Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 222, 30 August 1915 — Page 9
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUK-TELEGRAM, IIQN0AY, AUGUST SO, 1915
PAGE NINE
Her Husband's Widow
' ' SYNOPSIS. Leslie Mors, a governess, goes to walk by the sea and It spoken to by a man she does not know. She 1 rescued from his attentions by Victor Steele, sergeant In the BrltUb army, whom the laUr marries. She finds married life wearieome and refuses to foUow Steele to Egypt. Then she bears of his death and conceals the fact that ehe is his widow. Four years later.
married to Oswald Varney and mother
a boy. she meets Steele face to face
la Jerusalem. He tells her to keep the
least secret, and her husband announces that Steele Is going to sail with them..
"Ah-ba!" cried Oswald, gleefully, "I thought I should run you to earth!" 1 nlavfnllv tannA Victor with bis
cane. "I'm glad you tumbled across
each other." - - He looked from his wife to his friend well pleased. For all her efforts Leslie flushed. "I was very glad to meet Captain Steele." she said. MI am afraid I was rather rude to him this morning, though he was kind enough not to notice it: I thought you had gone to Jericho. Oswald." 3 i "That's where a good many women wuh thau huihtnri eh. Steele?"
f IBII Mwa mmmmw r chuckled Mr. Varney. "You'll find that out one of these days."
Clearly he sawnotnmg in me ieai
strange or Suspicious in his wire s meeting with the Egyptian officer. It was Victor who found himself thrown on the defensive. r - "I saw the Pasha that isn't bis rlaht title, by the wayall right." He
- hastened to explain: "He heard what I had to say in silence, and. having re-.
marked that we were all in the nanas of Allah, and that the English were a valiant race and virtuous, he dismissed me with instructions to call again
later. So I came on here." added thef
soldier, simply. Oswald looked round carelessly. "I don't know why we came here." he
said. "I take my religion in a quiet stay-at home way don't care fpr shrines and pllgrimmages and that sort of thing. It was Leslie's idea, you
know. Didn't fancy Egypt. Wouldn't
o there on anv account. What do YOU
think of that, Steele?"
Leslie smiled nervously. She felt
that Victor's gaze had turned toward
her. "I think Mrs. Varney was right,' she heard him say. "I found the coun
try hotter than ever this year."
She broke in on the gossip, "I think
I will leave you two men together,
he said. "In talking to Captain Steele
I fcrgct my headache, but it seems to
oe-comluR on ogam. I win drive back to Jerusalem alone unless, of course,
you are ready to come now.".
Politeness compelled her to suggest
that alternative. Oswald looked doubtfully at Steele
."What do you say? I've been over the , church, t Suppose we drive you back
and you dine with us?"
"Yes, I hope you will dine with us, Captain Steele," - aid Leslie,, more
(.firmly .than warmly. . r- "I'm sorry, but I don't think I will. ) I had promised myself a long ride toward the Dead Sea, and at the finish I know I shall be no good at a dinner table. You must excuse me, Mrs. Varney. The fact is I'm quite unused to society have to prepare myself for it in fact." "Look here," said Varney. "I rode here. If you don't mind, I'll join you, and then we can dine together at your own hotel and yarn to our hearts' content afterward. Leslie will be glad to get rid of me for the evening, I dare . say." "Unspeakably," she retorted lightly. She watched Steele's face. For a moment, it was perceptible only to her, he hesitated; then he acquiesced in Varney's proposal with apparent cordiality. "Then good-bye for the present." said Leslie. She extended her hand. For the first time since that day at Waterloo Station it rested in her old sweetheart's. A quiver ran through her frame as she felt his long, slender fingers, as she touched his hard, brown flesh. His hand clasped hers tightly for a moment. In a flash she remem
bered that he had resolved never to see her again. This was his final good
bye. She went cold. Her fingers dropped from between his. limp and unre-
Back at her hotel she threw herself on a divan in a retired corner of the
lounge and clamored peevishly for tea.
n was pale, weak stuff which she would have refused with derision at
home, hut shep drank cup after cu greedily.
She lit a cigarette. She was calmer now. she was even conscious of a
measure of relief. She was profoundly
eaa, out tne sickening sense of im-
pending ruin was gone. Victor would not speak. She knew now that it was the fear of him which had writhed like a pale thin flame in and out of her brain that lr.orning. now at least sho
knew that, her fate lay In her own bands; and however heavy such "a responsibility may be, it is beter than
knowing that you arc at the mercy of
Little Janes was heir to Reves and
would remain so. He would neves know the heartburnings which a nomi
rally moral society had occasioned his mother in satisfaction of offences not
her own.
Legally she had never been the ser
geant's wife. So 6he reassured herself,
, Tnere mtgnt De. it occurred to ner, a
Amoral asnect also of the case. To con
4 tlder this she was not well fitted. The 4Vil&tnsHAn httwaen tha leiral and ttio
moral is seldom very clear to English people, especially to women, and Leslie's mind was imaginative and receitive rather than philosophical and critical. She had had no definite religious training, and had acquiesced vaguely, as most women do, in the standards .observed by the world around her. Marriage always meant strictly legal marriage, she supposed. 5 She asked herself if she would have married Oswald knowing that Victor was alive. She knew that she would not. She finished her cigarette, and ber thoughts strayed from the ethical side of the case. She bad been more deeply stirred than she had anticipated by ber encounter with Victor and her talk sMvith nlm. She turned over again in her memory, all the circumstances of their
first meeting at Hastings and their elopement to London. She smiled a little pityingly as she saw herself, a nursery governess, go
ing forth in cheap finery, to mistake a cavalry sergeant for a country magnate still it bad not been that alone sbe had loved him for himself well en
ough. She sighed and Upped her foot
a little Impatiently as pictures rose before her unbidden of their first kiss In the Genslng Gardens, of her giving
nerseu. to him on the pier-bead out amid the yellow, beavlnc waves. Sbe could . revive now within her
something of the eagerness with which
she used to listen for the ring of his spurs on their stairs at Chriswick, the rapture with which she had thrown herself into his arms. And then, so paradoxical is woman's nature, . Mrs. Varney found - herself sneering at her former self. "Odious little snob!" she muttered half aloud. The glamour about Oswald had worn thin as be had grown fatter. She was
very fond of him, but he ' hardly' ap
peared to her now in any romantic
light. She was quite sure sbe loved him. This was the real stable affection Of ber life she dismissed tbat earlier passion as a mere rirlish infatuation.
A softer light came into ner eyes as
sbe thought of her son. He, she well knew, was the great passion of ber
life. She smiled as she thought of his lonr. slow smile; she quivered as she
imagined the inquisitive touch of nis little lingers. And he was Oswald'!
son. ?.-. ,
Besides, what matter what Steele
thought of her? Sbe was sure be was
in love with some other woman. He
would rush to marry ber now. An offi
cer's widow, perhaps, who would look
down on him because be bad been a
ranker. She was sorry now tbat she
bad let blm know that their marrige
was invalid. She could imagine mm
that night reflecting with Satisfaction
that be at last was free.
The thought teased ber; Knotting
ber veil once more beneatn ner cnin. bTia wandered out into the city.- She
could not make up her mind whether to tell Oswald. Bitterly now did she re
pent having taken Rose oaney a aa
She was half way up the stairs on
her way to bed when Oswald, a little
flashed with wine and good company.
flung noisily into the vestibule. He called to her. "I've good news Sbe paused and looked down at him "Yes."
"Steele has got a telegram ordering him to London without delay. I pro
pose we go back by the same boat. We
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home when she , darns stockings and sews on buttons and makes aome particularly delicious dainty for Sunday There ia your modern woman fac ing the circumstances of modern life because she happened to be living in 1915 and not in 1865. She lives in ccordance with 'her times and makes the" best of them. " Her faults re the faults of today. Hurry and straggle and competition make her seem hard and unfeminine. Styles in women may- change as they like, but .woman's heart remains the same unselfish, loving, sweet and maternal. : LOOK AFTER CHICKENS
BEDFORD, Ind., Aug. SO. Four months ago Howard Fields brought a coop of young chicks . with him from Pensacola, Fla. At Louisville, while changing cars, Mr. Fields forgot the chicks. He asked the conductor to look : them up. Fields now has ' a bunch of young fries, the chickens having been sent by express from Chicago. They bad been cared for by railroad employes during the past four months. ' . .
QYPSIE BLUFF JUDGE. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. v SO. When Judge Deery demanded of Minnie Stevenson' anT Minnie John; two gaudily attired gypsies, whose business was fortune telling, that they explain why they violated the statutes of the
state of Indiana, both produced an alibi in the form of a -pink allp of paper, bearing the signatures of city officials and known aa a "permit." The permit coat the gypsies $25 and Judge Deery ordered them to return to court later and receive: farther orders: t :H - : 9-? 5" -' - T -.f
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Rev. Edmund Kayser, late pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Tolleston, Ind., who was killed by mysterious assassins. (Photo by the Borty Photo Co.) Below the home of the slain minister. The policeman is pointing at a paper on the ground, which marks the spot where the body was found.
can catch it if we leave the day after tomorrow. "I said that we should probably be in the boat. I fancy he thinks you have taken a dislike to him. Any way, we leave here the day after tomorrow to catch the same boat at Alexandria. That's settled." That tone, Leslie well know, was like the nod of Jove it meant an irrevocable decision. She shrugged her shoulders and bade him a curt good night. To Be Continued.
Masonic Calendar
Wednesday Webb Lodge, No. 24. F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in the Master Mason degree, commencing at 7 o'clock. . Refreshments. Thursday Wayne Council, No. 10, R. and S. M. Stated assembly. Saturday Loyal Chapter, N. 49, O. E. S. - Stated meeting.
ESTABLISHES "BLUE STOCKING." ROCKPORT, Ind., Aug. 30. Returning from the west where he has been engaged in the newspaper business for some .time, Sam Rud Cook haa started a new magazine called the 'Blue Stocking." He is also establishing a league in connection with the magazine, which he calls the Blue Blood Society of America. IMITATES WILD WEST.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 30. Among the charges contained in the suit for divorce filed by Mrs. Osa Brown, is an allegation that her husband, Reuben Brown, shot at her feet and made her dance for his amusement. They have been married four yaers and have been separated ten times, she declares. She also alleges that Brown is one of the laziest men in Sbelbyville, and that during the winter she was forced to work in order to support him.
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