The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15

THE STORY 1 The Man .... Horace Kennedy | The Wife ........... Mary Kennedy 'The Woman Alone" ............. ....... Margaret Warner
 Kennedy. though striving to be loyal | to his wife. is in love with Margaret. Mary, discovering her husbands secret. determines to win him back. Kennedy runs for Congress. but his political enemies plot for hls defeat. A mys- terious yelled woman lures Margaret into a closed cab.
 The lit of a hand organ purled through the sounds from the street. Broodingly Mary stood before the open window her thoughts beatine hopelessly against the wall cs her hus- bands cold withdrawal.
 Since the night, over a week ago. when she had hysterieally denounced his unfaithfulness, lie had been com strained and aloot.
 Though they had both avoided any reference to that emotional outburst. l she knew it was never far from their | thoughts.
 In the beginning she had told her | sell ludt once ne Knew that Sne Knew she would have to leave him. Yet now she shrank impotently before his final break. Had her suffering dulled her pride? To what further indlgnitles might she not be subjected?
 The organ was nearing, it's notes | more insistently harsh. The dangling tune grating on her morbidity, she closed the window.
 A shattering crashl A stone hurled l tb r0uph p1 al at her In dignantly she visioned some careless boys at play. Then she saw folded paper was tied to the stone.
 It was a note cruelty written In a disguising hand:
 Margaret Warner Is out of your way. If you want her for divorce pro- 1 ceedings, go to Lichten's sanitarium and ask for Maud Black Have arr ranged that only you can see her. This Is my revenge on your husband.
 THE YELLED WOMAN"
 The Yelled Woman! It sounded the atric. unreal. Yet that other message, with the same mysterious signature, gave credence to this.
 l Margaret Warner! The name famed up at her. Why should she have any solicitude for the fate of this girl who had come between her husband and herself? Then came visions of the san itarium's frowning stone walls-grim forbidding, enclosing unknown hor- TOTS.
 That she owed her rescue the night of the houseboat fire to Margaret's courage Mary knew. It had long been a galling obligation. Here was a chance to cancel it. Wild. impractical plans crowded her mind. At last one came that seemed feasible. Breathless action crowded the next few hours. Having telephoned Nor wood, she drove by for him and they 1 dashed out to the sanitarium.
 They found Margaret in cell lilSe e room paralyzed with terror She ad- mitted having been lured there by a note stating that a friend was in dis tress, but not saying the note had claimed it was Kennedy.
 Norwood. furiously indignant, de- manded her instant relief. Ignoring the protest of the physician, he swept her down to the waiting car and they were out of the grounds before the guards could stop them.
 It was not until they were several miles beyond the sanitarium that the car slowed down to normal speed and they relaxed their held breath. To Margaret's faltered gratitude
 Mary was coldly unresponsive. Nov = that Margaret was safe, all her jealous animosity surged back. With anxious solicitude Norwoo, | helped Margaret out when they drew up before her apartment His love fo her had been very evident in the pas } hour and he was plainly disappointed | when Mary quietly remarked that sh, . would go up with Miss Warner. : Urging Margaret not to overtax he strength and saying he would tele phone that evening, Norwood saw then to the elevator.
 Tn her own rooms. Margaret faced ) Mary with poignant embarrassment. Q Wont you be seated" awkward ly, deep flush dyeing her pallor. 's } II hardly know how to thanl 3 you"
 I've been in your debt since tn, night of the fire" interrupted Mary coldly. Now that is cancelled and can say what I wish-what for month. : I have forced back!'
 She paused, gripping the back of tn chair by which she stood. The faint flap 3 ping of window shade emphasized tn 7 stiffness. Then, in a voice whose rigidit, betrayed the effort to keep 1t steady: Miss Warner. I'm going to ask vol , to end your friendship with ms husband I've known and been slient-for months. A pulsating pause. The rery air wa , charged with the tenseness of the mo ment. Then Mary turned to the doc with low, repressed,
 T think I need say nothing more"
 As the door closed Margaret still stoot dazed. Once before she mad thought sh had touched the dregs of humiliation, bu now the black waves rnat engulfed her plunged her to abysmal depths.
 It was o'clock thac evening whel 2 Margaret, pale and tense. opened the doc f to Kennedy's familiar ring.
 Why, what does this mean?" as h , glanced around the dsordered room , half packed trunk and chair heape with clothing. . I'm giving up the apartment" quietly Giving up the aparrment?" he almos 7 shouted.
 : "Oh, Horace. don't! I've been throug l too much-I can't stand it'' You mean you're leaving the apart mentor you want to leave me?"
 Tt isn't what I want to do-it's wha , must do What we should have don