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sght a, vour marriage certificate would have stopped

sight Of your marriage certhtate would nave stopPe'
it at once! Any jury will see 1T. ..
You spread the lie before you made any attemn
to ascertain the truth But there we ."'s nto,.
the jury and now won't keen You: nnnt pieai
think me impatient: but Mrs. scarlet will want the
room umgatcd after you have been in It, before she
il again. Good evening go. -,
"ITr,icntodf was never so nsulted in my life
roarod the rector. he went out IA limp and broken
man. He had no heart for noisy talk with Mrs
l,usly-Glashcr after the Quietude OF MI Antony
Scarlet That good lady therefore spent an mpa-
tict evening 1cvoured by her eagerness to be con
vcrsng sympathetically with the niece OF baronet
Next morning she could have dealt with the slowness
with which the hours were passing In really unadS.
like language. At eleven o'clock gentleman calico
TO see her who proved to he lawyers clerk WIN
brisk hcartiness he presented her with legal docu
which he explained the writ in an action 1o'
SANDER brought against her by Mrs Scarlet ana ina
the amount of DAMAGE claimed $4,000.
Mrs Busby -Glaisher at first exceedingly an
noyed. since she doubtful whether it was quite
good form to call on a lady who was bringing III
action for Islander against her But presently y, e"
an excuse for calling earlier than the usual hour N
talk such serious matter over at once amcaoly
and she grew cheerful again. Then in came III
limp and broken rector. bearing in his hand sllnil'i
writ which the brisk and hearty lawyers clerk A"'
lust served on him.
Mrs Busby-ilaisher treated the matter of the writs
with light, contemptuous cheerfulnoss She assured
him that they were merely the formal way OF tr'at:
the matter: that people Of position like tn" SHr't
did not air their grievances in the law courts 81
ended by saying ITS Just matter for Ht'!
and settle it. We shall be all the better fTen''
for this little tiff: you'll see
The went away striving 10 share her "'n
fdence; but Mr. Antony Scarles eyes quiet an
dangerous. kept rising before his mind. He felt a."
he needed comfort-comfort from his awyer--''.n
town.
When outshinng the rainbow in her magni,"'
apparel Mrs Busby Glaisher knocked at the Srall'S
door. it was opened by the maid with whom 81" ;t
been So automatically firm the night before
The maid said My mistress said that if You hof
the brazen impulence to call, wasn't to let You int"
Tho
his lawyer about my bringing an action a-oa.t
you for calling shameless liar
II don't want any impudence from you vow inl
pertinent slavcy SHOW me into the drawin--r' m
at once and tell your mistress r' insist on seeing
The maid shut the door in her face, and left her
planted on the steps win her splendid fTmness
curled tit of apoplexy and went home. She drank
a strong brandy and soda. and sat down to consider
other means of getting in touch with Mrs scarlet ana
becoming reconcod with her. Suddenly it flashed
upon her that Mrs Scarlet might be serious in her
action for SANDER She took the writ ana the nnon%-
letter and went to town to her husband 8
solicitor
Mr. Iorsham. an old friend of her husbands. re
cved her with the air of gloomy d>taste she wrongly
believed hnhitual him. But she told her story
and answered his searching questions he gradually
grew cheerful and the end he said "A disgust
inl, business; A very disgusting business indeed l
SUPPOSE YOU want NE 10 try TO get this lady To take
less than c5ooo She will be fool if she does an
Bickcrstrth & Crumpton not the fools to LEI her
"What! Ne pay i5.oo0,' cried Mrs. husby
t;laisher
"tprtalnv. you ii pay Sdu Mr. lloiSudln' ANUS
with slcc There isn't chance of your doing any
thing else"
.Ncycr. I'll fight the through every court in
v England. ="
Then it will cost you ter thousand said Mr.. Hor
sham. scarcely able to restrain his joy at the de
= tested ladyS prcdicamcn
Nonsense don't believe it. Engage the best
legal taleut in England. At once" cried his client
| Pardon me- This is not the kind of business my
= firm would dream of touching. It would utterly
destroy our standing in the profession, said Mr.
: HorSham
He was firm in this refusal; and the face of the
Mrs Busby.Glashpr who left the Office. screaming
+ vituperation. was a rich purple. She came home
raging to find large gathering of the ladies Of Prin
l. gle Hill in her drawing room. and in the middle of
= them the pale and perspring rector The lawyers
i clcrk had been improving the shining hours by visit
a ing thcm frightening Them and bullying evidence
out OF them with his brisk hcartiness The rector
. had come in to tell her that his lawyer. TOO, had
,. hidden him settle the and refused To defend it
g The ladies terrified by the lawyers clerk Infatuated
Il most If them by the thought that they had beer
- mised into insulting an innocent lady and the niece
r. Of n haronet mt that had been merclcssly heratne
him for Il disgracefu scandalmongcr. The ragn-
p Mrs Bushy tlaiShor turned the excited drawing-roon
II into the scene of battle royal: and when. after
rm of recrimnations. she roarcl her revolving sub
e IS out Of the house she sat down on the sofa t'
! rpali2e that her domination of rinCle Hill was shat
l. tered for years maybe beyond recovery.
< \ fortnight later. Mr.. Antony Scarlet took ur
g the two checks for $4,000 which his wife had jus
II inoors,d he said I'm going to pay them into my
account. Dolly Your uncle said that if ever could
+, show him 100000 of my own he'd raise your allow
ancr from $500 to t1,500 Since with the nteres
= from this we shall have couple of thousand year
# we will leave those pleasant rrnSe shades and TAXI
n flat in Mount Street among the people we KNOW
lp ooh how nice" cried Mrs. Scarlet. Then SIN
ID added thoughtfully: "Rut I've been wondering Wilt
$ sent that horrid anonymous letter which enabled II
to punish these detestahlc people
"Ah | wonder" said Mr. Scarlet; and he smiles
le n queer smile.