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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1020
TTie Woman Hater
By Ruby Ayrcs
t . . ritanftft when Grey-
H .on slippy a supporting1 hand
irtUgh his . He wai .hardly aware
". ..! nWs cresence. Hlsfca-rt and
Uln were numbed with great agony.
&hr they .tumbled up the Bar
lit cliff track In the darkness. The
SJd whirled and .creamed around
ifem Together they went back through
L deserted village, and up to the cot
ee. It was in darkness, and Grayson
,, forward and opened the door.'grop
It helplessly till he found a lamp in
the little stttlnsr room, and managed to
tetter had evidently gone. The fire
hid burned almost out, and he mado It
2p with somo logs which ho found In
Ok kltcnen.
lYintildo tho collage were voices ana
tokiteps. Every one had heard by this
timo what naa ocuuwsu, ii5 "
collected at the gate to stare and whls
wr together.
Faversham dropped Into a chair, h
&c hidden in his hands. He felt as
If an almighty Judgment had descended
upon him to show him his own arro
rince and littleness.
' 'Vengeance Is Mine M Ho had for
gotten that! Ho had unworthily tried
to take a law which Is groatcr than
to law of man Into his own hands, and
w bo doing he had wrecked his life
lij dragged those whom he lovod best
jown Into the ruins with him.
what, shall I ten nia momerr- vino
thought racked and tortured him. Her
wty ton! Her adored, only son I
She had trusiea mm wun oomeinins
more precious to her than 'life Itself,.
tnd that something lay out tnera in tne
jtrkness, staring up, a the sky with
ilghtleas eyes.
And Lalllel Miles snuaaerea. e
fcad still to enduro the-greatest part
ei his punishment, still to stand and
look down on tho woman he- loved, with
the knowledge that his hand had sent
itt to her death.
A. woman hater I He had been proud
of the name the world had given him 1
In h's arrogance he had hugged the
wrong or ten years ago 10 ius Dream
ml the fierceness of his wounded pride
hid brought tho thing to llfo again, in
order to turn and rend hfm. '
Tho murmur of voices outside tho urate
mw louder. Tha tramp of feet draw
ing nearer broke tho silence. Qreyeon
came running up tho narrow garden
path and Into tho room ; he was breath
er!" Miles started to his feet He
vii shaking from head to foot, his face
was the color of ashes. Ho tried to
ipeak, but no words would pass his gray
UPS.
'air Mrs. Dundas they've found
tier
Faversham roeled and clutched at tho
back of a chair to save himself. Thore
itemed to be a bana or iron rouna Ms
bead that with every instant threatened
to map under the strain that won rend
icg him.
The moment or ms greatest torture
was here : a voiceless nrayer rose in his
heart that ho might be nllowed to fall
dead anil escape its Justice, and then
a utue nguro in a wnite wooiiy coat,
all torn and soiled, and with brown haln
tumbling about her face in wild disor
der, stole into tho room like a ghost
tad looked at him across tho lamplght.
raverjiuim caugnt nis Dream witn a
gasp like that of a drowning man. Was
she real or was this Just a mocklns
phantasy to drive him mad?
He was afraid to mova n.fraM tf.
breathe and then sho spoke. She spoko
bU name In a pitiful whlpser, sobbing
Uke a child.
"Miles Oh, Miles I"
Weak as It wan. it wilfi nn arvtrlt
voice speaking, and tho Iron band that
teemed to hold Faversham In torture
broko suddenly. He reelod toward her,
Humbling to his knees, and his shaking
arms went around her, holding her fast.
For a moment neither of them moved
cor spoke. Above his bowed head tho
noney-beo eves that would never be
Quite so young and happy again roved
round the room uncertainly. Then mov
ing her hands slowly she took his faoe
Mtween them, holding it away from her
to that alio could look into his eyes.
uo you ao you lovo mo alter all,
rolce.
"Do I love you? Do I love you?"
He drew her-down Into his arms, hold
toe her as if ho could never let her go.
'5, kissed her eyes, her hair, and the
white face to which even tho passionate
vw, uj ms iipa couia not bring DaoK
mO Color? nnrf n.A..nlli na Y .n
ahiVfir In hla nrma unit n r 4..a... n.
from ftim. " "' '" """ ""'
i Ji? ltl .ner Ko at once, and they otood
lef c5Riatno another With the memory
. iii iimuor oetween tnem.
ttita Lallle said, tonelessly.
Ihlm0 "iu juu luiutv uu huw
And &Uddnlv h hcrnn in nVialA nn 1
moan and wring her hands.
US mV fault .nil mv anlt h 1.
7&" ,al1 I should be punUhed. Oh, if
JjCould only die. too If I could only
Thn lih a uA. ii- . 11. j.
JV'ham. He put an arm round her,
KthftS 5 chft,.r knelt bMid0 her
ri . ! "'""inff ner nanas.
ii Lffult s mlno on'y." he told her
KSLSlt ' jntao only." and Bobbing,
peri brought no relief with
He fnllnu.A.1 n.A v.. ....1..
mm Ti. iti 1110 no iicmi; uruvu ino
,-?h?.lhlnBs ho said tho cruel, cruel
"Trv ir fnMi ai . .. ..-
l iiml . v.1. fc.'jt moin lorect tnem lor
"Oh S,hi,e7 Hls calmness gave way.
BffU ' hd tirollll ntl In nn nnn..
er fac8ahlVercd awny from h'm hiding
. MHo eald Vnn llflln'f In. la .nt If. al.l
lremahi! d,,no ust t0 tal nie away
tWtv"!" ' Ho 5a,d that 7" wanted to
telrf ftTn,0Uh:f2r,yhat f did to you-
n leave ma nlnvA iln.& . -i-. t
iv,- .- " -, wtiw 1 ivnvu HID illUilOt X
Kverl" Mb you again never I
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Should Women Ever
Marry for Money?
Is sho who marries a lovable
poor man likely to be sick of her
bargain?
Let Ruby Ayres
Tell It
Another of her stories begins on
this, pate tomorrow. Don't miss
the first Installment of
"THE SECOND
HONEYMOON"
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THE GUMP$Andy Stttl Has a Fever of 6
By Sidney Sntltktyj
I ft.? Sn lne mantel shelf and put
Khelmfti d0Win on tno,n Wth on over-
ir.m.ln,f. fte'lng of defeat.
tlytnrmnt1?l8.yM''.and thought of Philip
rwVC5n.llt..t.hero In tho darkness. anS
Ph hin v..jr?sl.envy swept his heart
klLnad, Kt the best of It after all.
lad S..ndi done with love and Jewlousy
W litiu .7.1' "si no 'rnen suaaeniy
I "OM MiJlnfle(! ory troke ho silence.
alsed lHt.11i8.l('Ur harr-': Faversham
llr T.,!iu wonueringiy.
IOh ,,3u.,Vlnf '"e a child's.
aid io-Zin r, ,la,r your poor har," she
Fit hS n- n 5 '"ghtened whisper.
r.ylftL2n been falnU tlngtT with
Bleft h.V,.,i?.ears that last day when
iron Ini..St."-the' agony of that
hite aancnesa naa lurnea
We mirW.; ' K,nea at tilmseir in n
W fhr. yer tho mantel shelf.
Ill Hni ""' .. o inea to smile, out
briS.w,n? Btlf?5 nnd after a moment
.K?.K.? OUt Aran hoarselv.
"Don'? ..."V11" noarseiy.
c?BVS.m from m now don't say
Klrtin'JPY.9 me any. more. I've bew..
h Sn3Ufn"TI,,le Hn hBla
em th-TJJ" t. h8r- and she fell iniv
m her ebJe,Md healing tears raining
Mt ' WK
io ve you T w
A . " " T w
They
imn. :.r.M iuvo you
W the words as thev kithi.
Mbetw'".!8?-0' and death
sve r iv .-",w,v uul oul ,ls snaaow
Shi Thf-on' u"erlnr eaoh had endured,
one Wan to tell Tilm of PhlllD. but
r"No?nn chec "
L."ul nOW nomn nth lUi v.., ..n
ittst--."' BV Bh9 Insisted." "I
BW eamiLi - i l rc"1 i"1 yu Know,
"tfelV.. ;" .Le? 'er who told him
Th- .,i w""r l"i you Know I
"new afterwards when it was too
you lin lnTr""r x. "aa saia gooa-by
'd.h! n.Mld me t"" yu I'M never
b" told me about a bet at the
It u. E"BW ,c wn a lie r"
He ftS? th t,r,V.th'"-',ld Faversham,
-r2-Jet het llttla (Intrant nhHnV in
artna. i,,.Vt.:,vt.,f.."?r snnnK in
can be no more misunderstandings
nothing can ever be hidden again. That
night when I ftfst met you with Philip
I meant to part you from him. That
was all I There was no other thought In
w.tni4 nit IIi.m" tt.a nnlAn .latl.lt
111 llllliu MIU VI1C11 bll W1V ullu
Into his face, and his eyes grew hot and
ashamed "I thought I could make m
revenge double by parting you from him
ana by maxing you care xor mo
Rh turned ner focn awav.
"It was not very difficult." she said
pitifully. Ho went on as It he had not
heard.
"Thero was only ono thing I did noi
realize that I had never ceased to love
you, that you had been, and alwayn
would bo, the only woman tn my life.
When I made that bet with Parry, I
thought I was strong enough to resist
you- Lallle look at me I"
ThpThoney-bee brown eyes were raised
to his slowly, with Inflnlto pathon fn
their wonderful depths.
Faversham held them with his own.
"Do you believe that I love you?" he
asked. "Do you bellove that I lovo you
with all my heart and soul better than
my life?"
Tho white lids camo down, veiling
them from him.
"If I cannot bellevo you I shall
die" she whispered with white lips.
He answered her hoarsely: "If you could
have seen Into my heart all these last
hours if you could seo into It now
you would bellove me."
"Phllln said that you did not care-
that you never had cared," she broke
out with a note of anguish. "It was not
I who killed him, Miles. I saw him
fall he had followed me up on the
cliffs and I was afraid of him, and I
hid He was so strange. There was
such a look In hlo eyes " She shud
dered, hiding her own. "I saw him in.
she said again, whispering. "And I
climbed down to where he lay he was
dead then, I know because I spoke to
htm and ho never answered and I
klesed him, Miles, and begged htm to
speak to me" 2he began to sob
wildly.
"Try to forget it try to forget it,"
he answered her broknnly.
uut in nis neart ne Knew mat nenner
of them would ever forget, and that In
tho future, no matter how happy they
mlnnt be totrcther. tho memory of this
man would forever Ho between them
an eternal sorrow.
"I sat there all night," she went on,
sobbing. "I wna so lonely, nobody camo
and then I think I must have fainted,
because I don't remember anything else
till a little while ago, when I heard
voices and I was frightened and I
ran away. And then I saw them como
all those people I saw the lights
they carried, and I knew they had
round him 1 I went down to the dgo
of tho sea, and the water came wash
ing round my feet. If I had been brave
enough I would have lot It tako me"
"Hush! hush" He pressed her to
his heart, stifling the wild words on his
ITps. She clung to him fiercely for
moment, then, with sudden, revulsion,
tried to push him from her.
"Why don't you let me go? Tou will
never be happy with me I I only bring
trouble to every one. Why couldn't I
havo dlod instead of Philip? Oh I poor
Philip poor Philip" Sho began to sob
again, plteously.
Faversham soothed her with words
of passionate protestation. Sho must
not blame herself. She was not to
blame. The fault was his alone.
"It's both our faults," she told him,
despairingly. "He loved me, and he was
your friend. Ohl I wonder It he will
ever forgive us I"
"And his mother. Will she ever for
give me?" was the desolate thought In
Faversham's heart
Oreyson came knocking softly at the
door. He brought a tray of coffee and
sandwlcheB, whfoh ho had prepared with
much care.
"I can't eat anything. It would choke
me." Lallle- declared, tremulously,
Oreyson looked at her with tolerant
pity. This woman was to play a. promi
nent part in hlo own future, bm well
as that of his master, he knew, and
already he had resigned himself to the
inevitable.
He was a tactician in his way.
'I beg pardon, ma'am," he said,
gently, "but Mr. Faversham has haa
nothing to eat all day."
She raised her traglo eyes to Faver
sham's faco. Such a worn faoe It was,
though he tried to smllo.
"Haven't you, Miles?" sho asked,
"Then, of courso, you must eat."
Sho forgot herself in sollcltudo for
him, and gradually tho faint color stole
back to her checks.
"She Is young. Some day she will
forget," Miles told himself, with the
certain knowledge In his heart that his
own burden could never be lifted.
Ho had lost his friend, and he had
still to face that friend's mother and
break her heart
Ho tried later to speak of what ho
felt Lallle was sitting at his feet
then, his arm round her, her cheek
against his hand; and ho leaned back
In the shadow so that sho oould not see
his face as he spoko falterlngly of their
We've sot each other though Clou
knows I don't deserve that wo should be
together, and I want want to try to
make something out of our lives it
you will help me. I feel myself so un
worthy " He broko down, and she
raised hersolt and put her arms round
his neck, drawing his head to her
shoulder. .......
"We've got each other," she said.
"Thank God, wo'vo got each other,
Mlled "
And after all Faversham was spared
tho shame and sorrow of telling Mrs.
Tranter the manner of her son's death.
When ho traveled up to town the follow
ing day to break tho news to her he
found that a mora merciful hand than
his had forestalled him. Philip's mother
had died tn her sleep during the' hours
while her son lay on the windswept
sands with his face turned to the sky.
The nurse who was In tho house and
who told him wondered at the look of
unutterable relief that swept across his
face. It was only afterward when stiu
heard .the whole story, grossly exagger
ated and badly plecod together, that she
understood.
But there was an added grief in
F&verBham'a heart as he went away
from tho house where he had always
been such a welcome guest He had lost
his two friends, and tho bitterness 01
his remorse told him that he alone wo
to blame.
Thero was somothlng pathetically old
about him as he wont back to the hotel
where Lallle waited for him. She ran
to meet tilm eagerly, her brown eye
filled with passionate Inquiry; then sho
stopped with a llttlo eryt
rOh, Miles I What U It?"
He told her as considerately as he
oould, trying to hldo his own pain, but
her love for him was great enough to
understand.
"And it's all all through me I" she
whispered with white lips. "Oh, yes,
dear, it is," she Insisted, when ho would
have spoken. "If I had been different all
those years ago " Sho broke oft,
realizing tn despair that all her passion
ate love for this man could never for
htm wipe out the past or obliterate) the
bitter waters of memory.
It was evening then and the sun was
shining redly across the sky, Lallle i,
honey-bee :
mournfullv.
"It's the sun going down on what
might have been," she said sadly,
Faversham drew her closer.
"But tomorrow It will shins on us
again," ho answered, ""and we shall be
jSogether,"
(TBB END)
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