TRAGEDY OF A MASK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 4

TRAGEDY OF A MASK.

INCIDENT WniCU LED TO A DIVORCE SLIT. New York, March 20. lime. Emma Eatucs' action for div; orcc agaiu<t her husband, Mr Julian Story, is set down for hearing .luring tlie first week in April at the Supreme Court at'Westchester Plains, the capital of Westchester County. A sensational incident at a iiiaske:i ball given by Mr Story, at Philadelphia last winter is siid by the New York American to have caused tic final rupture between the couple. Mr Story was in indifferent! hcalt.i at the time, and Mme. Karnes went over from New York to act as hostess, ignorant of the identity which her mask concealed, two ladies, it is siid. revealed to her an extraordinary story of her husliand's infatuation for a beautitul Philadelphian, and fled in terror when they discovered who the recipient of their indiscretions was.

Mnie. Eaines insisted upon an cxjil illation from her husband, ami left liim at once when lie dec.'ined to give it The Herald says I hat the most tactful intervention on the putt of intimate friends shows the utter hopelessness of any attempt to bring njiotit a recon • cilia tron. •'Had there heen mad. uiirea-oiiiiK! jealousy, or hot. hitter reproaches on the one hand and open defiance mi the other there might have heen some hope,'' said one of these friends, "but each is so quiet, calm and magnanimous towards the other that it relied s the determination to separate at once and for ever. "Mrs Story U heartbroken over i l . While imliguant in her womanly wraih and lixed in her resolution, she speaks of Mr Story in the kindliest way. except in one respect, and keeps saying: 'I hope I am not doing in an unkind wav that which, nevertheless, I. nuts': do'''

~S]t Story is equally distressed, and strenuously denies the charges, which he -declares to be the work of malicious gossips. Tie said to a close friend: "f have for my wife the greatest respect. though I think she has been badly advi<wl. ami I shall do nothing to put up a harsh defence. I will not do or siv one word that would defend me if il wound or hurt her in the least."