The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-01
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 pental exhaustion.
The morning introduced him to q
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
parentIy, but n 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 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:
L rely upon the generosity you promise
me- This marriage of ours, that is nc
marriage, must be dissolved. Please lei
my attorneys-LanderS, Grimshaw &
Clark. 149 neutrality-suspicious. when anC
where you will accept service. Forgive
me if seem ungrateful and unfeeling.
to see me now. Some day L hope TO SCI
and thank you; today-it's impossible
am going away to forget. if | can.
Mary Ladislas Whitaker.
Before nightfall Whitaker had sat
isfed himself that his wife had, il
truth, left her town house. The serv
ants there Informed all who inquired
that they had been told to report anC
TO forward all letters TO Messrs. Ian
ders, Grimshaw & Clark.
Whitaker promptly notified those at
torneys that he was ready to bt
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 tC
ground in the roulette room of Forty
fourth street gambling house. the man
ager was grimly reticent. Warned by
thu managers truculent and suspicion:
tone that his secret was. after all
buried no more than skin deep, Whita
ker diSSembled artfully his anxiety
aud 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-ciaS
steamship from Philadelphia.
The nine-days' wonder disintegratet
naturally. The Sobriquet of 1.-The De
stroying Angel disappeared from tn
newspaper Scare-headS. SO also tn
name of Drummond Hugh Mortel
Whitaker, the dead man come TO life
occupied public interest for a brie
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
tereSts, their discoveries failed TO com
mand newspaper space.
DrummOnd had appropriated TO hi
own uses every dollar of the small
fortune left in his care by his erstwhiI,
partner No other client of his ha,
suffered, however. His peculations hat
been confined wholly TO the one quar-
ter whence he had had every reason t,
anticipate neither protest nor eX
posure In Whitaker's too-magnanj
nous opinion, the man had not beel
so much a thief as one who yielded t
the temptation TO convert to his owl
needs and uses property againS
which, it appeared, no other living be
ing cared to enter claim. The mon
etary loss was an inconsiderable thin
to a man with an interest in mines i
the Owen Stanley country. He sal
nothing. Drummond's name RENAME