Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-12-22
CHAPTER VIII.
Entr'acte.


Dawn of Sunday found Whitaker
still awake. Alone in his uncheerful
bedchamber, his chair tilted back
against the wall, he sat smoking and
thinking, reviewing again and again
every consideration growing out of his
matrimonial ENHANCEMENT. He turned
in at length to the dreamless slumbers
of mental exhaustion.
The morning introduced him to a
world of newspapers gone mad and
garrulous with accounts of the sensa-
ton of the preceding night. What they
told him only confirmed the history of
his wife's career as detailed by the
gratuitous Mr.. Ember. There was,
however, no suggestion in any report
that Drummond had not sin fact conn
mitted suicide. There had been, APP
parently, but a single witness of the
felo de Sc, who in the subsequent con-
fusion had vanished. No one dreamed
of questioning the authenticity of the
report. Several sensational sheets ran
exhaustive resumes, deliberately Illus
trated, of the public life of 1.-THE De-
stroying Angel" 1t seemed to be an
unanimous assumption that the news
of Drummond's suicide had in some
manner been conveyed to the woman
while on the stage.
In the course of the forenoon a note
for Whitaker was delivered at the ho-
tel.
The heavy sheet of white paper,
stamped with the address in Fifty-sev-
enth street, bore the message in a
strong but nervous hand:
rely upon the generosity you promise
me. This marriage of ours, that is no
marriage, must be dissolved. Please let
my attorneys-Landers, Grimshaw e
Clark, 149 Broadway-know when and
where you will accept service. Forgive
me if l seem ungrateful and unfeelng. l
am hardly myself. And please do not try
to see me now. Some day / hope to see
and thank you; today-its impossible l
am going away to forget. if / can
Mary Ladislas Whitaker.
Before nightfaH Whitaker had sat
isfed himself that his wife had, in
truth, left her town house. The serv-
ants there informed all who inquired
to forward all letters to Messrs. Ian
ders, Grimshaw & Clark.
Whitaker promptly notified those at
torneys that he was ready to be
served at their convenience. But be-
yond their brief and businesslike ac-
acknowledgement, he heard nothing more
of the action for divorce.
He sought Max several times witt
out success. When at length run TO
ground in the roulette room of Forty
fourth street gambling house, the man
ager was grimly reticent. Warned by
the managers truculent and suspicious
tone that his secret was, after all
buried no more than skin deep, Whita.
ker dissembled artfully his anxiety
and abandoned Max to his pet vices
The newspapers reported Sara Law
as being in retirement in several wide
ly separated sections of the country
She was also said to have gone abroad
sailing incognito by a second-clas
steamship from Philadelphia.
The nine-days' wonder disintegrate,
naturally. The sobriquet of THE De
stroying Angel" disappeared from tn
newspaper scare-heads. SO also tn
name of Drummond. Hugh Morte
Whitaker, the dead man come to Hf
occupied public interest for a bri,
halliday. BY the time that the exec,
tors of Carter Drummond and the a
torneys representing his clients tegs
70 make sense of his estate and /
terests, their discoveries failed to col
mand newspaper space.
Drummond had appropriated to
avn uses every dollar OF the SIN
fortune left in his care by his erstwh