Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

How this may be brought about short OF
supernatural Intervention IS not apparent
at the opening Of the play, yet It is really
accomplished in a manner that is reason
ably and logically possible, II NOT prob
able. The result turns on the development
u unexpected nobility on the part Of the
husband and unmitigated ignobility on the
part OF the lover. The wife has finally
agreed to an designation With the social
adventurer, who has thrust himself be-
tween her and her husband. This man,
with a faulty scarcely possible outside Of
melodrama. takes the pure-minded, high
souled bride OF a few weeks 80 a scene OF
debauchery that ends in an orgy unspeak-
able. Her nature revolts and she fees in
utmost terror from the insult put upon
her by the man who professed to love her
and seek only her happiness. In her dis
tress. ~disgusted at the ignominy she has
escaped and highly indignant at the black
guardism OF her lover, she enters her home
to find her husband waiting for her. Here
ensues perhaps the strongest scene OF the
whole play, and Mr.. Hackett and Miss
Beckley did it with such artistic precision
as to command the greatest respect for
their ability as actors. The husband ac-
cusos, the wife evades. Calmly he demands
that she tell him where sne has been and
with whom. Historically she dcnounces
the man whose name she bears. insults
him with taunts Of his low birth, points
out TO him the disparity Of their positions,
rem nds him that she has always said that
stFt did not love him, and finally hurls the
accusation that he knew all this when he
bought her. Sung and tortured by the
Woman's words. the man Restraints his
tongue until by patient and persistent in
quiry he has learned from her where she
spent the hours she has been abs-nt and
with what mar she went there. and then
alone he formulates his revenge.
The man is a duellst OF fame who
would welcome the opportunity Of TAX
ing the wronged husband out and punctur.
Ing him with a shot or sword thrust. He
lis a social adventurer aganst whom scan
dai would have no weight Any publicity
that might be given the adventurer Of the
night, any scandal that might grow our
OF 1t, would merely fall on the woman the
husband sought TO shield. His vengeance
must be OF a character that would reach
in the most effective way the man who
had sought TO wrong him and yet would
not in any wise react upon the woman he
loved. This could be done through a mani
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exchange. and to achieve that Braehard
sets about. An Intended trip to London is
abandoned. His business agent is in
structed. ana the lover is invited to lunch
in private apartments In a hotel, ana
here, while the husband detalns him by
c~ajolery. by trieksry. and finally by brute
force, the last vestige OF the adventurer's
fortune is swept away through the fallen
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eomplished It had been made plain to
Braehard that 20 achieve his purpose he
must sacrifice his own fortune and that
when his vengeance is complete he will be
left as poor as his victim. Not only This.
1 but the fortunes OF many others must be
wiped out, even all those who opposed him
in his effort 10 sell down the stock TO a
point that will achieve his design. With
the certainty Of ruin to himself. he de-
clines to abandon his object and gives the
word 70 sell, and sell. and sell. until The
stock is forced even below the poin; at
which he set Panic involves the stock ex.
change and fortunes rumble To dus.
Govain is pauperized, ana so Is
Brachard. but while the one rushes out
In the madness Of despair, the other glorles
In his deed. All but himself who had been
swept down in that gigantic crash were
those who had climbed by hanging on TO
his urments n they had gained
through him they had lost through him.
and he felt no conjunction on this score.
A peuper himself, he was ready 70 start
again, supremely happy in the thought
that be revenged on the man ne most
desplsed
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II was necessary Cor him TO return to
us home before Leaving Paris. and there
&c found his wife waiting for him. she
had heard the news OF the disaster ana
wreck, and with Il had come 70 her a
newer knowledge The grossness OF the
age affair. from which abe had SO