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Miss Rarabeac in a charming negligee---but hot the one she -was wearing when Mrs. Manton's raiding party burst into her room in a New York hotel one night last summer HE jury listened obediently to the jude's charge, and then filed out of the court room. The case of Mablc Manton vs. William Kevitt Manton was in their hands. who wanted a divorce from William was sitting: next to her actor husband, bat when he suggested that they go to lunch together she gave a scornful toss of her head and looked away.

Marjorie Rambeau, the well knoTrn actress, whom Mrs. Manton had named' as co-respondent, sat a few feet distant, looking glum. Her fiance, another behind her and occasionally patted her, consolingly. His name was Anson, and he was slightly bald and grayl The twelve go'od men and true who had just disappeared from the jury box had listened to ten hours of hot air in the course of the trial. They had heard Mrs.

Manton's private detectives tell of a raid conducted on Miss Rambeau's 'apartment in the Hotel Endicott, in New York, had heard how Miss Rambeau was on that occasion lying in bed in very scanty' attire, and how William Kevitt Manton was sitting at the end of the 'bed in his underwear. They lad then.heard Miss Rambeau do some- very pretty sobbing, and had patiently to-her assertion that she was wearing a modest nightgown when, the raid occurred. Mr. Manton, said Miss Rambeau, was an employee of was-his duty to.read her "cues" from the manuscript of the play she was rehearsing, and she required his services quite frequently late at night, because she was busy earlier at the theater. Mr.

Manton was not in his B. V. at the time of raid, Miss Rambeau asserted. It was a hot night, and so she had asked him to make himself comfortable. He had taken oft 7 his coat, collar and tie, which seemed to her modest enough.

The door of the apartment, furthermore, had been left open. While the detectives were in her room, the rehearsing went right on--or at any rate, there was rehearsing during that time. When the detectives left, Miss Rambeau asked them to leave the door- open aa they had found it. The jury had listened'to A. E.

'Anson, fiance- of Miss Rambeau, testify that he and Mr. Manton were great pals and that he and Miss Rambeau had together cooked up an affectionate telegram Manton which she signed and sent. When they heard this, and saw Anson patting Miss Rambeau affectionately all during the trial, they thought to themselves, "Everything must be all right. so devoted to her sweetheart and so evidently grieved worried over Mrs. Manton's charges." And when she sobbed in the witness, chair, and indignantly denied that Manton was in his underwear, the kind- hearted jury felt even surer that it was an injustice to drag her -into the Man- tons' matrimonial troubles.

But Mrs. Manton's attorney began to ask her about the play she had been rehearsing with Manton, whom she paid $50 a week. The actress replied that the name it was "My Antonia," and that it 'had been adapted from the Hungarian. It then came out that the play had not been fully translated until October, while "raid" took place on August 29--and the jurymen shook their heads sadly. After they had heard the various versions of the matter they had to listen to a couple of hours of oratory from the three' lawyers who had been retained by the principals.

Mrs. Manton had one, Mr. Manton had another and Miss Rambeau had a third. Each of them had different axes to grind. Mrs.

Manton's attorney wanted to convince the jury that Manton was a heartless philanderer, and that life for his client would be impossible if she remained rmjted to William K. To prove this, he naturally had to paint Miss Rambeau in the blackest possible colors. So he used the version of the facts that had been reported by Mrs. Manton's trusty agents. He spoke sarcastically of Manton as a "cueist" and suggested that the job was only a camouflage of the real position he occupied in the actress' life.

Mr. Manton's attorney and Miss Rambeau's attorney were nearly in accord. Both of them wanted to prove that clients were above suspicion, and neither could do it without helping the other. Both of them therefore told of Manton's great affection for his wife, and both of them spoke of Miss Rambeau as an innocent girl. Miss Rambeau's attorney was the last man up, and he had so much to say to.

the jury that he overran his limit and had to be turned off. He cpoke of his client as a genius who might occasionally be expected to do, unconventional things, but who was at heart 'a sweet and unsophisticated child. He pleaded with the jury not to spoil her career by blackening her name. He also asked them not to spoil her life by ruining her beautiful romance with Mr. Anson.

The jury walked out in a quandary. They took a few ballots and then called for the evidence about the translation of Miss Marjorie Rambeau, the well known actress -whose employment of Mr. Manton as her "cueist" was, she tearfully declared in court, so cruelly misunderstood by Mrs. Manton How the Kind Hearted Judge Who Thought He Had Settled the Man- tons 3 Matrimonial Quarrel and Set Marjorie Rambeau Right Before the World Was Suddenly Amazed to Find He Had Made Matters Worse A. Anson, the actor whose engagement to' marry Miss Rambeau was mysteriously called off about the time the Man tons' reconciliation went to smash the pixy.

Later. reports said they were evenly divided as to whether Mr. Manton and Miss Rambeau had been guilty of any mdiccretipn--which -would seem to show that Mrs. Manton's attorney- was as good as the other two put" together. The wrangling went- on in the jury room.

Miss Rambeau, outside, grew weary and went home to rest. The Man- tons stayed on, Mr. Manton occasionally trying to soften his wife's stony.heart, but always in vain. The deadlock in the jury room, continued. Justice Wasser- vogel, realizing the delicacy of the case and the possibility of outside influence, resolved to lock them up for the night if they failed to reach a decision.

The jury had a hard time. Half of them believed, apparently, that Manton had been in his underwear, while half of' them did not. In a case where eyewitnesses disagree, the jury always suffers. Then, too, Manton's two young considered. to be left fatherless 6r motherless? No jury likes to deprivp a child of its parents if there is any doubt at all about the case.

After seven hours," a ballot was taken which is said to have stood five for Mrs. Manton and seven- for Jier husband. One vote -in seven hours is -a small-gain, and it commenced to look like an unbreakable, deadlock. Mrs. William Kevitt Manton, who sued her husband for divorce, then dropped the suit when Justice Wasser- vogel.

intervened as peacemaker and now says she is going to sue him all over again Justice Wasservogel began to think over the case. Suppose, he thought to himself, Mrs. Manton won. If she did, her children lose a father; Manton would lose a wife. Miss Rambeau 'would'lose'a fiance--in case would be a total loss.

But on the other hand, what if Manton Miss Rambeau's reputation would be redeemed and so-would Manton's. Everything would be all right as far as they were concerned. But'Mrs. Manton would not be reconciled to her husband by a. mere jury.

the children would -hardly "be any better off than if Mrs. Manton won. But, thought Justice if the Mantons could be reconciled, wouldn't everybody 'be happy? Manton would, he thought--f or he had seen the unfortunate husband- trying to -make up'- to his irate spouse all during the trial. The a real father instead of just-ia' legal- one, if a- reconciliation could And on the other hand, Miss name would be cleared jus.i a reconciliation as by a verdicfef or Tilr. Justice Wasservogel concluded, the'best thing -seemed.

to -be a reconciliation. Such a move would mean a happy for everybody. So the kindly judge called Mr, and Mrs. Manton and the three- warring attorneys into his'chambers and-grave-them. a was as stony as' She had refused throughout trial to budge an inch from her position, and 'she continued to refuse now.

But Justice Wasservogel had tried a good many divorce cases before this one, and was'not easily discouraged. He had'reconciled "unrec'on- sides, he had three silver-tongued lawyers to help Well, Justice Wasservogel finally won Mrs- Manton over. He fixed the happy like a story book. Mr. Manton kissed' Mrs.

Manton as a token of the reconciliation. The jury was called in and told that the case had been settled out of court, and that they could go home. The attorneys each made a speech. Mrs. Manton's' attorney said that he wished to thank Justice Wasservogel for his untiring zeal, in behalf of his and declared that he had never seen a judge so devoted cause of humanity.

He had returned-a wife to a husband, and parents to two children. Mr. Manton's attorney then said the same thing in a little, different words, and added that Justice ha'd been untiring in in behalf of HIS client. Rambeau's attorney then spoke a similar piece, lauding the judge's untiring efforts to clear HIS client's name of all spot and Justice- Wasservogel delivered a mellow, very modest address, expressing his pleasure at the reconciliation, and thanking the attorneys kina assistance in ending'the. case Mr.

Mantop, the husband-who got his wife back for a little-while, to lose her, again Justice shook his head 'sadly. And on the. next day he shook it still more. Mrs. Manton, located by industrious reporters, declared that" she and Manton were not reconciled, and; that she still get a divorce.

She refused to- deny that she was contemplating another marriage herself. "Oh, why did I dismiss that jury?" It is Justice Wasser- vogel wailing thus" to himself. regret "butting in" on the Mantons 1 -quarrel? Or-does he' still' believe he did his duty? must Miss 1 Rambeau by "be discouraged phone'that quickly overtook the peace he she wished the Mantons She.then went to the'theater for her evening performance. ''Mantons went, uptown together for- an' expensive dinner at fashionable restaurant, accompanied by Miss Rambeau's attorney, and afterward attended the" -evening performance of Marjorie's lion- was lying the affair and friends'of the interestedly speculating on" the reasons for the sudden "fiop" of the It''is. possible, of.

that Mrs. Manton. was never really reconciled at all, except of the elo- cilables before. He.knew.the weak points had not-quarreled tliey in Mrs. Manton's stonewall defense.

Be- had simply decided to be "good friends;" with the lamb all over the place. quent Justice and the -attorneys. Her The Mantons gave out statements to the newspapers that they were, going on a "second honeymoon. On the next day Wasservogel," still feeling happy ending of the up. his afternoon paper, to But what.was this? 'had disappeared'! Impossible! '-But it was Manton had given out r( rueful statement to reporters wife ished leaving no address.

But'there'-jras more bad news in store for the well-meaning Justice. What about the reported engagement of Miss Rambeau to Mr. Anson? Alas, it all off! Miss RamBeau; said the joy at. the, reconciliation-was "evidently riot as great as her when she 'how evenly; the jury was divided she may have decided there was some reason for her charge against -Miss Rambeau: 'after alL According to another she may have-had-a romance" of her. own up time.

the-Rambeau-Ahson' called 'off mystery. Marjorie may have, jilted Anson because all the papers him "as elderly, and.bald, and, on.the other hand, Anson, as well as Mrs. Manton, been influenced by the jury's long'delibera- tion. The whole show -that happy endings are n.qt so- fjequent in real life as'they, are in fiction..