Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 211, 17 August 1915 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1915

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Her Husband's Widow By edmund b. d-auvergne Leslie Learns That Her Husband's Death Leaves He Without a Name,

Synopsis. "Leslie Morne, a govern est, goes to walk by the sea and Is spoken to by a man she does not know. ; she is rescued from his attentions by Victor Steels, a sergeant in the British army, whom "she later marries. Amy finds married life wearisome and refuses to follow Steels to Egypt.- Then she hears of his death and conceals the fact that she is his widow. . Chapter V. It seemed to Leslie some time since the paper had dropped from her hand. It was lying now at her feet. She dully wondered if she had fainted. She looked at the paper again. Yes It announced positively, not as rumor or an unconfirmed report, that her husband had been killed while heading a punitive raid on a Dervish camp. His body had not yet been recovered. She read this over and over

. again, once or twice aloud, In order to realize clearly that Victor was dead. Dead ! The word meant little to her. No one that she had known had died. A death was something like a battle or an earthquake to read of in the newspapers. "I shall never see him again never, never," she told herself. The only . person in all the world who loved her, the only, person she loved was dead. She would never see or hear from him again. No one else would know things would go on as usual nothing would seem to have gone wrong. No more letters would come from Egypt that was all. "I shall realize it clearly enough presently," she said to herself, and shivered. She was numbed now. The blow had stunned while it wounded, she shuddered at the prospect of a clearer perception of her loss. She clasped her hands to her brow. "I'm frozen, I think," she muttered. "I shall thaw presently, and then I shall go mad." A rustling sound arrested her attention. A letter fell through a slit In the door onto the doormat. She picked It up. It bore the familiar writing of her husband. The next moment her heart leaped. This was to tell her that the report was false, that he still lived. She tore the envelope open . frantically. A glance at the date crushed that wild

hope as soon as it was borne. Victor Steele had penned those lines four days bafcre the Dark Speerman had stayed his hand. He had written: "I want you tremendously. You will laugh, when I tell you that I love you more every day. I do straight. I've had the tip from headquarters that I'm down for a commission next Spring. I must give over writing to settle the affairs of a party of Dervishes who have been kicking up a row down here for a couple of weeks past. I hope to lay them by the heels this lime. It will be dull without them, though. Well, we shall meet again very soon now, dear. I can see myself waiting for you at Port Said." The letter broke the spell. She understood that her husband her lover was dead. She sank on her knees

beside the. couch and wept. The twilight deepened into night and the fire died down in the grate. But for hours after the beam of a street lamp penetrating into the room, showed the slight form of a girl, still dressed incongruously , in hat and coat, almost prostrate in' the agonies of grief. "Well, here I ; am again, you see." announced Miss Darley, with a very distinct note of regret for holidays enjoyed and ended. "Had a very good time, too. I wish you had been with me. Kiddie." She lifted a big hat off her elaborately , dressed hair, and laid it with loving care on the table. "That hat did immense execution," she remarked, with pardonable pride, "immense. Just come back from business, I suppose," she added, glancing carelessly at Leslie's out-door attire. "No," said Leslie, standing at the table and looked fixedly at the hat which had done so much execution.

"I'm not ill. I had very bad news from Egypt yesterday. Victor's dead kill

ed." She had got, so used to the fact by this time that she was able to state it without an effort or a tremor. "Victor? Your friend" "He was my husband." For a moment Miss Darley's sympathy was extinguished by surprise. Her eyes traveled over her friend's girlish face and figure. It was no mild shock to hear in one breath that she had been a wife and was now a widow. "And you have been to business today?" she asked incredulously. "Yes. What else was I to do? You were away. There was no one to stay with me. If I had remained here alono I should have gone off my head." Rose Darley threw her arms around her friend and drew her head down on to her shoulder. "Poor, poor, kiddle," she murmured. Her tears dropped on to Leslie's red curls. "Tell me all about it, if you think it won't hurt you." Leslie raised her bead and pointed to the newspapers scattered about the couch. "You can read the report there," she said. "There isn't much of it. They they haven't found his body yet." She seemed about to break down, but controlled her voice and went on. "They will presently when reinforcements arrive. The corporal and two others saw him speared." "You're sure it's true?" asked Miss Darley. N "Yes, I went over to the war office at lunch time. I felt it was true, but. I grasped at the faintest hope. His name is included in the official list of killed they have received from Cairo. There's no hope none." Rose Darley squeezed the younger girl's hand sympathetically. She was fond of Leslie though she had; at times, resented her reticence about herself and her reluctance to embrace obvious opportunities for "fun." Still, if she had been married all this time there, was some excuse for her circumspection. "Why didn't you tell me you were married before?" "I don't know. I may as well tell you he was only a sergeant." "Well, you don't seem to have a friend in the world but me." ,,, . .

- "Not one," said Leslie, wearily. "I ddn't know that it matters now that I have lost him," Miss Darley considered. "As you have kept the secret so long." she advised. "I should not let them know at the library that you had ever been married.. It could do no good and it might do you harm. They must have guessed by the look "of you today that something was wrong. You had better let me tell them that you have lost your fiance.' Then they won't bother you with questions." " Leslie agreed rather listlessly. For the next two or three weeks she. went about her duties dreamily and mechanically, followed by the pitying glances of ' her associates but untroubled by any overt expressions of sympathy. "It's not the least use talking to a girl about her dead fiance," remarked the manager to Miss Darley.- "When he's dead he's done with." That was precisely the thought in Miss Darley's mind, and her chief motive for: wishing Leslie to conceal her relationship with the dead man. It would not improve her friend's chances to be known to everybody as the widow of a soldier. But the manager's allusion to money matters reminded her of a possibility which she had forgotten. That evening she asked Leslie if she had beard anything about a I ension. "A pension ?'' The girl flushed, "Oh yes, I see what you mean. Yes, now you remind me, they did say something about it at the war office. I was to send in my marriage certificate. I hadn't thought about it till now." - "Well, I should see about it at once," counselled the older girl. "The library might go bust, and even a shilling or two a week might be useful. Have you got your marriage certificate handy?" After a protracted search Leslie discovered the certificate in the envelope in which it had been placed by the registrar and laid it before her friend. Miss Darley studied it with the interest which such documents always appear to arouse in middle-class English women. Her eyes traveled eagerly up and down the columns. Then she looked up. "How old are you?" she asked; sharply. "Twenty next birthday," replied Les

lie. "But your age here is given as twenty-one." Miss Darley placed an accusing finger on the entry. "Is it?" said Leslie, not much interested. Then with a sudden flash of recollection, "Oh, 1 know how that was. You see he couldn't have got the license if he had admitted, that I was under age. We should have had to get my aunt's consent, I suppose. Does it much matter?" Miss Darley leaned back, contem-

plated her friend and emitted a low

whistle. "I'm afraid it matters a great deal," she said solemnly. "If he made false statements, I'm sure that made the license void and the marriage, too."

"Do you mean to say that I was not

properly married to him?" she asked. 'That's about It, dear. You see, he had no right to marry you without your parents', or guardian's consent. I thought every girl knew that. And he

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made a deliberately false statement about your age." Leslie paled again, sat down, and elapsed - and unclapsed her hands, nervously. ' "Then, in the eyes of the law," she said, never suspecting that Rose Darley's view was inaccurate, "I wasn't

his wife at all." The older girl watched her . curiously. "I don't see that it matters much now," she said soothingly. "You believed you were married all right. No one could blame you. Nobody knows you ever lived with him. But I'm afraid it's no good trying for the pension. They would find this out. That's off." And she handed the certificate back to her friend. Leslie tried to define for her own guidance exactly what this surprise meant to her. She did not feel deeply moved. Once the suspicion presented Itself that Victor had known at the marriage as Invalid. Well, if he had, in the circumstances of their departure from Hastings, no other course had been open to him, and she knew well that no thought of repudiating her as his wife had ever occurred to him. - Her reflections always ended with a sigh. It did not matter at all now. More and more as she pondered over this discovery it appeared to her that she must sever the tie which had bound their lives together. No one, xcept Rose, suspected her of having been his wife; and it seemed after all, that she wasn't. Victor Steele was her sweetheart to be remembered only by herself. As the months wore on, she was obliged to admit with a pang of selfreproach that she did not think about him very often. She blamed herself unjustly. Except the photograph which Rose Darley was careful to push out of sight for as long as possible, and the packet of letters containing her wedding ring, hidden in a corner of her drawer, there was absolutely nothing to remind her of him. She knew no one who had ever seen him. The spots which were in any way associated with him lay far off her usual track. His regiment had been sent to another part of the country, and she never caught sight of the once familiar uniform. Victor had come into her life and gone out of it again in less than four months' time. At moments be seemed to her hardly more tangible than the

dream heroes of her childhood. The wound had healed. She brooded now much more over her future than her past. She won

dered what was to become of her. Was she always to be a library assistant? Her old restlessness returned. "It's a pitty you're such a prude," said Rose to her one afternoon as they sat in a fashionable tearoom in Bond street. "There's an awfully swaggerlooking man at the table behind you, staring at you for all he is worth. If you don't care to turn your head you can look at him over your shoulder In this." She passed a tiny pocket mirror

across the table, under cover of the music program. To Leslie it seemed that the unseen man's gaze was scorching her neck. She glanced with affected carelessness Into the glass. She knew him instantly for the hero of her adventure on Cromer Cliffs. She started, fascinated at the reflection. Suddenly she was aware that their eyes had met in the glass, and that he was smiling at her in frank recognition. To Be Continued.

TV0 BOYS ARRESTED FOR BREAKING PEACE

MILTON, Aug. 17. Paul Sharp and Robert Kinneman, accompanied by two girls, were riding through Milton Saturday evening, disturbing the- peace.

They claimed to be from Dublin, but the girls' names weer not learned. The

boys were arrested ? by the marshal.

Jesse Revelee, but the girls escaped in the buggy. After a hearing before Justice of the Peace W. H. Jefferies and Mr. Feemster of Cambridge City,

the bovs promised good behavior and

that they would return for trial if wanted. On this promise they were

allowed to take their way homeward

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