The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-09

father. marbles Tom Carter, poo
= mining engineer. He invests her ma I
o sss Rort .oa 81 roes out 70 with hIT
= 20 . life OF hardship while he seek
pay ore. Leils's parents visit then
a and Mrs. Austin IL shocked at the III
living. Leila is secretly glad to hea
q her mothers proposal that she return
v east. After Leila leaves. Tom strik
{ gold and writes TO Leila. telling hel
I the glorious good news.
He wrote a dozen lines more;
trying to put into words his rapture
at the discovery and his loverly
B eAserness to see Leila again.
Then. folding the letter. he looked
about for an envelope. He could
4 find none. His search brought him
q last to the dresser This had been
\ Leils's. and he had not had the heart
to open 1t since she left him. But
now he began ransackirg the sew
eral drawers.
He did not find the envelope he
e0ught, but he found simething else.
4 In the top drawer, among some cloth
\ ing. Leila had left behind in her hur.
4 ried packing, he happened upon a
crumpled half sheet Of paper-the
silly postscript Of Nellie Collins let
ser--the postscript that told of Hal
aey Brent's good fortune.
Tens eye was caught by the
words:
.Your old sweetheart, Halsey
Brent"
He read and re-read the whole
! scrawl. Long he stood there. move
I less. the scrap OF paper in his hand;
while the gladness aud hope died out
o. his bronzed, unshaven face 10 be
replaced by a scowl of doubt and of
jealousy.
He was reused from his gloomy
feverie by the jolting Of the rural
free delivery buggy as II drew up at
the Eate.
X Leila's thrice-a-week letters had
been The only bright spots in Toms
i0neliness. Eagerly he seized the
one litter the postman left for him
today. As he looked at its super.
lscription his expectancy turned TO
chagrin. For the letter was not
from Leila, but from her mother.
He opened II and read:
~My Dear Tom: I am writing this
On my own responsibility and with
nut Leila's knowledge. She Is SLOWLY
recoy ering from that horrible life out
there In the wilderness. But the
doctor agrees with US that she must
s,svss, never go back to II. That is
why am writing YOU
r. Assume that You are not alto
Esther selfish and that you have Lei
As relfare at heart. Her espera,enSee
~ for the brutaIly rough existence
.;.f q poor mans wife. And. now that
she eruine has failed, you are hope
tsssly poor and are likely to remain
y Are you going TO force my fra
+ silo. deficatefy nurtured daughter TO
70 on sharing your poverty and hard
ne ,ysry feast. she will become an
.or xre you man enough 70 give
sy0ur wife her freedom. so that she
nsy ss r Gs f ssr the 70 % ears and
the taxorses she Graves?
ssff you truly love her--if her best
welfare means anything at all TO you
hsre can se but nil, one s,y reply TO ,h snS
alscW hef 10 retrieve her one miser-
able y848txke. by marrying as her in
,~rcss and q think her heart die
Think this over. very carefully.
and let your better nature guide
rhe letters contents seemed TO
burn themselves into poor Tom Car
tiers brain in words of fire. He tore
the paper into score of fragments
I'm his first outburst OF indignation.
frhen his eve fell once more upon
Fthe postscript Nellie Collins had
written.
And at once he saw the impulse
>Sbehind Mrs. Austin's cruel letter
rAmong them these SNUG relatives OF
fsLetia's were trying to make her for
\ xet him and to marry her to rich
Fer man.
81 "A richer man." snarled Tom. hall
aloud. "Halsey Brent Ia no richer
Ethan the Leila A. will make me. MOI
xone-third as rich. The Austins vii
!struckle to me fast enough when they
Fnnd I've struck wealth Ia the mine
SBut it's no time for writing or ever
Flor telegraphing. II I'm TO save Leila
3 from divorcing me for Brent, I've
sigot to be on the ground TO night m
Town battle!"
" lie flung a few clothes into n bat
Uttered suitcase, rar TO the mine Il
give fnal instructions and swun;
,aboard an eastbound train three
hours later.
q He had counted so often on thi
1 trihmphal return To New York Yet
nov that the miracle had come Il
h pass, he felt no citation. He fel
knOthing save burningly murderou'
|<rase against the people who were
Etrving TO rob him of his adored wife
y yom Carter's guess az to tue state
Eof AFFAIRS was amazingly near TO the
Htroth.
n 1.ils's homecoming had beer ~
~tM return of loved one who has
fp&frowly escaped tortlring death
Min some accident. Her parents and
thor friends had showered her Vith
&ateention and had sought ir thou
Rsebd ways 20 make up TO her for
|w&at she had undergone.
Hrs. Austin bought her bewilder
9-n5ly beautiful quantity Of clothes
#3lk father kent her supplied Will