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WHO'S GUILTY?
5th Story, Sold Out
By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
Author of "The Silver Hutterfly," "Buck Pearl," "Sally Salt," Etc.
(Novelized from the novel of photo plays of the unique name released by the Etchings and shown at the Victor Theater.)
Copyright, 1916. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
SYNOPSIS OF PRECINCTING CHARACTERS.
Leila Austin marries penniless Tom Carter, and they now West to Carter's undeveloped sold mine. They have a hard time and are on the verge of disillusionment when Leila sees a letter telling her of the fortune made by Halsey Grant, a rejected suitor.
(Continued From Sunday.)
"She looked dully around the squalid cabin, with its dust and its pile of unwashed dishes and the heap of soiled clothes that lay beside the unfilled washtub. And her heart was sick within her."
"It isn't fair!" she muttered, half aloud. "It isn't fair."
Broodingly she sat there, the letter clutched in her hands, her pretty face dark with angry discontent. She was a drudge, an unpaid servant, the wife of a despondent failure. And she might so easily have married a man who could have lavished on her all the countless little luxuries that she had never realized she cared for until she had had to give them up:
"  Love in a cottage!" the whispered. "It's all well enough in poetry. But in real life, it's?it's horrible!"
Presently, with a sigh, she got to her feet and crossed the room to the shabby dresser that stood in a corner. "She smiled cynically at the unkept image, the dresser mirror revealed to her. 