"I came home no longer a man," he said. "I was the shadow of a man -- with no outlook, no right to hope!"
Ignominious divorce haunted him -- for he had given in, out of sympathy and a self-denigrating sense of justice . . . but now, just as he was finding love again, how could it be? His awful past was threatening to destroy what was here, nearly within grasp!
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933), accomplished novelist of horror and suspense, wrote with equal skill of society and romance, as in The Younger Set.
