New-York tribune., 1900-10-07

ought to be capable of holding my own against
the lady, I really dol"
The wrong horse came in again. and again,
undeterred by i'll fortune, she drew a ticket from
the bowl
As she lifted her head she felt her husband
beside her give a galvanic start The next in
stant, following the direction of his gaze, she
knew the
Plain" she meditated; evidently fallen off!
enough to make him lose sight Of that, or if I
dare venture on an heroic course?''
My darling, don't you think we've played
this idiotic game long enough?" said Jack in
a strained voice Let US go into the terrace"
So he could not even trust himself in the
same room with her couldn't he? 1t was too
bad; really it was humiliating-
''You go. dearest" replied Mrs. Maxwell
sweetIy Il know you hate to be here and I
much too infatuated to leave off yet myself
Go and smoke your cigar in peace and the fresh
air, and come back for me when you've finished
il ! shall be perfectly safe, and l mean to
break the banki'"
Jack departed obedientIy and out of the tail
of her eye his wife watched the other woman
Now VIII she follow him or not?'' she asked
herself Net just yet, l suppOse-it you'd he
I too marked Patienza,"
1t was ten minutes later when Mrs. JernynE-
ham sauntered carelessly from her place 1T tr.e
. table out through the glass door. and Mrs. Max
well clasped her hands in her lap With sud1en
nervousness After all ii was an heroic course
Had she been rash and foohardy? There was
. moonlight outside, and the tapping of waves.
Fatal adJunCts to such a matter, n the noon
light, 100, the creatures appearance would te
/ softened and refined She had ma le mistake.
perhaps-she had placed him in a 1empsItiou she
would have avoided. Should she icln him les
cue him, while there still time 80 She
would not, she would star.i Ger chance. Moon
light or moonlight. she would risk it. .
Two francs more-and the devil take the hind
most
They came face to face-she had planned it so
and her Slight gesture Of surprise was perfect
/ Mr. MaXwell-yOu? Is it possible?"
How do you DO, Mrs. Jernyngham. =
/ He was going to say he was pleased to mee- her,
I did not know you were in Dieppe- Have
you been here long?'
Il have been here, with my wife about a
month he answered
with your wife? Really" She gave a faint
1 smile-a smile he remembered very we'll. SO
/ you married-am to congratulate YOU"
! Your husband is"
/ He's dead; so don't inquire about his health
You We're always making blunders Of that sort
She laughe7- I used to correct y0J in that
/ fashion long ago didn't I? You see, I haven't
/ changed Well, well, well, and so you're mar
/ ried? I told you you'd marry-you didn't he
Iieve me them"
of course I right Shant we sit down?
/ or won't your wife let you? I say are you
/ henpecked? You used To be the sort of boy
( who'd be henpecked. Perhaps you've improve
/ since those days
Perhaps have. There are two chairs"--
Thanks. Do you know this is very funny 10
me, 10 meet you il the capacity Of married
man? Do you remember how you used to vow
/ that never, never, never --- she DrOEe on ana
! burst into laughter again. And shall ! OWr
( something After you were gone-sOmetimes
! when I inclined TO be sentimental used
/. to half believe you
She leaned forward, and fixed her eyes on
him in just the manner he used to find ire
/ sistible Somehow il seemed less distracting
now. The eyes had not altered perhaps. but her
face was older. and that expression looked out
/ Of place on il. There was even sadness 20
him beholding the change that time had
wrought in her. The woman whose memory
had thrilled him gone He had thought
about her so much, and now she did not exist.
! It was pathetic, and-what was more painful
/ stiII-this wreck of Nora Jernyngham could not