She tells how he beat her after stealing from her all he
could. Then she goes on to tell of his crimes."
"He is a bad egg, then," said Ted, as the major paused.
"You would scarcely believe how bad he was if I were to read the story
of his career."
"I suppose he had been bothering her since in order to get more money
from her."
"Yes, she says that he made her life miserable, and that he often
threatened to kill her if she didn't give him all she had."
"Hearing of her death, he came here to steal everything he could lay his
hands on; is that it? But I don't quite see why the authorities here,
knowing of her divorce from him, would permit him to take possession of
her effects, from any ownership in which the courts had barred him."
"I don't suppose the people here knew anything about it, for she says in
this paper that she got her divorce secretly, and that there was no
publicity about it. She simply had her lawyers notify Mowbray to that
effect, at which time she sent him ten thousand dollars in settlement of
all claims against her, which he agreed to accept with that
understanding. But later he wrote her a letter in which he said that the
agreement meant nothing to him, and that he would expect more."
"But why didn't she make the fact that he was no longer her husband
public? It would have saved this trouble.
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