Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21

| to see you looking 80 u u ;h like youreelf,
Mrs. Peeps. WHAT have 20 say is no
| news to him, as be will testify, Mrs.
Phelps. We talked the matter ever, pro
and coz, exclusively, as one may ssy,
he night he wss leken Ill, and agreed to
refer i. to you"
81 must insist Mrs. Phelps had not
resumed her seat, although her visitor
had settled herself at ease in louegins
chair. Il must insist" advancing as
sha spoke-"thatyou gay what you wisn to
me in the next room. MS husband is ex-
tremely weak"
a low lsugh Iipp,ed through tie room !;
Isahel looked up, Inc brown, velvet eyes
rsdlenilY eaucy. she did not Offer to
stir.
"He slways wss, my d4ar! bag your
paydoI!" still Laughing "out your uuex
pecsef confession is go casrmingiy
raiv,? Il Gears the way-breahs tae
ground fer ne-aoes away with the need
Ct preamble and sill that you know. Ia
deco, my sweet friend, /. is not worth
while for me to 60 TO the tronble e OK
charging this deligh fal chair for another
when nave SO short C tine to sssy. And
have no secrets with wife from hus-
bsnt, nor vice versa, IS he can tell sou
Il Is my for!e-one OF them
to be business Ike. HAYS the
goodness, please, TO glance over
this document, which 1 sm willing 'to
take my A fred David as R,gue RIDER
hood, or Mrs. Malsprop Fl:caett would
gay, Is tests copy CT Che received By
Miss Marion B.ysrd from Mr. r chard
Plslps the evening before che left home
z hor ~
smsller paper, sis COPY OF her reply
to the same "
In the speeches. anguish Of this, the
supreme moment Of his life, Richards
gtz, Iessed only On his wife. Al has
other senses were merged in that one
long, passionate farewell. He hal 1.d
lis last love-look, bis last smile-per-
haps the last sentence he would
ever hear from her whom he hsd wror ged,
deceived, Outrsge6-yet beside when al
other women were at this instslt az paper
puppets In his eight. From the horrible
hearsswoon he felt stealing ever him. he
prayed tha: he might never reviTe-.hst
he might die, then snd there, with Der
last kiss ye. wsrm upon his lips.
AL this he fslt, not thought, IN ere
ligh ming fash Of conscious misery, be.
fore he saw tn composed features
change. A scorrtul smile soread from
the eyes downward to the firm mouth;
her voice, clear and cold,' told Of exhaust
less reserves Of will power.
~ am willing to believe that you do
not understand what you ask Of me, Mira.
Lupson. II is true, that So ny friends
execuTix, ard SO appointed o7 :he will
found in her de sk, dated 8 year before htr
death, I h6vs right to examine her papers.
But decline to read what purports 10
be copies Of such, Wlthcus irqairing fur
Their into the circumstances tnat placed
them In your hsnde. How Gid you come
by these, and how iong have you keps
them TO yourself? ?"
The jatrigusnte ssd expected fight. srd
was not aossaed. Her bridges were
burned behind her, the river crossed.
S1s had nothing TO lose.
"I took the origils! OF this from the
pocket Of Marion BaYs7d's bsIf-ourned
gown. OF this-feom the ws.te paper
b.sket into which Nj. Phelps had
crammed II, after tearing i. into small
piecesn
"Rh;la tie writer lay dead In the
hoass. sappose?"
1T tn net ashamed to own It."
~ hardly expected that you would
bel" fhe scorsful lfgh. WAS imperial
roW. TIE grsDdly poised head, the d.
lated rosiriis, the curves OF mouth aud
hroWs we're the mein OF disdaipfui |
goddess. "Kaow:ng, IS 10, the q1iok
ness of your percep IONS, had light, |
however, TO expec: that you |
should know me better than |
to imagine that, In the examina-
ton Of an AFFAIR so serious Is you imply