to love you and your repeated your will be forgiven only when the law has separated you from him and made you mine forever the hands of mrs gray were clasped over her face and her form rocked to and fro in pain whatever you may have had of love for me she answered i never felt the least affection in return in spite of my conduct in those days when you threw your evil personality around me i never cared for you no never i used to leave your side in the bitterest for my sins i returned to you as the bird goes to the of the snake it knows not how to resist even when giving all that is supposed to go with the deepest love i hated you with my whole mind more than once with lips pressed to yours i have wished that a knife lay near that i might plunge it into your breast and when i remember the suffering you made me endure the misery i brought to the best of fathers the lies i told to the kindest of mothers the shame i became to the most honorable of husbands i wonder i do not find some weapon to kill you now instead of for the mercy it is not in your iron heart to grant the man under the lash but he had no idea of giving up he renewed liis arguments confident that in the end she would have to to his wishes you know what i can do if you drive me to it he said slowly i can send your husband proofs in peril that you have met me here repeatedly and been with me for hours together i but he knows it already she interrupted a shiver what do you mean he asked glancing toward the door in alarm i mean that he accused me of it to day and that i had not the courage to deny the charge yes she added as she saw the effect her words produced he knows it now all about and everything he knows we have had secret meetings and he told me she uttered a gasp that because of this he would never see or speak to me again he left the house hours ago and he has not returned this was indeed unexpected news quick thoughts passed through the brain of the listener what was mr gray doing at the present moment more than likely searching the city to find him and if so with no intentions however inquiry at the hotel office would not reveal the correct name of the of his rooms for a had always been used there all the stronger reasons now prevailed for securing and making the possible flight to europe if your husband has said this he told her you can never hope to regain his affection a gulf is now established between you well in exchange for his coldness i offer the warmest love his home will be closed to you mine will be open you shall bring both your children he went on eagerly i will give them the care of a father without distinction my dearest i do not wish to threaten you i have only tried to use the means to love gone bring you to my way of thinking if there is any other that you wish me to make you have but to ask and you will see how willingly i will grant it only i must have you i cannot live without you she thought of the home that was ruined and her heart sank had cast her off the fortune he had thought to gain by his marriage had vanished if she could bring it back to him perhaps perhaps he would forgive her it would be so easy for you to help me out of my troubles she stammered you say you possess proofs that mr has no right to the property that mr willed you admit that you have nothing personally to gain or lose in the transaction why oh why will you not give those proofs to me and let me take them to my husband with that simple act you would make me the happiest woman on earth and do much to blot from your soul the terrible record of sin that so it you will do it i know you will she cried sinking on the carpet at his feet you have only been trying me he put his hands on her head and the touch seemed to rather than melt him he took you once for money and you think he would do so again he answered bitterly perhaps he would i do not think his estimate of you is much higher than that but i assure you i shall not help him this time no i have the secret that can make him rich and mine it remains unless you give your own sweet self in exchange in this envelope is absolute evidence that the estate is his in swear to go with me to europe and to marry me as soon as a divorce from him can be obtained and i will give you that if you think you owe him anything more than he has already had your debt will be richly paid with these papers all you have to do is to send him this envelope by a messenger with a note saying you will not see him again the children are easily and i will that on saturday we and they will be on the ocean if you decline you have simply lost him and he has lost his property i will make no other terms the woman s eyes began to with strange fires she seemed to realize her helplessness in the presence of this strong force let me see she murmured is to have two hundred thousand dollars in exchange for 