ning minutely the child's features. Now that she had
discovered all the delights of maternity she wondered at herself for
having been so indifferent to this great power latent in her of creating
life, and determined to have other children as soon as possible. As a
matter of course she thought of Archie as their father, but it was only
in that way that she thought of him at all, if she did happen to think
of him. A husband was the necessary means of fulfilling her new desire
to have her own young.

XXXIII

That summer while the new house was going up they went back to Europe
for a few months, as it was too hot on the ranch and they had nothing
better to do. They also meant to buy furniture, rugs, pictures, and
other material for the new home which they expected would be their
permanent abiding-place....

It would be a waste of time to chronicle in minute detail this period of
Adelle's marriage. As the reader must suspect by this time, nothing of
spiritual significance was to come to Adelle through Archie nor to
Archie through Adelle. They did continue for a number of years to be man
and wife, although they frequently had bitter quarrels and felt rather
than clearly recognized that their union had been a mistake, which
neither one seemed able to rectify nor make the best of. It was not so
much principle that prolonged their tie, nor design on Archie's part to
keep possession of the wealth his wife had brought him, as the fact of
the child--and Adelle's hope, which was never realized, of having other
children.

One of their more serious quarrels was occasioned by Adelle's discovery
at this time of Archie's unfortunate speculations. She had already
yielded to his constant demands for money for the ranch and broken her
arrangement with the Washington Trust Company, converting part of their
excellent investments into cash, which she removed to San Francisco,
where it could be got at more easily. Archie had had charge of this
uninvested portion of the estate; it gave him something to do and to
talk about with men. Until her illness, to be sure, Adelle had kept run
of what was being done with her money, and opposed any considerable
further changes in the investments of the estate, which were of the sort
that a good trust company would make, and which had very greatly
appreciated in value during these last years of national prosperity. But
during her illness and afterwards when she was absorbed in the child,
Archie