Nogales international., 1931-02-04

again desperately then stopped as the
door opened beneath his mothers agit-
ated hand.
"Giles-they want you at once--the
doctor sent me for you-oh, Giles |"
she caught his arm with Intellectual
hands. II don't understand I feel
as if | am going mad, or as if every
one else iS-what do they all mean?
And if it's the truth why didn't you
tell me? Sadie is saying awful things,
too-she must be light-headed! She
says she's your wife1 How can she
be your wife when you are not mar
ried?"
Giles turned on his heel and strobe
out of the room. Mrs. Ardron turned
to Julie, both white, useless hands
outstretched. n
us u true?" she appealed helplessly,
She forgot her dislike for Julie. In
her present distress she would have
turned to her worst enemy for COM
ISOLATION. "You heard what / said.
Sadie declares she Is my sons wife.
How can she be when he is not mar
rieda He never liked women--he has
said 80 scores of times"
IT think it's quite true" Julie an
swered with stiff lips. She took Mrs.
Ardron's hands and held them, hardly
|realising what she was doing. "I'nl
quite sure it's true that Sadie is his
wife" she said again gently.
She was unutterably grateful when
just as she felt she could bear NO more.
the doctor came into the room. Mrs
Ardron at once turned her attention to
him and Julie slipped away. She took
her coat from maid on the landing
and went out into the street.
"She is my wife"
They seemed to be the only words
that would take form and find utter
ance in her brain
For Chittenham she had sent Law
renee Schofield away. For Chitten-
ham she had deliberately dashed Scho-
fields happiness to the ground.
"I have changed my mind. I can't
marry you. don't care for you
enough" She had told Lawrence that
only this morning. And now once
more the brief dream was ended--or
it? After all, nothing was
really altered. He had deceived her
about Sadie, it was true, but apart
from that things were in no wise
changed. Chittenham still loved her
and she loved hirn-and if he still
wanted his freedom and Sadie was
willing to give it to him
"GileS-CileS--"
The memory of Sadie's agonised cry
came back to her, ending afresh the
peace which she was trying so hard
to regain. 1t had been the cry Of a
woman to a man she loved, or SO
Julie told herself in bitterest Jealousy,
and she remembered how often Sadie
had spoken of Giles-and in what a
queer, rather shy way-as if-even
then it had seemed to Julie almost
as if there might have been something
between them. And now she knew.
Sadie was his wife. The one woman
Of all the many in the world who had
1 right to him and to his love and his
)rotecti0n--the protection she had
claimed only that afternoon in her
1ysterica1 fear.
The maid came tapping at the door.
Aren't you very wet, Miss? Can
Try your clothes for you?"
mo, no. I'm not wet, and I don't
want anything, you need not wait"
She heard the girl move reluctantly
away and then moment later the
shutting Of the front door But it was
4 long time before Julie moved or
stirred. The room was quite dark
save for the yellow light from the
street lamp outside, and the fitful rain
1ad settled into steady downpour
md was beating against the window.
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