San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26

claimed. with boastfuI laugh. "Ana
1t was devilish bit of revenge, and ON
my soul was sorry for the poor girl
You know, Miss LEICESTER, l am not
cast in the mold of common men. can
be as stanch and true and good as the
rarest Of men, but can also be just as
rough and hard-aye, and as merciless.
Man that is born of woman is born
sometimes with all woman's qualities.
My mother was a tigress Let me
smoke. 1t is long since / was in the
confessional box, and need tobacco to
make the words come glibly."
he spoke with easy, fluent impu-
dence, infinitely disgusting to Beryl, but
chosen by him designedly to throw back
the girls pity on Lola. painting himself
Intentionally in the blacklist colors
II married Lola Crawshay," he re-
sumed after lighting fresh cigarette.
from no silly, sentimental notions, but
because had a hold over her ON ac-
count of trip Of her long headed but
somewhat irresponsible old father. To
do the girl Justice, she never did any
thing but hate me, but she was exceed
ingly useful, and-well, she was afraid
to carry her hatred Of me too far be-
cause ! had knack Of using with ex-
oellent effect my knowledge Of her ia
theirs mistake. You understand"
He leered at her with repulsive assur-
ance as he paused to take couple of
whiffs Of the cigarette, which he did
with great apparent enjoyment
"You will make this as short as pos
sible il you please, said Beryl, begin
ming to take the impression of the case
which he intended.
Certainly. Well. will pass over
our matrimonial life and hurry on to
the end. There came the day when we
had the scene on the DEVILS rock. 1
colored the incident little in my tell
ing it last night, and the little episode
Of the stamping on my fingers was an
effort Of my own invention" He did
not wish Beryl to think that Lola had
done anything of the kind. "ln the
plain and uncolored version had moth
ing but my own clumsy stupidity to
blame for the whole affair. had said
things which did not please her lady
ship-a man cannot always guard his
tongue, you know, Miss Leycester,
even to his wife-and when she retort-
ed I tried force, and then when she re-
sented it I started back, and, like q
fool. fell over the edge of the cliff. How
I was saved from instant death can
not even guess, but didn't die, as you
can see for yourself, and when found
myself alive had wit enough to hide
the fact Of my escape. seeing that in
course of time / could probably make
excellent use of it should she ever again
marry. WASN'T altogether bad judge,
as you will now admit Was ~"
''Have you anything else to tell me2''
asked Beryl, with angry contempt.
Anything else?" And he laughed
lightly and rolled the cigarette between
his fingers and looked at it as he re-
peated the words with the air Of one
who repeats good joke. Anything
else? should think SO. Why, l could
fill up any number Of your spare hours
with the tale of any number of good
things, but let me stick to this one
while am about it. I didn't get Off
sec. free, Of course I sprained and
bruised and strained and crushed my
self in goodly number Of places, and
as soon as I could do 30 without that
devoted wife Of mine knowing anything
about 1t laid up and passed month
or two dismally in bed, maturing my
plans, but when I got about again my
lady had flown, and, what was worse.
her father was as dead as the tombstone
they put over him in Neufchatel ceme-
terry. Well, let her go let her feel
her freedom. / am kind and gentle as
the morning when no one gets in my
way. I let her go. knew I could find
her, and being always an honest and
industrious soul ! set to work whereby
to live, but in a year began to pine.
to droop, to fail, and set out ON my
travels in search of her who had desert
ed me. In the course Of time tracked
her to England, and-well, you know
the rest.
He stopped and waved his hand as
though he had finished.
$50 Onto the end" said Beryl.
"The end Ma fol, the end is not yeti