Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-27
read in tile papers based on no more
BY KATHLEEN r

read in tile papers based on no more
than this? Apparently not. Msgsie
seemed perfectly confident Of the out
come; Rachael had not shown any
doubt. One had practically
presented him to the other; the law
was to be consulted.
The law? How would those letters
Of Magsie's read if the law got hold
OF them? His memory few from note
words would be flung to the wind Of
that wind that blew 80 merrily
the houses where he was
known. He had called Magsie his
"wonder,child" and his good little
bad girl" He had given her rings
and sashes and q gold purse and a hat
and white fox furs-any n gift he
had made her was innocent enough in
itself! But taken with all the
Magsie was in high feather: sone
tiresome preliminaries, and the day
was won: She had not planned so
definite a campaign. but it was all
coming about in a fashion that more
than fulfilled her plans. So. said
Magsie to herself. stirring. her tea. that
the stage. and then a rich marriage
Well. so be it. She could not COM
plain. ~
Greg she said a. dozen times.
isn't it all like a Dream"
down the street after leaving her at
1.-THE theater.- it was indeed like a
dream, a frightful dream. He could
hardly credit his senses. hardly believe
that all these horrible things were
true. that Rachael knew all about
Magsie, and that Magsie was quietly
thinking Of divorce and marriage!
Rachael. in such a rage. rushing away
with the boys-why, he had made nc
secret of his admiration for Magsie
from Rachael. he had often talked to
her enthusiastically OF Magsie: And
here. che was f%uriously Offering him
his freedom.
Well, what had he done after all:
What a preposterous fuss about moth
ing. His thoughts were checked and
! Magsie had. Magsie could prove
nothing by those letters.
But what a fool they would make
him! Warren Gregory remembered the
case of a digniied college professor
whose private correspondence had re-
Gently been given toithe press, and he
felt a cool shudder run down his
spine. Rachael, reading those letters!
1t was unthinkable! She and the
world would think him "a fool! 1t
came to him suddenly that she and
the world would be right. He was a
fool. and it was a FOOLS paradise in
which he had been wandering: to take
his wife and home and sons for grant
ed, and to spend all his leisure at the
feet of a calculating little girl like
Magsie! s
What did you expect her to dc? ?"
Magsie had asked. What, would any
sane man expect her to do? Smile
with him at the new favorite's charms.
and take up her life in loneliness and
neglect?
And now, Rachael was gone. ana he
stood promised to IMagsie. So much
wa~ clear. Rachael would light for
her divorce. MaEsie would fight 70.
her husband.
"oh. my God. hoy, did We ever get
warren said out loud in his misery.
He had not dined. he did not think
Of dinner as he paced the windy. cool
city, street hour after hour. Mine
struck. and he hailed a cab. and went
to the hospital. moving through hia
work like a man in a dream. The
woman whose life he CHANGED to save
throughout all her days would nay she
had had q lovely doctor. Warren
hardly sAw her. He thought only OF
Magsie, Magsie who had in her pos
session a number Of compromising let.
tiers, every one sillier than the Last
Magsie. who expected him to divorce
his wife and marry her. He was in
such a state OF terror that he could
not think. Every instant brought
more disquiet to his thoughts; he felt
as II, when he stepped out into the
lstreet again, the newsboys might be
calling his divorce. as II honor and
safety and happiness were gone for
ever.
He did not Magsie again that
might. but walked and walked, enter
ling his house sick and haggard, and
Isleeping the hours restlessly away.
At nine o'clock the next morning he
went to the telephone. and called the