Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-01-06
CHAPTER VIII.
Entr'acte.


Dawn of Sunday found Whitaker
still awake. Alone in his uncheerful
0edchamber, his chair tilted back
against the wall, he sat smoking and
thinking, reviewing again and again
every consideration growing out of his
matrimonial ENHANCEMENT. He turned
In at length to the dreamless siumbers
Of mental exhaustion.
The morning introduced him to q
world of newspapers gone mad and
garrulOus with accounts of the sensa-
ton of the preceding night. What they
told him only confirmed the history of
his wife's career as detailed by the
gratutOus Mr. Ember. There was,
however, no suggestion in any report
shat Drummond had not in fact COM
mitted suicide. There had been, ap-
parently, but a single witness of the
feiO de Sc, who in the subsequent con-
fusion had vanished. No one dreamed
of questioning the authenticity of the
report. Several sensational sheets ran
exhaustive resumes, deliberately illus
trated, of the public life of 1.-THE De-
stroying Angel" 1t seemed to be an
unanimous assumption that the news
OF Drummond's suicide had in some
manner been conveyed to the woman
while on the stage.
In the course of the forenoon a note
for Whitaker was delivered at the no
tel
The heavy sheet of white paper,
stamped with the address in Fifty-sev-
enth street, bore the message In a
strong but nervous hand:
/ rely upon the generosity you promise
me. This marriage of ours. that is no
marriage, must be dissolved. Please let
my attorneys-Landers, Grimshaw &
clark, l49 Broadway-know when and
Where you will accept service. Forgive
am hardly myself. And please do not try
70 see me now. Some day hope to see
sno thank you; today-it's impossible. 1
Mary Ladislas Whitaker.
Before nightfall Whitaker had sat
aSfed himself that his wife had, in
truth, left her town house. The serv-
ants there informed all who inquired
that they had been told to report and
10 forward all letters to Messrs. Lam
ders. Grimshaw & Clark.
whitaker promptly notified those at
'orneys that he was ready to be
served at their convenience. But be-
yond their brief and businesslike ac-
AnowIedgment, he heard nothing more
OF the action for divorce.
de sought Max several times with
Out success. When at length run to
ground In the roulette room of q Forty
fourth street gambling house, the man
ager was grimly reticent. Warned by
me managers truculent and suspicious
tone that his secret was, after all,
cured no more than skin deep, Whita-
Aer dissembled artfully his anxiety,
ana abandoned Max to his pet vices.
The newspapers reported Sara Law
as being In retirement In several wide
separated sections of the country.
She was also said to have gone abroad.
sailing incognito By a secoad-class
steamship from Philadelphia.
The nine-days' wonder dislntegrated
naturally. The sobriquet of 1.-THE De-
stfoying ApSei~ disappeared from the
newspaper scare-heads. So also the
1atne OF Drummond. Hugh Morten
"mtaker, the dead man come to life,
occupied public interest for a brief
AaI-day. By the time that the execu-
toFs Of Carter Drummond and the at
t0Fneys representing his clients began
70 make sense Of his estate and In
eerests. their discoveries failed to COM
pnand newspaper space
Drummond had appropriated to his
own uses every dollar Of the small
N0s1une ls1t - - care b. his erstvhAs