New Britain herald., 1917-01-20
What Happened When Robert SavariI
Said 'That Rests Entirely With
the Lady,

What Happened When Robert Savarin |
Said "That Rests Entirely With
the Lady"
If the woman who had pretended !
to be Robert Savarin's wife possessed
a. vivid imagination she must have
had swift mental picture of herself
lnithe prisoners dock Of a court room
as the cold, pitiless words of the man
who had once believed himself to be
her husband fell upon her ears.
There was an absolute lack Of emo
ton in the tones of the man who had
suffered so terribly on account of the |
woman he was confronting as he out
lined the offence against him of which
she had been guilty.
1 had a fashlike mental picture of
the terrible sufferings which must
have been this mans 1 5 years before.
"A Waif of the studios his sister had
called the woman with whom her
brother had fallen madly in love,
| whom he had rescued from the life
she had been living, to whom he had
given an unparalleled devotion and
the shelter of his name, and who in
return had deceived him in regard to
| d previous Iu1llCu AAiAAA ~
her extravaganza and escapades, and
had finally deserted him when he had
nothing more to give her. ..
And now, after years lost to him
with the clouding of his brain, he had
at last found her in the home of the
sister who had cared for him, a very
thief in the night, attempting to take
| the pictures which were all that re-
| NAMED of his life's work.
I think the realization finally
reached the woman confronting him
that every vestige of her power over
him was gone, and that the attitude
in which. he now stood before her
was that of just and emotionless
Judge in whom pity had no part.
T saw her m osten her lips with her
tongue, and then she spoke, steadily
enough, for all the deadly fear that
must have possessed her:
| 'sWell?" she said, tonelessly, "you
evidently have all the cards in your
| hands. What are you going to do?'
In the Hands of Madse.
And then Robert Savarin made a
most amazing reply:
"That rests entirely With the lady
/ whom you tried to attack viciously
! a few moments ago. he said. LAS
! for myself the knowledge that [ am
! free from you, that you have abso-
lutely no claim upon me- and that IN
NV hands l hold the power to effect
| ually prevent YOU from ever annoying
! me again is all that l wish. But this
! lady's wishes are another matter.
From what 1 have overheard, L Under
stand that you have given her much
needless trouble and annoyance. If
hn
has in her hands against you I have
no alternative but to consent, for [
; understand she has been instrumental
+ in saving my pictures
cannot imagine a punishment
| mora bitter to the proud woman who
! s+ood before us than the humiliation
! which she must have undergone at
! p ebert Sayarin's words. To have the
man who had worshipped her show
! Inv his words and tone that she was
! less to him than the rug upon which
he stood, that no word or look Of hers
would ever have power to stir him
.oain was a bitter enough draught
fo, any woman to swallow. But to
have her fate turned over to me for
decisjon-I we'll knew that she would
| ain, ost rather go to prison than to owe
| her deliverance to me.
"Don't Be FOOL"
Indeed, her answer to the words Of
! her former lover showed her feeling.
"She may do whatever she Wishes
she snarled through stiff white lips.
| 81 will not ask her one little favor.
I shrank back into Dicky's arms
from the venom of the glance she
shot at me.
| "Please make them let her go,
Dicky," T whispered with my cheek
against his. But don't ask me to
say anything. You talk to them"
There. there, sweetheart" Dicky
said tenderly, holding me so that my
face was hidden from that Of the
| other woman's Then I heard his
! voice, cutting as a whip lash:
eff it rested with me, Mrs. Allis, y
he said 'I am afraid you would de-
corate prison cell for many days
to come But I cannot allow Mrs.
Graham to be dragged into the pub
Lefty which would accompany your
| prosecution, so you and your COM
panion are free as far as We are con-
| cerned-that is, until after Monday.
ION Monday you must go to the