The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13
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1 Surveying him With a i.uG.< ty con- tempt and disgust that made him | shrink in spite of himself. she said 'Tf all my other reasons for despisine my husband had been blown away | his having you for his counselor and
 favorite would have been enough. | That is why we are face to face here | for the first and the last time. On | that night, when. emboldened by the | scene you had assisted at, you dared to | come to my room and propose flight, I turned from every consideration but that of passion and resentment. ! struck blow that laid your lofty mas | ter in the dust and that now has set you there. before me, looking at me and knowing what I mean"
 He sprang toward her with a great oath. She stepped behind the table and put her hand Into her bosom. He stood still. She. too.
 She held out some letters in her left hand. See thesei" she said contempt uously. "You have addressed these to me, one here. some elsewhere on the road. The seals arc unbroken. Take them!' She crunched them and tossed them to his feet. A smile came to her face. ''You have fallen on Sicillan days and voluptuous rest too soon," said she. You might have cajoled and fawned a little longer and grown richer. We meet and part tonight"
 He menaced her with his hand. Foam stood on his white lips. The wet stood on his forehead. We don't part so," he said. DO you think l am driveling to let you go?"
 The door by which he had entered was behind him. He turned back to lock 1t.
 "Too late" said she. q have thrown my good name and fame to the winds, resolved to know that It attacnes &t. l. anxsYf shall never know 1t. Nothing can save you now. If live. l saw him on the street tonight on your track.
 At the moment the bell rang loud ly in the hall. He set his back against the door, for he fancied that she was about to try to pass nm. insleao' sns turned and vanished through a door that he had not seen. He followed al- most instantly, but the rooms behind were empty. Then some one began beating at the door. He heard English words. Fu riously he threw himself at the door through which she had passed and lied into the night.
 Ont there under the stars sudden terror came over htm-an inexplicaole thing, associated with trembling ot the ground~--a rush and sweep oI something through the air. like Death upon the WAAes AAo Ss'"s~
 let the thing go by. As soon as ne recovered himself he hurried to the post house to order a post chaise Then followed. as in dream, long days of travelling over endless roads; of a monotony of useless rage and dls- appointed passion; of sun, and dust and towns, seen as unreal phantoms; of never sleeping, but dozinz with un- closed eyes; and of fevered visions of things past and present all confounded together. And again and again there came over fhim the nameless shock, speeding up and roaring past.
 At last one morning he found him self back again in England. Tn the dawn he alighted at a little railway station and waited for the train to take him to a quiet retreat whither all his disordered thoughts had be- gun to tend wearily In the latter days of his flight.
 AS he walked up and down the plat form the sun was rising, and he looked upon it with faded eyes. Tn en sud denly he saw a man emerging from the door of the station. Their eyes met It was the man from whom he was fleeing.
 Tn the quick unsteadiness of his surprise he stepped back. staggered and slipped over the edge to the rails He heard a shout--another--saw the face change from vindictive passion to a faint sickness and terror-felt a trembling of the grouid. a rush and