The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-11
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
@UOURE mad she blazed. Sin
certify was in her voice, and
It. was strangely put there. Relief
at last came to her. Eleanor was
alive: this fact condoned those evil
thoughts against which she had
striven.
Mad? You mean sane at last,
and able to understand why my
wife denies herself to me. Because
she prefers her paramount. Now
tell mel didn't need to see him
to know who it was-where does
Jennings live?"
DO you realize what you're say
ing?" she asked him.
She had seen his thin ascetic
lips lose their gravity and curl with
surprising gayety. She had seen
them soften with kindness. But
now she saw n corner of his
mouth draw up in a sheer. Anger
and contempt burned in his gray
eyes.
You're i lar" he said, but I
can't believe you're a coward. II
takes courage of a sort, 1 suppose,
as well as cheap cunning. TO do
what you've done. Tell me where
he lives"
I don't know" she said simply.
Afraid to tell me?" he jeered.
Brave in deceit, but not so brave
when you're found Quit Or perhaps
you're afraid for Jennings? Don't
worry. I won't kill him. A rat like
that isn't worth killing. No more
than a woman like you is worth
worrying over"
The anger in his eyes gave way
to incredulity. He stared at her
as though she was something out
side his ken, something bizarre and
unreal.
I could forgive you anything ex-
cept your lies" he said. IF you'd
told me before our marriage, or
even after you'd sworn to love and
honor. I'd have forgiven you. But
TO promise me that in three months
you'd make up your mind!
What a cesspool that mind OF
yours must be- To make me think,
only last night. that YOU loved me!
God. il you'd come out openly and
told me Won loved Jennings, that
YOU couldn't endure me, that you'd
made a mistake-are you so rotten
that you can see only your own
rottennesS when you look at some
one else?
Couldn't it enter your mind that
7 could have had more pity for
YOU than for MYSELF Couldn't you
understand that I wouldn't take
YOU unless you wanted to be
taken? Or did you intend to wear
out your affair with Jennings and
then, like any woman Of the street,
come to me?'
He was walking up and down the
room. but now he sopped. He shook
his head almost pityingly.
"EvEN afraid to trust yourself
l. weren't you? Having the
morals OF q cocotte. you didn't have
the cocotte's courage. You wanted
the responsibility of marriage, so
that when you tired of your lover,
or when your lover tired Of you,
you could have another string to
your bow. What manner Of wom-
an are you2r
What difference does that
make?" she asked. You've made
up your mind. haven't you?"
But you're such a curious. such
an amazing specimen. that I'd like
- hear your defense"
You're a lawyer. You ought to
know how useless it is u offer a de-
fensl TO a judge whose mind is al
readF made up"
so You have a defense, have
you2" he sneered. We'll, try and
forEst that I'm a prejudiced Judge.
just remember that I'm a husband
who's been more grossly deceived
than any man, I fancy, who ever
lived.
Try ana remember that I de-
serve some explanation. II will be
hard for .ou to be fair 10 me. TO
be air to anything but your own
cestrsS. BEts after al. you do owe