South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-17

kept back his letter"
DO you mean that he - dead?"
she cried.
II don't know whether he Is desa
or alive, but / sincerely hope th1s
he is the former" Denison replied
curtly.
His wife's short upper lip curled.
Yes. 1 expect you do: he would
know how to punish you as you de-
serve. And in the meantime" she
added, Il will leave no stone I'M
turned TO And him. so that / may
tell him the truth and compel you to
face him"
Il shall be ready to meet him."
he answered, only. for your own
sake. 1 hope you won't wish to be
present at our interview"
"On the contrary. IL will give me
great pleasure to see you punished
BY the man whose life you have
spoilt as well as mine" she said
bitterly.
Then these past FIVE years in
which I have devoted myself TO you
are all TO count as nothing" DENT
son began. "All your pity and love
Is for-that other chap whom you
knew only in the superficial way
that a girl can know man 10
whom she 10 not sven publicly en-
gagged. But I have been your hus-
band all this time. I'm daily inter
course with you--surely that ought
to count for somethingT
1t Is nothing compared 70 the
fact that for Ave years l have mis-
Judged man who loved me-who
wrote TO me when he was in sore
trouble" she replied swiftly. "All
these years he has thought III OF
me; and you knew that-and yet
kept silent"
Then you won't forgiven?
NO: my pity IL for that other man
whom you wronged." she retorted.
Il shall not ask you 10 help me to
ind him in case you should CHEAT
me a second time"
From that day the relations be-
tween Max Denison and his wife be-
came more and more strained. Out
wardly, they maintained before their
friends a non committal attitude that
betrayed none OF the bitterness that
lay between them. The subject OF
George Dallas was not referred 10
again by either Of them, but he
doomed between them like shadow.
making the woman's face white and
thin. and the mans cold and stern.
Mrs Denison made all the In
quiries she could about the man
whom she had once loved. but he
seemed 10 have dropped out OF ex-
istence. and the few people TO whom
she ventured TO mention his name
shrugged their shoulders. and sug
Eested that he had gone abroad
She put an advertisement IN
daily paper, worded so that no one
but her old lover could possibly un-
derstand Il; and then, with heavy
heart. she continued her round OF
social duties
One day. about three weeks be
fore Christmas. her husband came
into her BOULDER. Since that day
when he mad broken IN her door ne
had not asked for admittance. and
they met only at dinner in the eve
ming. and sometimes days went past
when they never met at all.
SO YOU have advertised for
George Dallas?" he began curtiy.
She raised her brows in surprise.
Surely you understood that
wished 10 see hiIRf- she said
eoldly.
He looked at her searchingly-
then. I'm low. earnest voice went
on:
Mabel. I beg OF yod 60 drop this
mad search for the nan. BeheNs
me. he would be the frsr TO beg you
10 forget him now. Why try TO rake
up the past? 1t can do no good and
bring only pain TO YOU.
She broke into hard little laugh
Yes. you are afraid OF what he
might reveal when We do meet, but
nothing matters now-nothing. eK-
cept that 7 shall not rest TIN have
seen him.
He shrugged his shoulders