Should She Have Left Him? — page 221: what you’re looking at

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ONE OCCURRENCE. 215 under irreproachable chaperonage. Waldemar was. to sail on one of the contesting yachts, since he was an inveterate yachtsman at home. This arrangement would separate Hilda and Walde- mar for three nights and four days, as the yacht on which she was would not arrive until the after- noon of the fourth day. Under unusually propi- | tious winds, however, the yacht ran into its anchor- . age on the morning of the fourth day. Hilda, uncomfortable and bored, leaving her maid to look after her things, went ashore immediately upon arrival and before breakfast. Waldemar was large in a small way. Though their stay at the seashore was to be brief, he had rented a house. Entering this house, Hilda was admitted by the hall porter, who stared at her blankly, and whispered something to her in German, which she did not understand. As she ascended the stairs he shook his head in despair. To Hilda’s wonder the door by which she entered the room used by her as her Joudozr, from the hall, was locked on the inside. She tried another door, one leading into asmall cross hall, from which entrance could be had both to her own bedroom and to Waldemar’'s apartments. This was unlocked. . This bedroom was, apparently, as she had left it four days before. Condemning the negligence of the servants, she passed to the next room. Disorder, to which she was unaccustomed, reigned here. Empty cham- pagne bottles, cigar and cigarette ends were upon the tables, and on a large tray on the floor the Comicloo® KS C@