Nogales international., 1931-02-11
Fourteenth Instaument
WuAT HAS GONE BEFORE

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
Giles Chttenham sets out to make Juhe
Farrow love him, intending to throw her
over in revenge for the suicide OF MS
He succeeds, but finds that he has fallen
desperately in love with her himself: Then
he discovers that it was not this Julie FAR
row, but her cousin OF the same name, VINO
had driven his brother to death. But Giles
is married. to an American girl named
Sadie Barrow, with whom he has not lived
for long time. Sadie unexpectedly turns
I'D in London, at party at Giles mother
house, but both keep silent about their mar
riage. III
night life OF London to try to drown her
anguish. Lawrence Schoheld wants to marry
her. Lombard, who had first introduced her
to Chittenham. demands money from Giles
with the threat that if he is not paid he
will tell Schoheld that Chlttenna nm e. ana
Pass. Later Julie confesses to Chittenham
that she loves him.
At spiritualist seance at Giles mothers S
house Sadie Barrow, his wife, suddenly goes
blind She calls to him and he RESPONDS
revealing the fact that she is his wife. Julie,
who has sent Schofield away because OF her
love for Chittenham, goes home in despair.
Chittenham follows her, but she sends MN
away and decides she will accept Schoteld.
She goes to Schoheld's hotel. He is OUT
but she leaves a note for him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
He took her to a desk and gave her
paper and pen.
Julie wrote a few hurried lines.
II didn't mean it, Lawrence dear. l
want you to come back to me. Please
ring me in the morning.-Julie.
C
and she half smiled as she thought
how unnecessary it was tc have added
those last words. He would not ring
her. he would come round, she was
sure, he would come very early, per-
haps even tonight if he was back m
time, and then in the morning they
would go away and make some sort OF
happiness together.
Julie tried hard not to think be-
yond tomorrow, but although she was
20 tired, and felt ready to drop, she
could not sleep. She lay awake for
hours listening to every sound. .
In the carly morning Julie doxed
off to sleep, only waking when she
heard the maid let herself into the
fat and move about i'll the kitchen,
lighting the FIRE.
Presently she brought tea and a
note. ''It was lying on the mat when
came in, Miss"
Julie glanced at the handwriting,
j.. then sat up, her pulses jerking. 1t
was from Lawrence Schoheld. She
was conscious Of . warm glow Of
pleasure.
He loved ner-~;t was something to
be happy about in world that held
no real happiness. He must have
brought it himself late last night. Per
haps, after ali, it had been has foot
step out side which she had heard.
She broke open the seal, the en-
velope felt unusually bulky, she drew
out its ccntents--her own note which
she had written last night in the hotcl
lounge, torn across and across into
minute pcices. That was all.
When Giles Ch;ttcnham got back
to his mothers house she met him
in the hall.
"Your wife has been asking for you
all the evening. I said I would send
you up as soon as you came IN.
AS he went upstairs he could hear
Sadie's voice, high-pitched and hysteri-
cal, and he stopped for moment, his
hand clutching the stair rail, terrible
sense of loss and irreyocable fate grip
ping his heart.
When she heard Chittenham's voice,
she turned her head towards the door,
and stared at him with her wild, blind
eyes. ,
$50 you've come at last, have yot?"
she shrilled at him. Il suppose you've
no use for me either, now l can't see. j"
She beat her hands frantically on
the brass rail, and the nurse who had
been standing beside her, caught and
held them.
Sadie burst into wild sobbing.
There's no hope for me, l know
that l shall never see again as long as
I live. I shall just sit here in the
darkness till I die-till l die-and no
body cares-it doesn't matter to any
one in all the world what becomes of
me"
Giles crossed the room and touched
her shoulder. "Sadie-"
She checked her sobbing with a
sharp breath, and raised her face with
pathetic eagerness to hear what he
had to say. She tore her hands from
the nurses grasp, and groped in front
of Ler till she touched Chittenham' S
coat, then she clutched it feverishly
and began sobbing once more.
Don't leave me, Giles-be kind to
1re-after all, I am your wife"
Chittenham looked at the nurse.
"Please leave us"
When she had gone, he sat down
beside his wife and put an arm round
her.
"Sadie-you must try and be brave
and listen to reason. Everything pos
sible is being done and will be done,
you know that"
Sadie was sobbing again.
"You don't really care for me-no-
body cares for me. Though l can't
see you know by the feel of your
arm that you're just trying to be kind,
while all the time you're inpatient
and want to get away"
Don't leave me alone, Giles. You
don't know what it's like to be left
alone in this hideous darkness. shall
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