Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-18


 the woman, who was drunk. The policeman advanced and touched her on the arm
 "Come, you be off," he said, 'you're drunk"
 At that moment MT. de la Molle ceased giving judgment o7 # "es
 1T ain't drunk" said the woman, loud enough to attract the attention of the whole court, which now, for the first time, ob- served her extraordinary attire, ''and I've right to be in the public court"
 Come on," said the policeman, ''the clerk says you're to go"
 "The clerk says so, does hea' she answered; land do you know who the clerk is? I'll tell you all, !" and she raised her voice to a scream; ''he's my husband, my lawful welded hus- band, and here's proof of it," and she took the folded certificate from her pocket and flung 1t so that it fell upon the desk of one of the magistrates.
 MT. Quest sunk into his chair and there was a silence of astonishnent through the court.
 The squire was the first to recover himself.
 Silence" he said, addressing her; ''silence. ''This cannot go on here"
 "But l want justice," she shrieked. "I want justice; 1 want Q warrant against that man for bigamy." Renewed sensation.) "He's left me to starve; me, his lawful wife Look here," and she tore open the pink satin tea gown, II haven't enough clothes on me: the bailiffs took all my clothes; have suf- fered his cruelty for years, and borne it, and can bear it no longer. Justice, your wor- ships; only ask for justice"
 "Be silent woman," said Mir. de la Molle. "f you have any criminal charge to bring against anybody, there is a proper way to make it. Be silent, or leave this court !" 1
 But she only screamed the more for justice, and loudly detailed fragments of her woes to the eagerly listening crowd.
 Then policemen were ordered to remove her, and there followed g most frightful scene. She shrieked and bit and fought in such fashion that it took four men to drag her to the door of the court, where she dropped exhausted against the wall in the corridor.
 "Well," said the observant George to him. self, "she has done the trick proper, and no mistake. Couldn't have been better. That's a master one, that is." Then he turned his attention to the stricken man before him. Mir. Quest was sitting in his chair his face ashen, his eyes wide open, and his hands placed flat on the table before him. When silence had been restored, he rose and turned to the bench, apparently with the intention of addressing the court. But he said noth- ing, either because he could not find words or because his courage failed him. There was moments intense silence, for every one in the crowded court was watching him. and the sense of it seemed to take what resolution he had left out of him. At any rate he left the table and hurried from the court In the passage he found the Tiger, who, surrounded by little crowd, and with her hat awry and her clothes half torn from her back, was huddled gasping against the wall. She saw him and began to speak; but he &~ 1>1S IYz4 4-oa L ing his teeth, and with such an awful fire of fury in his eyes that she shrunk from him in terror, lattening herself against the wall. "What did tell your' he said, in choked voice, and then passed on. A few paces down the passage he met one of his own clerks, . sharp fellow enough.
 "Here, Jones, he said, "you see that wo- man there. She has made @ charge against me. Watch her. See where she goes to, and find out what she is going to do. Then come and tell me at the office. If you lose sight of her you lose your place too. Do you under standg'
 ''Yes, sir,' said the astonished clerk, and MT. Quest was gone.
 He made his way direct to the office. It was closed, for he had told his clerks that he should not como back after court. and that they could go at half past 4 He had his key, however, and, entering, lighted the gas Then he went to his safe and sorted some papers, burning good number of them. Two large documents, however, he put by his side to read. One was his will, the other was in- dorsed: Statement of the circumstances con- nected with Edith" 't'.-- ---s --.
 First he looked through his will. It had been made some years ago, and was entirely in favor of his wife, or rather of his reputed wife, Belle.
 "It may as we'll stand," he said aloud. If anything happens to me she'll take about ten thousand under it, and that was what she brought me-" Taking pen he went through the document carefully. and wherever the name of Belle Quest" occurred he put a cross, and inserted these words: ssGennett, commonly known as Belle Quest"-Gennett being Belle's maiden name-and initialed the correction. Next he glanced at the state ment. It contained g full and fair account of his connection with the woman who had ruined his ufe II may as well leave it." he thought. "Some day 1t will show Belle that l was not quite so bad as I seemed es'T70z
 He replaced the statement in brief envel- ope, sealed and directed to Belle, and finally marked it: Mot to be opened till my death W. Quest" Then he put the envelope away in the safe and took up the will for the same purpose. Next it on the table lay the deeds cAoCueoo DJ EoWdIu SOSSoy, tue Honham mortgages to Mfr. Quest in con- sideratton of his abstaining from the com mencement of a suit for a divorce in which he proposed to join Edward Cossey as core spondent. "Ahl" he thought to himself, "that game is up. Belle is not my legal wife, therefore I cannot commence suit against her in which Cossey would figure as correspondent, and so the consideration fails. am sorry for that. for should have liked him to lose his thirty thousand pounds as we'll as his wife, but it can't be helped. It was game of bluff, and now that the blad- der has been pricked I haven't leg to stand on."
 Then, taking pen, he wrote on a sheet of paper which he inserted in the will-"Dear B.,-You must return the Honham mort gages to Mir. Edward Cossey. As you are not my legal wife, the consideration upon which he transferred them fails, and you cannot hold them in equity, nor suppose would you wish to do SOW. O."
 Having put all the papers away, he shut the safe at the moment that the clerk, whom he had deputed to watch the Tiger, knocked st the door and entered.
 ''WellT" said his master.
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