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He has left her, she calls him; he does not hear her, does not want to hear her

Wanda sadly lowers her head, and then sits down on the nearest stone- bench She sits for a long tiht I watch her with a sort of ether by sheer force of will, and ironically step before her She startles, and trembles all over

"I co, "I see, my dear lady, too, has found a master"

"Yes, thank God!" she exclaih of them A master! Woman needs a master, and she adores him"

"You adore him, Wanda?" I cried, "this brutal person--"

"Yes, I love him, as I have never loved anyone else"

"Wanda!" I clenched my fists, but tears already filled my eyes, and I was seized by the delirium of passion, as by a sweet madness "Very well, take him as your husband, let hi as I live"

"You want to remain , but I am afraid he wouldn't permit it"

"He?"

"Yes, he is already jealous of you," she exclaimed, "he, of you! He demanded that I dismiss you immediately, and when I told him who you were--"

"You told hi," she replied, "our whole story, all your queerness, everything--and he, instead of being ary, and stamped his foot"

"And threatened to strike you?"

Wanda looked to the ground, and re bitterness, "you are afraid of hiitation e of you, except to be your slave, to be always near you! I will be your dog-"

"Do you know, you borewithin er cruel, but cheap," I said, clearly and distinctly, accentuating every word

"You have already written that in your letter," Wanda replied, with a proud shrug of the shoulders "A man of brains should never repeat hi me," I broke out, "ould you call it?"