The Dillon tribune., 1885-07-25
4 FAMILY AFFAIR
BY HUGH CONW AY,
author f"Cnltsd Back" and Ozark Days"
Chutfcy -A.\ Continued.


II do not quite understand" said Beatrice.
She would not understand.
''It's mere matter of form, my dear girl,
it can do no harm. It is only to swear you
are twenty-one I'm sure no one would doubt
it,
Beatrice covered her face with her hands,
and the tears tricklel through her fingers.
Hervey attempted to caress her. Sadly but
firmly she pushed his arm away.
II cannot do it," she said.
His brow grew black. Damn it! you
must:' he said.
She rose II will not" she said in accents
which told him she meant what she said. II
will do this much: l have some jewelry; it
shall be placed in your hands. The only
in such q way that same day l can get it
back Part Ct it was my mothers"
Hervey knew thnt her jewelry would not
help him. So he pressed her to make the
false declaration. First. he commanded,
secondly he reasoned, thirdly he besought in
an abject way. And with his groveling en-
treaties for money, every atom of love for
MIN went out Of the girls heart. Love may
survive ill-usage, faithlessness and wicked
ncss-meanness kills it. She turned and left
him before he could stop her.
She lid as she had promised. That even
ing Mrs. Miller brought him the packet OF
icwelry. There were some valuable articles
in it. as Sir Maingay, who had great faith
in his daughters discretion, and who per-
haps had feared that il not given at once,
they would never be given, had intrusted her
with some diamonds which had belonged to
her late mother. So it was that Hervey was
abls to raise some two hundred pounds ON
the trinkets. To his credit be it said that be
sent certain mysterious tickets to Beatrice
which, upon inquiry, she found would enable
her to redeem the things of which she had
deprived herself
Three days after this Sarah made a dis
covery, or rather completed her inquiry into
Hervey's real nature By pertinacity in
tracking and watching: by questions asked
in certain houses in a neighborhootl to which
she had followed him, she found the man
had for some space OF time, and was even
now, pursuing a low intrigue with girl
With flashing eyes Mrs Miller went to
Beatrice and told her this.
Beatrice heard her in silence. Then she
spoke coldly and gravely. Events were fast
making woman Of her. "Sarah," she
you will sea him. Bear in mind that il your
at once"
She took Sarah with her, told her to wait
in the street and then entered her husbands
room. She told him coldly and without ap.
parent emotion what she had learned. She
gave the name of street, and the number
Of house.
Hervey of course denied it. Beatrice then
said she would fetch his hbeler, who should
be properly dealt with. Hervey wavered
stammered, and then once for all dropped
the mask. He brutally told his young wife
to lot him manage his own affairs OF that sor
in his own way. So Beatrice knew tha
Sarah had spoken the truth. And with thi
knowledge the love for this man which hae
already been driven out was replaced by
feeling Of absolute hate and contempt
Once more and only once she saw him
a few days later he wrote, bade her come t,
him, and threatened in case Of refusal t.
come to her. She went. She scorned hin
too much to fear him.
He renewed his request that she would sig1
the false declaration Of age
II will not, she said.
''Win you telegraph to your father am
say you must have a thousand pounds-tel
him it means life or DEATH"
II will not; nor would he send it if did.
Hervey, who by now was getting to kno,
something Of his wife's character, felt tina
nothing would make her bend to his will
With an oath he raised his hand and struc
her. His true brutal nature leapt forth. H
cove:el her with reproaches; he reviled he1
he told her he had never cared for her, tol
her he had but married her to stave off ruiz
thinking the small sum he needed would b
easily raised upon her prospects. He vowe
to be revenged for her obstinacy He woal
mako her life hell. He would drag he
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