Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

The Golden Chance 87 part of the environment. The listless Denby, who had hoped to profit finan air had left her. She had become a cially by the marriage, sparkling carefree debutante — for one It must be said for Denby that he glorious evening. She forgot the sor was fond of his wife in his own crude did home on Cherry Street, where a fashion, and though there were times drunken husband was waiting for her; when he treated her brutally he was as forgot the five bitter years that had true to her as a man of his stripe could followed her elopement with Stephen be. His race-track earnings grew Denby, known to the Southern race smaller, and Mary begged him to give tracks as a good fellow but too fond up the track and turn to something of the bottle. She was a motherless which would give them a steady in girl, and her father, Judge McCall, of come, however small. They had come Georgia, had had little time to devote to New York, but Denby's conception to her. Her infatuation for the race track man had left him a broken man. He had endeavored to make his daughter give up Denby, but loyalty was part of her religion, and though she knew she had made a bad bargain she persisted in staying by her husband in the face of her father's threat to disinherit her. The old judge died a year later, and his small fortune went to charity — much to the disgust of Stephen of work did not suit many employers, and he drifted from position to position, Mary managing to keep the wolf from the door by sewing. Worse than all, Denby had come in contact with thieves, and he was fast being drawn into the circle of the underworld. x-\mid such sordid surroundings, it was hard for the daughter of old Judge (Continued on Page go.)