Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-05
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@l91l NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


After eight years of married life,
MAhk SABRE discovers that he
has cut himself on from human
sympathy, His prosaic and snob.
bish wife.
MABEL, fails to understand his
poetic temperament In the firm
OF Fortune East aud Sabre, Mark
Is undermined, by jealousy and "A
partnership, promised to him Is
later promised to an associate,
INfNlNG, suddenly one who un.
derstands him returns to his life.
This Is
MONA, an old sweetheart, now the
wife of the dashing
LORD TYBAR, She admits she IS
unhappy, and says she chose
wrong IL ought to have married
you Mako
Go on With the Story.
CHAPTER VII
Whose life was Mona living?
lie had asked her. Tell me about
YOU and Tybar"
"Marko. | think TOnys the most
wonderful person that ever was. He
does everything that men do and he
Toes everything best And every.
pudy admiroS him and everybody
ikes him. You've no idea You've
lo' idea how he wins everybody he
meets. People will do anything for
him. They love him. Wen, you've
only got to look at him, haven't you?
Or hear him talk? think there's
never been any one so utterly capti-
waiting as Tony is to look at and 10
hear"
Most cngagngly with such words,
she had presented him: one tina.
passed through life arily eXquisitclv:
much fairy-Giftcd at his cradle with
gifts OF beauty, charm, prc-cmnence
in all he touched; knowing no care,
knowing no difficulty, knowing no
obstacle, or danger or fear or i'll
ness, or fatigue, or anything in life
but gay and singing things. which
touching, he made more bright. more
tuneful yet; meeting no one, of what
ever age or degree, but his charm
was to that age or degree exactly
touched; captivating all, leading all
by all desired in leadership. Foo.
tunes darling
And Marko," she at last had
come to. And Mako this is tn
graceless. Utterly, utterly
graceless. Without heart, Mario,
without conscience. without morals,
without the smallest scrap of an APP
proach to any moral principle Mar.
kO, that's an awful, a wicked. an
a In, y,,,. t,.tg ..
OF her husband. But he wouldn't
mind bit by telling you. Not
bit. He'd love It, He'd laugh, He'd
utterly love to know he had stung
me so much. And he'd utterly love
to know he'd driven me to tell you
He'd think-he'd love like anything
to drive me to do awful things. He :
tried-especially these two years
He'd love to be able to point a fnger
at me and laugh and say, All, Ha-
hal All, You know, he hasn't got
any feelings at all-lOye or hate or
anything else; and it simply amuses
him beyond anything to arouse feel
in anybody else. There have been
women all the time we've been mar.
ried and he simply amuses himself
with them until he's tired of them
and until the next one takes his
fancy, and he does it quite open
~ before me, in my house, and tells
me that ! cant see before my own
eyes just for the love of seeing the
suffering it gives ne. You saw that
Mrs. Winfred. He's done with her
now. And he's as shameless about
me with them as he is about them
with me. And what he loves above
all is the way ! take it; and | can
take il In no other way. You sec
| won't simply will not, Marko. let
these women of his see--or let any
one in the world suspect-that THAT
| suffer SO when we are together
before people I keep up the gay way
we always show together He loves
il; it's delicious to him. because it's
game played over the torture IN
dorneath. And I won't do any Other
way, Mako. | will keep my face
to the world won't have anyone
pity me-
II pity you" he had said.