_FOR WHOSE SAKE?_ A SEQUEL TO “WHY DID HE WED HER?” By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH Author of “Lilith,” “The Unloved Wife,” “Em,” “Em’s Husband,” “Ishmael,” “Self-Raised,” Etc. [Illustration] A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK Popular Books By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH In Handsome Cloth Binding Price 60 Cents per Volume * * * * * CAPITOLA’S PERIL CRUEL AS THE GRAVE “EM” EM’S HUSBAND FOR WHOSE SAKE ISHMAEL LILITH THE BRIDE’S FATE THE CHANGED BRIDES THE HIDDEN HAND THE UNLOVED WIFE TRIED FOR HER LIFE SELF-RAISED WHY DID HE WED HER * * * * * For Sale by all Booksellers or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS 52 Duane Street New York Copyright, 1884 By ROBERT BONNER FOR WHOSE SAKE Printed by special arrangement with STREET & SMITH FOR WHOSE SAKE? CHAPTER I A STARTLING RENCONTRE Two travelers on board the ocean steamer _Scorpio_, bound from New York to Liverpool, were Gentleman Geff and his queenly bride. He was in blissful ignorance that his forsaken wife and her infant were on the same ship. The wife whom he believed to be in her pauper grave in potter’s field, and the child of whose birth he had never heard! Gentleman Geff was riding on the topmost wave of success and popularity. He had paid a high price for his fortune, but he told himself continually that the fortune was worth all he had given for it. Certainly there were two awful pictures that would present themselves to his mental vision with terrible distinctness and persistent regularity. The first was of a deep wood, in the dead of night, and a young man’s ghastly face turned up to the starlight. The other was of a silent city street, in the dark hours before day, and a girl’s form prone upon the pavement, with a dark stream creeping from a wound in her side.