“Why should I, Joe.”
“Oh, I don't know as there is any reason, excepting that they usually say men and their wives should have no secrets from each other.”
“Mr. Montgomery is gone, I see,” said the dude, changing the subject.
“Yes, sir.”
“Then you are the only one who knows of this secret. You won't tell, will you?”
“No, sir.”
“We are having troubles enough as it is,” went on the dude. “Both my wife and I find housekeeping rather troublesome. It is hard to obtain proper servants, and she does not care to do the work herself.”
“Why don't you go to boarding?”
“Perhaps we will, later on.”
With the new year came a heavy fall of snow and soon sleighs big and little were in demand. Then came a slight fall of rain which made the sidewalks a glare of ice.