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Updated: July 8, 2025
Art, music, and literature did not seem to awaken Adelle's dormant mind any more than had the rigorous course of the public schools.
They made a compromise that's what they call it when the fellers on top get together and deal it out so the men lose." "I suppose, then, you will be going back to the city when you finish the work here?" Adelle asked. "Maybe I dunno got some money comin' to me" Adelle's guilty heart stood quite still. "I ain't drawed a cent on this job so far," he added to her relief.
Since Adelle's visit Judge Orcutt had given some hours of profound reflection to Clark's Field, for the second time in his life. Not to the legal problem suggested by the young woman's desire to upset the disposition of her property. That he had answered in the only way he could, firmly and decisively.
American girls seemed to her all "queer," and, though she did not say so, rather vulgar and underbred. Oddly enough she put Adelle apart in this sweeping judgment, for she was not able to appreciate Adelle's common accent and primitive manners. Adelle did not snub nor condescend nor do "naughty" things, and so, from the Mexican's standard, a simple and somewhat antiquated one, Adelle was a lady.
She succeeded in frightening him, talking about the dangers of French laws that had to do with minors. Of course they had lied about Adelle's age, and there were all sorts of complications besides the scandal, which was perfectly needless in any case. And Miss Comstock assured them that the trust company would probably take every step to annul the marriage.
Adelle looked into the old man's kind eyes, but did not reply. It was not easy for her to explain the persistent purpose that moved her. "Has wealth meant so much to you? or so little?" the judge asked, thinking of his own part in providing Adelle's fortune for her. Adelle slowly shook her head. "Do you think that these other Clarks would use it more wisely?"
With another order of gray matter in their brains either one might have produced out of this disequilibrium some fine, rare flower of form or color or words. But Archie's gray matter, like Adelle's, was not expressive. Their friends thought them happy as well as fortunate. Sadie Paul reported to her sister and Eveline Glynn, "Dell is crazy about her Archie she won't let him out of her sight.
Adelle knew that the blood was mounting to her pale face, and she bent her head over her food. The end had come. That evening they went to the Casino to hear the music, and by chance Archie was there, too, and threw self-conscious glances towards their table. Between the soothing strains of Franz Lehr, Pussy whispered into Adelle's ear, "Why don't you bow to your young friend?
It was not so much principle that prolonged their tie, nor design on Archie's part to keep possession of the wealth his wife had brought him, as the fact of the child and Adelle's hope, which was never realized, of having other children. One of their more serious quarrels was occasioned by Adelle's discovery at this time of Archie's unfortunate speculations.
And so, about the middle of May, the Davises took ship from Havre for the New World, occupying, in deference to their coming wealth, an expensive deck suite in the transatlantic hotel, and thus made their journey in all possible comfort. They arrived in B with a great many trunks that contained a small part of all those purchases which Adelle had made; also with a dog and Adelle's maid.
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