Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-16

49, SYNOPSIS OF PREsCEDkNG CHAf-
TIERS.
j n CHAPTER lin the studio of Karl
Mailer, young painter. Olga Hoff-
mann, for six years the wife of Banker
Herman Hoffman,, feels stirring again
!. her girlish love for Karl. At her hus-
bands request Karl is to paint her por
trait. Suddenly. rising from an arm
chair, mysterious, repellent, yet fas-
cinating stranger appears before Olga.
He seems to her the incarnation of evil.
and she fees.
q CHAPTER II.-Karl seems to have
outgrown his boysh passion for Olga.
After tie sitting for the portrait, on
the same evening, Karl is to meet at
Olga's reception a young girl. Elsa.
whom Olga has in mind as bride for
II CHAPTER III-Karl is oppressed by
: the feeling that an unseen presence oc-
cupies his armchair. His model, Mimi,
TO whom he has made love lightly and
who loves him, reproaches him for neg
lecting her IN view of his approaching
engagement
CHAPTER IV.-Left i'm the studio
with Karl for the sitting, Olga tells
the artist she has fought for six years
against going there. She is overwhelm-
ed with sense of terror.
CHAPTER V.-Despite the earnest
EFFORTS of Olga and Karl the past rises.
As she takes off her waist in the dress
ing room preparatory to donning a
shawl in which to sit. the mysterious
stranger appears.
CHAPTER VI-The stranger calls
himself DIR. Millar. He recalls to Karl
meeting. at Monte Carlo. where his
gofd enabled the artist to win. He
seems to bring to the surface of the
young woman and the artist their un-
lawful passion. Olga, dismayed. rushes
into the outer studio.
III. CHAPTER VII.--Under the cynical
Conservation of Millar the wife and the
artist feel themselves compromised by
their presence together in the studio.
although they are innocent. Olga is
fascinated by Millar and invites him. de-
spite her intuitive fear of him. to her
reception. ,,After warning Karl against
marriage. he joins Karrs hand and OIL
gas. declaring they would make a
splendid couple.
CHAPTER yIII-Incited by the sub
tie urging of Millar, the devil incarnate
Olga and Kari, forgetful of her hus-
band. cling to each other. AS their lips
meet there comes ring at the door
Dell. 1t is Herman, returning Off his
CHAPTER IX.-The devil inspires
sfrrman with suspicion concerning the
hour spent in the studio, during which
no work was done on the portrait. Mil
lar interests Herman by his knowledge
of business affairs, and at Hermans
behest Olga again invites the devil to
her ball despite her own wishes. Olga
and Herman leave the studio, Karl re-
manning with Mimi: Olga becomes jeai-
Gus of Mimi, and Millar promises to in
ferrupt the models chat with Karl.
~ CHAPTER X-Inflamed by the devil
5 with renewed love for Olga, Karl tries
y in vain to shoot him with his own pis-
toll. The tells him he will himself make
love to Olga in her own home that same
night at the ball.
CHAPTER XI.-Freed from the infiu-
ence of Millar, Olga is again the duti-
ful wife, bit in his presence at the ball
she is infatuated by him. She presents
CHAPTER XII.-The devil seemingly
meets his match in Elsa, a charming.
innocent girl. who declares to him she
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in spite of her knowledge of the fact
that he loves someone else. Her best
weapon in the fight for love, the devil
CHAPTER XIII.-karl forces himself
to make love to Elsa, and the devil
,thereupon makes Elsa and Olga Jealous
made a wager with. Karl that she will
fall in love with him tonight.
CHAPTER XIV.-Millar declares to
z Olga he will make Karl say whether
his attempt to kill the devil betokened
NIoye for olga or whether he loves Elsa
olga ~ to aid him in his plans by
ed, as though nothing Were beneath
She consents and goes to don the cloak
Millar then asserts to Karl, who re-
solves to end his hopeless love affair
with Olga by wedding Elsa, that Olga
has fallen in love with the devil anC
will promenade the ballroom with hin
clad only in the opera cloak and shoes
you lier' shouts the artist and threat
ems Millar with bodily injury unit
Olga ap p,9s4 in the cloak cloak .u.,.. a.,
devil by actually Offering to fall il
with his plan. He is nonplussed for {
time by her daring, thinking she |.
really undressed under the cloak. WilC
with rage and jealousy. Karl orders he
TO take off the cloak. She refuses. anc
the devil prevents Karl from tearing
off the garment. Herman appears, ant
for him Olga doffs the cloak. appearing
from underneath fully clothed.
CHAPER XVI-At the devils dicta
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TO Karl n fervent letter of farewell
He is TO deliver it to the artist