The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-30
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 n
world Of newspapers gone mad and
garrulous with accounts OF the sensa-
tion 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, elaborately 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 I'm 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:
rely upon the generosity you promise
me. This marriage of ours that is no
marriage. must be dissolved. Please let
my attorneys-Isanders, Grimshaw &
clark, r1f9 Broadway-know when and
Where you Will accept service Forgive
me me 4 ! seem ungrateful and unfeeling. I
am hardly myself; And please do not try
70 see me now. Some day I hope TO see
and thank you; today-it's impossible. 1
am going away to forget N i can.
Nary Ladislas Whitaker.
Before nightfall Whitaker had sat
isiied 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
20 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-
You'd their brief and businesslille ac-
acknowledgements, he heard nothing more
OF the action FOR divorce.
lie sought Max several times with
out success. When at length run to
ground IN the roulette room OF n Forty
fourth street gambling house. the man
agcr was grimly retlcent. Warned by
'he managers truculont and suspicious
tone that his secret was, after an,
nnricd mo- more than skin deep, Whita-
yer dissembled artfully LIS anxiety,
ahd abandoned Max TO his pct vices.
The newspapers reported Sara Law
az being la retirement IN several wide
" separated sections OF the country.
ahe was also said to have gone abroad,
sailing incognito by secOnd.ciass
steamship from Philadelphia.
The nine-days' wonder disintcgrated
naturally. The sobriuuot of "rhe De
siroylng Angel" disappeared from the
news spapcr scare-hcads. So also the
nnine Of Drummond. Hugh Morton
"ii'taker thc dead man come to life.
occupied public interest for n brief
noi-oay By the time that ihe e2ecu-
l''+ OF 'arfer Drummond and the at-
''fh cnting his clients began
Of his estate and in.
rcr.rs failcd to CON.
prnfed o. his
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