The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-27
Copyright, 1911, by ". @. Chapman

known what jealousy was until he had !
entered that room. To have seen her
with any man would have given him
acute pain, perhaps just because he
had been so long withdrawn from hui
man society, but to see her with this
man who flashed instantly into his
recollection upon the utterance Of his
name was an added evaporation.
Newbold turned to the woman to
whom indeed he had addressed his
question in the first place, and there
was something in his movement which
bespoke a CALLING almost contemptuous
obliviousness to the presence of the
other man which was indeed hard for
him to bear.
Hate begets hate. He was quite
conscious of Armstrong; antagonism,
which was entirely undisguised and
open and which was growing greater
with every passing moment. The
score against Newbold was running up
in the mind of his visitor.
"Ah," coolly said the owner of the
cabin to the first of his two guests,
81 do remember you did mention that
name the first day you spent here.
Is he IA friend Of yours?'
mot now" answered Enid Maitland.
She too was in a strange state OF
perturbation on account of the diem
| ma In which she found herself in
volved. She was determined not to
| betray the unconscious confidence of
| the dead. She hoped fervently that
Newbold would not recognize Arm
strong as the man of the locket, but
| II he did she was resolute that he
should not also be recognized as the
man of the letters, at least not by her
act. Newbold was ignorant Of the ex-
istence of those letters and she did
not intend that he should be enlight-
ened so far as she could prevent it.
| But she was keen enough to see that
| the first recognition would be in
i evitable; she even admitted the fact
/ that Armstrong would probably pre-
cipitate it himself. Well, no human
soul, not even their writer, knew that
she had destroyed them, she had de-
termined to do so at the first convent
ent opportunity. Before that, however.
oAC iHtCAuCu " S1o" tllSlu dOI " ANC"-
bold but to Armstrong, to disclose his
perfidy, to convict him of the false
hood he had told her and to justify
herself even in his eyes for the action
she had taken.
Mingled with all these quick refec-
tons was a deadly fear. She was
quick to perceive the hatred Arm
strong bore on the one hand because
of the old love affair, the long cher
tshed grudge breaking into sudden
life; on the other she realized that
her own failure to come to Arm
strOngs hands and her love for New
bold, which she neither could nor had
any desire to conceal, and the cumula-
ton of these passionate antagonisms
would only make him the more des
perate.
Whether Newbold found out Arm
strong's connection with his past love
there was sufficient provocation in the
present to evoke all the oppugnation
and resentment of his nature Enid
felt as she might if the puncheons OF
the floor had been sticks of dynamite
with active detonations in every hee
that pressed them; as if the slightest
! movement on the part Of any one
would bring about an explosion.
The tensity of the situation was be
wildering to her. 1t had come upor
her with such startling force; the I'm
expected arrival of Armstrong, of al
the men on earth the one who ough
not to be there, and then the equal!
, startling arrival of Newbold, of whom
perhaps the same might have been
said. If Newbold had only gone on
3 If he had not come back, if she had
been rescued by her uncle or old Kirk
by-But Ifs" were idle, she had tC
face the present situation to which
she was utterly unequal.
She had entirely repudiated Arm
strong. that was one sure point; she
knew how guilty he had been toward
Newbold's wife, that was another; she
realized how he had deceived her
that was the third. These eliminated
the man from her affections, but it is
one thing to thrust a man out of YOU
heart and another to thrust him GU
of your life; he was still there. AnC
by no means the sport of blind fats
Armstrong intended to have something
to say as to the course of events, t
use his own powers to determine thu
issue.
OF but one thing beside her hatred
for Armstrong was Enid Maitland alb
solutely certain; she would never dis
close to the man she loved the fac
that the woman, the nemory of who's
supposed passion he cherished, ha'
been unfaithful to him in heart i
not In deed. Nothing could wrest tina
| secret from her. She had been in
| fected by Newbold's Quixotic ideas
the contagion of his peryersion Of CON
mon sense had fastened itself upOl
her. She would not have been human
either if she had not experienced
thrill OF pride and joy at the pOssibi
ity that in some way, Of which she We
, swore she would not be the instrumen
blind or otherwise, the facts might b
disclosed which would enable NewbOl
to claim her openly and honorably witt
out hesitation before or remorse at
er, as his wife. This fascinating flas
of expectant, hopeful feeling sh
thought unworthy OF her and strov
to fight it down, but with manifest in
possibility.
1t has taken time to set these thing
down: to speak or to write IS a slo1