108 Lily and Water-Lily.

 

Salome wept bitterly

   

_him and welcome; but

for aught he may have
failed in respect to me,
Tf will do the chiding.”
She passed into the
kitchen with her water-
pails, and the old man

~ was left muttering.

“Discharge him and
welcome!” murmured
he. “And she loves him
as the apple of her eye!
Women be - strange
cattle! I would I-had
discharged him a year
ago. But now it’s too
late. She must e’en rule

it her own way-—rule it her own way.”
He nodded his head resignedly.
But within, Salome had cast herself upon her bed,

and wept bitter tears.