Devils Lake inter-ocean., 1913-10-24
WI|I|O|| FAILURES. : )
RyFREDE RIG < FENN.

habit was probably right, and herein
lies the reason why the percentage
Of marriages among widows is 50
high, Once you have been accus..s, US,
toned to the companionship Of the
opposite sex it is dificult8to do with
put it. <,s s 55s # #
No one expected that Geofry
Hamilton would marry again when
Agaths 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. It was not that
he flirted, but with growth Of pop
ularity--he was a novelist Of some
[note-he attracted attention, and
many women found him interesting.
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-
abs, and then he became doubly So
because a a CONSTANT succession sof.
scenes entirely prevented him doing.
amy good work.
a consequence he took to find
/ |inl:gFreliafs outside his home. @:.
Before lcng matters reached a
stage i 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 teen unutterably miserable, and
then Hamilton took the matter into
! his own hands and decided that
something must be- done. sss
There we're no grounds for d.
vorce, so that most disastrous of all
matrimonial arrangements, separa-
ton, was decided upon. In this case
neither party did form any new at
tachment. Strange as it may seem,
at the back of all their chickering's
they still cared for one another deep
l.y, and Agatha never ceased to cry
for the man who for fifteen years
Ehad been all in all to her, while,
Though :Geoffry found peace and d
new energy for work, always, at the
back OF. his mind, was a gnawing
anxiety as to what was happening to
1.-The woman who once meant SO mucl!,
Ito him. s: sss'F'.t 3. S. $''s4' ~
So matters drifted on until Aga
Itha died lonely, miserable, heart
lbroken and hef husband never real
Ily got over it, as the sequel shows.
That was Hamilton's first mar
riage, and you might have thought
that he would not have been in a
very great hurry to make another
experiment, but, as a matter Of fact,
Dit was only q very short time before
| be 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
an that unstrung, nervous state when
any clever woman with knowledge
Eof human weakness can upset a
man q s moral balance, and the woman
who did this was Evelyn Richards.
| She was a widow, and a slight ac-
lIuaintance Of some years standing,
but not woman with whom Hami!-
ton had ever been on terms Of the
slightest intimacy. a:
a chance meeting, though, one
lday afforded him some pleasure, for
1 she was undeniably attractive, and
the sequel to this meeting was ,,n
ARA cement to go to a heater the
following evening. They went and
Hamilton found rest and forgetful-
ness.
After fter the piece they adjourned 10
her he fiat for supper and afterward sat
for an a. hour smoking and talking OF
purely ordinary things. @ n
Then, how it happened the man
never ne quite knew, but suddenly the
WON " an rose from where she was sit
ltinsg, tn and coming over to him as he
stood BY the fire preparatory to taxi
ing bis leave, put her hands On his
shoald lders and kissed him. Before
The quite knew what he was doing he
had taken her III his arms and kissed
her back
re you angry Wit Ii me for that?''
she. said. e q don't know What