Show THE VIRGIN WIFE by harold L douglas CHAPTER V CONTINUED CC LET ME DIE tho the result of ma baggies Mag 0 gios gies warning was that when biank mot met sapphira on oil tho the road next boxt day and told her i to 0 bo be ready to go to a pic pie picnic nic with kith lidin in a few days she bho said isido indal d tl ill I 1 not I 1 am ain a little too particular about my lily company but they ire all nico nice people re F ik yes they mey aie le sapphira with wi withering scorn but unfortunately you aro not frank saw soni something ething was wrong and urged her to toll tell him tho trouble 1 k I know all about you frank griswold sho died theatrically 1 I wish I 1 could never soo boo you again M so I 1 do 1 poor frank was utterly unprepared for this and it threw hinl him out 0 of f 0 gear rear so that lie ho stood like a crow with nothing z to say sapphira took thia for a collic confession of guilt and turning ra her back swept away like an injured quoon flank dragged himself off toward home he NN was as utterly crushed as as well as puzzled puzzle and his faco face suggested a funeral procession chance sometimes plays stran strange 0 cro freaks and before lie had gone far 11 ho 0 met hattie selwyn siNo sweeping along the road in a carriage behind a team 0 of f bays with a young M man an she seemed to grasp the situation and bowed to frank with a mocking smile and then whirled out of sight leaving him shrouded in ill a cloud of duat it may bo be imagined that this did not improve his mental condition after passing a miserable and almost sleepless night lie determined to go and ask an ail explanation of sapphira so the following afternoon found him on oil his mission she was sitting beside the cabin door peeling 0 potatoes As he approached her she did not look up tip but the knife shook in her hand and cut the peeling rathor rather thick ho he sat down beside her on a soapbox soap boap box sapphira lie said what do you want wont vont you tell rno mo why you wore were so cross yesterday lio ho asked in a trembling voice yes cause I 1 wanted you to go 90 away and stay away was the unfeeling reply but why 1 I linow know more about you than I 1 did whon when I 1 promised to marry you all the acts of his life wont went stirry hurrying lis bis mind but thero there wore were none that could account for Sapp Sappl hiras liras behavior belia vior for half liala an hour ho he plead with tears in his oyes eyes for some soine explanation of her conduct but sho was unmoved Sapp sapphira hiral 1 ho cried if you yon dont toll tell mo ill kill myself you would bo be foolish to do that wm was tho cho cool response onEie but I 1 will 1 it 1 I am sorry 1 I dont believe care a bit P oh yes I 1 would a little wont walt 0 you lave have me no siut I 1 then for death doat lil I 1 cried frank and lie ho started toward tho the gate walking down to the canal lio lie looked at tho the rushing waters which aeto about four feet doop deep ho he looked around at tho the hills tho the valley with its busy ran ranches clies thon at sapphira sitting bitting in tho the sun still raising lia ising his arms ho he plunged into tho the foaming torrent mib afis meado had been keeping b an ail eye yo on th young couple and ono one ear car open to their conversation and when kiank started for the canal she wont to lo 10 tho the front gate and now as lie di dh appeared appu appo ared arod bhe screamed and ran rail to tilt the b bunk bank ank flanks fbanks head vai va ai a i i fobbing bobbing up horn under the water tho the current would neither lot let him stand nor sink bink savo save himl save himl shrieked mrs meade A horseman passing 13 on oil uie tho road trang sprang from froin his horse and came to hr hor ide de As ho saw the wourl besu bo suicide itlay down on the bank and frank by the collar drew his dripping form out of tho the water and lay him on oil the grass CONTINUED NEXT WEEK |