Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-15
EPISODE: NINE
OUTSIDE, THE LAW.

OUTSIDE THE LAW.
HI a cor"ered %ornered. And ! don't
know how to fight. 1t is the end of
way OUT ct" i'm" Il
~ think have found a way ou,--the way
OBVIOUS. that YOU have passed I, by You
must 20 to your husband with the whole
on. can't tell my husband Don, ask
me 70 do that He is tho dcares, boy in tho
could not live with this cloud on our happi-
the same v be,we ,e1 n'm 1t would never bs
IAN. Is there no other way for you to help
but you ought TO explain. Tha, is the
simplest way-and the best. Throw yourself
b bn your M. hrsbanh's mercy He viii know
nov 20 zeal with 81 man Hike
,, snt Madeline Grey permitted me to 90 no
bqeedn fs psasKT h all he |serYe o: good
ni ner cnair. across the room, and her
s as, a, my NJ side in series Of movements
desperately swift, motion.
Her letter had to me- with ,b,,
smooth paper OF thar sof, gray-blue Known
IS caoes gray Stamped across the nap
corner 81 the paper were the Initials M
r, g.; IN scrip, tina, matched the angular.
-nEiish- looking writing OF the letter Itself
but what made the stationery even more
oonspirugus than its color ana the stamped
Jagged. unfinished edges, which appeared 10
haye been torn instead Of cut ~, the very
oddly OF her stationery the writer's fate
was yet I" hang.
the paper attracted my attention. The
letter arrested II
"Drnr Miss Fnirfn1-You have he,pcd
many unhappy women. Cnn you md
time 10 come to- who ts truly des-
pernt~' Please do not publish this.
'MtDELINE: GREY.
"1'ih james Street.
letter and The note of desperation In hur-
req. blurred writing as well in words
grin he practises faithfully In the hone
"i . n,aK,ns " replica OF Jimmy Barcons.
voice fr% snss ang ,nor his happy young
laid an epistle which proved Ia he very
This is how the letter OF con,ras, in tone
an ana color 0or II wns written on bright
aI haeT OF res Se sort found on
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am fascinating
would like to help me eat It?
'e''eE 'jIMsiY BARTON"
smiled over Jirnmys letter. aud the very
contrast helped me to decide IN world
masculine exuberance OF spirit could no, be
deaf to 9Th, the Instructive feeling which clam
need-in grave need"
had to go to her. To me IT meant a
meant life itself. -
;, On the way out stopped Jimmy's desk
He got to his feet with that quick instinct
OF chivalry which makes him give his sea
to to , dra sa old scTnbwoman the instant
Lady OF the judicial mien. present your
verdict said he
You are sentenced TO call for me at No.
il4o James street I'm an hour. ] have call
to to maxi and after that will be ready for
"Iil he thar" laughed ]. L.
Half an hours ride In the subway brought
me to my station. Then came walk dow
'uiet street. and presently found myself
h at the doorway of a pretty little red brick
a maid ushcred me into drawing room.
tr tn m o1acn the shstelaine Of that at
fMl young woman of a little more than thirty
Her letter had led me to expect a girl: her
notably good looking woman before me-
$1,000 at the edge of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. mag
netic and full OF lure she was--but no longer
tragedy.
Madeline Grey was thirty three inst n
year before she had married Wilbur Grey
after tempestuous wooing which made her
adored with TIC, shadow OF n memory be-
tween them.
wilbur is Ave years younger than l. He
had been devoted to athletics. and having
worked his way up from the poverty of tho
haa farm The 5eu he was bo1n
we met was thirty and he twenty
ut love at first sight with him ]
ran away. afraid l had suffered so
much from love that couldn't risk It again.
thought he was much younger that he
would forget But he followed me-
,or There h;s, has never been any other woman
that there was once-another man for me-
That man Is dead. 1t was early love
was only twenty-two. He tired OF me and
broke our engagement.
was desperate. ! wrote letters to hold
MIN. No jealous man could read those let
tors and forget them help from wonder
Ing what there had been between me and
charlie Duane. 1t hurts my pride to have TO
assure even you that there nothing
wrong-just lovc-and a broken engagement
with the girl stNl caring after the man had
stopped
Miss Fairfax. Simeon Gold has those let
ters And unless you can tell me how TO
get them before he goes to Wilbur with
them when he returns to the city in
days--I-l-well don't want togo on liv-
ing. I'm too frightened"
Simeon Gold" So II was Simeon Gold In
whose meshes Madeline Grey was involved
Thon. indeed unless she fearless as
we'i az innonant- her need OF help was direi