Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-07
ADJUSTMENTS
"The Lie" with Elsie Ferguson at the
Colonial,


The daughters of Sir Robert Shale,
an Englishman, who is addicted to
drink, unreliable and unlovable,
Elinor and Lucy Shale, with a few
devoted servants, are the only occu-
pants of Shale Abbey. Unable be-
cause Of their poverty to mingle with
the high society to which they belong,
they live the lives OF recluses until
Gerald Forster, young man of
wealth and high social standing is in
troduced into the Abbey. Forster is
attracted toward Elinor and it is not
long before their friendship ripens
| into love.
The Shales are invited to attend a
county ball and Forster begs Elinor
to accompany him, 1t being his pur~
pose to demand her hand in maria ge
! after the dance. Meanwhile. Lucy
has been spending some days in Lon
don where she becomes infatuated
with Dick Tallerton. They arrange
an elopment, but before this can be
accomplished. Tallerton is taken ill
and dies. Lucy faces disgrace with
+ approaching maternity, and after
| making her plight known TO Taller
tons family, her story being sup
ported by proof, the latter settle her
claims with an allowance OF 400
pounds year for the support of her
unborn child.
Lucy returns to the Abbey and
makes Elinor her confidant. Forget
ting all about Forster and the ball,
: Elinor accompanies Lucy to Brigh-
ton where the latter gives birth to a
son, who is named Dick, for his
father. Elinor finds a foster mother
for Dick in Mrs. Caliard, who, be-
lleving Lucy to be a married woman,
accepts the trust.
Deeply wounded by Elinor's con-
duct, Forster does not again refer to
his love for her and he is sent to
Egypt on mission for the British
government. Two years later he re-
turns to England. Meanwhile, Noll
Dibin, having learned from Lucy's
physician the truth regarding Dicks
paternity, leases Shale Abbey and
after Forster's return. accompanies
him to the Abbey. He discusses the
childs paternity with Forster, but he
! reveals only part of the truth, and
the impression the story conveys to
Forster is that Elinor is the mother
of the boy. Aggrieved, Forster es-
pouScS Lucy and they return to
Egypt, leaving Elinor heartbroken.
Elinor now becomes in truth the
mother of her sisters son and Dibdin
I falls in love with her He proposes
marriage. but she declines his offer.
Lucy becomes the mother Of a sec
oad child and with her husband re-
turns to England. She becomes
jealous of Dicks love for E,linor and
vainly to win the child's love for her
self Forster is ordered to return to
Egypt al once to quell a mutiny and
Lucy resolves to take Dick with her
When Elinor learns of this. she up
braidS Lucy for her conduct and
threatens 10 reveale the truth to
Forster. unless she agree to permit
Dick to remain in England with her
Lucy appeals to her sister to pre-
serve her secret from Forster, who
she affirms, now loves her. She
promises TO make amends to Elinor by
confessing the truth to her husband
On their return to Egypt and with
that understanding Elinor consents
to remain silent. Lucy leaves the
boy in Elinor's custody and later the
latter finds happiness as little Dicks
foster mother and as the wife of Dbl
din, who. having discovered her
worth as a woman, successfully urges
her to become his bride.-Adv.