Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 259, 12 October 1915 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ANT SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, OCT. 12. 1915

Her Husband's Widow

CHAPTER XXXI. Leslie heard him In sulky silence. . after all, the man did not seem to be the author of the mischief, and he , ;Mild not Terr well have acted other ' wise. "Very 'well,"; she said ungraciously. "I am sorry if I have done Sir Ralph an injustice. It was not your rault," she said, for the first time addressing him directly, "that you were a witness to the insults offered me under my husband's roof." ' - Oswald . paled and stared " gloomily Into the empty grate. 8ir Ralph- bowed to Leslie. "Thank you." he said simply "I hope we shall be friends. I think I will leave you two to talk things oyer together." Leslie gave him her hand limply. Something made her look up. In the other's eyes each read a faint, puzzled effort to remember the unspoke question: Have we ever met before? The expression faded as they looked. The baronet, nodding to Varney, left the room quickly and shut the door behind him. . Oswald walked slowly across the room. Leslie turned her head toward him. "Well," she queried sharply, anger blazing in her eyes. ; "I hope you are satisfied. The scene was admirably planned -even if the denoument wasn't quite what you anticipated. To confront me with those men!" "Stop!" cried Os wand hoarsely. "Where are you going?" "Going? Out of your house, of course I shall never enter It again. I'm going back to Jimmy. Of course I'll write to you and let you know where we are. You have a right to know his whereabouts,though in your haste to put yourself right with the law you nearly divested yourself of all legal claim on him.". Oswald placed himself between her and the door. "Stay a moment, Leslie." he pleaded, miserably; "you can't go like this. I admit I have acted like a cad, but bang it all! this about you and that scoundrel came on me like a bombshell." "Then why did you not ask me about it privately and calmly Instead of exposing me to fhame before those two odious men? Sunposing I had no defense; supposing tbat the other woman had not come; in what position would you have placed me?" She covered her face with her hands. "Oh, it was infamous infamous ! " Varney thrust his hands in his pockets and looked hither and thither. "If you had only told me this from the start," he stammered; "only given me the taintest inkling" 8he Thought That the Wedding Was Void. She uncovered her face and looked at him. "I wish I had. But you never gave me much encouragement." She laughed bitterly. "How many times during our brief married life have you not given me tastes of your suspicious, jealous humor? I did not want to arouse the sleeping devil in you and to what end ? I believed that man was . dead till I saw him at Jerusalem" Oswald shot a glance at her of be

wildered Inquiry- But why . onarthr ; : ' She stamped her foot.-"Because I knew, , or miner thought, that- that wretched marriage was void. I didn't know then, of course," ? she went -on. breathlessly, "about this other woman, but that girl Rose Darling told me that It was void-because of false ; entry of my age in the. certificate. I believed that till the other day, when I consulted a lawyer here." : "Even so," he remonstrated, "it was an episode in your life that. I ought to have known." ' "Oh," she cried, with a gesture of despair and indignation. "There speaks the man! At the moment you asked me to marry you on the battlements at Reves you vowed that you could kill any 'man that I had ever so much as kissed. I was only nineteen; you a man of forty. If I had told you that 1 had been tricked into a mock marriage by a non-commissioned officer. I can imagine your incredulity, your disgust. Remember the eyes with which you looked on me till the moment you discovered I was Uncle James's niece! Oh, you men! You expect a woman's record to be like a sheet of clean white paper on which nothing has been written but your own name. Is it thus with vou? Why, -you have never pretended that I was the first or even the second woman you have loved." Varney hung his. head and frowned. "I never pretended, as you say. Still, I don't deny that I have handled this thing badly. These are situations that occur to a man once1 and once only in a lifetime. It would be strange if we didn't bungle them." He stood, his hands in his pockets.; biting his lips, very much like a schoolboy who admits that he has made a fool of himself. "I'm sorry," he said simply, "I love you" "Now the law says that you may!" she interrupted derisively. "It was because I -loved you," he said doggedly, "that I was furious at the thought of losing you. There was not only the legal side of the discovery it revealed the fact that you had been. and. possibly still were, in love with another man. As you remark, I'm a jealous man. Oh, hang it all, Leslie," he groaned, -"it's been a rotten time for me. Can't you forgive and forget." . She saw the appear in his eyes, and turned away her head. He seized her hand and she did not withdraw it. She was conscious of no love for him, but of an increasing tenderness. The years of wifehood had bound her to him with a thousand chains of common sympathies, common memories. She had been a little in love with him once; they had been such good friends; he had been kind and generous and Jimmy was his son. She could not bear to see htm suffer. The mother, if not the wife, in her was stirred. She placed her hand with a tender movement on his gray bead. "It's all right," she murmured, with a pitying, kindly smile. "It was my fault, I suppose. We care for each other too much to quarrel, don't we? Let us forget and

forgive. Perhaps, wel shall Jove each other all the better JtoctniaJl Xi'Now the man I loved .has proved, a. scoundrel," was: tier unsnoken' thought). "You do want me, don't you??, ; . He took her in his arms and kissed her tenderly; As gently she extricated herself from. his. embrace. ' ' " "But. you 'must' let me go back : to Jimmy, dear," she said.. "In a month or two all this will have been forgotten. , Just for a little while you must let me go then I will come back to you."- - ....,... ; He pleaded with her, but in .the end he let her have her way. She kissed him and left him. "'' '"t : The tenderness vanished from his face. His anger had taken a new direction. No longer jealous of Steele, he hated him for the wrong he had done to. Leslie. The soldier .was a blackhearted villian and cheat wbo deserved not to live. By vengeance on him, moreover, the angry husband hoped to atone for. the pain he had himself inflicted on Leslie. . Steele,, according to bis own admission, had committed an offense against the law;, but to the law Varney would not have dreamed of appealing even If its intervention had not inevitably brought shame upon his wife. No, he would settle this business in the oldfashioned -way, of which he had . had practical experience In the circles he had frequented in Paris and Vienna. Luckily, Steele was the last man on earth to shirk such an encounter on the silly pretext that it was theatrical. He had, Indeed, plainly intimated that he expected a settlement of that sort. Well, he should not be kept long waiting. With a grim smile Varney sat down at his bureau and dashed off two notes one to Steele to ask him to send a friend at once to Sir Ralph Gaveston to arrange the preliminaries, the other to Sir Ralph himself to hold himself In readiness for such a visit. These letters' he dispatched at once by his own servants. On the whole, he reflected, it was a good thing that Leslie was returning to Scotland on the morrow. He bade her. farewell at King's Cross. Never, it seemed to him, had she seemed more tender and affectionate. He went to his club in buoyant spirits. He found Sir Ralph awaiting him. "I've fixed up everything," announced the baronet with the complacency invariably exhibited by all but the principals in such matters. "His man a Captain- Rhedan, also .of the Egyptian service called on me before I was well out of bed, and we had everything settled in half an hour. Boulogne sands the quiet side between the Digue and Le Portel at seven o'clock tomorrow morning will that suit you? Devilish early, I admit. Pistols." To Be Continued.

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Deaths In Preble

' SUSAN POLHEMUS. EATON Funeral services were held

Tuesday afternoon at Gratia for' Susan

Polhemus, 68, wife of Tobias Polhemus, who died Saturday at their home near that Wage. - Death resulted from the effects of paralysis and kidney disease. Burial in the Gratis cemetery. Samuel Wysong of this city ia a brother of. the woman. - -

CURTIS PARKER. EATON Funeral . services for Cur

tis Parker, 63, who died Saturday ev

ening at 4 o'clock at hi home, two miles north of New Hope, were held Tuesday morning in the New Hope

U. B. church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Virgil Maynes, assisted by the Rev. " Ruth E. Hemphill of New

Paris. ' Burial in : Springlawn ceme

tery. New Paris.

Parke's death, which resulted from

the effect of heart disease,- was hast

ened by a runaway accident, experienced by him two weeks ago, near the

New Hope cemetery. Parker , was one of the county's well-known farmers.

He is survived by his widow, and one daughter. Mrs. Will Price, of New Hope. One brohter, Roy Parker, also resides near New Hope.

KITCHENER STAYS WELL

LONDON, Oct. 12 Two men who are bearing a large share of the British burden of the war seem to be standing the strain remarkably well. Premier Asquith's hair is whiter, but-otherwise, there is no outward change.- Lord Kitchener is getting round shouldered, but that is only a sign of a year's unceasing labor and anxiety. The stoop is due to a long course of office work without exercises. Lord Kitchener's labors are not to be measured by the hours. he spends at the war office. He' does two hours' work at home in the morning, . and when he returns, he .does., another three hours. Nevertheless, his physique remains as good as ever. He looks well and

cheerfal in . the -House of Lords and bis bearing --la -quite a 'tonic. Lord Kitchener'- makea "no-- pretensions to being an-" orator;' Indeed he ' seems rather -to pride himself upon the fact that he Isn't one. When other members furtively - produce a typewritten copy of their speeches and lay them as unobtrusively as possible on the table, he attempts no concealment. He feels in his coat pocket for the document and openly produces it. i Since the war started . fur traders cannot find a market for their 'furs. Anyone could have told them that when the price went down, . the fair sex would lose interest.

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