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.
About two o'clock I heard a noise be
low and went to the window. There was
a man 011 the porch; 1 could see him in
the dim light.
"Tom, is ihat you?" I asked softly,
putting out my head.
"Yes; open the door, Lucy; quick, the
police are after me."
My heart sunk. The police after him !
what could he have done? I ;au down
swiftly and unlocked the door. Hut as 1
did so two men, wearing official budges,
stepped upon the porch, and one o'' them
laid his hand 011 Tom's shoulder ana said :
"1 arrest you, sir."
"What for?" 1 cried.
"For murder!"
(To be continued.)
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