The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-04

George turned TO her with a smile
so bravely managed that ! was proud
of him. "Oh, yes. there is" he said.
"We're going to get you out Of all
this"
"All this" she repeated.
"All this mire" he answered. Were
going to get you out of it. l don't
know whether your revelation to the
Spanish woman will make that easier
or harder, but do know that it makes
the mire deeper"
Her anxious eyes grew wider. How
have / made 1t deeper for him? Wasn't
it necessary that the poor woman
should be told the TRUTH"
She turned to Keredec with a fright
ened gesture and an unintelligible word
Of appeal.
ut was because" he repeated, run
ming nervous hand through his
beard-"because the knowledge would
put us so utterly in this peoples pow
err. Already they demand more than
we could give them; now they can do
still more.'
George interviewed, and he spoke with
out sarcasm. ITO put it roughly. these
people have been asking more than
the Hartman estate is worth-that was
on the strength of the woman's claim
as wife-but now they know she is
not one her position is immensely
strengthened. for she has only to go
before the nearest commissaire de po-
lice."
"Oh, nor Mrs. Hartman cried pas
sionately. II haven't done thatv
"Neverv' he answered. There could
not be a create, lie than to say you
have done it. 1.-THE responsibility is
with the wretched and vicious boy
who brought the catastrophe upon
himself. But don't you see that you've
got to keep out Of it, that we'Te got
to take you out Of it,"
you can't! I'm part Of 1t. Better
or worse, it's as much mine as his.
Ny separation from my husband is
over. I shall be with him now for
II won't listen to you" Miss Eliza
beth lifted her wet face from Georges
shoulder. and there was a note Of deep
anger in her voice. you haven't the
faintest idea Of what a hideous situa-
ton that creature has made for him
self. Don't you know that that awful
woman was right? You talk Of being
with him! Do you imagine they en-
courage family housekeeping in French
prisons?"
You're going much too far" Cres-
son Ingle said, touching his betrothed
upon the arm. my dear Elizabeth,
there is no use exaggerating. The case
is unpleasant enough just as it is"
I'm what have l exaggerated" she
demanded.
why. l knew Larrabee Harman,'
he returned. 81 knew him fairly we'll
l went as far as Honolulu with him
and l remember that papers were
served on him in San Francisco. He
was travelling continually, and 1 don't
think he knew much Of what was 60
ing on. even right around him. most OF
the time. He began with cognac and
absinth in the morning, you know
For myself, l always supposed the sui
had been carried through. So did PEG
pie generally, think. He'll probably
have to stand trial, and of course he's
technically guilty, but l don't believe
he'd be convicted, though l must say
| it would have been a most devilisf
| good thing for him If he could have
been got out of France before la Muir
| siana heard the truth"
Nothing is changed" Louise Har
man said finally. her eyes still fixed
gravely on Miss Elizabeth's.
At that the others face famed up
and she uttered half choked excla
nation. oh" she cried, you've fall
en- in love with playing the martyr
It's self love! No one on earth coult
make me believe you're in love will
this degraded imbecile. It's becaus,
you want to make a shining exampl,
Of yourself. You want to get down OF
your knees and wash of the vilenes,
from this befouled creature. Yo,
want
Madame" Keredec interrupted trem
ulOusly, you speak out of no knOwl
edge! There is no vileness. No on,
who is clean remains befouled becaus,
Of the things that are gone"
"They do not?" She laughed hys
terically.
1.-THE soul that stands clean and pur,
today is clean and pure" insisted tn
professor.
But soul with evil tendencies,
Ward began impatiently.
"Ha, my dear sir, those evil tenden
cies would be in the soiling memories
and my boy is free from them"
Surely you can't pretend he ma.
not take that direction again?"
"That," returned the professor quick
ly, 'is his to choose. If this lady cal
be with him now he will choose right.
"So" cried Miss Elizabeth. "Firs
she is to be his companion through
trial for bigamy and If he is acquitte'
his nurse, teacher and moral precep
tor" She turned swiftly to her cousin
"That's your conception Of woman
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