Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-28
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+ mans grief does not awaken his
dignity, then he has none. In that
event grief is not even respecta-

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dignity, then he has none. In that
event grief is not even respecta.
BILE. And SO 1t was with Leroy
hortimer when Lydia at last turned
pa him. If you caress an Angora too
| ping and too persistently it runs away.
And before it goes it scratches.
Lydia Vyse left Saratoga when the
financial stringency began to make 1t
unpleasant for her to remain. She
old Mortimer without the slightest
conjunction that she was going.
He did not believe her. and he gave
FER the new big yellow and black car.
She sold 1t the same day to a book
maker, an old friend of hers; with
rev several jewels from limbo-gems
which Mortimer had given her-and
altered together everything for which
he turned ugly she might not be
riminally liable.
She had never liked him. She had
ong disliked him. So she wrote a note
o the governors of the PATRONS club
aging that both Quarter and Morti-
aer were aware that the guilt of her
scapade could not be attached to ST.
yard; that she knew nothing of ST.
!, yard. had accepted his wager without
heaning to attempt to win it, had nev-
again seen him and had on the i'm
ulse Of the moment made her entry
the wake Of several men. She add
ID that when Quarter, as governor,
lad concurred in Siwards expulsion he
new perfectly well that Siward was
lot guilty, because she herself had so
Adorned Quarter. Since then she had
lso told Mortimer, but he had taken
o steps to do justice to Siward, al
dough he Mortimer) was still a gov
fnor of the PATRONS club.
This being about all she could think
{ to make mischief for two men whose
fcent companionship had nourished
pd irritated her, she shipped her
tunks by express, packed her Jewel
ese and valise and met Desmond at
he station.
Desmond had business in Europe.
lydia had as much business there as
anywhere, and, although she had been
aithless to Mortimer for a compare
vely short time, within that time
desmond already had sworn at her
nd struck her. So she was quite
lady to follow Desmond anywhere in
ais world or the next. And that, too,
nd not made her the more considerable
ward Mortimer.
When the latter returned from the
Nces to find her gone the last riddled
cops to what passed for his man.
BOD gave way, and the rotten fabric
anne crashing into the mud.
SCreditors with sharp noses scented |
be whirlwind afar off and hemmed |
Inn in with unsettled accounts, mostly |
ers. Somebody placed a lien on his
prses, a deputy sheriff began to fol I
wv him about, all credit ceased as by
|agic, and men crossed the street to
Soid meeting with an old companion
direst need.
lStill, alternately stupefed by his own
'rief and maddened into the necessity
lr action, he packed a suit case,
nwled out OF the rear door, tolled
Gross country and found a farmer to
rive him twenty miles over sandy
,ad TO local railroad crossing, where
managed to board a train for Al
hny.
At Albany as he stood painting and
Eeating on the long concrete platform
hich paralleled track No. he saw
private car, switched from a Boston
hd Albany train. shunted to the rear
the Merchants express.
The private car was lettered in gold
j the central panel, Algonquin" He
Darded the Pullman coupled to 1t for
ard, pushed through the vestibule,
bowed aside the japanese steward and