Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-16

dawned on her every vestige of color
fled from her cheeks.
HE said that?" she stammered. What
what did you say-that it was a lie,
of course2"
mo" said Mrs. Plessey, calmly, II was
not as unprepared for the announcement
as Master Gilbert supposed. / asked him
as calmly as / am speaking now what
he meant by that assertion. He pro-
ceeded to inform me that he had stumbled
across a man called Dereve-Sydney De-
reve-an Americanized Englishman This
man had a sister called Aline, think,
and 1t was this sister, IL you please.
whom your father had married in Cana
da before he married me-"
Maud gasped. Mother, how awfuIp
Mrs. Plessey smiled ironically. "welI.
as I've said, Gilbert's announcement did
not take my breath away, for your
father had been frank enough to tell me
about Miss Aline He had even told me
he had married her, but had assured me
she was dead before he married me. That
was where the surprise came in. Your
father told me, and 1 see no reason to
doubt his story, that this girl in the
course of her adventures and priyations
had contracted the opium habit. They
seem to have been very fond of each
other at hrst, but then they took to quar-
reling hercely Luckily for him he kent
the marriage secret except from a few
brother officers. So one day when the girl
bolted, leaving a curious, incoherent note
behind her, protesting her affection and
an that' ne simply washed his hands OF
shore"
But surely he didn't altogether aban-
don the girl?" queried Maud. ''His con
duct. according TO you. was heartless In
the extreme. 1t sounds very unlike
father"
He didn't altogether abandon her He
had her traced to some American city. and
then agreed TO pay her so much a wear so
long as she never came to Europe She
seems to have spent the rest OF her ne
roaming about America and the Far Hast
Then-so your father told me-he got =
letter from Honolulu supposed TO be writ
ten by friend OF hers announcing that
she was dead. A month after he mar
ried me-" mar
Maud pondered this information in her
Hlina' 1 see'" she said at length; 'and
now, | suppose. Huron had found out H.
she was alive after all"
mo, but that she had shot HERSELF a.,
san Francisco month after instead os
heiore my marriage, Huron had found
tnls out from Dereve. and Dereve was
over mere armed with all the neeessar,,
papers bent on exposing the admiraI
and incidentally me- SO You NAV s,,r-
pose l lelt rather annoyed ana unset
Sllpert then Informed he that this man
tsFe was particularly anxious 10 gel
so.S sV,S u some plans and things In your
iathers possession, and suggested tbst
ne might be bribed with them to kesn
sneAee. II seemed to me a eheap vya,
OF buying him Off" "~'
you seriousg' arc
IN We'll those plans We're only usef,l
20 the Admiralty ana the nation snd
lhlngs like that, while / had mvssIf y,
y. and you, added Mrs Plessev.
y az opx.%ous % alterthought, 80 / agreed
% assist them TO get the plans No.
while, l had Il out with vo,Ir f.tt.1.
tod him that I had heard that MS 6rst
Hls was awe when he married me ami
suggested that We might be ouietl,, -
flea again somewhere He reDroschs.
me with what he was pleased 10 can ~,
.lil'us hhes' SAID he knew all about nv
se,inss with Huron, ana had spoJxen
~ lne suoleet already 70 young Arroi
40 90 your precious Martin iustice
must say that ne combated your fafber,-
suspicious for an he was worth. tbough
ne hao seen me meeting other men seore,
y uaaea- OF course. there sgaa a frlgbt
1ul row Anyhow, the long and lie sbort
- HAa tnat your father declared ~
w. sac 70 hear that 4 wasn't Ieqali,,
li9 We, ana refused to marry me over
asaln Instead, he proposed that i shonid
~ e9t2Al aia 20 would settle an allow
What sbeat meT faitsrsa Maud IN
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