Chapter 61

"Well, it’s like this, Adair. He and Julia Garrett were divorced here two years ago, and the dime museum freaks who tried it allowed her to marry again, and forbade him. They do things like that in New York, and if you kick it’s contempt of court! The next day he married our Mrs. O----, Claudia Kirkwood at Chicago. See? There’s nothing they can’t forget here in two years, and so we came back, feeling pretty safe--and would have been, too, if number one hadn’t got tired of the man who was keeping her in London, …