Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-13
CONTINUED From Yesterday

For a long time the millionaire stood
there. his arm rigidly outstretched as
though he would drive from the room
the evil thoughts the departing woman
had left behind. Then he laughed.
laughed with an attempt at lightness.
The crumpled ball of paper fell to the
floor from his hand.
Slowly. slowly he reached down and
pickd it up. tuckine it in his pocket
carefully. Then he sank back in the
big chair, thinking, thinking.
DR.. Holland came into the house and
passed hurriedly to his apartments.
then. later. Selma entered the house.
For just second sharp twinge of
jealousy shot through him as he told
himself they had entered by the same
door, they had been in the gardens
at the same time. And again he
laughed at himself
Yet the poison was there, !nfltrat-
ing the very soul OF him. He caught
himself constantly on guard, CHANGING
at his wife and the doctor from under
the shade of his brows. furtive. sus-
picious looks he could not forego, even
though he knew they demeaned him.
1t was month after the discharge
of Mrs. Presley that he stealth!ly
moved from his chair in the library as
Selma slipped out into the night air.
followed shortly by Dr. Holland He
had tried to convince himself that the
change in manner toward him on his
wifss part was due to some intuitional
reading Of his thoughts. Even now he
fought against the impulse which
caused him to spy on the pair
Clearly silhouetted against the night.
he made out her figure. Her face was
covered with her hands. and he could
see she was sobbng silently 10 her
self. DR.. Holland was strolling toward
her, yet Dwight was aware that the
physician had not seen her. He slipped
quickly behind stone pillar. every
human impulse urging him 10 close mis-
eyes to the scene. yet every impulse
from outside making those eyes twin
points of light, rivaling in shrewdness
fastened upon the couple.
He caught the uncertainty, the sur
prise, of the doctor as he caught sight
OF the woman. He caught the impulse
Of the man TO comfort her, saw the
fighting down OF that impulse. Then
DR.. Holland placed his hand upon her
shoulder, his voice but the gentlest
whisper of a sound as he called her
name. She turned and looked UP at
him, then swiftly some iron band OF
self-restraint within her snapped. and
she flung her arms about his neck.
With her head resting upon his chest,
he murmured words which Numbered
back to the millionaire behind the
pillar. killing something inside the
very soul of the man, even a 5 IL quick
ened the LIE in his body.
Suddenly Selma drew away, crouch
ing, fearful as she regarded the man
toward whom she had gone In her hour
of weakness. Dwight leaned forward
the better to listen. Her voice was
broken, wild with passionate despair
s it rang in his ears.
"No-No--You must not. You must
go. I will must be true to him
while he lives. You must go-you
must"
CROPPED his way hack 20 the house. In
the hall he paused uncertainty. his
hand upon the knob OF the library door
as though ne had just come from there.
Selma entered, and he called softly.
tenderly TO her. putting his arm about
: her, kissing her tenderly, even as he
reached out and clasped the hand OF
DR.. Holland, who came in immedi-
ately after her
Slowly the pair moved up tho stairs.
and David Dwight watched them from
beside the library door. He was cold
now. Something had died within him.
He frowned, biz DuZZled at ths -!for,
a Identification. We had tit vas his
soul that had been killed. That was
why he had laughed inwardIy as lie
placed his arms where those OF Hol-
land had been hut scant few moments
before, as he felt the instructive
shrinking away Of the woman he had
married. That was why he had been
so gleeful, as Hollands hand rc,urned
no pressure 10 his own.
With a murdered soul. David Dwigh,
found Hatred had become JOY Blu,