he was behind those grim gray walls � and declaring her determination to see him soon the next day he wrote her a letter in reply which he gave to to mail it ran dear petty � i fancy you are a little to think i cannot be with you any more soon but you mustn t be i suppose you read all about the sentence in the paper i came out here yesterday morning � nearly noon if i had time dearest i d write you a long letter describing the situation so as to ease your mind but i haven t it s against the rules and i am really doing this secretly i m here though safe enough and wish i were out of course sweetest you must be careful how you try to see me you can t do me much service outside of cheering me up and you may do yourself great harm sometimes now i think i have done you much more harm than i can ever make up to you for i am to be in the court of special sixth and chestnut on friday at two o clock but you cannot see me there i ll be out in charge of my counsel you must be careful perhaps you ll think better and not come here the this last touch was one of pure gloom the first had ever introduced into their relationship for he had never been in a position where a gloomy thought could intrude itself in regard to her hitherto he had been in the position of the superior being the one who was being sought � although was and had been well worth seeking � and he had thought that he might escape and so grow in dignity and power until she might not possibly be worthy of him any longer he had had that thought but here in it was a different matter s position reduced in value as it was by her long ardent relationship with him was now nevertheless superior to his � apparently so she ought not to become a s bride she ought not to want to and she might not want to for all he knew she might change her mind she ought not to wait for him her life was not yet ruined the public did not know so he thought � not generally anyhow � that she had been his mistress she might marry did he not owe it to her to a sense of fair play in himself to ask her to give him up or at least think over the wisdom of doing so he did her the justice to believe that she would not want to give him up and in his position however it might be to her it was an advantage a connecting link with the finest period of his past life to have her continue to love him he could not however this note in his cell in s presence and giving it to him to mail was kindly keeping a respectful distance though he was supposed to be present refrain from adding at the last moment this little touch of doubt which when she read it struck to the heart she read it as gloom on his part � great depression the was really breaking his spirit then and he had held up so so long she was madly eager to get to him to console him even though it was difficult perilous her father s possible future discoveries in with her did not interest the her he had done his worst since the day she had seen frank she had turned on her father once for all she could not love him any more � she knew that frank was superior the life he had offered her was better than her home life and he need not have gone to the she reasoned if it had not been for old butler that might be good wrath but it certainly was not kindness religion her father could go to the de il now she did not love him any more there was an end of it in spite of s and her feeling that die might be exposed publicly by the reckless desire which still drew her to him she realized in the back of her feverish brain that nothing but marriage with him would save her now her future position whatever it was to be depended on him she was too old too enlightened by him to care for any one but him he must save her in regard to visits from the various members of his family � liis mother and father his brother his wife and his sister � made it plain to them on one of the days on which he was out attending a hearing that even pro it could be arranged he did not think they should come oftener than once in three months he t them or sent word by he expected to be coming out from time to time yet on court orders he really did not care to see much of any of them at present he was sick of the whole social scheme of things he wanted to be rid of the turmoil he had been in seeing it had proved so useless he had used nearly fifteen thousand dollars thus far in defending court costs family maintenance etc but he did not mind that he expected to make some little money working through his family were not utterly without funds sufficient to live in a small way he had advised them to take very commonplace houses which they did � his mother and father and brothers and sister moving to a three story brick of about the of the the old street house and his wife to a smaller less expensive two story one on north twenty first street near the not 