She grew so ill that her sympathetic physician ordered an ocean voyage for her, and she went abroad again. While she was away her brute of a husband became entangled in a love affair with another woman. When she came home the matter was public gossip! and everybody said what a heartless creature he was to carry on so, when his poor wife was ill, and away for her health.
And so, after due season, there was another divorce of an unhappy wife from a bad husband.
III
The third bad husband fell violently in love with a very handsome girl, and he was like a man in a fever until he gained her consent to be his wife.
He had been an only son of his mother, and the girl was an only daughter of typical, doting American parents.
She was a belle in a small way; admired in her circle for her beauty, dancing, and music, and generally considered an amiable and virtuous young woman, who would be a prize worth the winning of any man.
The young man was equally popular, and his success in the business world, together with his education and social standing, made him seem a very suitable husband for the pretty belle. The husband was popular in his club, and he was proud of his athletic prowess and his good fellowship with manly men.