News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-10-18

still awake. Alone in his uncheerfuI
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 in fact COM
mitted suicide. There had been, APP
| parently, but 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 "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 no.
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:
I rely upon the generosity you promise
me. This marriage of ours. that Is no
my ttorneys-I-anders, Grimshaw &
Clark, 149 Broadway-know when and
where you will accept service. Forgive
me If seem ungrateful and unfeeling.
am hardly myself. And please do not try
to see me now. Some day 1 hope to see
and thank you; today-it's impossible. l
am going away to forget, If l can.
Mary Ladislas Whitaker.
Before nightfall Whitaker had sat
isfied himself that his wife had, in
truth, left her town house. The serv-
ants there informed all who inquired
that they had been told to report and
W IOTWdTu all ieLleTS W N1eSSTS. LdH-
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 with
out success. When at length run to
ground in the roulette room of Forty
fourth street gambling house, the man.
ager was gr1mly 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 second-clasS |
steamship from Philadelphia.
The nine-days' wonder disintegrated
naturally. The sobriquet of "The De-
stroying Angel disappeared from the |
newspaper scare-heads. So also the |
name of Drummond. Hugh Morten
Whitaker, the dead man come to life, |
occupied public interest for a brief /
halliday. By the time that the execu-
tors of Carter Drummond and the at |
torneys representing his clients began |
to make sense of his estate and in
teres4, their discoveries failed to COM
mand newspaper space.
Drummond had appropriated to his
own uses every dollar of the small
fortune left in his care by his erstwhile |,
partner. No other client of his had /
suffered, however. His populations had
been confined wholly to the one quar-
ter whence he had had every reason to
anticipate neither protest nor ex-
posture. In Whitaker's too-magnani-
nous opinion, the man had not been
so much thief as one who yielded to
the temptation to convert to his own
needs and uses a property against /
which, it appeared, no other living be-
ing cared to enter claim. The mon
etary loss was an inconsiderable thing
to man with an interest in mines in
the Owen Stanley country. He said
nothing. Drummond's name remained
untarnished, save in the knowledge of
a few.
OF these, Martin Ember was one.
Whitaker made point of hunting him
up. The retired detective received con-
frmation of his surmise without any