The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-01-10

least for the time being.
Royce and David entered. and Lois
her husband warmly. Royce
sickened at the sight. He would not
sneak. but he refused Freneau's hand.
Freneau, a trile jolted. said that ne
had dropped in to inquire about
Gloria. After a few minutes he left.
Royce said that he would go along, as
he had something to discuss with FIRE.
neau. ;,
He told David that he would see
him later, and for very pity did not
look him in the eye.
But he gave Lois a meaning look OF
wonder at her evil recklessness. Then
he followed Freneau with wrath boil
ing in his heart.
without waiting for an invitation.
he jumped into Freneau's car, and as
soon as it was under way Royce burst
forth:
"You internal hound! You couldt'
play fair il you tried. could you? And
you wouldn't, would you? But now
you've got to give up Gloria and get
on the other side of the globe or you'll
wish you had never been born. know
what you are up to and I advise you
not to undertake it. l mean 1t. l
warn you that I will stop at nothing
to prevent you from wrecking both OF
those homes"
A spark of manhood flickered yet in
Freneau's soul, and he attempted to
explain in some part his own helpless
ness, but Royce cut him short. The
facts as he had seen them permitted
no explanation. o
"Of course you won't listen: you
want Gloria yourself. You are only too
anxious to get me out. Of the way.
But don't let your jealousy drive you
absolutely insane"
Royce stopped the q and got out.
i've warned you" was his parting
shot.
All the rest Of the day Royce pom
dered over where his own duty in
the matter lay. He could not tell
Gloria what he had see The shock
might have thrown her back into q
fever. He could bring himself
to smirch her love and young faith
in his rivals honor. He.could not put
the responsibility and the horror OF
full knowledge on his friend David
nor cast the burden on David's old IA
Their. It was not Royce's nature to
shift responsibility or other shoulders.
He tried to clear his brain by for
getting. He took up q medical book
for study, but between his eyes and
the page came a vision Of Freneau as
q leering satan. It laughed and
Knocked at him, seeming to say:
II will destroy Gloria and Lois and
David, and you cannot stop me"
Royce jumped up and closed his
book, . look of set purpose coming to
his grim face. It was nearly midnight
when he took from the drawer OF his
desk table q revolver and slipped 1t
into his pocket. 9
When Royce had met David, David
bad not told him that he was leaving
town for . week. David nj not sure
what would happen. and Lois was the
only one he wanted to deceive. She
was % badly dipping him that she had
no thought Of his returning the com
pliment. It was difficult for him to
play the part he had assumed. and II
she had been more o. the alert she
would have seen the constraint In his
manner.
She played her own role With the
case Of long practice. There wa moth.
ing sincere about her except her Joy
in David's departure. She thought
that nothing ID the world could have
been more o~pportune. But she wanted
to make sure that no accident befell
him. She did not want him to miss
that train.
She went to the Pennsylvania sta
tion with him, acting the ~heartbroken
deserted wife with all her art. She
babe him good-by at the gate and when
he went down the stairs to the train
underground she still would not leave
till she saw the roofs Of the cars move
OF into the tunnel and the porter who
carried David's> baggage come back
Then she felt It safe and she departed
from the station with q sigh Of deel
relief.
II she had been q little less impa
tient she would have see David re
turn through the gate after the traiI
had pulled out. David. making SURF
that she had not caught sight Of him
took his miserable doubts with him Il
one Of his clubs.
Judge Freeman found him there
and, noting his expression. asked hin
what had kept him from taking bill
train. When David saw his father-in
law the smoldering Of his trouble burs
into fame. He snatched the anony
nous letter from his pocket and Va
ON the verge Of showing t. But y
withheld II, tAough hs could not checl
the bitter words: n this letter 1
True / may have 70 kill . man"
An icy hand seemed % grip q IL
judgsis hsert. He knew without -
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