Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-11-10
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| plain ALL
He read it with wondering %dcspair-
what did it mean? What could it mean?
She had gone. left him forever, and he
know why. She wrote as though he had
committed some great crime. and lie was
cogniZant of it-what could she mean:
Was she still displcascd that lie had new
or mentioned the fact of his visit TO
England? Even if ii were so, She would
not, surely, have left her home IN az
count of ii. 1t was monstrous to sup.
pose such Il thing. Had she read the
diary in his pockcthook:' He had found
it lying on his toilet table: Il strange
place. he thought. for her to leave il.
She had evidently opened it: he saw the
traces of that. 81 she must have read
what he had written. Then how could it
be she had gone:
II must not pretend to understand
womcn.'' hc said. but really | should
have thought she would have loved me
all the better for what she read there"
What was he to do? \ sense of hope
%lcssncss came over him. lilo might search
for hcr. hut where i'm this wide world
would he lind her: AS for. advertising.
or putin. the matter into other hands,
it was quite useless. he knew. Ii he
could hi find her with the certain in
stinct of his love. then he was quite sure
no II else would.
He was rnuttcrahly miserable. Three
days passed. and there was no word. no
sign of her. He had hcrn carefully
through the rooms. he had searched every
drawer. desk. cuphoarl; but there was
no letter. no paper. no tracc of any one
single thing which could give him Il clcw
tn her whereabouts or the mystery, and
he grew i'll with hopclrS>nc>s.
"Giadic." he cried one morning. "am |
I" live here until my hair grows white.
wearing my life AWAY. waiting for one
word from her? ! would rather die at
once"
"Go away for Il time" she said: lit is
living in this place, where everything TO-
minds you of her. that makes You so ill.,"
"Why should l go: | must find her. |
could not live in this torttirc-I must find
her"
"You will not find her by staying here.
q" to London. go To IariS-cvcrywhcrc
where you may think it probable she has
gone. Let me he always properly ac-
umaintctl with your address 81 that if
anything should happen | could send for
you at once. You can search for her
better yourself than amy one else could
do"
II have no idea" he said. where tn
look for her. My darling. She has 10
home. no refuge hut this. Where can
she have gone: There is no sorrow like
unto mine"
Go 10 Paris. Most people who run
AWAY from home to hide themselves go
to Paris"
"But Lcnorc did not 20 to hide her
self: She went because she had some
wrong. mistaken. foolish notion in her
head. and what that notion could be
cannot even imagine"
Glade knew. and She smiled to herself
, been better than ,hr success which at
tended every effort of hers.
So. in Il few days. he went. and going
charged her ii ono word came from Lee
more. or WAS heard from her. she WAS To
telegraph for him ut once. Not Il word
was said in the house. hut the general inn
preston was that Sir Cyril had gone to
join Lady Vernon.
Then WAS Glade happy. She had driv-
on one from home to drag out her life in
torture: the Other was wrotclicd as cvei
she could desire.
"A beautiful vengeance" She said To
hcrsclf-.a delightful %vengcancc: yc1
they do not suffer as | did on that sunn
mcr morning when Sir Cyril laughed al
me, and left me to my misery"