Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

up to finish before | hand 1t over, or shall
let my client down badly"
"Well," the doctor said, you'll kill your
self, if you don't mind"
YEARLY
"Oh!" The doctor smiled. "That's only
| influenza"
| But there was another cause for his quar-
rel with life,-the guardianship of Adellne.
She obeyed all his commands without ques-
ton; but promptly gave occasion tor new
command. She displayed an ingenuity that
he thought almost fendish in doing things OF
which he disapproved.
| ooh, very well, Slave Driver!' she would
say, when he protested. ats something
more to do when I'm twenty-one. She did
not even seem annoyed, as rule: only
amused. at is such fun to be a slave!" she
would tell him. "You see, I've made up my
mind to hurt you six times as much as you
hurt me, and do! You think you are alter
ing me; but you aren't. | store up my saw
agery. wasn't really wicked at heart: only
wild. You have made me real savage"
At other times she was quite pleasant to
him, and even asked him to take her out IN
his motor He realized that this was part
of her revenge; that she meant to make him
fall more and more in love with her. He was
careful to give no sign of her success; but he
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times he hoped that, in her determination to
laugh away the sting of obedience, she had
laughed away the hatred. At others he dis
believed in her good humor, and thought 1t
a mask for cruelty She certainly missed no
opportunity to make him admire her,
preened herself before him in her new clothes,
sang him her new songs, asked him to button
her gloves and put on her cloak for her:
doesn't the slave look nice in her new hat!
she would ask, or "Do you approve of the
slaves costume, Master?" She had even
at Aunt Mary's. She whispered to him
after he had kissed her, 81 wonder which is
the slave, Master?"
HE was studying two diagrams of bridges
~ in comparison, for the purpose OF his
case, when Adeline was announced that
afternoon. She came in quite srnilingly.
She had grown more beautiful than ever,
and her manner was more "clvlllzed. She
inquired after his health, and expressed SYM
pathy politely.
"There is something want to tell you,
before you go away" she said, sitting down
in chair by the side of the desk. u have
fallen in love-horribly in love!'
| Anderson swayed little in his chair.
"Who is he?" he asked.
II am not going to tell you. My point is
that my marriage is not matter in which
l will submit to your commands. | intend
to defy you. Haven't you used the whip
enough?"
He turned to her almost piteously. do
you think like hurting you, Adeline?'
"You like thinking you do She set her
lips. "Well-it's John Macfarlane!"
"Good Heavens!" he cried. "That man!
He is no better than a thief-on a grand
scale!"
"Well" she retorted. 81 am only petty
forger; so ought to feel honored"
at must not bel" Anderson said fiercely.
"You have vowed to obey me till you are
twenty-one.
"Then," she said, 81 will break my VOW.
What do you think care for your threats?
You send me to PRISON." She laughed "You
60 and tell Father, and break his heart?
didn't really believe you'd do it even at first;
but it was safer to pretend to give in. Obey
you? Why, I've laughed at you all the
time! You thought you were breaking me
in" She laughed scornfully. "Why, it was
l who was mastering you!"
Anderson rallied himself with fierce eff
| fort. "But | have the check he said. He
| tapped little drawer that was half open.
Her eyes glanced at it. She saw an envelop