The Washington times., 1923-01-14

causes. ~. / was Influenced into
marrying at eighteen a rich man
who was roue, and who within a
month or two fof our marriage no
longer troubled to hide his char
acter from me. He let me see
quite plainly that he had needed
me to complete, to round off, what
he called his position-just as he
had required a town house.
"That was four years ago-not
very happy years for me, | assure
you. Years that were full Of
troubles which ! kept to myself.
But now / think those troubles are
over, though / feel--I am afraid
there will be new ones. During
the past four years my husband
has progressed from the point Of
what he once called loving me to
the point of hating me my white
frozen tragic face he called it.
suppose / was frozen to him
but | tried very hard that it
. should not be suspected by people
outside ones home.
Little by little it has grown
worse. He was immensely daring
and fortunate in his business and
as his wealth increased SO did his
queer fury to enjoy, it.
For a long time now we have
been almost strangers. But this
trip to Egypt was the end. 4
should not have come with him at
all had it not been for his cousin,
Mona, my friend. We stopped at
several places in Europe Paris,
Nice before we came here. But
| hardly ever saw him he was
busy revisiting old friends, renew.
ing old acquaintance, old iaisons.
Often Mona and / have given out
as a reason for his strange absence
that he has gone to another place
on urgent business when we have
not had the least idea as to where
he was.
"He has deteriorated rapidly on
this trip from America, and we
believe that as a result Of his ex-
cesses he was no more than Just
within the border line of sanity
when he came to Egypt He left
US the day after we reached Cairo
and he has never returned. And I
have an instinct, no, strange and
certain knowledge. that he 'oes
not intend to return Before we
left America he gave up active
interest in business and made
financial arrangements assuring
him his huge income And he
knows that am well provided for.
He means to enjoy Europe.
regardless of the past, of reputa-
ton, of everything but the desires
and plans of rich man on the
very borderland of sanity. Mona,
his cousin, who knows him even
better than |, says that. too, And
so am left. old in spirit, at
twenty-five, to make the best of q
life that was inaugurated with
four ruined and terrible years -.
He has gone and ! know in my
heart he will never return There
are those who will say have failed
as a wife to him. But there are
those, too, who know that | have
done my very best. Only can do
no more.
~ should have been i'll if had
stayed in Cairo while Mona and
some of our friends and advisers
were trying to get in touch with
him 1t was said that he has been
seen at Monte Carlo. So Mona
and an merican lawyer. a New !
York friend we met in Cairo, quite
by chance. went to Europe to try
to see him and arrange that he
should agree to a conventional and
legal and orderly separation from
me.
But | could not endure either
to wait in Cairo for them to re-
turn or to accompany them, and
while I was thinking it over as
carefully as could you came into
my mind and that strange longing
to confide in you which I do not
understand yet. but which / know
in some mysterious way, has deep
meaning. So, because 7 could not
endure Cairo any more, because |
wanted for little to be alone, and
because l hoped after a time
might meet you here, came to
Luxor"-
She paused. thinking for a
moment. but before he could
sneak she continued IN a different