Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06

cit is impossible! You must have
been mistaken"
Mistaken! | tell you heard the very
man who saw you hiding as you listened
while he was telling Lord Drummond of
my good fortune. Don't think he blamed
YOU" Forman added witheringly. He
praised YOU for your cleverness laughed
at me for being gulled. They spoke of
the we'll known fact that you had cared
for Stonor-that he had thrown you
over"
"Ah!" With a quick hoarse exclama-
ton Patricia sprang up and faced him.
."I-oh Justin, listen!"
Before the fire of concentrated wrath
blazing in his deep, angry eyes she shrank
back.
Thank you, have heard enough" he
began scornfully. Then, as she held out
her hands and cried dustin, let mel"
he caught one of her slendeE-arms- and
held it in vice-lke grasp as his voice
shook. How you have duped me-" he
exclaimed, with a bitter laugh. "while
you have been mosking melville the
world has been laughing at me-jeering
at my ignorance and foolishnessl To
think that while l was learning to look
y
in the world you were acting a part to
get the money that you knew was com
ing to me-that your love was Stonor's,
while you let me think you cared for me!
Taught"
He flung her arm from him with such
violence that Patricia staggered and only
saved herself from falling by clutching
at the mantelpiece. She gazed at him
l.. L..
so circumstantial; the truth, yet so per
verified as to be worse than any lie, that
she despaired of ever making him listen
to her side of the story, of teaching him
to understand anything of the overmas
tering temptation to which she had
yielded Yet, as she looked at him, ap-
parently taller in his wrath, asserting
himself in a fashion unprecedented in
her experience, a certain unwilling CLEAN
of admiration crept into her dark eyes.
Speak" he said once more. "You
loved Stonorf"
"Once-yesl 1t was before / met
you," she attempted to excuse herself.
81 think we will leave that out of the
question" he said contemptuously; "or
perhaps if we say before you heard of
my money it will be stating the matter
more correctly.
Patricia shivered little, but she made
no reply.
81 wish to Heaven had never heard
of the money" he broke out passionately
in the silence that followed its little
enough happiness it has brought me-"
Something in his tone touched Patri-
cha, and she laid her hand on his arm.
Il will try to do better in the flu
ture, Justin"
With shudder as though something
wholly abhorrent had touched him, he
shook her off.
"Acting again." he said roughly. do
you think that now | know it would be
possible for you to deceive me? MOI l
think" he said, moving towards the door,
chat everything has been said that need
be spoken between us, and | pray"-as
he almost thrust her out of the room
that / may never see your face again /"
She heard the door closed and locked
behind her with feeling of absolute be
wilderment. For moment she thought
of pleading for readmittanee, of insist
ing that he should at least hear her side
of the question, but pride prevailed. He
had refused to hear her, he had prayed
that he might never see her again, and
Patricia, though she looked upon this
last expression as merely an ebullition of
temper, felt distinctly aggrieved in her
turn. Doubtless she reflected, as she
babe her maid dress her as quickly as
possible. that by the time she returned
he would be heartily sorry for his hasty
words and be quite willing to accept her
view of the situation, that in her birth
and prestige he had at least fair equiv
alent for his wealth.
Lady Maughan's party was gay one.
Forman's absence was rather by the way
of an advantage than otherwise, but,
though Patricia was the life and soul of
the dinner table, and people said that
never had Mrs. Forman been lovelier or
more fascinating, she was conscious of a
feeling of uneasiness underlying all her
gaiety, and she put forth Forman's sup
posed indisposition as an excuse for early
departure
Her heart was beating quickly as she
threw off her wraps in the hall.
Your master in. Bennett?" she said,
turning to the study
The man hesitated.
mo, madam. He-I was to say that
there was a note"
"Here?" Patricia touched the door
handle.
"On the mantelpiece, madam"
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