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10 ’ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 22, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. WHOSE WAS ‘THE HAKD? BY MISS BRADDON. Asthor of “Ladv Andley's Secret.” “Like and Unlike,” “Ishmael,” “The Day Will Come.” &o. ———— IALL RIGHTS RESERVED} — CHAPTER XVI. FRENCH LEAVE, : ILBERT Florestan, who had not bee remarkably energetic in the pursuit f any ambition or faney of his own, but wonder at the intensity which moved his thoughts and his sevens in the pursuit of that investigation h Mrs Arden had contided to him. He could think of nothing else, undertake no other ation, and when his thoaghts were not Lupon Leon Duverdier and iis supposed sister they were on the other side ne’, hanvting River Lown or a certain house in Grosvenor Square and jollowing one particular girlish figar Lan alarming persistence. He wav'ed to do the thing which Mrs. Arden had giveu him to do. he wanted to prove how difficult a task he could accomplish in order to lessen the sorrow of her life; bat even if he shonld succeed in tringing Robert Hatrell’s erer to his doom and in lightening the of the wite > lamented his dark all the more acutely because it was una- 1, would thix great service done for Rob- evt Hatrell’s widow bring him any nearer to Robert Hatreil’s daughter? Alas! no, he told himself. That young heart was given to an- other: that young life was pledged. Nothing he could do would bring him any nearer to Daisy. He could never be more to her than he had been that sunny afternoon on the terrace by the river, when the uneasy look in the lovely bazel eyes had toid him that she wished him vy. She bad always been kind and courteous to him; but he was a nullity to Cyril Arien’s future wife. It may be that her woman's wit had guessed his secret and that she was nervons and uneasy at any chance tete-a-tete. He had assuredly perceived some- thing in ber wanner which a very vain man might have interpreted as the indication of a | hidden preference. a growing regard against | which she struggled. in duty bound to another. “Why are mothers in such a hurry to give away their daughters’ future lives?” he asked himself, not knowing that Daisy had accepted her old piayfellow of her own free will, pledg- ing herself aimost unawares, with that girlish lightness which disposes of women's lives in breath. for good or for evil. He felt that his case was hopeless, and yet it Was something to him to be able to devote him- self to Mrs. Arden’s service, to feel that there | were confidence and friendship between him and Daisy's mother, friendship which would at least give him an excuse for seeing Daisy now and then and making himself a little more unhappy. less lovers cultivate the weed unbappi- Bess as if it were a flower. Florestan had no more doubt that Madame the Chan- » | boxing glove | intervals of seclusion and hard work discussing your most private affairs at the din- ner table: the people who wait upon you hear | and remember. ver, this is beating about | the bush. I have something to tell you as the result of the inqmry that has been made since you were last in this room.” “You have discovered the identity of Morel | and Duverdier?” exclaimed Florestan, eagerly, “Not conclusively. but we have discovered that Duverdier isa man of the worst possibie putation—to have escaped deportation to New Caledonia. We have discovered that on the strength of good looks and consummate audacity he has managed to live for the last seven years in Madrid and in Paris. Of course what we know of him in Spain is at present only atsecond hand; there has been no time for any direct inquiries in Madrid. We cannot hear anything about him before he was known to the Spanish police as an adventurer and under suspicion of having been concerned in a great jewel robbery at Medrid six years ago. have dixpatched my agent to that city and he may be able to get more dejuils on the spot. In the meantime there is one fact that tells strongly against M. Leon Duverdier.” ‘And that is— “He has made off. He has scented danger, I believe, and has disap; ed from Paris before he could be asked any inconvenient questions.” «Is that really so?” “Yes. After I had read the account of the Denmark street murder [ hada desire to look at this Daverdier whom you take for Morel. I was told that he occupied an apartment zon the Quai des Grand» Augustins, so [ put on “one of the numerous disguises in which I pay visits of «ind, and in the eharacter of a septuagen- arian savant sallted forth to cali upon the experi- mentalist and imvyenter. I know enough of chemistry to sustain a conversation with as shallow a scientist as I take Duverdier to be. However, my capacity in this line was not put to the test. The concierge informed me that M. Duverdier had left for Brussels upon the previous evening and that he had no idea when he would return, He had left the key of his apartment with the concierge, and on being requested the man went upstairs with me ns. “Did you make any discoveries?” “Nothing of an incriminating nature. Two of the rooms are nished with ashowy vul- garity which bespeaks the tiger—velvet and gilding. photographs of actresses and demi- mondaines, a great display of pipes, foils and Athird and larger room is fitted roughly as a laboratory and bears indica- tions of recent experiments. I asked the con- cierge if M. Duverdier’s departure had been long in contemplation, and he told me that the first he had heard of the intended journey was the order for a cab to take Duverdier and his portmanteau to the station. He gave no date tor his return, but said that he should not be long absent and begged the man to look after his rooms while he was away. The concierge doubted if any of the furniture had been paid for aud anticipated a descent of the sheriff during the tenant's ubseuce.” “Did you hear auything of Duverdier’s hab- its? “Nothing to distinguish him from the com- mon run of protligates and spurious savants, Late hours and importunate creditors; occa- sional visits from mysterious women, who came closely veiled and shunned observation; rare in the laboratory. I could see that he was not a favorite with the concierge, and that if there had been anything damaging to tell about him the man would have told it.” “He bas been warned by his sister,” said Florestan, after a thoughttal silence, ‘‘I showed my is too s00n.” He told M. Cretont, the police agent, of his interview with Lonise Marcet. “Yes, that was a mistake—althongh the interview may have gone far to confirm your ada's niece was Antoinette Morel than he lof his own identity. Her denial was in its mode and m: goodas 4 confession, He read the ri e mquest for a third time and eribing and at | French | woman who changed the notes was no other | than Madame Quijada, True that the elderly | lady's white hair was a point in the dese tion. while the Spanish lady's hair was still Dia¢k, but it would be only natural that a | Woman intrusted with such a critical mission would do her utmost to hide her Wentit: Was it the « Hatrel! m Cre to. him on behalf | of the dying 4 | Yes. Fiorestan thought the same, although the | woman in Cranbourn street was described by | Colonel Macdonald ax middle-aged. And if | this were su Madame Quijada had been her | nephew's aider and abetior in a diabolical | murder. . ould Antoinette. otherwise Lomse, warn her aunt uf his suspicions? He determined to appear in the ladys salon on her next ¢ ing im order to discover. if it were possible, what confidences had between the aunt and mece. His own idea of the situation Was that the younger woman existed in her aunts house ouly on sufferance and that there Was suspicion on the auut’s side and loathing op the side of the ni He spent only bail an hour in the Rue St Guiluume. [oui was abseut from the salon. suiferiag trom « neuralgic h he, her aunt Dolores looked pale and preocen- | © was nochange in her mother’s | Florestan concluded that Louise | There was no other of the salon was op- toid him. pied. Th manner bad wild her visitor and the dull: pressive. Before he left he contrived. in the most casual Way. to ask au important questior He commented in a sympathizing tone upon Mile. Marcet’s delicate appearance and weak health and then he asked apruptly — “How long is it sin that serious | ber how mauy,” replie dam Quijada, “Oh, mother, you can't iorget the year,” | eried Dolores, who lad been yawniug belind her fan. “It was in ‘72, the year we went to | Madrid.” ‘be year of Kobert Hatrell’s murder, This auswer settled two points, Antoinette’s illness and the establisiinent of Madam Quijada at Madrid had been events of the same year. The horror of Clande Morel’s crime tad been the The proceeds els ae- cause of his sister's bram fever. of the crime had « to ental f in the Spanish Doubt! Was to Spain that the murderer had betuken himself, thinking it a eater refuge than the new world. His south- em birth bad made it easy for him to pass muster a Spaniard. n felt thet he was gett ed sheim iuto his hands, on the iolluwin,: day at the headquarters of the | po-ice de surete. and was again acmitted to the portant offic.«l to whom he had confided his | suspicions of Duverdier. pave read the stor der.” naid this functor Wis grave poli lur*, goes very nea any rate complicity with the i - toinette’s Yet yon must bear 1 mind there are te possibilities in | eve u tery is not aiways the rigit solution, Ty case an solution of a yu It is pos- | i of this name of his known to others sible that Mr. jiatrll may have talk t the been youthful love aifuir and i Sweetheart muy have be des her brother. n would have had the same ing to prompt the crime,” sug- tan. ! me which was to realize a gain of | ar thot-aud early pounds wonld need no} Premp*in from sentiment or the sense of a | Past wronz. How can you account for Morel’s rece kuowledge of Air. Hatrell’s movements? | as be fh ¢ communication with He:rell at this se? i “hob i say decidedly not, but I have no absolute knowledge upon this point.” m in all probab he was in communi- | cat.on with s former lover. {t would be ouly aman of that kind to try and trade upon bis knowledge of the past.” 1 you that Mr. Hatrell’s re- ach girl were perfectly in- Rovent. ‘The official, who had grown gray in the ex- ES of the worst society im P: is ao “Yes I bave it upon the evidence of the Girl's own letters and from the lips of a worthy | oid lady in who she contided.” “Granted, then, tant the intrigue Becent entanglement, mild as rose water, Mr. Hatrell may yet have desired to heep the story from his wife, and may have allowed Claude Morel to hang upon him, and may thus have ven bim the opportunity to find out all about intended vit tothe bank and the sum to be handed over in the lawyer's office. “It must have been so. The movements of the murderor were too precise to have been Suess work or the result of accident. The murderer must have had detailed information asto Mr. Ratrell’s intended movements on the fatai day. mysterious if Claude Morel were in fre Pieut communication with Mr. Hatrel..” “Would Hatrell coufide in « man who was sro 36 upon him, @ man be must have de- “Perhaps not, but Mr. Hatrell’s servants might furnish the information.” “Servants would hardly have known the pre- dear sir, servants know e You ish have # most pernicious habit of | ert worse than London? suspicion, No doubt she told her brother that you were on the scent and Morel alias Duver- Wier has disappeared for an indefinite period. He would have no hesitation in leaving a city where he was deeply dipped and which he might not be allowed to leave if he lingered ch longer.” ‘here was no more tobe said. Whatever ideas M. Crefont had as to the possibiiity of any satisfactory solution of the mystery of Rob- ert Hatrell’s murder he did not impart them to Florestan, but simply took that gentleman's | cheek for the expenses incurred in th and inquiries investigations that had been made at his tand said that “for the rest time would “If this Duverdier is as black a villain as you believe bim to Li the Denmark street murderer, he will to put his neck under the kuife. Stops ata single crime.” “He is a man to be watched, then,” said Flor- estar “Yes, he isaman tobe watched and heve he will prove a man worth watching. CHAPIER XVIL DAISY'S DIARY IN LONDON. Tt was an old fancy and one which had haunted me from the first night I slept in Gros- venor Square. As I iaid myself down to rest in the pretty little bed, with its embroidered be sure No such man Ibe- | Japanese coverlet and clond of white lace cur- | tains—all devised by mother, so dainty and gracious—and as I heard the noise of the car- riage wheels hke the great hoarse roar of the sea—l said to myself, “This is London, eruch London. the ci to his death—the city in which a good man may be murdered in broad daylight, on a sunny summer af fellow-men, I could not sicep that first mght for thinking of my dear dead futher. I could not stop my- self from picturing the awful scene over and over again the ghastly change in the dear f: —the horrid wound—the pitiless murderer whose face I could not picture to myself, Again and again aud again I tried to shape that unknown face. I thought of dll the vil- nous conntenances I liad scen in picture gal- leries—of this or that Judas, this or that mur- derer—the malignant face with dall, red hair, the swarthy face with close cut black haar— the rugged features and beetling brow, the low, scarcely human forehead, under ragged. tan- gled locks, all of the villainous and inhuman that painters have ever couceived; yet I could never pictnre to myself the form and face of the man who killed my father. Night after night I have lain awake thinking ofhim. My father has been much more often in my thoughts since we came to London than he was while we were at peaceful River Lawn, where Iuse to lie awake to h re sin the warm June nights, and where andof the river was always like a lullaby. y aud spleador, the operas and play laughter are not enough to make me forget. In this city my father was murdered, If there were no suc! be living and among us today, ours for mauy a year to come. {think of Prof. Palmer in the desert, lured to his fate by murderous Arabs. Was the des- I think of all who have ever been treacherousiy slain in wild and lonely places, bat I can think of no place worse than London, I want to see the house in which my father died. I want to see the room in which he was found lying stabbed to death. This is the fancy that has tormented me ever since we took up our abode in London, ever since the roll of the wheels and the tramp, tramp, tramp of horses’ feet have beea in my ears. Ifeclasif I should think lese of bim and be less haunted by the dreadful vision of He might be | that room if I eould once see it in all ita sor- bere reality; if L could know exactly what it is ike. Ihave told Cyril my feelings on this point, but he refuses to take me to see the house or even the street in which my father died. He cannot understand me. He cannot understand that this dreadful sensation of being haunted nightly by the vision of the deod and the room might be lessened by familiarity with the scene, however painful the sight of that horrible place might be. Ihave entreated him to take me there, but he steadfastly refuses, 80 I have made up my mind to go there without him. Mother and her husband are going toa grand dinner this evening to meet royalties; Cy has gone to Oxford to dine with the Bullingdon club. I shall have the evening all to myself and I shall go to Denmark street alone. i suppose it is rather an awful thing for a e of my age to go out after 8 o'clock, and I ave never beeu in the streets of London by myself at auy hour, but I don't care to take even my good Broomfield, for she would most likely make as many objections as Cyril, and I might fail in getting inside the house I want to see. I would rather depend entirely upon my own cleverness. i kuow the number of the street, I know thi — of - room, I poeed that it is a etre t of lodging houses, so I can tt og ee 6 believe to be in search of lodgings. I shall wait till the carriage has driven off with mother avd Uncle Ambrose and then I shall send down word to the butler that I have a headache and won't dine. Ishall teli Broomfield that I am going to lie down for an hour or two, upon which I kuow the dear soul, after having fussed about me with eau-de-cologne and sal-volatile, and arranged he Bape and reading lamp, will go down tothe servants’ hall at very bottom of the house and will be absorbed in gossip till my bell rin: 1 ww where Uncle Ambrose leaves the when he comes 1! andallowed me to investigate the deserted | or, in other words, if he is | in which my father was lured | rnoon, in the very midst of his | , the music and dancing, and talk and | wilderness as Loudon he might | anda shabby little garden hat, so as to look, like a — girl or anything common or insig- . . . . * T have seen that dreadful room—a common- pes ill-furnished room in a shabby lodging iouse, and the sight of it will haunt me to my dying day. Cyril was right and I was wrong. It was a senseless thing to do and I ought to have left it undone. Everything happened as I h The pre- tended headache did me good service. I was | mistress of my time and actions before 9 | o'clock. I slipped off my tea gown and dressed Myself for the character of a young woman in search of a respectable lodging at seven shil- lings a woek. I suppose that is about the price work: girls pay. The evening was gray and dull, not dark, but thick and heavy, with an oppressive feeling in the atmosphere, as of stored up heat and dust—such a different atmosphere from the cool, dewy air in the garden at Lamford on a midsuramer night. I had studied the map of London and had carefully made out my way to Denmark street, but seeing a benevolent-looking old cabman with ared nose creeping along close to the curb in Brooke street | aiied him and told him to drive me to St. Giles church, ‘So I will, my dear, and i wish I was going to drive you there to be spliced,” he said, which shows how thoroughly common I must | have looked in my garden hat, or it might be | that the old man had been drinking, for he rat- tled the cab over the stones and zigzaged across the road in a really dreadful manner, If Lhad_ not been so full of other thoughts I believe I should have feared for my life, espe- cially when he took me around corners. He drew up in front of a church in a shabby- looking street, where there were shops still open, though it was after 9 o'clock. I gave him half a crowa, which he did not seem to think enough. “Do you want me to wait for you, miss?” he asked. “You won't get another cab in this neighborhood.” I said no, for I was shaken dreadfully by that one ride and felt it would be tempting Provi- dence to let him drive me again, My heart was beating viviently. I hardly knew what I was doing. but I began telling my- self to be calm and collected and to remember that I was there in opposition to Cyril’s advice and that I must prove worthy of my own self- confidence, Iam nota fainting young person, indeed I never fainted in my life, but last night I was afraid that I was going to faint and I had to struggle against a swimming in my head and a painful sense of lightness which made me totter # little as I turned into Denmark street. It was very quiet there. The street had an old-fashioned respectable air, which would have Uden me contidence if I had really been ahard-working young woman in search of a lodging. Some of the houses looked the pic- ture of neatness, others were shabby and squalid. Against every door I observed a row ot brass bells, which showed that there were several tenants in each house. I SAW THE NUMBER I WAS IN SEARCH OF, T saw the number I was in search of from the opposite side of the way. There was the tail- or's work shop which I had read about in the newspaper. The windows were wide open and | half a dozen men were at work in a glare of gas. I could not help thinking they looked like lost souls in Pandemonium—the bare dusty room. the glare and heat, on this sum night when the stars were shining on all the flowery | crecks and willowy islands near Lamford, when life and the world were so lovely for some people, Yos, that was the tailor's work shop and it | might have been one of those men who heard my father’s murderer go singing down the stairs. fresh from his decd of bloo I think the idea of that and the horror of it braced my nerves. for I felt less like fainting as I crossed the road and knocked at the door of the fatal house, I waited for some minutes before any one came to the duor, though I knocked a second time. Then a woman appeared, an elderly woman, who looked at me curiously. I told her I wanted a lodging—a respectable room at seven shillings a week, but she an- swered rather sharply thatshe only let lodg- ings to men—why prefer men, I wonder—and he was going to shut the door in my face, when I grew desperate and stopped her by laying my hand upon her arm. There was a murder eight years ago in this house,” J said. **Let me see the room where it was done and I'll give you sever shillings.” I would as soon have offered her a sovereign, but I had got the sum of seven shillings in my mind in connection with the rent of a lodging, and I offered her that unthinkingly. It was enough, however, for she snapped at my offer. hard and v iy 8 a curious faney of yours. You haven't ything to do with the murderer, I hope.” ‘No, no, no,” I cried. “I'm glad of that,” said she. “Ah, he was a devil, that man—a smooth-faced, smooth- tongued devil, The sight of him and the sound of his voice make me sick and faint whenever I cail him to mind. He puta blight upon me and on my house, I’ve never been the same woman since.” lasked her what the man was like, findin, that she was willing to talk, and she describe his appearance in a great many words, but her words did not conjure up any distinct image. He was good-looking and he was young. She did not take him for much over thirty. ie was dark, with fine black eyes, and he wore a mous- tache, but no beard. He talked English, but he spoke like a foreigner. This was all I could gather from her, She went slowly up the stairs before me, with a paraftine lamp in her hand,and she flung open the door of the back room on the second fluor and told me to go in, holding up the lamp on a level with Ler head that I might see the room, “I've keptit just as it was that day,” she said. “I've never had a good let in all the eight years—not a permanency. There’s a blight upon the room; but people come and rer atit, as it might be you, and give mea tritle.” “Oh, how horrid of people,” I said, forget- ting myself, “how can they be so morbid ?” “Not more so than you, Miss, It’s human nature,” she answered, I looked at the room, a square common-look- ing room, with very shabby furniture, a single window looking out upon roofs and chimney stacks. All looked dark and dreary—the light of the flaring lamp only made the squalid fur- niture look more squalid. Oh! what a scene to meet those dying eyes! What horror in that one supreme agony to feel himself caught like a snared bird, trapped in such a hole as this! “How did he look? where did you find him lying?” Lasked; and then she described that ghastly sight, showing me the spot where our dear one lay, gloating over every detail. hy I 1 COULD HAVE SHIEKED WITH AGONY, Tcould have shricked with agony « tened to her, She had put down her lamp on the table, and she clawed my wrist with her skinny fingers as she pointed with the other hand to the floor, and she acted over all the scene, “as it might be here,” ‘as it might be there,” and she dwelt upon the look of the dead face until my heart seemed to turn to stone. Icould not speak; I just let her goon. I had so wanted to know all--all that the com- monest lips could tell; all. from any source, however cruel. I let her talk on to her heart's eontent, like a ghoul as she was, and then I went with her down stairs somehow, quite numbed and cold, as if[ had been ina aighe focal dream, and I went out into the ke street I made up my mind to walk home, I felt the air and exercise would give me my only chance of getting calm after the of that quarter ofan hour. I walked on blindly for adi iey dis- — _ in one eee sy then in another, joing oul my way, eve, vaguel Graking for. the woot’ had lovt all sotee ct time and when I heard g church clock one of our Berkshire lanes. There was Pee | one lighted spot m the street and that looke: like an hotel or a restaurant. It was a restaurant. As I got nearer on the opposite side of the street I saw the name— RestacRaxt pv Pavin.on. I was walking slowly, meaning to ask the first liceman I met to put me in the right way to rosyenor Square, and not caring even if I went out of my way, for the cool air and the move- ment were helping me to get calmer, when three men came pouring out of the lighted doorway, talking and laughing in a boisterous kind of way that made me think they were tipsy. One of them saw me and called out something to his friends in French, to which the others replied in the same language, but I could not understand a word they said. I hurried my steps and tried to get out of their reach, but the man who had spoken first came across the road and began to talk to me, in English this time, asking me where I was going and whether Iwonld go toa music hall with him and his friends, I cannot record the horrid tone and manner of the man. I hate to remember his vulgar in- solence. Ihate to think that there are such men in the world, and that poor hard working girls such as I was suppozed to be, are exposed to the insolence of such creatur and have such hateful words forced upon their ears as they go quietly home from their work. The wretch caught hold of my arm and urged me to go with him to some piace which he called “The Oxford,” while his friends, who spoke only in French, laughed and taiked of my af- fected pradery, I was furious. I shook myself free from the wretch’s touch and I looked up and down the | street in despair for some one who would help me. “How dare you speak tome or touch me, you most odious creature?” I cried, and then e took off his hat, in mocking acknowledg- ment of an imaginary compliment. I saw in the light of the lamp close above us that he had a swarthy complexion. like an Italian's, and black eyes, and I remembered with a shudder the woman's description half an hour before. There must be thousands of such men among the exiles who come to London for refuge; yet I shall never see such a face without re- calling that unknown image of my father’s murderer, He pretended to think that my anger was only assumed and went on with his hateful compliments and offers of supper and cham- pagne at the Oxford, and I saw in my despair that there was not a mortal in sight to whom I could appeal for protection. ‘The door of the restaurant stood open, and I could see lights and servants moving about in- side. I had halfa mind to rush across the street and go in at the open door, where. no doubt, some one would have taken my part against these horrid men. But my courage failed me in the next instant. It would have been such a wild thing to do, and how could I have faced half a dozen astonished waiters in the glare of that gas-lit vestibule? I looked down the street again. and this time there was a promise of rescue in the shape of a hansom cab coming along rapidity, with two great flaming lamps, like a dragon with fiery eyes, the good dragon that comes to rescue forlorn damsels and not to eat them. 1 raninto the roadand hailed the driver without stopping to see if the cab were empty. While I waved my hand in frantic appeal—how ashamed of elf I feel today when 1 have to write about it in this cold-blooded journal— somebody inside the cab dashed his stick up through the little trap-duor in the roof just as frantically. The driver pulled up sharp and a big middle-aged man got out of the cab and came to me. How thankful I felt that he was so big and so middle-aged, I felt the utmost coufidence in him, almost as if he had been my uncle, i Pe, 18 THERE ANYTHING THE MATTER? “Is there anything the matter?” he gsked, looking at my persecutors, “Yes,” I answered, ‘one of these men has been horridly rude to me. They have all been rude, but that one,”I pointed to my worst tormenior, ‘has been the most offensive.” ‘‘He will not be offensive any more, unless he wants to be thoroughly well kicked,” said my friend, and he looked as if he would like to jo it. “Please don’t take any trouble about him,” I said, ‘he is tipsy. I believe. and he is really not worth kicking. He wouldn't know anything about it afterward, so it would be wasted trouble. If you would oblige me go far as to give me your cab—you would be able to get another one very soon, I suppose—I should be deeply grateful.” Thad seen that he was notin evening dress or I'should have hardly ventured to make such a selfish request. . **My cab is quite at your service. Where shall I tell the man to drive you?’ “Fo Grosvenor Square. My name is Hatrell— Miss, Hatreil. I Eopesiea the name very distinctly, for I wanted my unkuown friend to understand that I was not ashamed of myself, although he found me in such a disagreeable position. ‘Two of my assailants had sneaked off already, with a laugh and an air of being quite at their ease; but my chief tormentor stood as if he were glued to the pavement, staring at me in a dull and stupid way, while I got into the cab and shook hands gratefully with my nameless friend. He had been noisy enough a few min- utes before, when he was doubtless in the loquacious state of intoxication, but now he seemed to have passed into a silent and stony stage which was like absolute stupefaction, One of his friends turned to look after him, when they had gone some little way aliead, “Hola, Duverdier! Veux tu te planter la toute la nuit?” he called out. So my tormentor’s name is Duverdier. stopped the cabman at the corner of the square, paid him to his perfect satisfaction, for i just emptied the silver in my portemonnaie into his hand and walked quietly to our own door, where I let myself in like a thief in the night, [To be Continued.} ———~oe___ FASHIONS FANCIES. Small Items Concerning What the Women are Talking About. AccorpIon-PLEATED Skrets ARE Stitt Worn and will be for some time, also straight full skirts of net, or crepe, with rows of moire or other ribbons as a border. Many or tHE Transparent Gauze Fans are mounted on very light wood, one half the fan covered with large loosely made flowers formed of pink or white silk crepe. Tne Greex Fu.er worn with very tousled heads of auburn-brown hair is a favorite style of hair dressing with ultra-fashionable women. Apricot and AsHxs-or-Rosrs WarstTs of faille or bengaline silk are worn with pretty Venetian jackets of russet or Eiffel-red English cloth, A Pretry Fasnton Prevaits Just Now of wearing a graceful little French toque of vel- vet—reseda (eee being a favorite color—the front of which is adorned with a full aigrette of fine green foliage, For Movasixe Dresses THis S£ason thero are new silk and wool fabrics in light qualities imitating China crapes, also a serviceable silk calied Antoinette surah for light mourn ing, Fixe Ware Baristes, French lawns and sheer organdies delicately hemstitched and finished on skirts with very deep hems will be worn all summer by those in mourning. Waite Tuerg are Numerous Canine Frxisugs in hat wear there are a host of extra- ordinary creations like the ‘Madge Wildfire” style bidding for favor, twisted and bent here and there without apparent motive, Ir 18 THe Fasuiox Now to cover small fancy tables in parlor, hall, or dining room with fabrics in silks and oriental tissues with full length curtains to match. ‘Tuere 1s Norurxe Exuipirep rm Minursery just now more stylish and unobtrusive than the jecstario ta round hate with ghoir sable plumes, Aone THE Exrzcant Importations are black Chantilly net bodices with directoire collars and cuffs of finest gold lace. Lusrnovs Monarns arg Inexpensive and may be recommended for service and durability. Fabrics of this sort shed the dust, cling to the Sens 6 gracefully and are as light as cotton in we! K For Travia Costumes on ScHoor Frocks there is a very wen ari gr linen and wool, All are i with and checks ween lad and gray and ution spd dower bordar stl ornament duty Trow and: still ornament on f dainty PEDDLING OUT CREDIT. Brokers Through Whom a Maa Can Get Trusted for Goods. 4 NEW BUSINESS SAID TO THRIVE HERE—HOW IM- PECUNIOUS PERSONS CAN PROVIDE THEMSELVES WITH THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE—HOW THE CREDIT BROKER WORKS, “A what?” “A credit broker. Didn't you ever hear of eredit broker? Well, it is a new business, to be sure, this credit brokerage, but it is an active one.” An uptown business man adjusted his glasses to read little card he held in his hand and Preceeded to disclose to a Star reporter some of the myteries of this new trade, “Lots of folks, you know,” he continued, “haven't much money.” Tue Stan reporter agreed that there might be some people in this condition, HOW AN UNKNOWN MAN GETS CREDIT. “The absence of s large income does not re- lieve them from the desire to live comfortably and keep up @ good appearance on a small salary. They have to go in debt or buy things on the instaliment plau. Some people are not well enough known to get credit from the reg- ular old established firms. It is to the relief of such people that the credit broker comes. If you want a suit of clothes. made to order or “‘hand-me-down’, he will send you to a first-class place where you can present his card and get what you want without further question, though the merchant may never have seen you before. He wiilthen give you an order to some furniture dealer, if you want, and you can have your house furnished and fitted out on the same terms, Or with his mdorsement you can have your children fitted with new store clothes and you can get shoes for yourself, your wife and all the little ones without any ready money. You can get a watch and seal ring for yourself and ear rings for your wife. If you area carpenter or workman of any sort you cun get tools in the same simple way. In short you can get anything you want, You can even get your teeth filled or an aching molar disiocated. Yon can be fitted out with a new suit of clothes, a beaver hat and cane, ehoes, studs, a watch and chain and all the other jewelry necessary to the complete attire of a gentleman, besides fresh tie, clean collar and cuffs, stiff ‘biled’ shirt and enongh at home for a change—you can get all these things on credit, though your face and name are not known to a merchant in town, if you have an order from the credit broker. GETTING A START IN BUSINESS. “The business is started in this way. Aman who has enough means to make his credit good with merchants has a large circle of friends whom he knows to be honest and reliable. but who have no credit with merchants, not being known. With this to start on he decides to become a credit broker. He gets up a list of reputable merchants in various lines and makes an arrangement with them under which they are to give credit to any one presenting an order from him and are to pay hit a com- mission on the trade, he being responsible for the debt. He then gives orders to his iricuds and acquaintances who want to buy on credit, but have no acquaintance with dealers in the things they want. They buy their goods and pay him in installments or spot down at a certain time, The man entering into this busiaess must of course know the men he is trusting, but having a large circle of acquaintances he can easily determine whom of them he can trust, and can get enough regular and reliable customers to make him a good business, A man in one of the departments or in any business establish- ment where a great many persons are employed may work up a good business as a credit broker. The man whose card I hold here has poue regularly into the business as a credit roker. He has arrangements with some ten or fifteen reliable business houses, to which he sends his patrons and from which he gets a good commission on every sale upon his order. He makes trom $150 to $250 per month out of reed business and very seldom makes a bad lebt.” MEAN PEOPLE WHO RIDE. A Street Car Conductor's Observations— Women Who Beat Their W “Human nature? Well, I just guess there is no one who has a better chance to judge peo- ple thun we have,” said a conductor on a 14th street car the other day, “I tell you, sir,” he continued, “we see people as they really are and as they pretend to be, Just waitone mo- ment,” he said as he rang the bell for an elderly lady to get out. “Do you see that woman?” he confinned after the car lad got to going again. “Weil. she has plenty of money, but has a trick of getting on acar and presenting a twenty-dollar note in | ment of her fare, at the same time asking you to please give her as many billsas possible. Of course we can’t change such a big note as that. and she knows it. What is the conductor to do? play that trick on me any more,” he went on as he punched a fare ‘I broke her of that habit as far as my car is concerned.” **How did you do it.” asked one of the pas- sengers, who was getting interested. “It happened this way: She had played me for a ride twice with the $20-note racket and I thought it was about time to turn the tables. The next day I loaded myself with 2,000 pennies, just the right change for that £20. She fooled me that day, however, as 1 didn’t haul her. But the next day, just about oftice time, she hailed me and presented that regula- tion $20, ‘Look here, madam, said I, this is the third time you have offered this bili in payment for your fare, knowing well enough that I can’t change it.” Is that so?’ she replied haughtily. ‘Well, get off and get change. Ihave tendered my fare and it’s the company’s business to have change.’ Boys, I was ready for her,” he chuckled, “and there before the whole car I counted her out #20 less 5centa in pennies. I wish you could have seen ber face; it was a study. “Ac- «eptthem? Of course she did. She dared not refuse them after her bluff. But, there, that’s only a sample of what we have to deal with, There’sjanother woman who oftentimes rides on my car and invariably leaves her ocket book at home. She declares it is too ate to return to her home and asks us poor devils what's to be done, Of course some gul- lible passenger comes to her rescue and pay her fare. She makes a great fuss and tively declines the assistance at first, but ac- cepts at last and takes the generous person's address, declaring she will promptly return the fare. But she forgets it, the same way she does her pocket book, These are what we con- ductors call the lady beats.” The car by this time had reached the junc- tion of 14th and the avenue, and part of the conductor's audience left. HE STAR man, however, lingered. Ding, ding went the beil and the car was off again. After collecting the fares the couductor came out on the rear plat- form and resumed, “Ionce used to haul a man who was the meanest man that ever rode inacar. That was when we had bob-tailed cars on this line. I was a driver in those days and this man used to sit close up to the box whenever he rode, My attention was attracted to him one day this wise: An old colored man got on the car and changed a dime to pay his fare. When I looked in the box to drop e there lay a ticket, Now, I was almost positive the old man didn’t have a ticket, so I just kept a lookout. In a few moments a lady entered and I plainly saw her pass anickel to this man. Do you know what he did? No? Then Ill tell you. He put the nickel in his pocket and dropped a ticket in the box, thereby making five-sixths of acent, I tried to make him feel bad and ex- posed him before the whole car, but he didn’t mind it; said I had the fare and ought to be satistied,”” “‘What has been your experience with dudes?” asked Tue Star reporter. , RS “Oh, they are ater was the reply, “but bad people to haul. They want the earth for five cents. and will make you come toa dead halt before getting on or off. Of course that’s all right, but when they get on with one of those bee pions it makes mesick. They are r trons of the road, however. It Farts Geen fowsllc™ 2 —_—— Written for Tax ‘Evewrxe Stan. Convalescence, ‘That sense of freedom which the bosom thrills, Escaped the house of bondage, came one day Where, in the open rolling country, lay, Far to the west, horlzon-bounded hills. ‘They wrought their magic on the air that spills Its purple vapors in the far-away ‘That soul which never knew the touch of pain, The weight of heavy hours, the wearing slow Of torture’s most unmitigable chain, ‘The joy of convalescence shall not know. Old Point, Va., March 13. —JOuN Savany, nervous excitement, sedentary ha’ Seva ecenaae wore has tne indorsement of the medical faculty Paris and has been used in the there with entire success in the treatment of these dis- He can’t put her off. But she don’t | AUCTION SALES. j _THIS AFTERNOON. _ GF W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 F st. TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY IN THE SUBDIVISE FARM. FRONTING ON SiEEMAN IMPROVED BY WELL RENTED BC By virtue of @ certain deed of trust, recorded in Liber No. 1 folio 381 et. sey. obo of the land rthe District of Columbia, aud at the re- Je party secured thereby. I willofer forsale, the “preuises, on S ECUND DAY OFM FOUR O'CLOCK P-ML, the subdivision of Barry Farm ¢ trustees thereof, now on file in the office veyor of the District @ Columbia, -xcept lot 43 aud the west one-half of lot #5 of arecent subdivision of said lot 16, ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash snd the balance in one (1) and two (2) years, with interest at the rate of six (6) per centum fer anvun, payabir sem:-anuually id secured by deed of trust on ali cash, at the 7 required at tin tug at purchase 10 days, or th . of detauiting purchaser after 5 days’ advert ome Bewspaper published in the city of W. WILLIAM A. KIM M Trustee, RY SALE Ks, ALMOST. 3 AB THREE MONTHS On TUPSDAY, MAKCK TWELVE O'CLOCK, ty DONIA, Ht st will sell = to be removed from the ses Immediately atter the sal ~d&ds THOMAS DOWLING, Rta. DAK & ¢ Auctioneer. PER} MPTORY SALE OF VALUABLE BUSINESS iOPERTY, No, 332 PENNSLLVANIA AVENUE NORTHWEST. ALso, . TORY BRICK AND FRAME BACK BUILT) No. 406 M\EVLAND AVENUE SOU T, TO CLUSE AN LSTATE, RN ON, On THURSDAY APT >, MARCH TWENTY- SEVENTH, AT HAL! FOUK O'CLOCK, we ‘will offer for sale in front of the premises KESERVAT A, Brick Stable in at, ALnc AT FIVE O'CLOCK, -AMF AFTERNOON, We will offer for sale in front of the premises LOT O, SQUARE 42, Improved by a Three-story B Mane xo rms sof male ht reserved to re { the defauiting property uatof the p DARK convey anes a RATCLUEF m20-dkds FT 80448 DOWLING, Auctioncer. IMPORTANT SALE BY CATALOGU! HOUSEHOLD "FUKNII ULE, OLL PAINTINGS, Ligue . OF SUPFRIOR: SEVERAL FINE KALE OLD MADEIKA WINES, WUEURS, & On THURSDAY, MAKCH TWE SEVENTH, 1800, COMMENCING AT HALF-PAST | TEN K. il at the residence of Col. J. P street, George.own, D.C,, the iK EBONY PARLOR SUITE, UPHOL- IN OLD GOLD 8! PLUSH, TEN WINDOW HA LY ARM CHAIR: SH CABINET PAINTING LL ae ND TABLE, IN FINE BONY TABLE. SUILE, SEVEN PIECES, aK - TABLE, ILE TABLE A PARVED Vi ND FRAME. ENA TE ER rE ar ANDKABSSY. F he LLANEOUS CHAMBER FURNI- | CARVED OAK DINING-ROOM ING SILVER MOUNTED AND OLD GOL OLD BEANDL This Lot of Win SHERRY. AND LIQUEURS, pronounced to be of rare aud ts of a superior character. Hiouke open for mspection day prior to sale from 9 am, until 4 pan, THOMAS DOW m20-dts Auc NVHOMAS DOWLING, Anctionee: VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY, No. 1010 D TREET SOUTHWEST, Al AUCTION. UNDAY AFTEEN MAKCH TWENTY- H, 1st ‘CLOCK, in front of the premises, I shull sell parts lots 7 and’S in square 353, 24. 10x100, nuproved by a Two-story and Atuc Frame Dwelling with Brick Basement, No. 1010 D street ‘One-third cash, balance in 6 and 12 mont bearmg interest and secured by deed of at option of purchaser. All convey- &e., at purchaser's cost; $100 deposit re- 1 the tune of sale. THOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer, 0. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 F st, ber No. poords of the District the pi a A.D. 1890, Ad GiALE-PASE FOUR the following described property in Washington, D.C., known aud described ed from one (1) to forty-four 44) im tion of lots 6 ., heretol : the property conv. yed by deed recorded in Liber : folio 388, and by deed recorded in Liber 1271, folio 439. Terms of sale: One-third cash and the balance in one (1) and two (2) years, with interest at the rate of six (6) per centum per anuum, of all cash. at the option of the purchaser; 8250 depusit will be required at Ume of sale. All conveyancing and recording at pur- chaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in fifteen days. If terms of sale are omplied with the property will be resold at risk aud cost of defaulting Le purchaser after five days’ advertisement iu th: ing Star, ‘M. AKMSTHONG, Trustee, 112-eoteds ‘12 East Fayette st., Baltimore, Md. t#-THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED Ac: the weather to SATURDAY, MAKCH FIRST, count of 1890, same hour and place, 125-tu, ‘©. M. ARMSTRONG, Trustee. S#-THE PURCHASER AT THE ABOVE ADVER- tised sule having fuiled to comply with the termsof said sale the property will be resold at his risk cud cost on MONDAY THE TWENT ‘OU OF MARCH, 18U0, at the same hour und place, m18-t,th,tks C. M. ARMSTKONG, Trustee, CHANCERY, SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY NEAR NAVY YARD GATE, BEING No. 1105 SEVENTH STRE! SUUTHEAST. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia passed in 3 etal. vs. 5 numbered twenty-three im Syuare num bered eight hundred and eighty-two. Begipuing on 7th street east 45 fect south of the northeast corner of said lot, thence south 1: thence north 13 feet and beginning, improved by a jouse. jo-story and basement ‘erms of sale: One-third cash; balance in two equal instalments in ‘one and two years from day of sale, secured by trus: on the property, or ali cash, at purchaser's option. Deposit of $100 required on day of sale. If terms of sale are not complied with | inten days, trustce reserves the right to resell at Fisk and cost of defuniting purchaser. FILLMORE BEALL, Trustee, B22 dig st. nw. DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, — m1S~«i&ds iCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, TKUSTEES' SALE OF ELEGANT TWO-STORY SK HOUSE, No. 726 NINTH SIKELT By virtue of a deed of trust dated the nineteenth ay of April, LSS, recorded in Liber No, 1297, folios 13 et seq, and at the request of the party secured thereby, We will sell, at public auction, to the highest iu front of t ireet between G and H streets northeast, by adepth of 115 feet, with analley on side und rear, together with the m of aq the same being 19 feet front on 9th st ments, consisting of two-story brick dweliug of jen Tooms, pantry, electric gant by electricity, range, hot and cold water, house heated by the hot-water xysteni, stationary wash tubs, cellar under the whole house. Byiit by and for the use of the owner in the most thorough and com manner; in fact the best house of its class in tue city. Open for inspection ‘Terms of sale: ‘The amount of indebtedness and ex- Pense of sule (about $2,850) incash; balance in one and two years at 6 per cent per annum, interest pay- able semi-annually, or all at the ‘option of the ibe complied with within 15 days cf ressbe st pare chasers day’ published in Wash- ington city newspaper. Conveyancing, &., at pur- A loan of $2,700 will be made on this Ds desired. m2 — DUWLING, Auctioneer. VE FINE PARLOR SUITES. WALNUT WITH FRENCH PLATE MIRKOR, Sey ‘Al PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS, [ANDSOME W, HALL Rat LAKGE FRENCH PLATE, ; ERED . OTHER 10) UNGES, WALNUT MAR- Bi SOE STDEBL AED th FASE CONDITIONS WALNUT EXTENSION TABLES, SUPERIOR |W. MAK: f AND En S Gi Ni b. er NG Sat Ee oe sas THOMAS Pouce. ud should command the attention of cou- | tr Furniture was purchased abroad by Col. Lee | - | TRUSTEES’ REAL ) Particular a AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAs. qyjaomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. RUSTEES’ SALE OF VERY YALTA REE. STORLAND-BASEMENT At CE RESIDENCE 0.300 MASSACHUSELTS AVENUE NORTH” By virtue of a deed of June, IS8s, Cie ar Kk OCLOCK, an front described property, AT HAL pre +-PAST FOUR the erry lot 2. 4 sguar provements, which t Bs Ak Sawn se: s, with all Incdern improvements, No. JOO Massschusetts ue northeast, on the property «at purchaser cost. time of sale, m0 diate NHOMAS DOWL HANDS( dood deposit re HEADLEY DAVIDSC CTRER S. PRISDOR, Trustees Auctioneer THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, STLEEL, NFAK DUPONT CIRCLE, x On M AUCTION FRIDAY THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY 10, at HALF-TAST FOUR OCLC A at y or KP. th equary 18, w handsome Brick i made known at time of sale _miient JA SHITLE & OO. JDESCASSON BROS, Anctionrers, ENTIRE ¢ WIL ONTENTS OF STORE, GOOD. SODA FOUN LAIN, SODA. PLANT AN SHELVINGS, COUNTERS, CASE rHWEs 1 On WEDNESDAY MOR DAY OF MARCH. at Pit by order ot LC. MISHOF m Wrage Store « npr ¢ Drugs, Toilet Articles, Medicines, Cia Prescription Cases ana Fi Aus tnd Apparatus and Latest Improve 1 tering the pe W OPED LOT tuapection, mlidts DUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers, HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, TRUSTEES’ SALE OF \ALUABLE SUBU PROPERTY. Under a deed of trust corded in Liber No. 14 TUESDAY the 1WEX A.D. 1NHO, at FIVE O'CLOCK PLM. mt premises, Lote nutubered thirty (30) and thirty-one G1) im Lot numbered four ds of Mickey". subs pontaning abuts S acres and Hi set on ' 10 Ldn, we FIFTH AY OF MAKCH, im fro oyerty bas two roads leading to ft from Koad” and extend to the bastern Branch emac River, aud is marked Hopkins map Of the District with t 4a Lup pert residue in two two years with interest at 10hr th ru property is ki o ene 8 TELDER P. HACKNEY, m13-10t WM. A THOMPSON, —" § Trustees, ANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED KEAL ON FT sti EN EiGh AND NINE LEE = N WNAS SO INL By virt District 0 x Craie and Maus sell at pubhe auch TUESDAY the TWEN A. FAVE Puimmy MANCE rr 1, fromtine fort (40) tet « ning back that Wiath an averree de aud forty (140) toct teu puliic alley, aud te lnuproted by a thiree-st Molde with Dasement abd a contain a large saloon parior 1 tect, lane a aud sinall library or breakfast room and .: i chambers, uflice Fouts “ORI, CLONER AT me Duikdine wt sale t id the talance ther nty four month» interest fromday of sale, ote as Ho ‘ teu ‘days day of sale, och property will be resuid at the risk and cost of defaulting purchaser. Ali cou. veyaneng at purchaser's cost. Ail taxes and sssces- elite Will be paid today otmale WILLIAM J. MILL ' Lista BYE ED. EVH J. DARLINGTON, (isin 4i0 oth street a TE WAGGAMA Auctioneer, f27-a&ds NHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SALE OF V. iE EON IHE BAS EIGHTEENTH STKELT BETWEEN 8 AND T SIKEEIS NORTHWEST By virtue of a deed of trast duly recorded smong the Jund recorus of te Distr 141%, folio 443 et weq., ams the holder of the note » seribed lot, we # 0 the premises, ou TH E TWENTY DLS ENTH DAY OF MAKCH, 1590, at FIVE O'CLOCK POM. all that certain jarecl of ground lying sud being in the city of Wortiueton in said District aud known as Jot 119 ii Dentoou's recorded subdivision of certain lots in square 162, together with the itm- Eroxements, &c., consisting Gf a new three-story brick Ouse. Terius of sale: One-third cash, residue in two equal payments st one and two years respectively, 6 per cent inte payable bait y secured by d: trust ov the jroperts sold,orellcash, at chaser, 82 Une plied with in ten days or Feadveriise abd well at defaulting purchase risk. conveyancing, &e.. st purchaser's BEDFORD WOW GEOKGE BH. BAL blk, w mi15-dtws Band, Li sts, 5 edy @5> Pills $1. 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