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q POWERFUL STORY,
ARLES W. HATHAWAY’
> “A LONG MARTYRDOM, ee
OFFICE.
238 William St.. New York
Batered According to Act of Congress, in the year i905, by Street & Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.
New York, April 29, 1905.
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"FULL: OF DRAMATIC: SITUATIONS:
BEGINS IN THIS ISSUE.
Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second Class Matter.
T aPhaonggdfome ta MnO Loca
Like a ight flash, that expectant look gave way to one of terror.
re HER VICTIMS.
“Tam med to come where she ‘s—mad, mad!
bot yet I'm
Tee ramb! ng words came from the lips of a
4 vhe stood in London’s famous Hyde Park and
ished the crowds that ‘passed’ and repassed at
ey Gate
ae cit of his stotbes one might have Suagea
the man was a si r in the city, and y%
‘pte the featleman, | whatever his nationality.
taply cut, and thero was something wonderfully | Itself outs am
year:
ttntive about tis face, though he was well ad- | Tiysein, aoe T ed hae taveclt trom her
01, One
us
tured in middie life, Looking beneath the sur-| enc
oy,
Hy eyed the riders sharply for several minutes,
perhi
woeet that 1 way ‘who ‘i just riding | bye
“Why, everybody
niree, you mean that ‘Soautitully
mn the chestnut horse—the woman
. pular.
“Tit gou, Isis her husband living?”
8 god therefore replied, rather col cial
ee Mr, Dene is
‘They say Alma
A Long Martyrdom.
By CHARLES W. HATHAWAY,
trp “A Rash Vow,’ “Love's Guiding Hand,” ‘‘Mariorie’s Sweetheart,”
“Tosepbh Dane's Diplomacy,” etc., etc.
CHAPTER I. But a
fellow !””
slap on the back, and ‘Hello, Lindsay, old
ro
aur
ey
fee war an alr of refinement t about him that in ous "passion
clinghed as tt re
Bis complexion swarthy, his features ‘were myself the a in my "heart bad
yet
bo, however, one could see that this man had | and chs
nce more,
Wd through some great cursed country t
tl muttering, he sauatered on to the drive- | {mut ee her!
know it; b
se0
‘Som
a his eyes It up suddenly, and bending over to | man. r
wftlr, heated young fellow who leaned on reached roe
aps. you know the | into
two or threo broad str, and across @, vesti-
put
ule,
ea in the card 700
‘frued women 0}
wih the very striking face and tho yellow hair?” Bayt. card come lous
Tet thi
y “Not ans
Thete'was the slightest hesi sitation jo, te man- | pimoeit at a sinall table, he ‘rdared “wine, sand took
we ln 'which this question was put. ‘The young | upa°papers it
ta teticed it, and wondered warily why. this |e Ist along, for be aid Shoe read 1
a
el" kuown in London | Src screw
unk you” aald the other again. “Good- | was Drought. a
* and, raising his hat, he turned away. | drink w:
“EES the joung. saan wae mistaken about the | arae me
was desire to, open up conversation, or he ac- | man sa intere
ed bis He looked after the stranger | sion in lite, wa un
self: and his features exp
igh Dyso1
r? n
latiand Was a rare Hirt before her marriage!” | he had enough to live upon, and as he
Tatlably dined out, often breaktasted qut, and got
k tea also at his friends’ houses, he
practicalty, Boned at other 4 opie’ a expense, "The
georet of his jt
far'to eek; he wae an oucyolopedie of informa
fea S°he knew everybody and everything | and. as
ho was not rich or young, or at all good-looking,
ho was a very ‘sate™ guest, ‘avon where there were
daughters in the fall:
r. Dyson was perfectly aware why be
asked out; but, being by Ho means Thlhtkinned,
ry
rovided bi
pint “die present ‘reason, for
ont fpntlosorbleal
Carew was thoroughly char-
approaching Bust
eteristic,
6
ace
e had known Carew as a member of the club
six.years since, before the latter's departure
for the antes: hho observed-—for his wits were
keen enough, though he was bodily indolent—that
Carew looked worried, and he was anxio
cover, if possible, what | nut ot ig ite
might sympathize, but that he mish
Care Wiis ‘tide, was sot. displeased
to. seo this gossip, because "be was. more Likely
than anyone else to tell him what be wanted
now.
ered. “Have @
ne
ine
“Thanks—I don’t: mind.” Mr. Dyso1 er
Dg anything at ‘another man's expense.
He sat dow poured himself out a glass.
"Going to stay in" England? he add
“Nog there's nothing, te, Keep me here. I shall
m the Contin
nBreter continental fife? Well, t's very fous
for a time; but nothing like Lon don, in my
jon,”
“Gray skles and rain in summer—gray skes and
fog in said Carew.
toa" me, vonie, you're too bad! What do you call
}o-day 2”
“Ah, well, I'll allow to-day ts sunny,’
tthe
said
‘I have
world in
“And yet, six years isn't so long! You must
eon faces you knew?" said ‘Dyson, filling
knew."
wi of strong self-con-
trols at any rate the carelosonens OF Tie. tone. ap-
peared, to, his sharp-witted companion somewhat
labored. "He glanced furtively at the dari face OP-
postto to hime and so
“Yee; and’ whose’ 2”
“The' face of Mrs,
vf enew ie wae either Mrs, or Miss,” thou
Dut Saiad : hima, Bose—Maltiand. tiwt
0 you know her?"
Gear’ fellow. know Gverybody. She 1s
charming bute-dangerous”
“Dangerous? Why do you say that?
“You must have discovered why, if you had any
45
2
is
one of those women with w seen’ mera: friceaee ips
ssible.
laughed bitterly.
Shere are scores of such women In the world,
be sald; “aud, I own, T used to think Alma Mai
land divine; ‘but”—shruggl ng is _shoulders—
jon't think ‘so now. - I’m ave, es
caped the fate that bas eatin, Herbert Dene
ry
You're right 1” sop, Jaughing,| “I didn't
and 1] wit
had beet ne of’ her victi
Higuant knew everything.”
“Ob, tt was in Paris I met her! Victim? Bah!
Alma looked at the paper—at the man’s face.
evening dress of yellow satin, profusely adorned
w .
in ai
to tals
a, amile of conscious powers "us nan’ we
at
1 he
rted a8 a faint oh iene her ot
or
Theek’ yielded to deadly pallor noe recolled.
agai T ho}
“Perhaps,” sald the other, vaguely, and quitted
5
His hani
mingling vot ee and something. like contempt
a
to
tening: but, ‘when be rate mauswered, Risa
“qe I HAVE SACRIFICED LOVE, LEAVE ME AT LEAST
H
eve now
and by coming Sere at “ouch @ time you cruelly
rom
“Your “husband said Carew, bitterly,
ri
Tose
‘A win ing a et. she
gate, unk ta Be high yvall wich surrounded the man che was dealing with to be re
ut
Se
‘window of the boudoir opened, casement
fa ashen, on to the Jawn; and both casements were
to
3. ee
Ber ayes weeainike ZROBINSON
spa table stood a shaded lamp, shedding
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