The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-02
Noveii.ed from Clyde Fitch's Drama
OF the same Title, Now Being Played
I'm New York by Ethel Barrymore.
CHAPTER w.
Laura Herriard.

Iu deeply in love 1t was pas
sion which size felt was be
yond control She had fought
against II day and night. For
her there was no one to conhde In,
save the man himself. She could not
60 ID him with her torn heart She
was in the most desperate plight that
ever confronted a woman.
The man she loved had a wife. Yet
her mad anu unfettered nature was
such she would have given up her
very soul for one word OF sympathy
from him.
On that sunshiny day when Ernest
Buckley 80 unceremoniously proposed
TO Eleanor, Laura Herriard lay on
divan in a darkened room In her apart
ment. sobbing into hysterical frenzy
Of baffied rage.
"Oh. what can / dor" she moaned.
Am I the victim OF some strange
curse? Is it my destiny to cast
blight wherever | go? Loving another
man. must give him up because he
has money? How | despise the boy!
To me he Is no more than talking
doll"
In his violent TRADE she v as re-
vealing phase OF her character tnasl
would have proved desperate shock
TO the staid society women who were
her companions To them sne was
quite a different person. In society
she vas, as Ernest Bickley's mother
had often remarked. "One or those
sweet. yielding women who could say
such disagreeable things. she was
OF medium height and slender. In
her rIovements she was cat-like, Her
small gray eyes seemed TO pierce ev-
erything about her at glance. Her az
titude was that Of being always READY
10 spring. Such is the nature OF
mother
Wealth Soon DIsslpated.
She occupied an enviable place In
London society. That position she
held when Jack Herriard, cousin Oh
the Bickleys, married her. Laura &C
cepted Jack because he had com
Portable fortune and an enormous ap-
petite Tor gorgeous clothes and elab'
crate dinners.
A short whirl In the smart set,
however. scattered his wealth TO the
four winds. and just as Laura was be-
ginning to bemoan her lot for being
hurdeued with a poverty-stricken hus-
band he very kindly relieved her mind
ty dying.
AT his bier the unhappy widow dis
covered that she had loved him anu
had been a most dutiful vile. ms
fact she carefully communicated, with
many sobs and tears, to every mem
Der OF the Buckley family.
After her period OF mourning she
found many points In Ernest tnat
were like her poor dear Jacks In
fact. they were better. than the ones
which Jack had possessed. with
much tenderness she told these things
TO Ernest And Ernest listened and
thought she was most remarkable
creature. This Is sometimes the way
of a woman with a man.
The heir 70 the Buckley riches prov
cd an extraordinarily tame animal for
Laura Herriard's moose. II settled
about his neck at the first throw. and
all that remained was for her TO pun
Il aud drag him TO church.
Torn by Her Passions.
While she was rejoicing In her easy
catch a spectre OF false love seized her
within It's grim grazp. Thus began
her dual role. Her beginning was
Termination that has confronted WOE.
on since the dawn OF cIvIlfzzrfUH:
There the dividing line between good
and evil IS clearly marked. There the
blood red signals OF evil give warning
OF a road that ends in disgrace and
despair.
IL was a bitter struggle for Laura
when she was called upon TO decide be-
tweer the path OF Peril and the pain
OF Purity She was undergoing II az
she Law ON the divah. In the end Peril
conquered.
Slowly she arose from the couch.
After bathing her swollen eyes and
arranging her dishevelled hair. she
sent for her maid.
Bring my pale blue street soHn-
and -then call my carriage at once"
Lsbe said. II will be out for several