Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-03

might have been apprehended and pres
vented from doing any harm; but II
was visible only in his crafty eyes and
unnaturally quiet bearing as he
jumped into his auto and started for
the coast.
Fall had seen the extra" before
Norris, and his wife's drastic action
had made him suddenly afraid. He
slipped from every flower" and rocked
not the'cost; but this thing. copied by
all the papers throughout the land
might, and very probably would. ruin
him. He felt particularly aggrieved
in that for the thing he was about to
be punished, he was entirely innocent.
He took an early train for the beach
where he endeavored to placats his
wife, and make her withdraw her
charge; but she had ceased to think of
him as a positive quantity, and was
unmoved by his appeals.
When Ethel arrived. she went
straight to her cottage. which she
found deserted. Myra and her father
had gone to the shore. She drew in
her breath sharply as her anxious
eyes, after searching the llving-room
for signs OF its new occupant. fell on
a large. floppy straw hat flung care
lessly on a chair. She picked it up.
and examined it eagerly. her essential
feminine binding her for the moment
to it's indication. and causing her to
wonder what he could see in THAT;
then realizing its significance she
dashed it flercely to the ground and
started for the coast. She walked
quickly, tirelessly in the soft sand, and
was startled when, after a sharp turn
round a ledge of rock, she came upon
Willard Fall. He was soDered by his
wife's refusal to listen to his entreat-
les, and was as detected as his trivial
nature would allow. He lifted his hat.
Good afternoon, Mrs Norris.
Thought you didn't like the seashore."
"Howdyedo. Mr.. Fall. Oh, 1 come
down occasionally"
''rve wanted ever since that fright
full day, to let you know how sorry I
am that you sh ould have been placed
In such an unfortunate position"
He said nothing, however, Of the
divorce suit, thinking she must already
know. She wanted to be rid of him
wanted to fly on wildly-wanted to
find them-wanted and feared to
feared every step that took her eager,
urgent feet further and further along
the limitless stretch of beach. He
kept on talking, solicitously trying his
utmost to assure her of his regret, all
unconscious that her tortured, anx-
ious, fearful mind was intent on an
other topic, and that she grasped not
a word that he uttered.
Racing, careening madly down the
beach came Norris auto. its flying
wheels sending up a swish of sand in
their wake. 1t stopped within a few
yards of them, and Norris, a strange,
wild expression on his face, jumped
out. He had seen them half mile
off, and the sight of them together
changed his crafty, quiet look to one
of terrible rage. Dashing wildly up
to where they stood. he thrust the
frightful headline under EthePs eyes,
his face twitching in frightful contor-
tions.
"Is it true? Is it true7 Is it,
he gurgled chokingly.
EtheFs eye took in the glaring
headline, and followed down to the
subhead. She started back, gasping,
realizing fully that what she had
dreaded had come to pass-that he
had learned from another source what
che had not the courage to tell him
that he had doubted her as she him
that it was all a hideous misunder-
standing fed on by Gossip-and thai
the man before her was a ravins
maniac.
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| watching her, needed no answer, her
startled gasp as she shrank back con-
victing her utterly.
His hand went deep in his pocket
and when he wheeled and raised his
arm there was a short sharp flash
and Fall dropped in the sand. He
| rose, and with faltering steps started
! like drunken man toward a cliff
| overlooking the sea. Stumbling, fall.
ing, desperately rising, he made his
way up through the rocks to the cliffs
| top, as Ethel wrestled frantically with
the madmaa before her.
| He broke loose from her clutchine
fingers, and again raising his arm
| pointed it toward the cliffs summit
where Fall tottered. Another shot
a sickening splash-and the softlS
tapping, halcyon waters of the Pacific
closed over the dead body of Willard
Fall.
Shiny Scandal, born of Doubt and
Misunderstanding, had como into its
/ own.
/ Lives were ruined; lives were ended
Because a woman couldn't hold he
tongue the penalty was paid-paid-
paid.
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