r Sundays because she
did not know that she could do anything different.

Mrs. Haydon felt more and more every year that she had done right to
bring Lena back with her, for it was all coming out just as she had
expected. Lena was good and never wanted her own way, she was learning
English, and saving all her wages, and soon Mrs. Haydon would get her
a good husband.

All these four years Mrs. Haydon was busy looking around among all the
german people that she knew for the right man to be Lena's husband,
and now at last she was quite decided.

The man Mrs. Haydon wanted for Lena was a young german-american
tailor, who worked with his father. He was good and all the family
were very saving, and Mrs. Haydon was sure that this would be just
right for Lena, and then too, this young tailor always did whatever
his father and his mother wanted.

This old german tailor and his wife, the father and the mother of
Herman Kreder, who was to marry Lena Mainz, were very thrifty, careful
people. Herman was the only child they had left with them, and he
always did everything they wanted. Herman was now twenty-eight years
old, but he had never stopped being scolded and directed by his father
and his mother. And now they wanted to see him married.

Herman Kreder did not care much to get married. He was a gentle soul
and a little fearful. He had a sullen temper, too. He was obedient to
his father and his mother. He always did his work well. He often went
out on Saturday nights and on Sundays, with other men. He liked it
with them but he never became really joyous. He liked to be with men
and he hated to have women with them. He was obedient to his mother,
but he did not care much to get married.

Mrs. Haydon and the elder Kreders had often talked the marriage over.
They all three liked it very well. Lena would do anything that Mrs.
Haydon wanted, and Herman was always obedient in everything to his
father and his mother. Both Lena and Herman were saving and good
workers and neither of them ever wanted their own way.

The elder Kreders, everybody knew, had saved up all their money, and
they were hard, good german people, and Mrs. Haydon was sure that with
these people Lena would never be in any trouble. Mr. Haydon would not
say anything about it. He knew old Kreder had a lot of money and owned
some good houses, and he did not care what his wife did with that
simple, stupid Lena, so long as she would be sure never to need help
or to b