New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-10


ahead"
And it's so easy to break a woman
You shan't be broken" l promised CALAMITY.
Wen see this through together"
Eustace was my next visitor. He dumped
he grew restless and began to pace the room
I've seen her Hgain." he said.
The dev1 you haver'
Il can't get her out of my head. 1t amounts
to what those literary chaps call an obsession"
He was toying with delicate piece OF my
cherished Satsuma
to talk Have weed and look forward TWEEN
ty years."
That sobered HIM
II suppose must admit" he remarked,
that there is a good deal OF the beast left in
most OF US"
Yet you've rare wife In Margaret
I'm not brute enough to deny 1t. But that's
just the point She's thousand times too good
Tor i,e, me. l see the fact quite clearly
"A turn Of the head did It,"
Your head must be easily turned"
Don't / admit that2 Hang It all. weakness
SO learned from DR.. Kennedy's Principal ~
You don't help out a bit"
Il was thinking of Margaret"
Well" he said slowly, turning as suddenly
ashen, you'll have time to think more about
her I'm hard hit. It's the old infatuation
stronger than ever. There can only be one end
to it. And 1 want you to break it to Mar
garet.'"
tried to reason with the man But he tossed
morality to the winds.
He begged me to stand between Margaret and
a rough world. L warned him that L myself
was not a stone. and he only smiled
THE runaway game is played" 1 reminded
him. with ball that rebounds"
But, though he took my meaning. he left me
eve are off tomorrow night. We catch the
Dover boat. but we go southwark. You can
make up your mind to that, unless you hear to
The odd fish! But one can't reason with
creatures out OF their element
I was glad there was time to sleep over It.
In the morning, that l might be prepared for
emergencies, L bought two tickets for Paris.
Then sat down and awaited events. The day
wore on. but there was no sign that E,ustace
had changed his mind.
returned from my afternoon saunter to find
Margaret herself at my freside. She rose to
greet me.
How goes our romance?" asked
Don't Cousin Arthur I've done with ro-
nance"
"The scamp leaves town tonight"
She shuddered
And not alone"
oh Cousin Arthur; stop him. stop hint"
"On the contrary the best thing will be to
let him 60"
You amaze mer'
You might do worse than follow his exam
pie. Some injured wives would not hesitate"
She looked up bravely.
IF bid you leave London with me- you must
not hesitate"
How well she took it,
ut won't come to that you know" added
But act as though 1t might. Pack bag or
so. and dine with at Z o'clock"
IF thought
Thought is dangerous in crisis" / re-
joined, "and may be fatal to a game"
So far. so well. It was heavy risk. At any
moment during dinner / could have thrown dis
erection to the winds. but Margaret trusted me-
And here we were. without hitch, at Charing
Cross. Margaret was already ensconced I'm a
snug compartment, and friendly guard had
locked her in
1t was now time TO look for the runaways
You quite safe II / leave you" said l.
But she dared not trust herself to answer
Her bag had taken TO leave with a
porter that for the moment was quite un-
encountered when. I watched under thu