The Washington herald., 1915-10-31

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regret. Other acts Of seIfshness and greed.
that brought heart-oreak and tragedy into
Hces touching our opn. Surely. az zoe sis
alone eith our conscience. zoe knop BIT.
ferness and futtIity Of gain, and tie soo5sne
desire TO ease the Others hrrt f. %.
10 that opportunity to be granted usf
And merctfHiTy being granted mast not the
fuH measure Of recompense-osr penalty
also be required -.
or 70 10 possible that si. 10 longer q
menace to life
zee go go
Jordan L. Mott II gave a fortune to
Hector Fuller. war correspondent and
soldier Of fortune. to follow his SON and
the Other Woman round the world; and
the promise Of another fortune II he
brought Larry" back. Fuller trailed
them to Hongkong and met with nothing
but ungracious refusal.
I'm no vampire" said the Other
Woman. II love Larry we'll enough to
VIC
Let my father disinherit me IL hs
wants to-" said Larry: II can take care
OF myself. and / am going to-"
So Fuller came home, bringing the
shadow of shame. betrayed trust and re-
gret to rest on the house of Mott Lar
ry," in spite Of escapades, had been q
favorfte with his relatives, and his con-
duct was felt as the keenest disgrace.
But In Hongkong, where the sense of
ever-present wrong should have been
punishment unto itself, there was moth
ing but contentment.
On the first night Of their life in China
the dark eyes Of the Other Woman
looked into those Of the man who loved
her. smiling across the wine In her
raised glass.
Here's to our happiness" she toast
ed. Wicked j may be. but stupid I am
not. and you hate stupid women. Was
ever a good woman anything eIse?"
And Mott, borrowing the phrase from
Q much-quoted newspaper man. replied.
why do We marry women to whom we
cannot TALK"
Thus they went forth to seek a place
to live. He was going to earn their way
BY free lance newspaper writing. But
such writing does not pay we'll in China.
BESIDES, the English-speaking residents
Of the Reef would not receive her. So
the Peak. the highest and most heaIthful
rart OF the Chinese city. was closed to
them; poverty and ostracism forced
them to live In the mixed district where
their neighbors were Eurasians, persons
who became social outcasts by intermar-
riage with Chinese. And those neigh
bors craned their necks and stared in
solently at the little brown house which
sheltered the Frances Hewitt who was,
a few years ago. the toast Of Broadway,
devoted husband. The whole city knew
her as q wicked woman; knew
that she ran away from her husband. and
that the man who came home to her was
not of her name. Which was the reason
for strange, half-caste men to stare in at
the windows Of the cottage, even to try
to push their way in at the door. Al
ways busy. first. with the demands of q
professional career. then with her social
duties on Long Island. she had then
nothing at all to occupy her mind; she
was a lonely and pitiable object She
bnew, too, that her husband had married
again Her successor was the beautiful
Mrs. Adele Taylor Manning. one time
friend and neighbor.
Mott Jared no better at the hands OF
English-speaking residents of Hongkong.
They classed him as a fool and didn't
mind calling him such to his face. II Is
hard to be considered a fool. cad. q
man with no sense of honor and have no
right to object He had gone beyond the
limit Of even the farthest boundary OF
the double code; he had deserted his
wife for another woman, and that even
his men friends could not overlook.
Friends we're snubbed for bringing him
to the English Club; a magazine editor
replied to his offer to write series OF
articles on IAN American Millionaire IN
China" by saying that he would not Of
fend his readers with the sight OF the
name of Mott
Yet they were happy. They had each
other. And now they have, potentially,
all the things that a million dollars VIII
buy.
Remains the rigid balance: so much
for so much. eject for cause; ehich trdS
in the beginning and Which has diTdVs
been. Nature can not change Il, for N
nature there is no forgiveness: God TiH
not change it for God is Of the ldu, though
the Tdto is Of God
And this is q certain rule and n'rer
fails. that ice cannot do the thing contrary
TO nature tcithoUt great inconreHteHcc ana
displeusure TO ourselves
We do not break the ldp; zee Transports
the late and the lac breaks US E.
Sooner or later the lac tT1nsgreSSrd
breaks US. for such is justice the force OF
the ldu, eject for cause, so much for so
much
And the Girer Of the Lar has said TINT