Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-18
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CHAPTER Ir-Continued.
| She laughed gayly. Il have been every
where seeing everything, and buying,
buying, buying, until don't know what
| haven't spent I have been playing my
part Don't I look ito
| He was puzzled. Paying your part? -
| he asked.
LAS millionairess-wha else? How
you Londoners worship money. Talk of
| New York-why, even Chicago is way
back in that respect And she ratified on
with an account of her doings in London,
largely imaginary.
| "Do you think you would care to live
in London" he asked after a time, to
bring the talk back to the object of his
visit
/ my. 1t would be just good. No Won
der YOU folks are proud of it,
| He took out her letter and looked mean
insly from it to her. She smiled and
dropped her eyes.
| He moved nearer Ia her. And so your
name is Sadie:'' he said, lowering his
| tone.
"Have you anything to say against it
| except that there are many thousands of
| Sadies in the StateS? This with CO.
| quettish smile.
| II think it's lovable name-especially
when signed to such letter as this
Mr.. Dorrison.
! You remember the last night on the
| Aroma. Sadie?
A glance as of reproach at even a hint
of possible forgetfulness answered him.
He touched her hand, and she did not
withdraw it. He was more excited at the
| thought OF the prize he had won than
he had ever been in his life. And you
! will marry again. She nodded in as
sent You will give yourself to me?'
'If YOU really care for me- Just a
| whisper. this.
Dearest, with all my heart he said
earnestly, and would have drawn her to
| him but she put his arm away gently.
| Are you sure you love me-for my
! seif?''
| ION my honor. You are more to me
than all else in the world, l swear, he
j cried, his voice vibrating as with pas
| sion.
She drew back and with a shudder
clasped her hands to her face. and sat
down A long pause fell between them.
Sadie you don't doubt me?"
| With deep sigh she took her hands
from her face and let her large dark eyes
rest upon him.
Dearest he whispered.
| Il have been wicked. How can l doubt
you? Yet 1 ought not to have done 1t. "
Done what? Not that l care You
could do nothing that would shake my
love for you
| Wait wait: have mised you. l told
you / had been playing my part. l have.
| 1 sent for you that you should know.
1 ought to have told you first. / had
| a craving for the adulation which is paid
| to rich women, and-it is all ended. Read
this All the money l had at the bank
was $1,000 thousand pounds. 1t is
| gone. See how they write. Oh, the
| tears it has cost me-"
| She. took from her bosom letter creas-
ed with constant thumbing and stained
as if with the tears she had shed on it.
He read it and turned cold with con-
t rrnation.
# the sum of f1,00o placed to your
It by the First National Bank of
.. York balance of f3 2s. I'D. remains
20 your credit. We have today had to
return cheque for EGO. We cannot of
course allow you to overdraw your &C
count and await your instructions"
Ife read it twice before he could trust
| himself to speak do you mean
he began when she interrupted him with
a laugh.
Il mean that I have had a good time.
I was determined on that. l have lived
just like a milionairess. and have heaps
of debts. l have bought everything
| took fancy to-
"You have spent thousand pounds in
a fortnight!'' he broke in. The only
thousand pounds you had?'
II knew you would come to me, Gilbert
| You are not angry. you SAID nOlIllns
| could shake your love"
| He was already congratulating himself
upon his escape; and his pale face was
set and resolved as he folded up the let
ter very precisely. and returned it.
! 1T Is not for me to be angry he
answered What can ] do for you?
You have asked me to marry you"
MY dear Mrs. Porlock. 1 am not rich
enough to marry any one who can spend
| that sum of money in fortnight"
But you asked me-, she insisted, en-
| joying his confusion.
He got up and paced the room. why.
then this Carlton business is all a decep-
ton She nodded. Your dress, your
Jewels. your signs of wealth.
Don't they become me? Don't ] look
! he part?"
"You-you are an adventures. These
d, BITS you have incurred without means
to pay them. They may involve you in
trouble-in great trouble-even with the
police
Can they?" she asked. irresponsibly
Il can give the things back"
What are you going to do?'
ITO do? Why. to become your wife, Of
course
| But / cannot marry an adventures"
| Il am the same woman as / was on
| the Aroma.
We'll but you are an adventures.
She shrugged her shoulders, and her
diamonds sparkled and scintillated. Then
! with a laugh: II suppose / am
! You can't expect me to marry you in
! that case?"
! But what can l do? Without money,
| without friends-if you desert me-with-
| out even means to get back to the states
Mr. Dorrison-Gilbert. Surely you won't
--oh.' and she sank back in her chair
| apparently in great distress. Her dejec-
| ton touched him slightly in spite of his
disappointment. He was willing to help
her If he could. And then an idea
| occurred to him.
| He sat down again and said quietly:
| Let us talk it over. Of course, mar
riage is out of the question; but I can
help you If you really can get rid Of these
| debts
Il can do that-my jewels will do that"
she answered. "Show me-"
81 can help you to make perhaps
enough money to enjoy legitimately some
of the things you have had here
| II will do anything in the world for
! money" cried Sadie, with excellently SIM
ulated desperation.
You can keep a secret
Have ! not kept this? Did any one
| on the Aroma suspect?'
! We'll. there is a secret involved. You
| have played your part so well that you
| could play another-this time with me to
| help. You. There is a man ! know who
/ has lately married girl with a huge
| fortune He has been already married.
| unknown TO her-and the first wife is
living The man and wife have not met
for many years, If you will play the part