Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-31

| sunken eyes and bloodless lips, to
summon him into its presence
He found himself at his own door,
and paused uncertainty. He passed a
| tremulous hand before his eyes Was
he sure of Gilmore-was he sure of
| Evelyn, who must know that North
was innocent? The thought of her
reused in him all his bitter sense of
hurt and injury. North had trampled
on his confidence and friendship! The
lines of his face grew hard. This was
to be his revenge-his by every right,
and his fears should rob him of no
part of it,
He pushed open the door and en-
| tered the unlighted hall. then with a
grurnbled oath becalse of the darkness,
| passed on into the sitting-room. Elk
cept for such light as a bed of soft
coal in the CRATES gave out, the room
was clothed in uncertainty HE
stumbled against chair and swore
again savagely. He was answered by
a soft laugh, and then he. saw Evelyn
seated in the big armchair at one
side of the fireplace.
Did you hurt yourself, Marsh %
she asked.
Langham growled an unintelligible
,, reply and dropped heavily into a
chair. He brought with him the
fumes of whiskey and stale tobacco,
and as these reached her across the
intervening space. Evelyn made lit
tie grimace in the half-light
Il declare, Marsh, you are hardly
mt to enter a respectable housed" she
said.
In spite of his doubt of her, they
were not on the worst of terms
there were still times when he re-
sumed his old role of the lover. when
he held her drifting fancy in some
thing of the potent spell he had once
been able to weave about her. What
ever their life together it was far
from commonplace, with it's poverty
and extravaganza. its quarrelings and
its reconciliations, while back of 1t
all, deep-rooted in the very dregs of
existence, was his passionate love.
Even his brutal indifference was but
one of the many phases of his love.
1t was a manifestation of his revolt
against his sense of dependence. a
dependence which made 1t possible
for him to love where his faith was
destroyed and his trust gone abso-
lutely. Evelyn was vaguely con-
scious OF this and she was not sure
but that she required Just such a
life as theirs had become, but that
she would have been infinitely bored
with man far more worth while
than Marshall Langham. From his
seat by the fire Langham scowled
across at her, but the scowl was lost
in the darkness.
Your father was here last eve
ming, Marsh" Evelyn said at length
remembering she had not seen him
the night before. and that he had
breakfasted and gone before she was
up that morning.
What did he come for?" her hus.
band asked.
Il think to see you. Poor man. h,
doesn't seem able to get the run o.
the hours you keep; l told him h,
could always find you here between
four and eight in the morning.
must say this little insight into you
domestic habits seemed to distres,
him, but tried to comfort him.
told him you would probably outliv,
| 10 all. one laughed SOItly. AnQl
was here this afternoon, Marsh" sh.
went on.
"What the devil did he want?"
II don't know
rs he coming back?"
He didn't mention it, if he is
And again she laughed.
4 Langham moved impatientiy; he
low full throated mirth Jared on hi
somber mood.
Were you in court today, Marsh p
she inquired, after a short silence,
Yes" he answered briefly
Were there many there?"
Yes
ANY ladies, Marsh?n she ques
questioned, with sudden eagerness.
IF you call them that" h,
growled.
do you know. Marsh, had I
strong impulse to go, too. Woult
you have been astonished to see m,
there?" she asked tentatively.
1--WE won't have any of that--d,
you understand" he said with fierce
authority.
why not? It's as right for me al
it is for any one else, isn't it?"
Il won't have i'll" he said, liftips
J his voice slightly.