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I am satisfied of another fact, from my experience of the Southern negro, that if they are ever allowed to vote, the shrewd politician of the South, who has been formerly his master, will exert more influence over his vote than all the exhortations from Beecher or Cheever.
The exact amount of money was set forth in another place, in Section 3251, where it is stated that the sums obtainable are "for trial of an issue of fact, $30, and when the trial necessarily occupies more than two days, $10 in addition thereto." In other words, Mrs. Charity Coe Cheever, finding her life of good works and pure deeds crowned with the infamy which Mrs.
It meant that Cheever under the white cloak of matrimony had despoiled Charity of her innocence, and under the red domino of intrigue had restored to Zada hers.
Cheever was permitted to resume her maiden name, but that meant too much confusion; she needed the "Mrs." for protection of a sort. The divorce carried with it a clause forbidding the guilty husband to marry any one else before five years had passed. But while the divorce was legal all over the world, this restriction ended at the State bounds.
She was in a sense already widowed of her husband. Certainly she would never love Cheever again or receive him into her arms. He belonged to the mother of his child.
Cheever, from Mrs. Jackson to her husband, and then without emotion she said: "Now that that is over we can have a very gay little supper." When Peters had pushed back his chair, satisfied as only a trained raconteur can be by the silence of a difficult audience, and had busied himself with a cigar, there was an instant outcry. "I say, Peters, old boy, that is not all!" "Absolutely."
She left his office for a conference with Cheever. She found at home that he had been telephoning to her. She called him up, and he came over at once. "I'm in a devil of a mess, Charity," he said. "My lawyer refuses to help me give you evidence, and Zada Miss L'Etoile has developed a peculiar streak of obstinacy. She is determined that no other woman shall be named as the er co-respondent.
She must have been the laughing-stock or the pitying-stock of the whole world for a long time. When they reached home she bade Cheever a perfectly cheerful good-night and left him to a cold supper the butler had laid out for him. She did not know that he stole from the house and flew to Zada. Charity was tempted to an immediate denunciation of Cheever and a declaration of divorce.
He poured the Chablis on the back of Cheever's hand and neither noticed it till Charity laughed hysterically and drove the sword a little deeper: "Is she still alive? Have you seen her?" Cheever glared at her, breathed hard, swore at the butler, wiped his hand on his napkin, gnawed his lips, twisted his mustache, threw down the napkin, rose, and left the table.
He could hardly do that when her tact had saved him and Charity from the results of their double indiscretion and the shame of amusing that roomful of gossips. Zada misunderstood his silence for approval; so she spoke her thoughts aloud: "If that He and She business goes on I suppose you'll have to divorce the lady." "Divorce Charity!" Cheever gasped. "Are you dotty?"
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