The Press., 1917-05-24

yorCe and had consented to marry hin as soon as 1t was obtained. To this Aver replied that on his part the affail
 would be dropped. But he did not d. this till he had looked into. the court records and found that his wife had the day before applied for separa ton.
 When Aver went home that evening he found his wife gone. His little boy asked him what was the matter with mamma. She had cried and kissed him all the morning, then had gone out and hadn't come back. Wouldn't papa go and bring her back?
 But day after day, week after week month after month, passed and mann ma did not return. She was residing in city where divorce is made easy The child was obliged to content him. self with his nurse during the day, but whenever his father was not at his of flee he supplied so far as possible the place of the mother. Quigley still lived in the city, but there was not as much swagger in him as formerly. Somehow no one seemed to think he had come out of his affair with Aver with credit and his friends were dropping off.
 While it was known to the Ayers in innate friends that Helen was suing for divorce, it was not known that she was doing so in order to marry Quigley. Divorces usually make it ap- pear that great wrongs are committed by one or both parties. We are hOrri- fled at tales of cruelty, desertion, all kinds of inhumanities. While reading of them we would suppose that after such suffering neither party will ever wedlock. But once the bond is broken up pops a man or a woman hitherto unknown in the proceedings, and the decree is scarcely granted before the wedding bells are ringing.
 Helen Aver had secured her divorce, had returned, and it was supposed by her friends, except an intimate few, that she would remain-after the charges against Aver her lawyer had drawn up for her-an unmarried wo- man. While this was the suppositiOn, a marriage license was being taken out permitting Helen Aver and Schuyler Quigley to wed. They were to be pri- vately married at 5 o'clock in the eve ming and take o'clock train for their wedding trip.
 During the afternoon the bride to be was seized with an irresistible desire to see her boy once more before taking the irretrievable step. She knew that her husband was usually at his office at the time and she would not meet him. Throwing caution to the winds, she called carriage, alighted near her for mer home, entered and ran upstairs to find her son.
 She came upon a melancholy sight. Her boy was lying on bed, pale and wan, while his father was bending over him.
 "Oh, why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you send for me?' she walled. And without waiting for reply she bent down, passionately encircled the child with her arms and hugged him to her breast. Then, finging her hat and coat aside, she knelt beside the bed.
 "Oh. mamma" cried the child, "how glad am that you have come back 2" Then, raising his arms, he placed them about her shoulders. "And you're nev- CT, never going away again, are you?
 And the woman for whom a bride groom was waiting said:
 "Never, so help me heavenw
 Russell Aver was walking away when his wife seized his hand and held him. She attempted to speak to him, but not finding words turned again to the boy. Then Russell knelt beside her, and, rest ing his hand on her waist, the two turned the ebbing life back.
 An hour later Schuyler Quigley, as he was about to enter a carriage to take him to a church where he was to meet his bride, was startled by mes sage:
 I cannot go. I will never see you again.
 One of those singular and unaccount- able infatuations under which a wO- man will leave home, husband and chill dren, wrecking them and most of all herself, had come to a sudden end, as it were, on the brink of the precipice over which she was about to plunge. Her husband could manage the man who was enticing her, but he could not her. What neither of these men could do was accomplished by sick child.
 After the boy came out of danger Russell Aver told his wife of his at tempts to save her. He gave the req son for his accusing Quigley of cheat ing at cards, the blow, the subsequent insults, the forcing his enemy into an challenge. Then when he had finished by telling her that he had dropped the matter on learning of her intended separation she shuddered.
 My God How could have done it"
 And as soon as possible they were remarried quietly.