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Show i THE SPANISH FORK TRESS. SPANISH FC&K, TJTAH. IIow fs - your foot this morning, Miss Dean? he asked. I think Its a little better, Mr. Wright. The doctor wont let me come to the office this week, though." Of course not, answered Wright quickly. But, Miss Dean, if 1 were to call for you in my car and take you home, dont you think you tould help me out with a few letters? Tou know I simply can't let anybody else know about that matter." Why, certainly, Mr. Wright I am sure I can come, If you really need to her home she. hurried back, biting task of going over his affairs once It was two now it wa three to (b her lips and sobbing, to fling herself more. morning. It began to grow light It An hour later he gathered hla pa- was daylight when the sound" of the upon her bed and indulge in the bitterness ot her pers together and thrust them away. automobile was heard. It stopped beShe felt the universal suspicion, she He opened a private drawer and fore the house and Austin conducted TV felt that she was an object ot scorn pulled out a revolver. Quietly he in- Daisy up to the door. . Robert aood on- the threshold, fao and pity. On the la.tt evening of these serted a cartridge in one chamber i!l i automobile rides, when Daisy had at and raised' the weapon tq his forehead. ing them Daisy sprang toward him, and relength recovered, Wright returned to his home thankful that matters at the Daisy Dean looked up to see Rob- coiled from the look on his face. You did not expect me till tomoroffice would thenceforward assume ert standing in the doorway. He hesitheir old routine. The following day tated, and came forward impetuously. row," he said grimly. his wife's father would deposit the He kneeled beside her and took her Robert dear, there was. an acoV-den- t sum to his credit, and all would be hands in his. 1 L. me. . "Where are the rest? , The girl, overcome by the first ; . I plain sailing. We saw them home by eleven and He came home to find the flat empty token of sympathy she had received, 'TUbe round In ten minutes," answered Wright, and telephoned for and his wifes belongings gone. burst Into unrestrained sobbing. Rob- were on the way back when the accV ! the chauffeur. t ert drew her head down on his shoul- dent Half an hour later Wright was conIll talk to you, Clark," said Robder. CHAPTER fit. What have you to say, you It is not true, Daisy, he cried. ert gratulating himself upon bis move. He could not possibly have confided Miss Susan Mlntum smacked ber Dear, you know how long I have thief, you" to the public stenographer that he thin are mistaken. lips as she read the item in the loved you. Be my wife and let us give TheListen, Robert; you . car broke down, and was heavily tied up. His wife's father, evening newspaper. the lie to the world." thinkYou "You lie! a cautious man of business, had gone this, planned Before he left Daisy had promised Wife of Broker Leaves Him on Eve ing I would not be home. I have your through bis books and promised him of Bankruptcy, she read. Mrs. Wil- to become his wife. letter to my wife, you cur!" ' a substantial loan. This necessitated liam Wright returns to her fathers As Robert was leaving her, elated Whatever you have to say can be a good deal ot correspondence, and house. She will apply for divorce from with happiness, Wright was ralsingl said when we are alone, not in front Before could him. only Daisy help her husband, naming his stenographer, the revolver to his forehead. of your wife." she left that evening it had been ar Daisy Dean, as And he, too, suddenly became aware at the Daisy stared, horror-strickeranged that be should call for her She folded the paper and laid it down. someone was standing In the pair. Had Robert no reason left She that every morning during the ensuing That's one for Robert." she said. It was his mother. She had ran to him again, she tried to speak. week and take her home at night. And I, unsuspicious that I am, never doorway. He helped her from the elevator even suspected that anything was seen the newspapers, had hurried to She clasped her arms about him. He his apartment, and then, instinctively flung her, staggering, away. into the street, where his car stood really wrong. where he had gone, had hastguessing "Im ready to meet you when and She swung round as the door ened to waiting,. and drove her to Dotsboro. office. the where you will, but I will not help you Cadman Green, posted at his club opened. Her brother Robert stood on She saw him seated at the desk and to humiliate your wife," cried Austin. window, looked down upon the sight the threshold, livid and trembling. In knew that a minute later would have 111 take the car back to The poor chap's losing his head, his hand he held a copy of the same been too late. She ran to him with Meanwhile the garage. he tittered. I Woman, too,' guess. newspaper. a cry. . The weapon dropped from his I'll be ready for you when you reIf I was one of Wrights clients who Do you know what this Infamous hand and rolled under the desk. turn, cried Robert wildly. In the Club Window. come to him to Invest their money for sheet is printing? he demanded. Daisy saw Austin driving away. Will, my dear boy!" she sobbed. them, I'd draw it all out before the Miss Susan lafd her hand on his Come home with me now. You must She shrank from her husband in inInevitable yes, sir, the inevitable shoulder. Yes, Robert, my poor boy, the crying she answered. I am so sorry. We not think of that Remember that creasing fear, clutching elopement child. Would he never believe? Ha ' Front her window Miss Susan Min-tur- never suspected, even though we used you are my boy through everything was pacing the porch like a madman, watched Daisy drive up with her our eyes, how bad it really wus. It la and who has ever cared for you as oblivious of her presence. She tried a scandal to the whole neighborhood. much as I?" employer. to enter the house. The door had his and He rose his from desk put a Novelized from the Its disgrace to the neighborhood, She must be forced to leave Dotbeen locked by Susan, ensconced grimarms about her. Robert," she said to her brother angri- sboro" You are right, mother, he said; ly behind the curtains, her thin lips, Broadway Universal And it's going to be stopped. ly. Robert glared at his sister She I cant stop it," Robert muttered. will come to this house to be my and they went out of the office to- drooping at the corners, set in a sarFeature In Floe Reels. donic smile. I know you can't, said his sister, wife!" he shouted, slamming ddwn his gether, W rittcn by Lois Weber Presently the sound of footsteps was mimicking him. But Ive done it I fist on the table. Susan, do you supheard. It was Austin returning. At wrote IV. Austin an to CHAPTER letter I and produced at Unioer unsigned pose believe those infamous stories? . the Bight of him Robert seemed to Clark yesterday. Do you think I am going to abandon stiffen into a statue. the sal Cdy by Smalleys evehome had In that her her trouble?" Daisy hardly got Daisy, dear, I wronged you. Austin came toward them. But that is all forgotten now, Suning when Austin Clark appeared beRobert, you are mad! To bring VICTOR ROSSEAU See here," he began more easily, fore ber, hot, indignant and declamasan." that girl to our house " if youll only let me explain. It was Miss Susan had come to stay with If she'll have me," said Robert, tory. site 13 eeswittn nsisne a? et nn s m a 3 sister-in-lareI want to know who the fellow Is! seaside her the at humbly. With an inarticulate cry Robert (Copyright by Western Newspaper Union) be thundered, after he had launched sort during her brother's absence on Oh, shell have you fast enongh! a revolver from his pocket and pulled forth in bitter accusation against her. his sister sneered. had been business. Roberts If you bring marriage Only fired. CHAPTER I. Then she called up the dumbwaiter: Austin staggered and dropped. See here, Daisy, he continued, a lit her here I walk out. Thank heaven Ideally happy, and the lonely old maid Mae! Is that you, Mae?" tie more mildly as he realized that be I am a respectable woman. There is had welcomed the opportunity to be The ball had pierced his heart. For an instant Daisy stared speech Old Cadman Green knew everybody Hello, Margaret! Say, Im mighty had aroused her spirit, this thing a limit, and I draw it and here, Robert. reconciled to her sister-in-laIn town. Those whom he did not tired tonight. They're only Just get- Isnt lessly at the murderer; the next she I You and meet are do her little to want that you engaged nephew. Why, say people right snatched up the child and ran wildly know were not, in hla opinion, worth ting ready to sit down to dinner. Mr. and you are seen driving out every you married a girl Austin Clark Nothing had been heard of either along the road into the marshes. knowing; and bis friends agreed with Wright was late, as usual. Im about morning with this fellow, and he Wouldn't look at after he found her Mr. Wright or Austin since Daisy's She ran. gasping and sobbing, till him before his face. Behind his back tired of this job. I think I'll move comes home with I knew her at out?" the for you marriage. Only girl night had left the village far behind she they voted him an amusing old bore. next month. know who he is, too. I can put things Her brother, unable to trust hlmaelf mer lover's regret, and the wild, inher. And day came up, lurid and I guess I could tell somebody where But it was the thing to think as Cadwrithad Austin coherent to that He's letter answer of out the together. Wright." her, stamped man Green thought, for he had the Wright spent the afternoon, if I cared ten her on the day before her wed- scorching, and the sun beat down on H0 looked at her triumphantly, as If room. her. She ran till she could go no tradition of distinction, acquired to. Say, listen, Mae! he had made a wonderful discovery. In her own home Daisy Dean sat In ding. Daisy had put the letter and The child, which had ceased She's calling I cant, Margaret. through bluff and brass, perhaps, but chair and stared, If you bad asked me In the beginat the Austin's photograph away. She had farther. to become a dead weight In had me. cry, held tenaciously and acknowledged. meant to destroy them; but in her I should have told you that it was newspaper. her arms. Just a minute. Listen! Wright ning Green was maintaining his reputatrenot even would new she Mr. Wright," said Daisy quietly. She had found her employer's office happiness At last, looking about her, she saw ion in the same way as t&at in which was through the town with But that makes It worse, snarled closed that morning when she arrived, open her bitter memories by recalling the marsh and forest, and, far in as only his stenographer in his auto, he had acquired it. loving Austin. business existence. See here, what and the office boy waiting outside. their a little blur against the the distance, You see that woman in the car- as you please, with half the town have Strolling along the sea front, the two you to let your boss drive you Mr. Wright was habitually so punctual Second Mrs. watching him. Took her home after- around town and make a talk of you that Daisy had telephoned to his apart- women, completely reconciled, laughed sea, Seabury riage? he inquired. And she realized that all this had ward. Mr. Green was just telling in this Percevale. Artists model before way? It reflects on me, too. ment She learned that it was closed. and chatted with never a thought of been prepared for her, and that it cevale married her, and had a little the old woman about it. You ought to have seen the letter I Mr. Wright had come home the eve- the past. Suddenly Daisy gave a litwas part of the same evil thing which You dont say! Say, this is no scandal all her own in the home town. got this morning." ning before and gone out again. That tle gasp. Approaching them came Aus- had entered her life that afternoon a Im for going place respectable girl. Well, shes hello! was all that was known. Mrs. Wright tin and a girl. To turn back was im- when From whom?" she wrenched her foot in the This time Cadman Green contended to move on, for sure. Ob, goodness! possible. Susan saw the look on elevator. I don't know from whom. It isnt was away on a visit Nothing remained now exshe is There himself with a whistle, and, as he calling again! heart suddenly signed. People don't sign that sort Again that morning Daisy went Daisy's face, and' her, death. cept called Mrs. had whistled peremptorimost of friends Wright his whistled, . of letter." down to the office, to find the door hardened. She sank down by the roadside. too. ly to hide the shock of the news. She But Austin, taking off his hat, shook And you dare you dare to make still locked. The office boy had grinned Vaguely she was aware that the leafy William Wright with his pretty had stood with her hand upon the such accusations against met on the introboth and hands with cordially sheepishly at her this time. He told curtain of trees across the way conamb of the door during the entire stenographer!" said the old man. of an anonymous letter, Aus- her everything except the one salient duced his fiancee. They, too, were cealed a little cottage. The presstrength She had seen Daisy tin? The person in question, seated in conversation. fact and that he would not have spending their vacation at Seabury. ence of Impelled her once his automobile beside a decidedly pfet Dean, her husbands stenographer, two She would not dream now of telling blurted out for all the raise that his Before they parted Austin had sug- more to humanity rise. She would go down to hours ty young woman, passed under the or three times, and she had noticed him the simple explanation. that The might the sea and end gested many pleasant two lives there, imagination bad ever devised. club windows, and the car, after speed- with disapproval the little affectation be spent together. There was nothing he should have listened that thought rose. She from all far Mrs. row had with The boss eyes. a has of ing a short way farther, turned off in of the girl always to have a bunch in his manner to Indicate that he reto invidious gossip Instead of trying A man was coming out ot the cotShes membered that foolish and impetuous the direction of a respectable but daisies upon her desk. Once or twice to protect her was maddening. She Wright. Miss Dean." he said. left him, and hes gone after her to letter. tage. He was approaching her. He her husband had come home wearing drew his modest suburb. ring off her finger. I stood before her and placed his hands know back. what her don't buttonhole. his No, in flowers bring one of the deWhat do you think of that? Daisy, alone in her room, opened her I think we made a mistake, Austroubles about The colored man's trunk and took out the letter and pho- on her shoulders. She looked into the manded Green. Wright and a lady He had come home with one that tin. she said. house told me face of William Wright . friend, and seeing her home through night. I think kid in the apartment tograph. How weak she had been, He swung upon his heel. At a glance he understood that the Wright, who loved his wife sincerel- so, too," be answered with bitter em- about it." the town in broad daylight! And I when their discovery might have What had happened was this: Mr. prejudiced her own and Robert's hap- same Nemesis- - had followed her. " y, had not failed to note the little sign phasis, and slammed the door behind live underneath him! Wright had gone, rather frantically, piness! She struck a match and lit There was no need for questioning. He burst into a chuckle and slapped of jealousy against the girl who was him, house, thinking them, watching till the flames had eat- He had seen Austin pass in his motor his business confidant. On that actq his father-in-law- s his fat leg, while the others exchanged Daisy, with compressed lips, sat that his wife the about said be count had might be there. Even en almost across both of them. She car the day before, and he had read nothing smiles and nods. her. of treatment his over brooding Their servant told our girl that reason for his automobile drive with She was stunned by the malignity that then he did not surmise the nature of flung the debris Into her wastebasket Daisy's and Roberts names among would have the trouble. Yes, she was there, but and went down. She knew that the those of the newly arrived. he her that Mrs. Wright is infernally Jealous day. Perhaps seemed suddenly to envelop her. But Come with me. My mother is waitbeen wiser had he done so. But the she would she. refused to see him. Instead, the past had been obliterated by that act of her husband, continued Green, fight it down. Her anxiety old man had come a and to welcome you," he said, he and in almost meal silence, downstairs, ing passed wonder I wonder what she would say as fully as in Austins own mind. over ber employer' affairs, her deled her into the cottage. lie attributed his wife's moroseness to sire to be loyal to him forbade any stormy Interview followed. If she could see that?" Days passed. Robert's return was headache. matter-of-fanervous a of Mrs. a was He glanced about him. lie had kept ler plea Wrights father other course.- - And never should he expected on the Friday. On Thursday man. He did not feel so much CHAPTER V. up his reputation among his peers. know what she had suffered because evening Austin, who, with his sweetCHAPTER II. Now the news must be spread. It was the moral obliquity of his been a had visitor, of him. frequent heart, too good to retain.' Green did not See that funeral? asked Cadman She let him drive her to and from behavior as the scandal that he had suggested a motor party. ru"As I live, Daisy Dean getting out had heard That's He the wish Wright any harm, but be felt about You must go, Daisy, dear, said Green at the club window. office for days, even after she brought the town mors were over the the Mintum's that the joke was. on him, and he of a car at her door with a man! that mother, you murderer's, flying Susan. was able to walk. That was youth's Look how hes helping ber! Who unwise know. He killed young Clark when and had disbelieved them; but his wanted Mrs. Green to agree with him. Cadtoo? And But to come, dally envy. youll reply By the time he reached the apart- is he? What will Austin Clark say man Green, seated at the club win- daughters hysterical return the same I think I he came home and found he and his No, I have a headache. . as to wife had been out all night together. convinced him had afternoon ment house he was bursting with the when he hears? bed. to waited the shall for elopeand watched go dow, news. Dinner was ready, and he held Robert, this thing has got to be ment Gradually, too, the news per- their truth. He wasn't going to fiAcquit him? Sure, any Jury would care of I take Then shall stay and It only through the soup, Indulging in stopped right away! who made such a acquit him. Wouldnt you? But the meated the gossipy little . town. nance a you. his since old woman's heart was weak, and it the joys of anticipation until he coull fool of himself, especially would In dear. Robert remained ..renely No, Daisy, .1th nil ber b.blt.l Wright .ton. bear them no longer. younger daughter announced that she would never forgive me if I let you wait on killed her. 4i A o( determination. The prim old maid disI saw an Interesting sight today,1 Say, dont you remember that day me. Go and enjoy yourself with the he knew was that his wife's headaches never return to him. with bis be said, with an affectation of casual-Hes- s. liked Daisy Intensely: First, because saw Wright we "You've played the fool, William, party." were more frequent than usual, anc I prophesied troushe was stylishly dressed; second, beand stenographer out of to the have your and at overshadowed last yielded. Carrying get you'll Daisy his business worries What was that, Cadman! inquired cause she was pretty; thirdly, because that fact. trouble as best you can," he said. If little boy in her arms she stepped into ble? And didnt it follow? Wright a bad his wife. she knew of her brother's hopeless I In two or three days ber father ha my daughter goes back to you again the car. The merry voices died away bankrupt fugitive, stenographer one man, as after ever, and, ruining As "Only our friend upstairs, Willie passion for her. In the distance. Susan returned to to place a substantial III see if I'm willing to help you. I can't stop It," muttered Robert, promised Wright, speeding through the town in would en matters stand, she says she won't, and her room and sat down with com- causes her husband to shoot her lover? credit. That amount his to his new auto, with his They tell me her own (mother wired pretty atenog surlily. pressed lips and frowning brows. able him to- meet his obligations. that's enough for me. You can, too. I'm going to make not to go home. If her husband her fapher. Right under our club winshe said. him I her her with made all gave chance," But I've knew it and rejoiced my arrangements was dows, Lizzie, and then out toward It my business to see that Austin Daisy through with her, she guessed the Now let Robert Miss Susan, watching like a cat for In view of that loan," cried Wright. In was enough for her, too. Botsboro. You dont happen to Clark hears about it. What right has her return each disgrace tomorrow. i she know what her for admit wifes to had that my Dont you see, sir, night, with bnow if the woman lives in Dotsboro, an engaged girl to go vicAnd, say, do you know what I And she began pacing the room, did not look like the hysterical and wrought up about nothdo you? man? He's married, too, that the girl a middle-ageheard. was She's living with Wright outIt while hours the eleven, the I can scoundrel. passed. as see? so far a Why tim ot designing ing, For goodness sake, Cadman, how as like as not Those married onos reside not the Jurisdiction of the state. You had was It twelve; the party Maybe I wronged her in my whole charge is preposterous." hould 1 know? are usually the worst ever! Do you suppose sounded a o'clock one see, At got together again, and, turned. But they said. step she thoughts. Robert," I don't care what It is,? shouted bave time to Daisy, having been assisted to her the residence of Susan opened the door, to mark my words, shell cause his death outside. rememinquire and her in evil you'll with done I've theres man. old you, the Mr Wrights house, entered and watched her emwild-eyeand hag- too. A woman like that can't help gostenographer! ber It." and Ive better uses for my money confront Robert, Well, I guess its Dotsboro al ployer from the window as he drove ing through life like wildfire, think Susan,' gard. I'm fool you that, like a to sorry lend you. it to than right, said Cadman Green. away. Her foot still pained her a answered She was bad from birth, and cried Is Where he she! fiercely. now that because, Robert, cooled. And anger The maid, who was waiting for him good deal. It had been wrenched in Wrights suddenly a she ever lived through childanit's with Austin," pity Gone mean to I motoring to take hla arms off the table before the door of the elevator as she was she ha broken with Clark, The utter malignancy of the whole swered Susan. "Well, Robert, per hood. Decent enough family, too, I've wife.' be to my her ask again thing, which had come home to Daisy, heard. And to think I once lived in wetting down the roast listened with leaving the office and Mr. Wright had now. Heaven help you If ever you marry struck home to him also. He looked haps you believe my warning n air of Judicial home. her driven The Robconsiderately the same apartment house with tho Impassivity. was his It groaned writing," answered. Breens knew that their girl was at the old man In a dazed way. He had told her not to come to the her," Miss Susan From Into a down chair. Wrights! By the way. 1 heard his ert. sinking It was strange, but not even the But his tuodel ot discretion, and did not hesl office for several days. In fact, he Youll be sorry," he said. wife's married again. Good riddance his sister's pocket he extracted watcher at the window de- It'll be too late tomorrow. tate to discuss anything In' front of planned to employ a public stenog-phe- lynx-eyeof was folded sheet him, I say. the Inside letter. ber. And, until the meal was But when he began his dicta-tio- n tected the frequency with which a cerI tell you, boys, lifes pretty swift, out ot the the scrap of burned paper that Susan walked he slowly And jnded, seen Ma passing the next rooming he suddenly tain woman was to be garet maintained her own reputatto his from the wastebasket, con even in a small town, and there's back and taken had apartment house ion. realized that he could not risk the and repasslng along the street, more real fun in watching what's goAt a late hour the following after-- talnlng the words: When the Greens were ensconced in of publicity in his corre-- 1 Ing and evening. For live days Mrs, love to ceased never you. I ing on from this window than In going have and himself he noon together pulled their living room Margaret gathered spondence at auch a critical hour. In I Wright haunted the neighborhood to a show. It almost tempts a man Austin.' office. Seated alone the pile of dishes near the kitchen the end he dismissed the- - gill and mad with Jealousy, and each time she went down to his this sort of thing. to in silence. In the chair gossiping sat Robert the hopeless went he through 1 ber husband driving Mlsa Dean there, (ink and shut all the connecting doors. called up Daisy. , to - ( . , Scandal -- an" dry-eye- Joy-ridin- g thr & 's son-in-la- 1 ,.ht Joy-ridin- g - Joy-ridin- g d d Sim-mond- r. morn-possibilit- 1 |