The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-16
REVELATIONS Revelation
QjR'MlPE
Why Madgs Felt That She Must Give
Robert Savarin Some Hope In His
Despair Of Lillian.
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kobert SavAfin Some HOPE in MS
Despair Of Lillian
7 HAVE never seen saddcr face
than Robert Savarin's as he finished
= telling me of his early hopeless love
for Lillian Underwood when, as a
girl, she Frightened with her pretty,
fresh enthusiasm his dingy studio
lie gazed down the stream, which, LIT
by dancing sunbeamS, flowed beneath
our feet as we stood upon the old
bridge, and IN his look was such an
guish OF regret that turned away my
face.
Perhaps you can guc. now why ]
must not stay longer at your home,
he said at last measuredly
! turned to him helplessly, for did
not wish to foreNall his confidence
You mean"
That the sigh, OF Mrs. Underwood
has brought back. to me tenfold the
feeling with which ! once regarded
her" he said tenscy. And the
strength of my will is broken. can.
not be near her and not let her know
how ! feel toward her She isn't free
even to listen to me. Thereiore-it is
better-that | go away"
lie stopped and gazcd down the
stream again, while ! wrcstled with IN,
temptation 10 urge him to stay at any
cost, and to reveal to Lillian everything
he had told me.
For, despite my Puritan training, OF
perhaps, queerly enough, because oi Il,
have no sympathy with, no reyer.
encc for the marital tie which binds
Lillian and Harry Underwood together
Lillian had married Harry Underwood
before the death Of her first husband
the unspcakabIe Morton, whose unjust
divorce OF her had shadowed ant
branded her life. The later marriage
was, as | knew, simply one OF con
venience and OF comfort lu the real
true sense II was no marriage at all
although Lillian had played the role o.
devoted wife as whole heartedly as sht
did anything entrusted to her.
And Harry Underwood had rewarded
her years of care and tenderness b.
deserving her when she brought HON,
her child from whom she had so lon,
been separated, calmly requesting in
letter from South America that Sh,
divorce him. This Lillian was deter
mined pot TO do, because Al the stlgm,
that would attach to little Marioeuwer
her mother again to appear in NVOro
proceedings, but secretly | did not Sc
how she would be able to avoid it, !
Harry Underwood wNs determined Il
drag her through the divorce court h
would do it, especially when urged ~
as | was sure he was. by Grace Drapcr
who had fled to him in South Americ
after her last mad attempt to wi
Dicky from me
What Madgc Said.
took a sudden resolution ! coul
not bid Robert Savarin to stay but
least could give him an inkllng OF 10
matters stood. When had told hi
Lillian's story had stopped with h'
! husbands desertion of her had sal
no word OF Harry Underwood's ooldl
cruel proposal Of divorce
There's something think you ougf
to know before you fully decide to 4
away" | said timidly.
He turned to me quickly.
Tell il to me at once" he sal
peremp,oriIy, and ! saw that his fee
ing for Lillian was so strong that i
discussing any matter concerning hc
he lost sight OF the courtesy OF specc
due anyone else.
told him in as few words as pos
sible OF Harry Undcrwood's dcman
for a divorce, Lillan's refusal to Civ
him one, her reasons for her reiuS;
and my conviction that some way i
defiance of all law and reason, Harr
Underwoods indomi,able will woul
find way to bring Lillian to h
terms lie listened quietly, and oul
tho olenching of his nervous iinger
into the palms OF his hands betraye
the agitation he must have felt at m
recital. At its close he was silent iC
long minute, and then he cried o,
iiercely pasSionately:
"If She Could Only"
"li she could only care for me,
would feel that had the righ, to figl
: her battles for her Bu, as that is in
possible, | am tied, impotentw
b "What makes you so certain that
is impossible" asked. my hear, bea