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At least a temporary secrecy could have been secured with leisureliness by a residence in another State. But Kedzie felt as Zada did, that she simply could not wait, though her reason was well to the opposite. Zada had been afraid that a child would arrive before the divorce, but Kedzie that a gentleman would depart.
She could not bring herself at first to tell him what she knew of Zada, but at length she confessed that she had listened to the dictagraph and had heard that Zada was to be a mother. Dyckman was dumfounded; then he snarled: "Thank God it's not you that's going to be for him Well, don't you call that divorce enough?
Her own husband had found temptation stronger than his pledge. She wondered how long he would be true to Zada, or she to him. Charity had suffered the disgrace of being insufficient for her husband's contentment, and now Jim must undergo the same disgrace with Kedzie. It was a sort of post-nuptial jilt.
Neff suggested a dancer I haven't seen on the stage for some time. You used to admire her." "Yes?" said Cheever, pushing his glass along the table toward the butler, who began to pour as Charity slid home her coup de grace. "Zada L'Etoile. What's become of her?" Cheever's eyes gaped and his jaws dropped. The butler's expression was the same.
They had quarreled at the dinner-table. He had left her on the ground that it was dangerous for her to be excited as he evidently excited her. It is one of the most craven shifts of a man for ending an endless wrangle with a woman. Zada tried three clubs before she found Cheever. When she heard his voice at last she was enraptured. She tried to entice him into her own shelter.
Zada saw his big fingers gathering convening, as it were, into a fist like a mace, and she was terrified for her man. She scrambled to her feet and caught Dyckman in the hall. "What are you going to do to Mr. Cheever?" Dyckman answered in the ironic slang, "I'm not going to do a thing to him." Zada's terror increased. "What harm has he ever done to you?" "I didn't say he had done me any harm."
The evening papers made what they could of the sensation, but nobody mentioned Zada, for nobody knew that fate had tried to conceal her by naming her Tishler, and nobody quite dared to mention her without legal sanction. On the next day Lawyer Firth held court in his office.
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.
He felt that it was not quite right for him to dance in public with such persons. He had his code. Even the swine have their ethics. Zada put her hand in Cheever's arm and cooed to him, but in vain. It was then that Jim Dyckman caught sight of them. He was slinking about the roofs as lonely and dejected as a homeless cat.
Cheever came home less and less, and he was evidently so harrowed with his own situation that Charity felt almost more sorry for him than angry at him. She imagined that he must be enduring no little from the whims and terrors of Zada. He was evidently afraid to speak to Charity. To ask for her mercy was contrary to all his nature.
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