The Prescott daily news., 1917-02-26
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The Conflict" is A Stirring Blue Ribbon Feature of Love and Hatred.-Coming Tuesday.

Two woman crave the love of the same man-one is pretty, proud. | spirited-and poor-she offers him love. The other is equally pretty, proud and spirted-but rich - she offers him everything money can buy. The rich one wins-and thus starts feud long and bitter.
 This was not really the beginning of their rivalry of Mandeleine and Jeanette-they had had petty differ ences in their home town when Made leine, the poor girl, had refused to bend the knee to the other-but with this victory in loce is born new hatred, which Jeanette proceeds to intensity by by having the other girls father discharged from his position, thus forcing her to leave school and
 work for sustenance.
 Madeleine goes on the variety stage and in the course of a few years. her name is blazing in electric lights. Her faith in everything has been complete ] ly shattered and she lives only for the good things in life She leads her many admirers on-accepting their attentions-giving nothing in return for she has nothing to give-all her love has gone out to Paul, the man who preferred the money of another
 Jeanette, meanwhile. has discarded Paul, in favor of Henry Mortimer, a rising young lawer to whom she has become attached Mortimer becomes enamoured of Madeleine. who con- siders him just another of her army | of admirers and leads him on as is her custom. Jeanette sees that her rival is trifling with the affections of the man she loves, and forgetting her
 Madeleine consents to her request but then comes recognition - all i the old hatred returns-she retracts | her promise and determines to marry Henry, though she does not love him, to strike at the heart of the woman who has caused her so much pain. After the marriage she is cold to the affections he showers upon her. Then her path crosses Pauls once more and her old love for him is rekindled. Henry learns of their association and orders Paul never to enter his house again. Now a new love is born in Madeleine's breast-the love for her husband. But there is wide breach between them now, caused by her association with Paul and her gam bling habits of which Henry disap- proves. He finally refuses to pay her debts. When Paul calls on Madeleine for a laon, she refuses him and he rifles Henry's safe. That night Hery notices the deficitand thinking his wife had taken the money to pay her debts, he accused her of the theft and leaves her. Rumors come to his ears that Paul is with his wife, and placing a revolver in his pocket, he starts for the house intent on settling the affair.
 Paul, meanwhile, is trying, with small success to regain Madeleine's love. When his attentions begin to get offensive, she threatens him with a revolver to keep his distance. Under the influence of liquor, Paul advances toward her, and stumbles over a chair, bruising his head Madeleine rushes out to the kitchen to get some water, and. while there, she hears shot and returns to find Paul dead and Henry standing over the body. Each be- lieves the other guilty and takes the responsibility for the crime. Henry is taken into custody but Madelemes story is not believed At the trial Henry is saved from dying From another's crime when Jeanette breaks down and confesses that she had heen hiding in Madeleine's room on the day of the murder, and when the latter had gone for water, she had grasped the opportunity to shoot Paul who, sine said, had been planning to tell the truth in regard to the robbery. Know ing that this would bring about a re- coneiliation between Henry and his wife and that she would never be able to win his love, she had shot Paul. and is now willing to suffer for her crime. Out of sorrow and suffering, comes faith and love forged anew for Henry and Madeleine.