Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-07-04
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BY. FRED RlcK FE.N!N.5

By Fl Ed ERIC tx FEN HI
The man who said maria was i
habit was probably right, and herein
lilies the reason why the percentage
1sofSmarriages among widows is 50
thigh. Once you have been accus
\ toned toSthe companionship Of tbs
sEppposite sex it is difficult to do with
OUT it. IA
sI No one expected that GeoRr
Hamilton would marry again wher,
Agatha died; but he did, and this is
how it came to pass, and the sequel.
For fifteen years the Hamiltons
/ were almost ideally happy, and then
the subtle element Of jealousy crept
into their relations. 1t was not that
he sairted, but with growth Of pop.
]nlarity--he was IA novelist Of some
mote he attracted attention, and
many women found him interesting
4 The little rift Of suspicion once
started developed amazingly quickly,
until mutual relations became impos-
sible. Agatha, being miserable, was
constitutionally unable to refrain
! from making Geoffry equally miser-
able, and then he became doubly Sc
because constant succession Of
scenes entirely prevented him doing
any good work.
As a consequence he took to fnd-
ing relief outside his home.
/ Before long matters reached d
stage in which Agatha was never
| happy unless making herself miser-
able, if the paradox may be excused
by searching through her husbands
papers and documents in the hope OF
finding proofs Of his perfdy,
She succeeded in making the pair
of them unutterably miserable, and
then Hamilton took! the matter into
Ibis own hands and decided that
something must be done.
/ There we're no grounds for a di
vorce, 50 that most disastrous Of sill
matrimonial arrangements, eepara-
Etion, wastdecided upon. In this case
Eneither party did form any new at
ftaehment. Strange as it may seem,
kat the back Of all their. chickering's
Ethey still cared for one another deep
Tly, and Agatha never ceased to cry
for the man who for fifteen years
|had keen all in all to her, while,
!. though Geoffry found peace and i
new energy for work, always, at the
Ebaek of his mind, was q gnawi i,,,,
anxiety az to what was happening to
Ethe woman who once meant somuch
Ito him.
So matters drifted on until Aga
|tha died lonely, miserable, heart
broken and her husband never real
|ly got lover j, as the sequel shows. VI
That was Hamilton's first mar
rage, and you might have thought
that he would not have been IN 4
very great hurry to. make another
experiment, but as a matter of fact.
| it was only very short time before
he was tied up once more, and how
this came about was curious.
The thought Of marrying again
had not occurred to him, but he was
in that unstrung, nervous state when
any clever woman with a knowledge
OF human weakness can upset q
man Is moral balance, and the woman
who did this was Evelyn Richards.
SheWas widow, and slight ac-
quaintance Of some years standing,
: but not a woman withWhom Ham;l-
ton had ever been on terms Of the
ghtest intimacy. ....S. NJ. 81
a chance meeting, though, one
day afforded him some pleasure, for
she was undeniably attractive, and
Ethe sequel to this meeting was n an d
Earrang ement TO go to q theater the
following evening. They went and
Hamilton found rest and forgetful-
mess.
AfterSth piece they adjourned to
'her fiat for supper and afterward sat
for arlhonr smoking and talking 81
tpurely ordinary things.
Then, how it happened the man
never quite knew, but suddenly tie.
woman rose from where she vas sit-E
tim ting, and, coming over to him as he
stood by the fire preparatory to TAX
ing his leave, put her hands 81 ilis
shout ers and kissed him. Before
he quite knew what HE was doing mi, 5heS
had taken her III his arms and kissed,
her back. &