Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-11-23
Fifth Instalment
Synoptis
What Hspp<nsd Before

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Synopis
What Happsnsd Before
AT a party Ia Palm Beach given by Mr.. CooPsr
Ciary, Leeson, attorney, meets Lucy hafkns"'
know, a, Devil May-Cars because of her adven-
turcrs. evensful life. In game in which partners
for the evening ehossn, Lucy is won by lam
Stevens who has q great reputation as successful
heart breaker. Lesson 10 . Bit jealous. lin
Stevens tell, Lacy they going aboard h' boat
the Miasrys, and ,hs secedes in order not to be
"a GUTTER" Asked If she Is sorry that he won
her company, Lucy says ,h- Is not and that
evidently Fsts has arranged it. Tim thersupon
tsl her 10 stop looking rssretfully alter Lesson
Aboard Stevens boat, the Minerva, Ste
yens tells Lucy of his love. When she re-
plies with contempt for him, he grows NO
lent!y angry and she becomes afraid OF MN.
He says be will never let her go from .ns
Minerva until she accepts him. To escape
him, she leaps into the water from her caSin
window, swimming q short distance under
Lucy reaches land and meets DR.. Fergus
Farnce on an island. BE takes care OF heI
a.aut her, and when she meets Stevens he
is frantic, regresful and still ardent IN pro-
teStat;ons of love.
Lesson informs Lucy that Stevens must
"a se a quarter of million dollars or go
TO jail--"at FIVE o'clock Lucy goes To
ne N0 ~ GO ON WITH THE STORY
Half an hour later her chair paused
before the gate of Stevens's place, out
beyond Vita Serena, in, southern Palm
Beach. He was in his garden, at a
table on which lay something that
looked like a check-book. He was
writing in it, but looked up as Lucy
approached, and waved away the COL
ored servant who had admitted her,
He rose and stared at her.
lie had shaved, had donned fresh
flannels, colored shirt, and gay
tie. He could wear clothes, she incon-
seauentially thought, better than any
man she had ever seen.
This is surprise" he said.
she made no reply, but opened the
Sc ,Ael and dumped the money upon
Ii able.
What's it all about?" he asked.
"To save you from jail" she replied.
His eyes puckered, and tiny crease
appeared between them.
"Iail?" he echoed. -.
"Mr. Lesson has seen me. He told
me that the man who wanted to
marry me was thief. Perhaps, Tim,
one reason you professed such great
devotion was because of what money
/ possess" :.
Sac was looking right at him, but
lis eyes never flickered. lis h21c
ed toward the chec}-acol;; l.
=, a piece Of Paper lo.n It AID
l-.> it into tiny bits.
Perhaps" he agreed calmly. "But
masmuch as Pm not to marry
YOU, 81 hardly take your money.
nh was a hard fnality in his
Nur".
$50. even to keep out of jail?" she
Crt Ged. You're a shade better
t..a | thought"
as bowed.
'-.any thanks"
She bit her lip.
LIT Mr.. Lesson said you'd be ar-
rested this afternoon"
lie bowed again.
Great little man-Lecson."
81 can't let you go to jail" she cried
helplessly.
"And couldn't take your money"
he said.
"Then," she said slowly, "as l can't
let you go to jail"
why not?" he demanded. as it
because, after all, you love me?"
II hate you," she blazed. That's
why :. you mustn't go to jail. You
must take my money"
You're a bit incomprehensible,
Lucy" he told her. "You hate me
yet you'd save me. Well, I'd take
money only from the woman I was l
married to, and I'd hate to take it
from her." I
But you wouldi" she asked. /;
He shrugged.
ITO avoid Jail, yes"
"Then," she said, "I1l have to
marry you. To-day. Now"
Had Diana, sojourning at Jupiter's
palace on Olympus, slipped down the
and in some wayside par
sonage in Thessaly taken unto herself B
a husband, the scandal would have b
been comparable to the marriage Of q
Devil-May-Care.
Apparently hurried weddings, among II
people nationally known, are bound to
,ause gossip. But neither be nor Lucyl
would have cared a whit for that. Had q
heir marriage been one of equal love 81
md trust, they wood have been unin- n
crested in the nasty speculations Of y
TASTY people.
But Lucy had left him. She had
trolled out of his patio as rmcon- "a
ernedly as though she had been hay %
ng tea and was now on her way home
o dress for dinner. Home! She had hi
,one homei
Devil-May-Care she was called. m
Veil, the insouciance that defed death be
self could not defy Tim Stevens. He
new his rights and he would have sa
hem. He'd force But he slumped
ack in the wicker chair that protested m
yainst his twisted bulk. He'd tried up
} force Lucy last night and she had
1osen almost certain death in prefer Fl
nee to himself. He might as well
Ice the facts; he was no nearer Lucy
DIV than he was before the minister 20
I'd read the marriage ceremony to Fs
em. -
To marry man who positively
vened for her, and then coolly deny on
self -. That, he thought, was the