Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
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last, "have you no sort Of welcome for
me, your long lost husband, given up
for lost years since, your little more
than bridegroom Still silentf Have
you nothing to say9"
Fer lips moved, but no sound came
from between them.
"Still silentH No fond word of greet
ing2 Too much astonished, ehf You
made sure I was dead and gone, didn't
your But Edward Conway is not got
rid of so easily as thatl Don't you think
it'll Edward Conway has been under fol
o good long time, and Edward Conway
has got up again, and he has come back
again to his happy home and his loving
little wife that he left behind him"
"You shall never come back to mel
would never have lived with you again
You knew it'll"
"Oh, you re thinking still Of bit Of
a tiff What's that between husband
and wifeH Have you never titled with
this Johnny that you took up with as
soon as was gone"
"This lady is my wife, sir" put in
Alan Stacey, with dignity.
"Your what3"
"My wife, sirl Your turning up
again most inopportunely may annul
our marriage, but no slur will rest upon
this lady. There is nobody who knows
here that will not pity her, and pity
her doubly, first, for having been mar
ried to you at all; secondly, for having
been the victim of terrible chain OF
circumstances. This lady did not take
up with me. She married me with all
due formality and blessingof the church.
Until you have legal proof that our
marriage be no marriage she Is my
wife"
"She is coming back with me-" said
Edward Conway. shutting his teeth
hard and swapping the words out as If
his lips were rattraps
"She is never going with you. She
will never have anything to do with you
again-never. She would never have
lived with you again under any cir
cumstances. You took advantage Of
her. You bought her with price. You
i'll used her am ashamed to say 1t,
but you struck her-your little more
than bride And you can ask her when
she has tasted the sweets of real mar
riage, when she has known what it is to
live with man who would thrust his
hand into the fire rather than raise it
against a woman-you can ask her to go
back to the slavery and degradation Of
life with your Think. my good sir, is 1t
likelyP'
~ don't know whether it's likely"
said Edward Conway. 81 know what
the law is. and I mean to have it. "
II will never go back to him. neverr
Mary flashed out.
GAS for you, you jack dandy
Edward Conway went on, taking no no.
tice of her interruption, 81 didn't know
you this morning when I saw you stand
ing talking at the old mans door. I
asked you if you knew some people here
who were passing under the name OF
Stacey. and you asked me what the man
was like and what he did for living
I told you that he scribbled novels and
that did not know what his appear
ance was, and you told me that you had
never met him."
81 never did" said Stacey, with de-
liberate insolence.
"You told me that you did not know
anything about him, and You sent me-
you sent me-you sent me to Roathlynl
You told me that there was somebody
an artist or a scribbling chap or
somehody-who lived by his wits and
who had a pretty woman with him
staying at Roathlyn. You thought you
had got rid of me. ehf But you were
beaten for once in your life. You live
by your wits, do your EhP And other
people have wits, if they don't live by
'eml I went down the street, after we
parted at the door here, and asked an
odd grandfather, who looked a CHEEKY
old soul and likely to know the neigh
borhood-I asked him if be knew any
people of the name of Stacey. He put
me on the right track. Why, said he,
that's the gentleman who Is living at
the Powys Arms him I've heard tell
is writing a story book. So I came
back to find the gentleman who was
wriung a story book"
"Then," said Alan Stacey, his voice
very cutting and calm-"then, my good
sir, you can 60 back again. This is not
the place in which to settle a dispute OF
this kind. 1 presume you have law
yer. will give you the address OF
mine. No power on earth can force
this lady to live with you again. She
definitely refuses the honor. Everybody
in London knows where l live-or II
there be any that don't know they can
very easily find out. will give you
every information.
"You will give me my wife"
"That I never will. While l have
breath in my body I will stick to the
woman who took me in good faith for
better, for worse. And if know any
thing of my friends they will honor
her more for staying with me than they
would if she went back to what some
people would call her duty and you.
Lawyers" repeated Edward Con-
way contemptuously. 81 don't believe
in lawyers between man and wife. NOT
a bit of It'll 1t is all simple and fair and
aboveboard. I want nothing out of the
way, but what 1 want I mean to have
I married yon white faced hussy be-
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