Should She Have Left Him? — page 228: what you’re looking at

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ONE OCCURRENCE. 21s nder irreproachable chaperonage. Waldemar was » sail on one of the contesting yachts, since he as an inveterate yachtsman at home. This rangement would separate Hilda and Walde- ar for three nights and four days, as the yacht 1 which she was would not arrive until the after- »on of the fourth day. Under unusually propi- dus winds, however, the yacht ran into its anchor- re on the morning of the fourth day. Hilda, 1comfortable and bored, leaving her maid to look ter her things, went ashore immediately upon rival and before breakfast. Waldemar was large in a small way. Though eir stay at the seashore was to be brief, he had nted a house. Entering this house, Hilda was Imitted by the hall porter, who stared at her ankly, and whispered something to her in German, hich she did not understand. As she ascended the airs he shook his head in despair. To Hilda’s onder the door by which she entered the room sed by her as her Joudozr, from the hall, was locked n the inside. She tried another door, one leading ito a small cross hall, from which entrance could be ad both to her own bedroom and to Waldemar’s partments. This was unlocked. This bedroom ‘as, apparently, as she had left it four days before. ondemning the negligence of the servants, she assed to the next room. Disorder, to which she ‘tas unaccustomed, reigned here. Empty cham- agne bottles, cigar and cigarette ends were upon he tables, and on a large tray on’ the floor the COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)