I was thinking," he added, "that probably the state of your wife's health had a good deal to do with her actions and views of things, but it must have been pretty hard on you all the same." "Wa'al, yes," said David, "I guess that's so.

Her health wa'n't jest right, an' she showed it in her looks.

I noticed that she'd pined an' pindled some, but I thought the' was some natural criss-crossedniss mixed up into it too.

But I tried to make allow'nces an' the best o' things, an' git along 's well 's I could; but things kind o' got wuss an' wuss.

I told ye that she begun to have notions about me, an' 't ain't hardly nec'sary to say what shape they took, an' after a while, mebbe a year 'n a half, she got so 't she wa'n't satisfied to know where I was _nights_--she wanted to know where I was _daytimes_.