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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-7-30, Page 2e Wed 4 mg Eve Or, Married to a Fairy. CHAPTER SB I.—(C.ontinnede Lilith stood for the lffesize figui . not without protest, for she hated keeping still,and was a most fidgety mode'. In o1d•fashloved areas I „bowed her. P eeitrg alone bythe:sand•dunt's that skirt the sea, Heir gown -blown about by the wind, her uteihen a-ot'kturttliherhoed, pryetbokauel',uv in han1, on her way to the church for the sake of which she had deserted her sea-faeta:liniry ed blue uey eynd es there hi{theriesi a emptied, lfetoning look, for over the storm that looms in the threatening clouds and slim the road sea waves she eau hear the vane ol•the.merman, calling upon her in @least broken accents to return to hint. She beam, and is a little frightened, but her herepryer-book closerrld, and elle to iter as she aelee hum Mee op, Such was the picture withal, with all its faults', was the greatest artistic aehevement of my life. I euppooe meet English people know it, for a was ex- hibited 10 all the great town*. before be- ing bought by a renowned art patron who has, so I hear. bequeathed it to the Nee tional Gallery when he shall die. It wvas finished before I was twenty-nine. I am two -and -thirty now,, but I know that I shall never paint lace that again. When I had been married little more than a year, my uncle, Lord thereheeter, died, and the title went to one of my in- va•1td cousins. To my deep grief, my un- cle ncle was never reconvied. to me, although Madge, who nursed him devotedly, her utmost to soften his feelings toward mo. When, at her request, I came to the house. and looked upon the faee of the man who for eo many years had been as a father to me. calm in the awful ma- jesty of death, I broke down altogether and wept like a child. Not until hie will 'was read and the con• tents made known to me did I learn the humiliating circumstances that my uncle had cut off my allowance from the very day of my marriage and that since that date it was Modge who had secretly sup- plied the thousand a year 'which until then had formed 'a third of my regular income. That Lilith and I ehonld have been in Dart living on Dtadges bounty was pecu- liarly painful, but I could not retrotwh my 'cousin with her quixotic generality now when .she was bowed with grief, and could only refund the motley through her lawyers and peremptorily stop all ouch supplies for ehe future. I was coming home through the park, from a long and unpleasant interview with the lawyers in question, about a fortnight after my uncles funeral on a bitter November day, when I was stop• ped by the occupant of a shotty carriage drawn by two dark -brown ;horses with tremendous action, "Hello, Hervey! why in the world are you reeking 00 miserable? What, man. with only two puny- lives between you and a title with a big income, a huge arttetic euccces, a coming R.A.-ship, and the pret- tiest wife in London, are you of all peo- ie,hal ow u and to realize doy that stuffed worlde w sawdust?" It was Nicholas Wray, whom I 'had not seen eines that chance meeting in Paris during my honeymoon; but Nicholas Wray with a difference. Much broader and stouter in appearance, with a big diamond ring ouhis finger, and his plen- tiful hair and beard combed and perfum- ed over the deep sable -lined collar of hie overcoat, he looked more like a sleek and handeom Semitic millionaire than the Carving painter of the old days in Lon- don and in Paris. For the moment I forgot Madge's Pro• hibttien, and greeted him in friendly fa- shion enough, Fou echo pretty pre10erhus, anyhow," I said. He waved frit+ hand airily. Not by art," he returned. "Art with a big A' may go to the devil witha big D.' A Birmingham couein—fortune in pens --rod he had the decency to die and provide for me. Never mind me! Tell me why in the world you look mo miser- able?" e By this time I lind remembered 1lfadge's words, and I received Wrays inquiries coldly. I have nothing to tell that would in. tercet you,' I said. "And I am rather Dressed for time." He drew back, duelling angrily, 'Don't imag'ne I want to forth my so- eiety open you," he said.. "It was only your long fare that made me eta» you. It always interests me to see people mis- erable when they obtain their heart's de- sire. So Tong! Home, Jennings I•' were extensively quoted among the mem- ber, of the haute Buhetne. Men paid court to ate, as I eoald plainly see, Its miler to,gqc invited to my wife's little eunpen parties, which would eeeedilY heave. degenerated into "rowdiness for Lilith ae elt,tti one headcaet lax P to ith a meissued usmnite anywhere, and urged them to drink free• ly-but for the timely, saving presence of Madge, who, to my great joy and dell) gratitude, volunteered whenever elle could to be a guest at thee, Bohemian reunions, tstnuetlring in iladge's style, manner,. and appearance, and iu her position us a great Leetrc1t0awtt nhertonetthei ee11's,puug the :inlets, Jouraalietm, mteieiuns, ana actors, 0x111were among my .wife'* must favored guests, on their best behavior, which. .indeed, is the behavior, a mint should always show in the presence of a woman. A few artists who had married their models brought their 'wives, .large, the meet part, toythe drat creatures f Lilith's en- tertainments; n tertainments; bat when Lady Margaret Lorimer began to attend then[, and jo}u'• realists. anxious to chronicle- their intim- acy with the aristocracy, alluded in the cheaper weeklies to the- lovely Mae. Adrian Hervey's succea,ful 'at home' last Sunday, at which Lady Margaret Lori• mer looked beautiful in green, etc," many women in, or nearly in, society, sought fur invitations, and Lilith'e Sunday even• mete became extremely popular. Good-looking fellow that Adrian Her- vey," I overbeerd is the park one day in the second Year of my marriage, "Some- thing thing like a younger version of Dante' Slade a mull of his marriage, like most of those ,artist chaps. Engaged to hie cousin, Lady Madge Lorimer, quarreled with her, and went off and married a ellen girl, or an artist's model, or a slavey, forget which, nut of pique. She's au aw- fully pretty little woman. But it'e a bad CHAPTER XXVII, Even now when I leek bark, after a lapse of three yeare, I can Hardly real- ize, still leee describe, how it all came about, or tea sequence of these events which transformed me from one of the most envied men In London to one of the most miserable. For one thing, I was always busy. I had to work early and late, so that the lessening of my income might not bo felt be, my wife. The early spring and whiter we usually spent round the south coast or in French waters, painting hard from nature in the harsh Fairy. "The seesaw" found ate in London, not that we - went into society, but that Lilith loved the theatres and to leo the people in the Park. Picture exhibitions were on then, and private views, and it was the best part of the year in which to capture the shy picture -buyer. Entertaining en a small scale we indulgent li. and Lilith eneedily became exceedingly pol,uiar among it certain section of my acquaint- aneee, at wlticlr I wee not .too well pleas- ed. The "lovely Mfrs. Hervey" got to be her nickmmnc, and her little naive speeches, half innocent, half audacious, thing for a man." The 'wards angered me extremely, but what was 1 to do? The man echoed the nonular verdict. And under these circu1n- stan0ee the kind of vogue which 11111111 acquired hurt and annoyed rue. Her childish high spirits, always a little re- strained and repressed by Madpe's pre• sense, broke out when only the wives. and sisters of artists were oar guests. She would coax mo to the piano, and would improvise the most delightful dances, swaying her lithe and graceful figure --fn• accent as ever ofetlie disfiguring corset— this way and that in .the Joy of dancing, a .Joy whish seemed peat of her very be- ing. • For myself, I never tired of watching with -passionate arlm!ratlon the sinuous movements of her supple form, of revel- ing in the Joyous abandon of her gesturee; but it vexed and angered me that other fontld eaoelovehas,itrLilih as ajelubecause was based on uncertainty. That oho 11k - ed nee I knew: that elle loved me a little I wee sure; but the rest—ah, the rest! ,rtrioon to tnleerance and love,t�thetlo a aer wait Braves for from his wife! Before the end of our eeeend year of marriage I began to realize that my af- fairs had somehow grown terribly involv- ed—that we were, in fact, living beyond our means. and terribly in debt. Lilith was O1W LYS wanting money, "for the housekeeping," as she nut it, bat an acci- dent revealed to me the fact that the tradesmen'e bills had not been paid for mare than a Year, Fifteen hundred a year I had Placed to Lilitlt's credit at my bank, but on M- ealier 1 discovered that her account was heavily overdrawn. Against my will, I crew suspicious and observant. found debt visited dtbt the tradespeople, and everywhere. Mrs. Hervey had promised faithfully they should be paid at the end of the year,' I heard on all sides, Even the servants' wages had. not been need since Christmas—over a hundred pounds were owing. and I had regularly Mild the money to Lilith each quarter. T blamed myself for leaving everything in the hands of 50 young end inexperi- enced a girl, and after eeeking out MY lawyer and consulting him as to the beet means of raising mousy in a Burry, I re- turned home late on one September after- noon, resolved on a long talk of gentle remonstrance with my improvident wife. As noun as I entered the house, my eyes fell on a note in Lilitb's handwriting, ly- ing on the hall -table. I caught it up and read the following words: "Now that you have been questioning the servants and the tradespeople, 1 know you will find out everything. I can't ask you to forgive me. And I can't stay with you any longer. I am more sorry than I can say, for you and for myself. But I have never loved you, and you will do better without me. Pease forget me, and please don't try to find me. For 1 she'll never come back. "Lilith." CHAPTER. XXVIII. "But I have never loved you, and you will de better without me," Those words in Lilith'e letter wooed to burn into my brain. 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And now she had deserted me, had fled from her home and her hnlbaud, who lov- ed her far better than his life, and gone I knew not wither. "Don't try to nod me. I Mall never come back." The words wore there before me. But of course she was not in earnest! This was one of her old elflike freaks, -She anew that she had been deceiving me, and had been recklessly extravagant in money matters. She was afraid of my anger. and had fled, poor child, in her usual impulsive irresponsive fashion. She was only nineteen even now, and knew nothing of the world. She had scrib- bled off the letter in a hurry, and she no more realized how terribly the words in her letter hurt me than a kitten under- (dands that hie claws hot -when he thrusts them cut in play. With the ,imile there flashed back into My brain that old prophecy of Nioitolais Wray, when he had so' strenuously urged me not to marry Lilith. She was "one of the kittenish, chorus -glee type,' ,rte had said, "who only cafe ler sten who bully theta, evlto will play with the heart of a man who .loves 4th0m, alternately tortur- ing and caressing it, and Hien, for a whim of the love of change, will cast it aside for a fre:.oh sensation." But Wray had never understood With, and I would not think of hie words with regent to her. Only a few days age, as I had heard from other men, he had given a farewell sooner to his cronies in Lon- don, an,d had announced his intention of starting on the -following day for en old palazzo in Venice, a portion of which he had resolved to rent and live in with a big. block -haired Italian model, whom he declared he meant to matte his wife. Wray was a worthless voluptuary; a10m Should Ise understand my With, of the child -soul and wayward, reetless nature? I was ton serious with her, too much ab- sorbed in my work. The idea that Slee had left me became she could not 1000 my angel' over her carelessness wee a terrible nue to Inc. What eves all the stoney I could ever make compared to me, darlings t 0111ine •sI She was too young to manage; doubtless elle had hese oboat• ed, and --- And all this lime where .wan oho? I meet emotion the servants and Jfnd out, the extlat tune at which she eft 1110 house As I turned with that end 1n view, I discovered that Rosalie, my wife's plain, eldetly French Meld, wee 0)000 behind mo, wa3t411ng me cnrieuell,v 7 beckoned her into the dillillg•1'oem and *hut the door, :tI what time 01ir1 your nei110010 leave the bi tn..c?" I. asked, trying t0 control my voice. Ahncnl immediately after monsieur." "Had r•1te, any luge'age?" • "None, mnn--lenr. Only smite money end ..Jewels in n hand -bag. Madame's portnutn.; teen went 0w10 laet. night," "La einlet?" "Ye, ill )1 '10111•; a 1111 e5eager cattle for it while madame and m0nfdeur were at the theatre." 'Did you' nth irs,,t tell yon where rho was ening.?" The woman heoilott'tl Ttve of three olive ego, n1011'10x1), ma- dame ere; '1.0ke of going This morning ehe gave me a little 111)31100e itewee not melt, uwneienr, for 1 ht.l dole u great deal r very great de.tl, for nrallame" 11000111, .-he eel 'Mr, Hervey 'ell Ionic sifter you. T uluil1 new,. e01110 bade :any: more, That wa:n 1011at madame said, mon- sieur." Not onto word as to whom she was go, Ing "Pardon, monatenf! Monsieur will for, give mo if I .:snook the trade. 'I am fro•, ing,' madame said, `back to the malt I love. and I shall never eee Mr. Hervey again. " "It's a 11e1" The words burst from me. Not oncehad this horrible thought. come to me. It was not passible; it woe au outrage to believe that Lilith could have uttered such words. They were an inventions on the part of thee lying Frenchwoman. I think rho look on my face frightened her, for she flew from ,the room and 0nm- moned my mall Wretl•ehaw. Lilith had spoken to him also before leaving. Tell your master not to take it to heart too muclr,"- she .had said. I know you have .always dieapnr'oved of me, Wrenshaw, and you see you were quite right. For I am going to leave your mate - ter, and. I shall never mime back. Id's no u9e your trying to stop Me. I'M meant to eo for severed days, and when he antis out the truth he'll be glad. I've never lov- ed ydur master, Wrenshaw, but I have loved soave one else, and I'm going to him." • And you let her go like .thatl" I cried, beside myself withanguish, For I knew that Wrenahaw never lied, and that my wife in very truth had spoken thus. What was I to do, sir? When I anneal- ed to her, and said she would breakyour heart.. she only laughed at first Then she fell to crying, and saying that if I knew everything I ehculd be eorx'y for her aswell as for you. But when I woke to her agnin,ehe turned angry and order- ed me ottt el the room, And I canto down- stairs and waited in the hall, so to to stop her by main forme, - But that Pm:mett- woman took her down the servants' stair - 0n -e, and when I left the hall at twelve o'clock, and '*vent- on to make sure she was .4111 there. she had beengone more. than an hour:" Ib was' all over then,otny dream of heapi- neee. se.ehiil as of death seethed to *reap over any heart ee be, spoke.' I left the man th€are, and went un to LI•lithee room. It was bright with asters, but already in those few hours 41 had gained an empty, un - ocean -led tool[. Clearly. Rosalie had been et lag ancone deredelYin,,nd trifles, As 3' no doubt etoo4 gaz- ing stupidly, around me, the wvotilan OJ). r. e l aof1 laser` that1laytntonttthelel�essting- tnlile, with my name sera0vled upon it 1e- Lilith'e handwriting.. I had no neat to open it. Merely the it in •cin . we< 1 'ileea g g LeArli d It w was 9 m Y tv A hind of vertigo seised me. I felt that I tnuot bo alone, shut in from prying eyes, er I 'award to mad. I left my wifeee ream, staggered Mewl!. to 11fy Andy, mid leaked myself in. Ore* my nice), Maul the portrait, of L!1. Hee drown by Nieh0las Wray, sleeping in the armchair, with the rah Saladin curl- ed In her Ian. At sight of it my heart .reamed to 1r100d, 1 hewed my head on my desk, and called aloud nnnn the wire who had deserted me, imploring her to return offering 1e- fox'get and forgive •everything us though, in my aeons,my soul collier leave my burly and Payee tet 0e111 t:o Helot. 'For h0un3 :T. remained the a wrestling pith MY torturing 11111 hes, 00111 h turned again and again, with r coward Dei i elt•ncy, 10 suicide av , r0slitte froin 11111 dot > Ir. [b follow Lilith, and fm'ee bee to Tel to ins, weld be:won't than useless. Bow could T bold hex' en unwilling prisoner whin 1,be [mild rot love nm? Inti 11eww- e)t Helvetii hot .•111111 T 1111) without 1100? genre Yn-o 11 :.,,i 1 could irtArn to the ('411111 , 1ve try, impels -6 life. wihich ley b end to the ilrennel e l able lrntti 11 :.1 elieful experiences whirl) crotch, l use) me. Alty oily by ow, v:rut talfee the et.0ry of 1411111/1 flight had .get abroad,, and the house WWII be- siegel by nlgtnbiLive wallets, and by. tradesmen with whom. my wife ]tad pledg- ed my credit. It was absolutely neaeasary to r011130 111y - self. My name had been dishonored for alltime, but at least I could save it from commercial discredit. I engaged an ac- countant, and with him began an ex- haustive examination of my affairs. Tito result was in the last degree start- ling. In two yearns Lilith had contrived to spend overtwelve tar amend pounds. raising money .111 several instances by Tllo Lyons (Trance) Suffrage union has 1,21.0 breathers. Women act as factory inspectors In British Columbia. England leas about 23,000 =Menconvtete t ooh year, A ct(Pa.) bconist has 07 0r 3,500Chestwomanz customtooraa.c England has a eollege where 11 0 1 11 0 11 are taught bee-lcoeping, Women will be allowed to compete in the next Olympic games. England has two woman preachers who occupy pulpits regularly, Women and mea are educated to- gether in school and college in Nu- r aro ranch braver than men, aecording to the Reverend 12. II. Nor - Mostof Pltiladolphia. Most of the women employed in the New York department stores receive $9 per week, A Paterson (NJ.) woman paid $125 for a coffin to bury the body of. her pet dog. Havana has a newspaper which is ran entirely by women and prints gen- eral Hews as well as that of special interest to women. Princess Josephine von' Lobkowitz won the chief woman's prize 111 the society fencing tournament held at Prague, Each of the several hundred gradu- ates of the Philadelphia Normal school for girls has been found to be "as near- ly perfect as possible." Mrs, Rebecca Clark of Wood Green, Eng., is believed to be the Icing's old• est subject, having just celebrated her 110th birthday. Women can talk more than men with less fatigue because their throats are smaller and they tax the lungs and vo- cal cords less. Dr. Annie Hubert has been appoint- ed resident physician i11 the work- house on L'lackwvell's island, N,Y., at a yearly salary of 01,800. Baroness Worporgo, one of the smartest women in Vienna society, was one of the first among the Aus- trian aristocrats to take up aviation. The Reverend Emma E. Bailey is the only woman minister in the Uni- versalist church in Pennsylvania. She has been engaged in pastoral work for 36 years. Cooks, nurses, maids and other do- mestic servants in Pennsylvania Will work only eight Miura a day if the hill advocated by the industrial commis- sion becomes a law. In Norway women are allowed to sit in :parliament, but not to become members of the government. The government of Denmark contri- butes a regular sum annually to the Domestic Workers' Union. For personal use the average wo-• man smoker orders 100 cigarettes at a time and consumes ten a day. Queen Wilhelmina ::rsonally inves- tigated the living eonditio'1s of the workmen in Amsterdam. Just to please 11(r husband, Mme. Poineare, wife of the president of France, spends $20,000 a year on dress. Female policewomen in Denmare re- ceive $300 a year more than mon when they first enter the service. The London educational committee has leased four apartment flats for use in instructing workingmen's wives in housewifery. Queen Mary is now a colonel in the British army, having been made colo- nel -in -chief of the Eighteenth Hussars. Queen Alexandra and two princesses have also been given corresponding ranks in other regiments. 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That the growth of the foreign population in Canada has .also add- ed to our criminal statistics is shown by the fact that there are at the present time .no- less than seven murder cases' under review by the Department of Justice and in every case it is a foreigner in- volved. The last Canadian criminal statistics available, those for 1012-13 show that in that year there .were 52 charges and 25 convictions for murder. Of the 25 convictions 110 less than 17 were foreign bort— foreign born meaning elsewhere than in Ctixiada, the United States or Great Britain. One MLR born in Scotland, one in England and the remaining six in Canada. During• the salve period there were 31 convictions for attempt to murder, and of those only three were Canadian born. The national- ity of three were not given and the remaining twenty-four were born outside of Canada. Of these six were Americans and ,foto English, leaving 'fifteen what are known as "foreigners." According to the last •census fig- ures those born in foreign coun- tries. -excluding United States and Great Britain -"formol 6.2 per cent• population, yet in 1912.th-e foreign born offenders of all classes were 17.2 per cont, ' The Canadian born offenders rep- resented 36.1 per cent„ although Canadian born £ol'm 77,9 per cent, of the population. British born out- side of Canada were 19 per cent. of the offenders, but formed 11,6 per cent. of the population. ,Ameriettn born formed 4.2 per cent. of the population, but the convicted of American birth were 7,0 per cent, ►fit lily Remedied. Credit or; -Still ,re- meneyl Look here, I'm mighty tired or this ever. lusting waiting. - 1)cbtell---Tired 7 John retell a chair tar the gentleman.