The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-26
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He pushed both sides to. Yvonne
took fright:
Suppose they hearl''
There is no one in the house.
have been over it,
"Still -
"Your husband went out ten min.
utes ago.
''Where is he?''
| d'Origny.'
How do you know7'
| 'Oh, it's very simple. He was
rung up by telephone and | awaited
the result at the corner Of this street
and the boulevard AS I expected, the
count came out hurriedly, followed by
his man. at once entered with the
aid of special keys.
He told this in the most natural way,
lust as one tells n meaningless anec
dote In drawing room. But Yvonne,
suddenly seized with fresh alarm,
| asked:
"Then it Is not true7 His
mother is not ill7 In that
case, my husband will be coming back
Certainly, the count will SEQ that
in three-quarters of an hour at the
| latest. -
"'Let lis go. T don't want
him to find me here. I must
go to my son. :"
lone moment. -
One moment. But don L
you know that they have taken him
, from me7 That they are
hurting him, perhaps9 -
| With set face and feverish gestures,
she tried to push Velmont back. He,
with great gentleness, compelled her
to sit down and, leaning over her in
a respectful attitude, said, in a serious
| voice:
Listen madame, and let us not
waste time, when every minute is
valuable. First of all, remember this:
| we met four times, six years ago.
And, on the fourth occasion,
when. / was speaking to you, in the
/ drawing room of this house, with too
much-what shall / say7-with too
stand that my visits were no longer
welcome. Since that day I have not
seen you. And, nevertheless in spite
Of all, your faith in me was such that
you kept the card which ! put be-
tween the pages of that book and,
six years later. you send for me and
none other. That faith in me | ask
blindly. Just as I surmounted every
| obstacle to come to you, so | will save
| you, whatever the position may be- -
Horace Velmont s calmncss, his
| masterful voice, with the friendly in
tonation, gradually quieted the count
ess: Though still very weak, she gained
fresh sense Of ease and security in
| that man g presence.
Have no fear he went on. "The
| Comtesse 'Origny lives at the other
end OF the Bois de VincenDes. Allow
ing that your husband finds motor
cab, it is impossible for him TO he
back before quarter-past three. Well,
! it is twenty-five minutes to three now.
l swear to take you away at three
! O'Clock exactly and to take you to
your son. But 7 will not 20 before 1
know everything
"What am l to do9" she asked.
Answer me and very plainly. We
have twenty minutes 1t is enough.
But it is not too much
nAsk me what you want to know
"Do you think that the count had
any ENo. y, muFdeFous 'ntenti0ns''
"Ihen it concerns your son7'
"Yes'
fHe is taking him away, l suppose,
because he wants to divorce you and
marry another woman, a former friend
Of your house. Is that itY Oh, I en-.
treat you, answer me frankly! These
are facts Of public notoriety and your
hesitation, your scruples, must all cease
now that the matter concerns your
son. So your husband wished to marry
another womanH'
dyes
husband, ON his side, has gambled away
all his property and has no means
beyond the allowance which he re-
ceives from his mother, the Comtesse
d 'Origny, and the income of large
fortune which your son inherited from
two of your uncles. 1t is this for
tune which your husband covets and
lily If the child were placed in his
hands, There is only one way: di-
vorce. Am I right7'
"Yes."
"And what has prevented him until
now is your refusal? y
HYes, mine and that OF my mother
in-law, who is opposed to divorce, The
Comtesse d'origny would only yield in
sin case 2"
"In case they could prove ME guilty
of shameful conduct
Felmont shrugged his shoulders:
therefore he is powerless to do
son. Both from the legal point of
view and from that Of his own inter
ests, he stumbles against an obstacle
which is the most insurmountable Of
all: the virtue of mn honest woman,
And yet, in spite. of everything, he
suddenly shows fight
HWhat do you meangn
81 mean that, if a man like the
count, after so many hesitations and
in tho face Of so many difficulties.
risks so doubtful an adventure, ii
must be because he thinks he has
| command of weapons ~
E'What weapons?"
~ don L know. But they exist
or else he would not have be.
gun by taking away your SON.
Yvonno gavo way TO her despair:
"Oh, this is horrible! How
do l know what he may have done,
what he may have invented7'
"'Try and think Recall
your memories. Tell me. in
this desk which he has broken open,
was there any sort of letter which
he could possibly turn against youg''
"No only bills and ad-
| dresses. -
"And, in the words he used to YOU,
in his threats, is there nothing that