The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-26


I've COME she began, Without
seating herself, TO make y5a as un'
! happy, fear, as | am I've hesitated
long before coming Bat | am desper
ate The one hope / have left is that
you and | between MS may be able
to-to-that you and | may be able TO
help each other"
| waited.
Il suppose there are people, she
went on, "who have never known what
it was to-really TO care for some one
else They would despise me for
| clinging to man after he has shown
me that-that his love has ceased"
Pardon me, Mrs. Langdon," In
terrupted. You apparently think
your husband and are intimate
friends. Before you go any, further.
| must disabuse you of that idea"
She looked at me in open astonish-
ment. "You do not know why my.
husband has left me?"
Until few minutes ago, did not
know that he had left YOU" said.
| And | do not wish to know why
Her expression of establishment
changed to mockery. oh" she
| sneered. Your wife has fooled you
into thinking 1t a one-sided affair.
Well | tell you, she is as much to
blame as he--more. For he did love
me when he married me; did love me
until she got him under her spell
again"
| thought understood. You have
been misled, Mrs. Langdon,' said /
gently, plying her as the victim of
her insane jealousy. You have
Ask your wife," she interrupted
angrily. Hereafter, you can't pre-
tend ignorance. For III at least be
revenged. She failed utterly to trap
him into marriage when she was a
poor girl, and -"
Before you go any further" said
| coldly, let me set you right My
wife was at one time engaged to your
husbands brother, but"
"Tom?' she interrupted. And her
laugh made me bite my lip. $50 she
told you that! / don't see how she
dared. Why, everybody knows that
she and Mowbray were engaged, and
that he broke it off to marry me-"
All in an instant everything that
had been confused in my affairs al
home and down town became clear
l understood why had been pursued
relentlessly in Wall street; why | had
been unable to make the least i'm
preston on the barriers between
Anita and myself. You will imagine
that some terrible emotion at once
dominated me. But this is not &
romance; only the veracious chroni
Gle of certain husman beings. M,
first emotion was-relief that it was
not Tom Langdoa Il ought to have
known she couldn't care for him.
said I to myself. |, contending will
Tom Langdon for a woman's love hat
always made me shrink. But Now
bray-that was vastly different M,
NO" said to Mrs. Langdon, IN.
wife did not tell me, never spoke of 1t
What said to you was purely CUES.
of my own. / had no interest in tn,
matter-and haven't. have absolut,
confidence In my wife. feel ashamed
that you have provoked me into say
ing So" | opened the door.
II am not going yet" said she an
grily. Yesterday! morning Mowbra,
and she were riding together in tn,
Riverside drive Ask her groom"
What of it?" said /. Then, as sh
did not rise, rang the bell. Whel
the servant came, said Pleas
tell Mrs. Blackjack that Mrs. Langdo
is in the library-and that I am here
and gave you the message"
AS soon as the servant was gone
she said ""No doubt she'll lie to you
These women that steal other won
ems property are usually clever a
fooling their own silly husbands"
81 do not intend to ask her." I re
| piled. "To ask her would be an In
suit.
She made no comment beyond
scornful toss of the head. We bot
had our gaze fixed upon the doc
through which Anita would enter
When she finally did appear, |, afte
one glance at her, turned-it mus
have been triumphantly--upon he
accuser. | had not doubted, bu
Y where is the faith that is not tn
e stronger for confirmation? And cor
e firmation there was in the very al
q mosphere round that stately, still
II figure. She looked calmly, first a
II Mrs. Langdon. then at me.
a 81 sent for YOU" said l, because
thought that you, rather than l. shoul
t request Mrs .Langdon to leave you
d house"
At that Mrs. Langdon was on ne
J. feet. and blazing. Fool" she flare
at me. "Oh, the fools women make @
II men!" Then to Anita: "You-yo
r - But no. must not permit 20
"a tn draO mo down RI vOur laval rral