The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-14
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NOvelized by VIRGINIA LEILA WENTz
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THAT FAxcHoN WOMAN.

own name to buy the woman he need :. ed most: buy Rose Fanchon or buy his own wtfei A moment ago you heard him practically offer them to me for my silence.
 Even then. knowing he had sold his honor for money, I was ready to be- 1ieve he had done it for the best. was ready to believe his excuse of me and the children. But he has betray- ed me His eyes smile lies: his lips eBpeak lies: his hps''-
 She rubbed her hands almost brutal fly over her mouth. as though trying to rub away the brand of some foul disgrace. With one last desperate ef fort for self mastery she walked to the door through which her husband had passed and commanded in a voice of deadly calm:
 ''Come ont! Come hereP'
 'fYes. Anna, Pm here.'' answered he. appearing with a smile. Absorbed In hts own thoughts. he had not noticed the tone of her words.
 Robert Granger. how did you dare tell me you needed me! I say. how cid you dare! What kind of a-a thing are you?' You thought you could buy your own wife. You'd take the money from-from Rose Fanchon-and hand it to me-to me! You don't need her just now: you need me! Rose Fan chon or me or another, 1t would be all the same. And that's the man mar riedr' She paused for breath. spent with the fury of her scorn.
 Granger stood staring whitely at her. the incarnation of shame and de spair. Finally he tried weakly to set right the thing that never could be set right: fried to explain 1t away and bully or beg himself back into his wife's heart
 ''Of course, I-er-well. Anna, want to apologize about Rose-Rose-that Fanchon woman. It was all her fault anyhow. Men are up against an awful lot with some women. I"- With his pracdced cunning he saw he was on the wrong track. He changed his tao lies. little venomous bully that he was.
 "When I was up there." he nodded across the Hudson. "a man came to zee me one day and he said-well, of course. I laughed him down-he said my wife was living here with Burton Temple. living here with an unmarried man. We'll. as I say. I laughed him Town: I wouldn't let him see''-
 He paused for a second. arrested by Anna's instinctive recoiling. Two lit-. j He steps she took. steadying herself by both hands on the table back of her. The pupils of her gray eyes were black and big with horror.
 "Oh, you needn't take it like that he went on magnanimously. "Why. I'm not going to ask you a single ques
 
 how far it's gone; I'll overIook-we'rt both of us-well, it'll be all right. Only. really, I must ask you to come along now; I've no time to spare"
 ''I have met Absurdity in my time and hobnobbed with him." said Anna at length. 'but never heard anything so absurd as that Could you really fancy, Robert Granger, that I should go with you-now?
 If she had burst upon him with a storm of words, anger. injured virtue, reproach. he might have known what to do. But this! This naughty, fine disdain! It made even him realize his own depravity.
 For moment just now,' she said, your weakness overcame me. I was going to-God knows what l was going 
 my sympathy. as though l were a thing to be bargained for, along with your Rose Fanchon. And as though that were not enough. you tried to barter your chiIdren's mothers honor You knew that every drop of my blood, every throb of my heart, was in either your own or the ehildren's keeping. You knew it. And yet. oh, what sort of a thing are you to be made in Gods image?"
 Granger sank on his knees, catch ing at her hand. WJh the loss of his game went also the loss of his nerve.
 Forgive. Anna he cried, forgive. and come with me now"
 But coldly. contemptuously. she bade him rise. I've put you out of my life.'' she said.
 Driven into a corner like a rat, all his despicable cruelty came out. He started as though to spring upon his wife, and Mrs Mason screamed.
 You'll testify against me, will youT' he sneered. Testify against your husband for a stranger? No magnify ing glass needed on that; it's pretty plain. I wGS safely tucked away in prison. You thought you could"-
 In answer to Mrs. Mason's scream Temple had appeared. followed by Craven. Granger looked at them sneer- ingly for a second, then went on in his tirade against his wife.
 You think of your children's honor. do you? Well, can you afford to let them have your name soiled with this scandal? Go to court; testify all yc- like in Temples behalf. and I'll swear you've been living here with him Dye think the jury will accept you word in his favor without proof, mfnt you. when it's your husband who accusing him and you?''
 ''You scoundrel!' cried Temple, mak ing rush upon him. You skulkine dirty little scoundreIr'
 Half choking, Granger fought but h. was as nothing in the hands of the en ragged giant who held him. Then Ora ven touched his friend firmly on the