Show a. a D D. The Woman Thou Gayest Me BEING THE STORY OF MARY ONEILL O'NEILL Written by HALL CAINE Oo Copyright t. t IOU 1912 b try Hearst's M Ma o ln Copyright In la Great Oo by J. J B. B Oo Cb r-J r n LJ Li CHAPTER With inexpressible relief I hoard heard the following da day that wo were ero to leave for or Rome immediately Alma lma was to go with us us but that did didn n not t matter to mo in the tho least the atmosphere of this place so O artificial arti arti- ial so BO unrelated to nature her power over or my husband would be gone Once in tho holy city everything e would be bo different Alma Alm would woula be different I should be bo different above nil all mv nn- husband husband hus hus- band would be diff different rent I should take him to tho the churches and basilicas I II should show him bim the tho shrines shrine and papal piou processions ions and be he would seo see mo in m my true part at last lart l But what n t deep disappointment ai awaited me On reaching J Home me we e put up at a fashionable hotel in the tho now quarter olo of the tho Ludovisi and although h that was WM only a 3 few m h hundred yards from the spot on which I had spent nine happ happy years it to be belong on to snot another er world arId altogether Instead of tho church domes and the monastery bells belle tb there were tho the harsh clang of electric trams tram the tho thrum and throb of automobiles the rattle of cars ears and tho tramp of ot soldiers Then I realized d that there were two Romes-an Romes s-an s an old Rome Romo and a a. new one ono and that tho the Rome we had come como to I hardly bardh differed from the Cairo we had left behind nd There Thoro was WAI the same varied company of people of of all aU nations English Americans Amer Amer- rench German th the same sarno nomad t of the rich and itching pitchin their tents season b by season eaon in th a sun ny resorts of Europe the same aimless society the same debauch of fashion Uio tuo same samo callous and ana wicked luxury the same samo thirst for selfish pleasures the same busy idleness the same corruption of character and s sex x This made mo Yen very unhappy PJ but from first to last Alma Alm was in the he highest highest high high- est t spirits Everybody bod seemed to be bo in Rome Romo that spring prin nn and everybody seemed to be known either cither to her ner orto or- or or orto orto to my husband For Tor Almas Alma's sake we weW wew were w re invited r c everywhere where and thus thu we wo aw saw not only the life of the tho foreign people of f the hotels hotel but that of a part l. l not not ot the Ule better part of the Roman Alma was as a great success She had the homa homage c of all the men an and being m understood to be rich and having haTing the gift of making makin every er man Ilean believe he was teas 5 her ber special favorite fa she was as rarely without a group of Italian noblemen about her chair With eyes the Italian women saw uw that her rc real l reckoning lay Jay with ni my husband but b they the seemed to think ti no worse orlO of her for that Mat They The seemed to think no wove or e t of him cither either It was no nothing bing 3 against him bim that having as everybody lr appeared to know for the settlement of his finan finan- financial cial l J dif r l transferred hiBa his hiB l a n r town V on n Iii li n to an and alluring creature Ai A for mo nH T I was made to tn r realize Jat I r wa was a person of or a different nt class clan al al together When people peoples wished to bekind bekind be bo kind they called me and when they were ra tempted to be tho the reverse re ro- ro verse Tere tb they r voted mo me insipid As a r result I became very ery miserable in this com company pan and I can well believe that I may have seemed awkward and ehy shy and stupid when I was in some of their gray old palaces full of tapestry and bronze for I sometimes found tho the talk there so ro free c especially among tho the women that the tho poisoned jokes went quivering through me mr Things I had been taught to think sacred were so often derided that I had to ask myself if it could bo be Rome Rom my holy and beloved Rome Rome this this city citi- of license nse and unbelief But Alma was as entirely happy especially espe cepe when tho the talk turned on co conjugal conjugal con con- ju jugal fidelity and the faithful husband was held up to ridicule This ba happened paned very cry often iu lU in one house wo we use luea to goto go to that to-that that of oC a countess of ancient family fam fam- family iI ily who was said to have her husband a ant and her lover at either sido of her when she she- sat Bat down demon to dinner dinnet She was WM a large and handsome person of middle a age e with a great eat mass of fair hair and she gave me th the feeling that in n her c case e tho body of a woman was inhabited by br the sou soul of a man She christened mo me her little Irish Bambino meaning her child i and one ni night ht ill in- her drawing room after dinner dinner dinner din din- ner before the men had nad joined us us she cared called me to her ber side on the couch lit a cigarette crossed her legs and gave us with startling candor her views of ot the marriage bond What can you you except you von women women wom worn en she fai said paid You Yon run after ater the themen themen themen men for their titles titles titles-they've they've very ery little el else e except debts poor pOOl things things and and and I what is the result 7 The first result I is that thou though h you rave ny bought them 1 vou you belong to o them 1 Yes your husband husband hus hus- band owns his his- beautiful woman just as asbe ashe aslie he lie owns his beautiful horse or lies his beautiful beautiful beau beau- dog This was so pointed that T J JIt felt It m m my y face growing crimson crimson but Alma and the theother theother theother other women only laughed so the theco countess co went on What then Once in in a blue moon each cach goes his and ana her own OD way without sin in You agree to a sort of f partner artner- partnership r I Iship ship for mutual advantage in which you live e to together ether in in chastity under tho the same roof What a life What an an icehouse IIA II A 1 Again gain ain the other women laughed but butI butI I J fee felt myself blushing deeply But in in in the majority of cases it is quite otherwise The business purpose served each is is open to other emotions The man becomes unfaithful and arid the thc woman omary if it she has an any spirit pays ll him lm m mout out tit for tat tat and and why shouldn't she After that I r could bear no more mor and anil before I r knew what I InH was eras saying arin I blurt blurted d out But But I find that thit wrong ron and wicked Infidelity on the thc part of oC the man does docs not justify justiC infidelity in in the woman The pra prayer er book says so JJ Alma lma burst out ont laughing and n the countess smiled and continued Once in a hundred years year thero there comes a oat passion passion passion-Danto Danto and Beatrice and Laura Tho The woman meets tho the right man too late Into What a tragedy 1 what a daily andr and n hourly crucifixion I Unless Unless r a said sud tho countess with emphasis she she sho is prepared pro pre pared to renounce renounce- the law Jaw and reject society and livo Ilya a lifo life of complete completo But in a a. Catholic country where thero is no divorce what woman can afford to do that thaU Nobody in in the tho higher classes can can especially especially r if sho hasto hasto has hasto to sacrifice her title So tho the wise vise woman woman woman wom wom- her hor affair af af- an avoids scandal keeps little fair with her lover to herself and and and tints tint's marriage c my dears A twitter twitter twitter-of of approval led ed by Alma came from tho the other women but I was wa quivering with Rith anger and I said Then marriage o. o is an hypocrisy and an imposture It I found I loved 10 somebody some some- body otter better than m my husband I should go to him in spite of of tho the 13 law and society and title and and aud o er every every- thin thing Of Of course you OU would m my dear dear said the countess smiling at mo as at at ata a n child U but but that's because became you 0 are such a 5 sweet simple innocent little Irish bambino II It must have been a dl day or two after this that wo we were invited to the Roman hunt I had no no wish to go but Alma who had begun to use uso mo in order to save ner face in relation to my mv husband induced mo me to drive them ot out t tin In a motorcar to tho the place on the Campagna Cam Cam- where hero they were to mount their horses Dear sweet 51 girl said Alma How could wo we possibly go o without t you you t tIt It was Sunday and I sat bet between ceD Alma in her riding habit babit and my un husband husband hus hus- band in his ridin riding breeches while we Te Teran ran th through ou h the Port San Giovanni and past t the tho e osterio tho pleasure lovin loving Italian people were playing under under un der der the pergolas with their children until wo we came to the tho meeting ground round of ott tho the hunt b by the Trappist monastery of ofTie Tre Tie Fontane A large company compan of tho the Roman aristocracy aristocracy aristo aristo- iso cracy were gathered there thero with their hors horses s and hounds and they received Alma and my husband with great eat cordi cordi- What they thought of me I donot do donot O not know except that T was a childish and complacent wife and when hen at the sound of the horn the tho hunt began and androv rov my husband and A Alma ma wont prancing nt off with the rest without once looking lookingback lookingback back I asked m myself elf iu in my shame shamp and distress if I could bear my ray humiliation much lon longer er But then came a moment of unexpected pleasure t A cheerful voice oice on the he other side of tho the car said aid I Good C morning mornin Lady Raa nan nanI I It was as the young youn Irish ish doctor from the tho steamer His ship had put into Naples for two days das and amid like Martin Conrad before my mr marriage e he had run up to look at Rome But have havo you heard the tho news he cried What ne 8 About the south pole expedition expedition- I the the they're rc on their way home w So So soon Yes they reached Now OW ow Zealand on Saturday week was a And Aryl and and Martin fartin Conrad I Ue s 's well anti and what's better he has hRs distin distinguished himself I 1 I 1 I knew kne be Would So so 80 slid lid II The way Tay I was never fearin fearing that if jf they gave Mart half naIf a chance he he would como come out top Do or ordie die that die that was his watch word T snow mow T know His i eyes oyes were were sparking and soI so soI o I I. I suppose se- se were crA mine while with a joyous ru rush h of of lacy rac- words a. a bv in- with I Yes Ye punctuated t me Yes Yes Yes 1 os he hl told of a along long g dispatch dis dis- patch from irom tIll the lieutenant published l by hr ono one of the London papers in which hiob Martin had been specially u mentioned mentioned- how he had boon been put in command of some somo some difficult and p perilous rilous expedition and had worked wonders How tow splendid How glorious How perfectly mu magnificent ni I 1 said Ism Isn t it 7 said eaid tho the doctor doctors and for fora a low few moments more moro we wo bandied quick questions and replies replica like children play Ilay- playing lay ing rag at battledore and shuttlecock ock Then hen ho ha said But Im I'm after thinking its it's mortal strange I never Dever heard him mention you There Thoro was only ono chum at home homo he be used to talk about and that was WIlS a a. man mana a a boy I mean Mally he was calling caIling him that's him that a short Mal for Maloney no noI w I sup eup pose poso For Mary H I said paid 1 Mary MarJ C i 14 is it itt Why by tho the saints so it jt is Where in fn do tho name namo of St St. Patrick has hRs been tho the Irish head at mo me that I never thou thought ht of that before And you were f Yes Yos' We Well by the power e o TC vc a ti right ht to be proud of him mm him for lor h ha he was as thinking pearls and diamonds of ot you I was mortal jealous of dally Mally I remember Mallys a stunner stunner stun stun- ner ncr lie he used to Ba say eay Follow you anywhere any where if you rou wanted it it in spite of oft the e devil il and hell Tho rho sparkling eves eyes were growing misty by this time timo but but the woman woman in inn in n mo me marIe made me mc sav say say-I couldn't help it itI itI itI it- it I I dare daro say he's hes had many girl friends since my time tho though thought h f Narra Nann a one The Th girls used to bo be putting a glime on him in Dublin Dublin- they're tho the queens of or tho the world too those Dublin girls but girls but never a of tho the eye was WM he giving givins to the one of them I 1 used to think it w was s work but u maybe be it wasn wasn't t maybe it was wasI wasA A A A 1 I dare not let him 1 finish what I saw he was WM going goin to say say say-I I didn't know what would would lap happen pen to me mo if ho he did did did- so 60 I jumped in by bJ telling him that if he would stem sten into tho the car I would drive rive him b brick back ck to Rome He did so so and all tho the way he talked of Martin fartin his courage and resource and the hardships s ho he has gone ono through until with backward awkward thou thoughts of Alma and m my husband riding away over the Campagna m my heart which b had d been leaping like a lamb Iamb began to ache and ache We Wc returned by the Old War Way where tho the birds were cro building then their nests amon among the crumbling tombs through the Porta orta San Palo and past ast the grave pa c of the tho young young roun English poet noel of whom I have ha always thou thought ht it was as not so sad that he died of consumption consumption con con- as in the bitterness of a broken heart All AU this time I was waR so much at tome at-tome home bome with tho the young oun Irish doctor who was Vas was Martins Martin's artin friend hies that it was wu not until Iwas Iwas I T was putting him down at his hotel botel that I remembered I did not Dot even know his name It was 0 To be continued tomorrow |