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WHY NOT?
Dy P. D. PATTISSON
The harbor of Hongkong was
looking its loveliest on this mellow
October afternoon as the big 1\ and
0. steamer slowly glided from her
moorings amid the crowd of ship
ping that filled the harbor.
'I’here were not many passengers
on board the Parramatta, for this
was not a time of the year that
many people traveled from the east
homeward, but amid the stir and
bustle attendant on the departure
of a big mail steamer and the set
tlings down of newly joined passen
gers two people, both passengers,
formed a tranquil contrast.
Major Walton, although his eyes
rested on the gold tipped hills they
were so swiftly passing, saw them
not at all. llis thoughts were all
inward, too much occupied with a
bitter past to take much heed of the
surroundings of the present. It was
the old, old story his mind was
dwelling on—that of a woman’s
frailty and a man’s villainy—and,
although the events which had well
nigh wrecked his life had all hap
pened more than a year ago now,
they were brought but too freshly
to his mind by this journey home.
“Home! And what a home com
ing!’’ he said to himself bitterly.
The story was one perhaps only
too common. He and his wife, the
latter beautiful, spoiled, vain, had
been staying in the south of France
and had gone on to Monte Carlo for
a week or two. Here they had met
Sir Lionel Hippeslcy, a handsome,
shallow young Englishman, who was
doing his best, without success, to
ruin himself at the tables, although
the money ho so freely squandered
was not his, but his young wife’s,
and, as a rumor averred, he had mar
ried the pretty Scotch heiress only
for her fortune.
lie was staying at Monte Carlo
very much en gareon, his wife being
ill at home and unable to travel,
lie and the Waltons became ac
quainted, and he appeared much
struck by Mrs. Walton’s beauty,
while she was both pleased and flat
tered by his admiration and atten
tions, and her husband, glad that she
should be amused, thought or sus
pected no wrong. Under Hippesley’s
guidance Mrs. Walton became an
ardent gambler, and a good many
bank notes fluttered away, but Wal
ton was a rich man and could afford
to indulge her every whim.
Then had come the war in South
'Africa, and Walton’s regiment was
among the first ordered to the front,
and ho departed, leaving his wife
more or less her own mistress and
with the command of plenty of mon
ey.
During her husband’s absence she
again met Sir Lionel Ilippcsley, this
time at home, and he, more than
ever fired by her excessive beauty,
persuaded her, a too willing victim,
to run away with him to Paris.
From there she wrote to her hus
band and told him she had never
really cared for him and that now
she loved only one man on earth,
and that man was Sir Lionel Hippes-
ley.
The blow almost stunned Walton.
Then he was wounded and invalided
home, when he obtained his di
vorce. Hippesley’s wife had already
divorced her husband. Immediately
after the trial Walton had started
on a voyage to Japan a»d was now,
after a year spent in the east, once
more returning to England.
With a short, impatient sigh Wal
ton roused himself and turned to
go to the smoking room. As he did
so the lady near him turned to go
below at the same moment, and they
came face to face. Such a beauti
ful, pathetic face, out of which
shone a pair of dark bluish gray
eyes. Walton, as for an instant his
eyes met hers, felt a sudden thrill
of interest, and he wondered who
she was.
Ho very soon found out, for on
board' ship one speedily becomes
aware of the identity, whether true
or false, of one’s fellow passengers.
She was a Mrs. Grenville, a widow,
and had been staying at Hongkong
with friends and was now returning
to England. She was chaperoned
by an aunt, Lady Grahame.
“I wish Violet would make up her
mind to marry again,” she said one
day when the Parramatta had left
Singapore far behind and they were
steaming through the heat of the
Indian ocean, “but I fear she never
.will. She had a very unhappy mar-
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ried life, short as it was, and I am
afraid she will never care to repeat
the experiment.”
Walton murmured something in
audible. Tho idea somehow of Mrs.
Grenville marrying any one became
very distasteful to him unless—
His heart suddenly beat faster and
his check flushed ns he all at once
realized that Violet Grcnvillo had
become very dear to him.
They had spent u great deal of
heir time together during those
ong, hot days nnd had paced the
leek after dinner in the cool dark
ness of those tropical nights, and
she had attracted him more than
any other woman lie had ever met,
for his wife had never attracted him
or appealed to the intellectual side
of his nature as Mrs. Grenville did,
and, alas, he knew now that the
feeling he had had for his wife was
but a purely physical passion born
of her beauty. She could never have
held his mind. She was too shallow,
too vain.
After that conversation with Lady
Grahame Walton’s eyes were opened
to the true state of his feelings for
Mrs. Grenville, but us yet he gave
her no hint. First he must tell her
his story, yet ho shrank from tho
idea of laying bare the shameful
past before that pure soul.
It was a couple of evenings later.
Walton nnd his companion leaned
side by side over the ruil and talked
in a fragmentary manner, but there
was an intonation in his voice, a
tenderness in his gray eyes, that
made her heart beat and stirred her
pulses strangely. One little hand
lay near his, and suddenly his closed
on it, and he raised it to liis lips and
kissed it pnssionutely.
“My darling,” he whispered,
“Violet, 1 love you. Will you be my
wife? Speak to me, darling. Tell
me I have not hoped in vain.”
For ft moment, as he put his arm
round her and drew her to him, she
yielded to his embrace; then she
hurriedly drew herself away.
‘*Wait until tomorrow,” she mur
mured. “I—I will tell you then if
you still care to hear.”
“Care to hear!” he cried passion
ately. “Child, don’t you guess how
much I love you ?”
But with a sad little smile she flit
ted from his side and was lost in the
shadows of the dock.
Punctually at 5 o’clock the next
day Mrs. Grenville appeared on deck,
looking very lovely in her white
dress, though her face was pale and
heavy shadows rested under the
gray blue eyes. Walton, to whom
her coining was as a glimpse of para
dise, hurried forward to meet her,
and he carried her deck chair to a
secluded corner, shaded from the
glare of the afternoon sun, which
was now creeping to its rest.
“Well, Violet, which is it to be?”
he whispered. “You don’t know
wliat tortures of impatience and un
certainty I have suffered since last
night. Is it to be—yes?” And he
tried to read his answer in her avert
ed eyes.
“Wait,” she murmured faintly.
“I—I have something to tell you be
fore 1 give you my answer—some
thing that you ought to know. II
after—you still care, I—will—say
yes.”
“My darling,” he cried, <r Violot,
only say you love me a little, and I
don’t care for anything else!”
“Yos, I—I do core for you,” sho
whispered, “more than I thought I
could care for uny one. I feel I can
trust you, lean on you, respect you,
and you do not know what all that
means to a woman who has suffored
as I have and has had every illusion
stripped from her. Listen, nnd I
will tell you my story. To begin
with, I am not a widow, as you
thought, nnd my name is not Gren
ville. It was my mother’s name,
and I took it when I dropped my
owjj, after—after I was divorced. I
divorced my husband nearly two
years ago now. We had only been
married a short time, and I was ill,
when he went abroad nnd met thero
a mnrried woman who, 1 suppose, at
tracted him. But, to cut the story
short, he—he finally run away with
her to Paris after her husband had
been ordered out to South Africa.
She was a Mrs. Wnlton—oddly
enough, a namesake of yours.”
Walton had turned livid. “Good
God!” ho cried hoarsely. “My
wife!”
“Your wife!” echoed his compan
ion. “Then—then you”— And sho
sank back in her chair palo and
trembling.
“Y'cs,” he answered thickly, “my
wife. I was the husband of that
wretched woman.”
“Then it was not a coincidence,
os I thought it was, your name be
ing the same? I never dreamed of
this,” she murmured brokenly.
Walton rose and leaned over tho
rail, turning his feverish brow to
the desert, where a little breezo was
blowing from the mountains. His
mind was in a whirl, only one
thought being uppermost.
“Then you are really”— he be
gan.
“Lady Ilippesley,” 6ho replied bit
terly.
There followed a long silence,
only broken by the slow pulsing of
the engines and the ripple and eddy
of the water caused by the steam
er’s wash.
At length the man roused himself,
and, fixing his eyes yearningly on
the pale face before him, he said
abruptly:
“Well, darling, and why not? Is
there any just cause or impediment?
Why not?”
“Why not?” she whispered dream
ily, letting her hand fall in his.—
Bystander.
His Brother’s Widow.
“In our mail this morning a
writer asks if a man can marry his
brother’s widow,” says the editor of
the La Harpe (Kan.) Review. “We
reply that he can, hut that it gener
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in this world which at first thought
seems unlawful, although it is not
in fact prohibited by statutory law.
That is why lving Herod had John
the Baptist’s head cut off. John said
it was unlawful for the king to mar
ry Herodias, his brother Philip’s
wife. But John was mistaken.”
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