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If a nity, then he has none In that event, grief is not even respectable And so it ith Leroy Mortiora too long and too persistently it runs away And before it goes it scratches

Under all the physical degeneration of mind and flesh there had still remained in Mortimer the capacity for anienerosity and a sort of routine devotion as characteristic corated into the sia when the financial stringency began to make it unpleasant for her to rehtest co

He did not believe her and he gave her the new car--the big yellow-and-black Serin-Chanteur She sold it the same day to a bookmaker--an old friend of hers; withdrew several jewels froether everything for which, if he turned ugly, she ht not be cri disliked him Such women have an instinct for their own kind, and no matter ho in the scale a man of the other kind sinks he can never entirely supply the type of running mate that such women require, understand, and usually conceive a passion for

Not liking hi hi their companionship remained as an irritant to poison memory She resented a thousand little incidents that he scarcely knew had ever existed, but which she treasured without wasting emotion until the sum total and the time coincided to retaliate Not that she would have cared to hare him, however--decorate him, before she left hi syne So she wrote a note to the governors of the Patroons Club, saying that both Quarrier and Mortiuilt of her escapade could not be attached to Siward; that she knew nothing of Siward, had accepted his wager without ain seen him, and had, on the impulse of the moment, made her entry in the wake of several overnor, had concurred in Siward's expulsion he knew perfectly well that Sias not guilty, because she herself had so informed Quarrier Since then she had also told Mortimer, but he had taken no steps to do justice to Siward, although he, Mortiovernor of the Patroons Club