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Show A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. "I muBt have it." There was a look of adamantine sternness and inexorable determination on his face. "George, I cannot. I will consent to anything else in the world; but not that." Her face was almoost livid with emotion, as she gazed at him with pleading eyes that still retained re-tained a flash of defiance. The man was unmoved by the suffering of the woman before him. As he stood there in the fading fad-ing light, he looked as if he might have been chiseled in granite. J'I must have it," he said in the same acrid, implacable im-placable tone. "Then hero it Is," she said in a voice -scarcely audible. And with a dexterous yet graceful movement she handed him. his pipe and tobacco, the smoking smok-ing of which in the living room she had expressly prohibited but a moment before. |