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ISO THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
pendent life in a home of her own, a home like mine, where
she would enjoy freedom of body and soul. She listened
to me without replying ; the stream of my Avords seemed
to galvanise her like a magnetic current, without pene-
trating to her consciousness.
An agreement between the two parties had been arrived
at at last. It Avas decided that after all legal formalities
had been complied A\ith, the Baroness should proceed to
Copenhagen, where an uncle of hers was living. The
Swedish consul at Copenhagen would communicate with
her on her supposed flight from her husband’s house, and
she would inform him of her wish to have her marriage
annulled. After that she AAOuld be free to make her OAvn
plans for the future, and leturn to Stockholm. Her dowry
Avould remain in the possession of her husband, as well as
all the furniture, m ith the exception of a very few things ;
the little girl Avould continue to live with her father, unless
the latter contracted a second marriage, but the Baroness
would have the right to see her child whenever she wished.
The financial question gave rise to a violent scene. To
save the remnants of a fortune which had almost disap-
peared, the father of the Baroness had made a will in which
he left everything to his daughter. Her scheming mother
had obtained possession of the inheritance, and was paying
her son-in-law a certain percentage. Since such a pro-
cedure was illegal, the Baron insisted that the will should
now come into force. The old mother-in-law, furious at
the reduction of her income, denounced her son-in-law to
her brother, Matilda’s father, as the girl’s lover. The
storm burst. The colonel threatened to cashier the
Baron ; a law-suit was impending.
Now, the Baroness left no stone unturned to save the
father of her child. And to clear him I was made the
scapegoat.
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