last golden stitches, "you've knit my love— my very life—up in that purse. Tell me now, before you finish it, how is to be? am I to have you and—oh! I won t ihink of it ever, Lucy, it would be too deadful I" "No, Tom," I answered, "you are to have the purse, and the hand that knit it too." Poor Tom, he cried then just like a lit tie child —he, the bravest mail iu the vil -I*S- fault iu him, only a little too wild, too fond of gay company ; but you must tame bim, Lucy, as your mother did me." That was my old father's advice 011 our wedding day. My heart smote rac dread fully as I recalled it to mind that morning. Had I done my duty? Had I followed the example of my mother, who never let fall an unkind word. But Torn would be home to his dinner. The thought brought me to my feet. I did my work briskly, and went about cooking just such a dinner as I knew he would like. The plum pudding was done to perfection; the baby i?i a clean slip, and myself all smiles to receive him when the clock struck one. But he didn't come. I put by the untastcd dinner and pre pared supper, and lit a bright fire in the little parlor, lie should have a pleasant welcome. But he did not come. Eight, nine, ten o'clock, and I put by the untas tcd supper, ond baby and 1 went up to thenursyto wait and watch, llow the little thorn in my heart pierced and rank led! Tom had broken his promise, and my uukindncss was the cause ! Nothing else rang in my ears through the long hours. 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