Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-03-13

fehected, OF course, IN the daily mar
kets Of the western city; but Halsey
had never had many investments, had
watched the markets little; and now
isolated at Graystcae Hall almost as
much as ts0ugn upon a desert island
and toS much disturbed and distracted
in us own mind to find any definite in
eerest in business matters. was hardly
conscious of the storm that ragged. He
simply waited on. unhappily. 1t seemed
to him there was no place for him in
all the world. Why did Virginia re
main aloof?
Rawn. absent, in New York, imag.
ined his wife engaged continuously ia
the struggle of persuading Charles
Halsey to see the light of reason, al
though he did not know Halsey was
living under the same roof with her
As a matter of fact, Halsey and she
me: cut rarely. Virginia breakfasted
for the most part in her own rooms,
and found, or pretended to find, some
hing 70 occupy her for the most part
% the day Not once did she ask his
attendance, not once did she speak
with him. when by chance she saw
him. upon any but casual or conYen-
tional matters. She seemed always to
syade him: and because she did this,
he, rebelling, sought her out all the
more. even while continually resolv-
ing to take his departure. and never
again to see this place, or her. again.
He wondered at her reticence, her
avoidance of him. He wondered why
she was so pale. He loitered about.
lnhappily, in this or that common
meeting ground OF the great mansion
house. waiting to hear the rustic OF
A gown upon the stair, the sound of a
light foot on a floor. the touch OF 3
white hand, the sound OF a voice-al1
things belonging, not TO his wife, but
TO his young stepmother by law.
Yes. Without his wish, in spite OF
her wish, these had become things de
sired. the only things desirable any
more in his distracted life. He lived
under the same roof with two women
saw either rarely, and rarely thought
OF but one-the wrong one. To atone
Ialsey lavished ali his time and care
on his little hunchback daughter, and
had her with him as much as the nurse
and doctor would allow. The child
understood, pale, deformed, silent and
wistful, and pathetic always, now was
listless and weak, obviously very seTi-
ously ILL., II wrung her fathers heart
70 see her. But Charles Halsey want
ed it wrung. He wanted to do bitter
est penance for what he now knew
was his secret sin. So the ways OF
inordinate power, the consequences,
for this one or that one, which follow
on inordinate greed, worked them
selves out toward their sure and log
ical ending, the mill of fate grinding
those primarily, secondariIy, even Incl
dentally guilty.
At this time, had Virginia Rawn
asked OF him 10 recant, to relent, to
change. there is likelihood he would
have done so. John Rawn. cuckold,
was right in his despicable reasoning.
There are many prices which purchase
principles. The weakness which had
prompted Halsey to remain at Gray
stone hall on such a tenure-which
held him there now, waiting for
voice, listening for footfall-was the
ancient weakness of youth before
youth, OF strength before beauty. of
the empty heart before one offering
love, of the mind finding perfect echo
in another mind
With all his starved heart, all his re-
pressed soul, all hss mutinous body,
Charles Halsey loved Virginia Rawn.