The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-09
NUMBER THIRTEEN
A Powerful Serial Story.
RY ENM WHITE.
Author


after me now" she said. Il am MOI
! likely TO act as a domestic drudge ane
slave any longer | shall be glad y
go back. 10 my own sphere 0f life, u
! | had not had the misfortune 10 mars
o scoundrel. should never have como
down 20 this My secret Is known
now: the history OF my husband Is
not secret TO the police. ! am never
going back 10 Thomas again; he can
go his own way for me Tell him SO
/ If you like. Tell him that. If he al
tenpts 10 see me, ! shall say only one
word TO Inspector Burles. of Scotland
/ yard, who is now in this house, and
! then Thomas can look 10 himself And
look 10 yourself also, Archibald Col
| Vile. Do you suppose | have been IN
/ this house all these years for nothing
DO you suppose that | could not tell
/ a tale? Aye, YOU may sneer. and sug
\ gest that | have played the caves
dropper: It does not hurt me, But
4 know enough, and more than. enough
I and you are aware Of II. | care moth
ing now that | have powerful friends
behind me. And this poor wife OF
/ yours"
Colvile suddenly changed his man
ner. lie glanced from Susan TO the
/ lady In the chair in vague and undo
cided kind OF way II was quite eva.
dent that he had met his match
Everybody is against me- he said
II am the victim OF consprators
whose names even are utterly un
known 10 me. Thomas was lured all
/ the way TO America by an ingenious
fraud. and then kept out OF the way
! by my enemies. Everything played
/ for their hand. even the fact that my
eye-sight was failing. And that rascal
John Stern, posed AS Thomas and
learnt everything there was TO learn
Then the real Thomas comes back to
day. and he finds things out for me
/ Though, why my wife should hide
here"
She didn't hide here" Ailsa said
she was brought here at the point
of death. When she came had nc
idea who she was. but Susan knew
everything. And this she told me
/ Your poor wife told me her history
( too. II is wonderful that she looks sc
young considering what she has had
TO go through She married you ex
pecting a good home, she did not know
that you married out or piQue at thf
( loss OF another woman. The was
young and pretty then. she was just
| beginning TO make progress on the
stage. And by your neglect and YOU
tyranny you drove her from you into
! the streets. She was hardly herself al
that time. she was hard pushed to it &c
/ live for years Not that you cared
whether she lived or died! Then your
sins began to find you out. You lost
your money in reckless speculations
only you and your tool. Thomas, know
\ how you tried TO retrieve the situation
! Then IL came 10 your knowledge that
! your deserted wife was likely 10 be
come the possessor OF G 900. That
is why YOU looked for her again. little
| thinking that the irony Of circum
stances was likely 10 bring her back
under your own roof And yet | aIl
/ told that you were a good man at one
/ time. before you let your evil designs
( choke your better nature. You perse
cuted the son OF the woman YOU loved
years ago; your bitter hatred OF hin
led YOU to DO things that might have
landed you in the grip OF the law Bu
/ he died and disappointed you
Yes, he died - Colville snarled 81
! had everything ready for him "
We will go into that presently
Ailsa said coldly 1T is matter be
tween YOU and me only What do you
propose to do in the future?"