The Detroit times., 1915-08-10

cd that HAig had Ieft EpHicno WIZ w.
her hucba nd. Trsvsrton has never
heard OF her or Hatg since.
Treverton has been married 10
Sybil for . year when ne receives
tsis5rSs%, from T,,i hs, In Hs,s
rim At once. ga terrible mistake
has been made" the wire adds.
Trsverton hurries on and sees
Il have just arrived in England.
says the latter, "and learned that
you divorced your wife and brought
me into the :ffair. IA IKE cea TO 'r 10
your Wife on the day o. my de;
parture from England. and that !
have not set eyes on her from that
day to this."
tCepyright. isis. ~ the Assecistes
Newspaper. L1neteA)
CHAPTER ~
Two years later James Treverton
stood 1t the great oriel window OF
the library of verney Hall and look
Cd out across the lands that lay
beyond the park wall 1t the foot
OF the hill. For 500 years the prop
erty had been the heritage OF the
Trevertons: for II years It had been
In other hands.
Now once moro II had come back
70 the grandson Of the man who had
sold II. II had been repurchased
with part OF sibyl Lowther's great
fortune, three months after her mar
rage with James Treverton.
They had been married now for
nearly . year. and It was three
years since the night that Alice
Treverton had left her husband.
Nine months had elapsed before
Treverton had gained his freedom.
A bare month had been sufficient
to establish his wife's guilt
Four days after her departure he
had received . letter from her,
posted in Paris. and on the top Of
the sheet Of paper was stamped the
name OF the hotel in which she was
staying with her lover. Evidence
had accumulated slowly. but q month
had been sufficient to gather In all
that was available. The chauffeur
Of Capt. Haig's car had been found
and had told his story.
The landlord of an Inn In . VII
lage q few miles north Of Folke-
stone, the proprietor Of the hotel In
Paris, . steward of the Boulogne
boat, . clerk In . shipping once At
Marseilles, where Capt. Haig and
his wife" had booked their passage
to Suez--all these had been able TO
give evidence.
The guilty couple had made no at
tempt to cover up their tracks. They
quickly passed beyond the reach Of
the English law and disappeared in
the great country that lies to the
south OF the upper reaches OF the
Nile. No writ was ever served on
Capt. Haig. But there had been SUI.
flcient evidence to give Treverton
his freedom. The two letters writ.
ten BY his wife, and the evidence
Of the chauffeur and the innkeeper
ct Qawthorps had been quite enough
for his purpose.
That he followed up the trail any
further was due to . desire on his
part to learn ~ much ~ possible OF
his wife's movements from the time
she left his house to the time she
disappeared In the great silence Of
Central Africa
The divorce had been easy
enough, but the shame Of II had been
hard to bear. Mrs.. MowbrAy had
come forward with her letter, and
both she and her husband had done
their best to blacken Treverton's
character. Their spite did not affect
the result In any way whatever. but
they had the satisfaction of doing
an injury to Z man they both de-
tested.
Then had come the six months OF
waiting. and then the renewal OF
friendly relations with the people at
verney Hall. A year later he had
proposed TO Sybil Lowther and had
been accepted. The marriage had
taken place In Compton verney
church, and the honeymoon had
been spent. IN Italy. Soon after their
return the verney Hall estates had
been repurchassd from the Austins,
and Trevefton had realized one OF
the ambitions Of his life.
Bat Treverton Was thinking OF
none Of this - he stood By the
great oriei window in the library
and looked out across the park at
the broad lands that were al his
own. His thoughts were conferred
on his wife. soon 70 bear him q
child.
Years seemed - have drupped
from his shoulders % he stood
'AArs. sasins - sunlis As,l anl trss.