Nogales international., 1930-05-06
EIGHTH InstaIment
What Happened Before

szrvas, sssntful life. In game in which partners
tnf rHe evening chosen, Lucy is won by Tim
ShSsrs', ~ho has great reputation as successful
hcsIt -Sfnsker. Leeson is BIT jealous. Tim
Sss~snI rails Lucy they going aboard his boat,
eh. Sta-rV6, and she accedes in order not to be
IS cSit.s1. Asked if she is sorry that he won
ho< e$-soany, Lucy says she is not and that
s~tA&nfsy Pate has arranged it. Tim thereupon
ral' Sst to stop looking regretfuly after Lesson.
Aboard Stevens boat, the Minerva, Ste
~srs tells Lucy of his love. When she re-
rAea with contempt for him, he grows vio-
lsErly angry and she becomes afraid of him.
BE says he will never let her go from the
Xioerva until she accepts him. To escape
him, she leaps into the water from her cabin
window, swimming a short distance under
water.
Lucy reaches land and meets DR.. Fergus
Frunce on an island. He takes care of her
and takes her home. Everyone is worried
about her, and when she meets Stevens he
Is frantic, regretful and still ardent in pro-
testations of love.
Lesson informs Lucy that Stevens must
raise a quarter of a million dollars or go
to jail-'at five o'clock" Lucy goes to
her bank and raises the sum.
Lucy goes to Stevens to help him, but
he refuses to take money from woman
to whom he is not married. So Lucy
1narries this man that she hates, and
her staunch friend DR.. Fergus Faunce to
tell what she has done.
Stevens sets out in search of Lucy.
Meanwhile, DIR. Faunce and Lucy launch
a new boat. hurricane wrecks them on
their first. trip; Lucy is saved, and I'm ilnds
herself aboard the Minerva, wondering
what happened to DR.. Faunce.
DR.. Faunce is aboard the Minerva also.
Stevens threatens to kill Faunce unless Lucy
sticks to him. To save Faunce she accedes,
but expresses hate for Stevens. A few min
utes later he startles her by saying he
doesn't want her, and never will!
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
And, once they had been reduced to
words they became something at which
one might look, which one could
study. And observation and study
told her that those motives were
things that could not be carried out
into deeds.
She knew now that had not the
storm lifted her from the arms Of
Faunce into the cabin of the Minerva
she would have returned, herself,
within twenty-four hours, to wherever
her husband might be. For she would
have realized, without Stevens ana1y-
sis of her intent, that in injuring him
she must inevitably do dishonor to
herself. Not the mere picture of dis
honor which public scandal would
evoke. but that reaf dishonor which
of ones own soul. Revenge must in
evitably mean dishonor, for revenge
ignoble in itself.
No more thought of revenge, ther
would enter her head. Rather, sh
would scheme to discover way ou
of this blind alley into which desir
for revenge had led her. Tim woul
not divorce her; he would not permi
her to divorce him. But there mus
be some way out. Also, there must b
some answer to this puzzle created b,
Tins sudden business energy.
There was only one person VIII
could possibly advise her, and that wa
Fergus Faunce. On those occasions
since her return to Palm Beach, whel
she had seen Faunce, they had KEEP
their conversation on the safe middl
ground of impersonalities. They ha
enjoyed each other, but only as casua
acquaintance EN- joy one another ther
had been none of the soul-revelatiol
which had characterized their previou
friendship. Well, she would try t
return to that ground which they ha,
occupied together before. She didn'
know just what she wanted iron
Faunce, but whatever it was, he coul
supply it. Wasn't he the kindest an
wiseSt man in the world? And didn'
she need kindness and wisdom? We'll
then =.
Lucy came upon Faunce stretches
1uxuriously before an open fire,-ther
was the faintest hint of chill in tn
air,-smoking his pipe and readin
from a small volume. He rose at he
CHEEKY hail, took her hand, and led he
to camp-chair.
''Is this your island? Or, rather
doesn't my husband own it?"
He tl,oughtfufiy knocked the ashe
from his pipe and slowly rehilcd It.
Curiosity, my dear, is sometime
the beginning of wisdom"
Gust what do you mean by that !?
she asked:
"Just what do you mean BY wantirr
to know whether or not your hasban
owns Mango Kcyl" he countered.
"Oh, Ferg,,sl have right t
Enowi Is he swindling his friends
Even my maid has invested ali he
savings with himl Is he robbing he
and every one else? want to know.
"If you're worried about your mait
then worry about me, too"
"You mean to say that you've in
vcsted-Fergus" +"
II had lease on this island whic
could not be Cancelled by a sale. Sc
when Stevens put the situation befor
me, I relinquished my lease for Ger
tain amount of stock"
"And that's why you speak kindl
of him. Because business-Oh, Fer
gus! that you should put money be
fore me,
"That isn't fair, Lucy. Money mean
little to me. 1 admit, Pm willing t
make some. But putting you secon
to anything, save fair play
haven't. Lucy, want to talk to you.
But she shook her head and ros
from the tamD-chair.