The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1895. VIR NIy CHAPTER IX. “The fact is,” observed Lord Thrapston, complacent bles me in di position.”” ! ict ago.” —Lord Thrapston, have you no- ticed the resemblance you speak of in any , except that she is a girl, is “Oh, nothi she’ll be all right in your hands, my boy. You must keep an eye on her, the girl very much resem- |} ANTHSHY = he owes to hisname, to his family, to what r n his—Wentworth—to his unborn children.” pursued Charlie, uided by your own judgment. , the circumstances seal my “I don’t like it, you know,” said Calder. ““As regards you, she may or may not have excu: I don’t know; but she will- fully and grossly deceived me. I have done with her.” “God! old chap! ought to stand up for himself, b You’d never feel safe with her, would you, by Jove?” *Good- said Charlie, suddenly. “I leave Paddington by the 4:15.” “Where are you off t0?"” *‘Hell—I mean lrome,” answered Charlie. Calder beat his stick against his le, “I can't stay here, either,’” Fo. said, moodi Charlie stretched out his hand again. A e with me,”” said he. What?” don’t you know; she’ll need a bit o’ dri i Iy don’t see why you should | f I don’t, 'pon my soul. No. h tact on your t, you might very well pull through.” “How d’ye m “Oh, amuse b her lots of ve oty ; 't bother her with | Don’t let her feel she's tion. That’s what's she | against. Sodo I; always did.” alder pulled his n Lord Thrap- briefly sketched the exact oppo- ideal of married life. " continued the old mar “the boy’s an_uncommon handsome bo She can’t resist that. Nor more canl; | never could. | There chanced to be a mirror opposite Calder, and he dis) onately considered himself. There was, he concluded, every prospect of Miss Glyn resisting an engross ing assion for him “It’s very good of about it,”” he remarked, rising. it over.” | “Yes, do. Of course, T admit she’sgiven yon a perfectly good reason for breaking off your engagement if you like. Mind that. We don’t feel aggrieved, Calder. Actas think best. We admit we're in the ng, but we must stand by what we've done.” *I should not like tog “Pain! Oh, dear me. he won't fret. u to have told me all I'll think ¥ ive herand pain—"' no, my dear boy. Make your mind ea about that.” 5 i Calder felt a sudden impulse to disclose | to Lord Thrapston his sectet opinion of | him, and he recollected, with a pang, that | in the course of so doing he would hav touch on more than one character] shared by the old man and Agatha. Where | were her visi of a quiet home in the | country, of freedom irom the irksome | dauties of society, of a dutiful and devoted wife, surrounded by children and tlanked | j fe had once painted | & for Agatha, shortly after . greed to that arrange- | ment, which . she declined to call | a promise of marriage; and it occurred to him now that she had allowed the sub ject to drop without any expression of eon: currence. He took leave of Lord Thrap- | ston and went for a solitary walk. He | wanted to think. But the position of | affairs was such that other persons also | felt the need of reflection, and Calder had | not been walking by the Row very iong be- fore, lifting his eves, he saw a young man | approaching. The young man was not at- | tired as he ought to haye been; he wore a | light suit, a dissolute necktie, and soft, | wideawake crammed down low on his| head. He had obviously forsworn the van- | ities of the world and was wearing the wil- low. He came up to Calder and held out his hand. “Wentworth,” he said, “I'left you rudely the other day. I was doing you an injus- tice. I bave heard the truth from Mrs: Blunt. You are free from all blame. We— we are fellow-sufferers.” "His tones were so mournful that Calder shook his hand with warm sympathy, and remarked : *‘Pretty rough on us both, ain’t it?”’ “For me,” declared Charlie, “everything is over. My trust in woman is destroyed; my pleasure in life is—" *Well, T don’t feel A1 myself, old chap,” said Calder. -"I' have written to-—to her, to say good- “No; have you, though?” “What else could I do? Wentworth, do you suppose that, even if she was free, I would think of her for another moment? Can there be love where there is noesteem,. no trust, no confidence ?”’ “I was just thinking that when you came up,” said Calder. “No, at whatever cost, I—every sclf-ra- | a; “Come with me; we'll forget her to- gether.” Calder looked at him. “Well, you are agood chap. Dashed if T don’t. Yes, I will. We’'ll enjoy ourselves like thunager. But I say, Merceron, I--I ought to write to her, oughn’t 1?” ‘T am just going to write myself.” T, ay good-by, eh?" write and break it off.” “Come along. We'll go to your rooms and get the things done, the train. My uggage is at the station | now.” ‘It won't take me a minute to get it.” “Wentworth, I'm glad to be rid of her.” “Eh—oh, well—so am I,” said Calder. Late that evening the butler presented Miss Agatha Glyn with two letters on a salver. As her eye fell on the addresses she started. Her heart began to beat. She and looked at the two momentous mis- iv “Now which,”” she thought, “‘shall I read fi what shall I do if they are both stinat There was another contingency which Miss Glyn did not contemplate. ter a long hesitation, she took up arlie’s letter and opened it. It was very short and began abruptly, without any words of address: ‘I have received your letter. Your ex- smake it worse. I could forgive evers thing except deceit. I leave lLondon to- day. Good-by. C.M.” ‘‘Deceit!” cried Agatha. ‘“How dare he! ‘What a horrid boy !"’ She was walging up and down the room in a state of great indignation. She had never been talked to like that in her life before. It was ungentlemanly, crue brutal. She flung C. down on the table. “I am sure poor, dear old Calder won’t treat me like that,” she exclaimed, taking up his letter. It ran thus: 2y Dear Agatha: 1 hope you will believe that Iw his withoutany feeling of anger toward you. My regard for You remains very great, 1 1 hope we shaill always be very good friends; but, aiter long and careful considera- ion, I have come to the conclusion that the story Lord ’J‘hr“{vslon told me shows con- clusively what I have been fearing for some time past, namely, that I have not been so Iucky as to win & real affection irom you, and that we are not suited to meke each other happy. Therefore, thanking you very much or your kindness in the past, I think I had better restore vour liberty to you. I shall hear with very great pleasure of your happiness. 1 lenve town to-day for a iitfle while in order that you may noi be exposed to the awkward- ness of meeting me. Always yours most sin- cerely, CALDER WENTWORTH. Agatha passed her hand across her brow; then she reread Calder’s latter, and then Charlie’s. Yes, there was not the least doubt about it! Both of the gentlemen had—vwell, what they had done did not admit of being put into tolerable words. ‘With a little shriek Agatha flung herself on the sofa. The door opened and Lord Thrapston entered. “Well, Aggy, what's the news? Still bothered by your two young men? Hullo! what’s wrong?” - “Read them !’ cfied Agatha, with a gest- ure toward the table, “Eh! Read what? Ob, I see.” He sat down at the table and put on his glasses. Agatha turned her face toward the wall; for hier also everything was over. Tora time no sound was ‘audible§save an oceasional crackle of the notepaper in Lord Thrapston’s shaking fingers. Then, to Agatha's indescribable indignation, there came another sort of crackle—a dry, rating, derisive chuckle—from that tlinty- iear old man, her grandfather. “Good, monstrous good, 'pon my life!” said he. ‘“Yon laughing at me?" she cried, leaping specting man—must consider first of all \ up. > AN S e e s G S I believe you're right, Merceron, | Ag 1d” then catch | harlie’s letter angrily | i | “Well, my dear, I'm afraid I am.” | “Oh, how cruel men are!” | _“H’'m! They’re both men of s | dently.” 5 | “Calder 1 can just understand. I—per- | haps I.did treat Calder rather badly—" ©0h, you go so far as to adwmit that, do you, Aggy ?”’ 9Bl Charlie! Oh, to think that Charlie | should treat me like that!” and she threw h again. sat quite still. Presently , came to the table and took up her two letters. She looked at them | both, and the old man, seeming to notice nothing, yet kept his eye on her. 5 “I shall destroy these things,” said she, and she tore Calder’s letter info v frag- ments and flung them on the fire. Charlie’s she crumpled up and held in her hand. “Good-night, grandpapa,” she said wear- - and kissed him. 1 Good-nizht, my dear,” he answered. And whatever she did when she went up- | stairs Lord Thrapston was in a position to swear that Charlie’s letter was not de- | stroyed in the drawing-room. irit evi- i CHAPTER X. | ““She’s such a dear, zood girl, Mr. Went- !\\’orlh."sm(i Lady erceron. ‘‘She’s the | | \greatest comfort I have.” It fter luncheon at Langbury Chase. Lady Merceron and Calder sat on the lawn. ] Marland and Millie Bushell werd | walking up and down; Charlie w. |in a hammock. A weck had pass | the two young men had startled Lady Merceroh by their unexpected arrival, since then the good lady had been doing | together to her best to entertain them; for, as could not help noticing, they seemed a | little dull. It was a great change from the | | whirl of London to the deep placidity of the Chase, and Lady Merceron could not quite understand why Charlie had tired so soon of his excursion, or why his friend persisted with so much fervor that an thing was better than London, and the | Chase was the most charming place he had ever seen. Of the two, Charlie seemed to feel the | | ennui much the more severely. Yet, | | while Mr. Wentworth spoke of returning | to town in a few weeks, Charlie assevera- ted that he had paid his last visit to that revolting and disappointing place. Lady | Merceron wished she had Van by her side to explain these puzzling incon- sistencies. However, there was a bright side to the affair: the presence of the young men was a godsend to poor Millie, who, by reason of the depressed state of agriculture, had been obliged this year to g0 without her usual six weeks of London n the season. “And she never grumbles about it,” | said Lady Merceron admiringly. “She looks after her district and takes a ride, | and plays tennis when she can get a game, | poor girl, and is always cheerful and L:mmu She'd be a treasure of a wife to any man.”’ “You'd better persuade Charlie of that, Lady Merceron.” +‘Oh, Charlie never thinks of such a thing as marrying. He thinks of nothing | but his antiquitie “Doesn’t he ?’ asked Calder, with appar- ent sympathy and a covert, sad amuse- | ment. | “Mr. Wentworth,” said Mrs. Marland, | land, “this very evening. You’il come, Miss Bushell 2" “Idon’t think I care very much about the Pool,” said Millie. % “We won't let Mr. Merceron take you in his canoe this time.” Charlie rolled out of the hammock and came up to them. N “You must take us to the Pool. Idon't believe you've been there since you came back. Poor Agatha will quite—" “Agatha?’ exclaimed Calder. ‘‘Agatha Merceron, you know. Why, haven’t you heard—'’ “‘Ohjah! Yes, of course. I beg your pardon.” | 3 “I hate that beastly Pool,’”’ said Charlie. ‘‘How can you?"’ smiled Mrs. Merceron. “You used to spend hours there every evening.” Chnr%ie glanced uneasily at Calder, who turned very red. . ““Times have changed, hate they ?”’ Mrs. Marland asked archly. ‘“‘You've got tired of looking in vamn for Agatha.” “Oh, all right,” sail Charlie crossly, “we'll go after tea.” ; Anything seemed better than this rally- ing mood of Mrs. Marland’s. Presently the two young men went off lay a game at billiards; but after half a dozen strokes Charlie plumped down in a chair: “I sav, Calder, old chap, how do you feel?” he asked, AT Culder licked his cigar meditatively. ‘‘Better,” said he, at last. “Qh!” “And you?” . “Worse—worse every day. Ican’tstand it, old chap. T shall go back.” “What, to her?” “Yes, “That’s hardly sticking to our bargain, you know.” “But. hang it, what’s the good of our botk cutting her?” < Ol I thought you did it because you were disgusted with her. That was my reason.’’ ““So it was mine, but—" “Probably she’s got some other fellow by now,” observed Calder, calmly. “The devill” cried Charlie. What makes you think so?” “‘Oh, nothing. Iknow her way, yousee.” “You think she's that sort of a girl? Good heavens!” “Well, if she wasn’t, I'd like to know where you'd be, my friend. I shouldn’t have the honor of your acquaintance.” Charlie ignored this point. “And yet you wanted to marry her?” ““T dare say I was an ass—like better men before me—and—er—since me.” “Hang it!"” cried Charlie, “I'm sick of the whole thing. I'm sick of life. I'm sick of all the nonsense of it. For two straws I'd _have done with it, and marry Millie Bushell.” “What! Look here, Charlie—" Calder left his sentence unfinished. *“Weli?"” said Charhe. ““If,” said Calder slowly, “there are any girls, either down here or in London, whom you’re quite sure you’ll never want to marry, I should like to be introduced to one of 'em, Charlie, if you've no objec- tions.” “What do you mean?” “Why, in fact, during this last week, Charlie, I have come to have a great es- teem for Miss Bushell. There’s about her a something—a solidity—"" “She can’t help that, poor girl.” “A solidity of mind,” said Calder, a little stiffly. “Oh, I beg pardon. But, I say, Calder, what are you driving at?’ ‘‘Charlie! Charlie!” sounded from out- side. “Tea's ready.” Calder rose and took Charlie by the arm. “‘Should I be safe,” he asked, solemnly, “in allowing myself to fall in love with Miss Bushell, or are you likely to step in again?” "g'ou mean it? Honor bright, Calder?” “Where’s Bradshaw? By Jove, where’s Bradshaw ?” “Bradshaw? What the devil has Brad- shaw—' *“Why, a train, man—a train to town.” “I don’t want to go to town, bless the man—"" “WHICH OF YOU IS COMING TO FETCH MEP” | approaching, ““T believe it's actually a fact | that ‘you've been here a week and have never yet been to the Pnol.” i At this fateful word Calder looked em- | barrassed, Charlie raised his head from the hammock and Millie glanced involuntarily toward him. % “We must take you,” said Mrs. Mar- “You! No, but Ido. To town, Calder— to Agatha, you old fool.” “Oh! That's your lay.” “Yes, of course. I couldn’t go back on you. but if you're off —’ ke “‘Charlie, ‘old fellow, think again. “To—to the dence. Where's that—?" ‘“Charlie, Charlie. Tea!” | him, and thinks no_sensible man ‘“Hang tea !""he cried ; but Calder dragged him off, telling him that to-morrow would do for Bradshaw. At tea Charlie’s spirits were very much better, and it was observed that Calder ‘Wentworth paid marked attention to Mil- lie Bushell, so that when they started for the Pool Miliie was prevailed upon to be one of the party, on the understanding that Mr. Wentworth would take care of her. This time the expedition went of more quietly than it had previously done, but at the last moment the ladies declared that they would be late for dinner if they waited till it was time for Agatha Merceron to come. i “Oh, nonsense!” said Calder. “Come over to the temple, Miss Bushell. I won’t upset the canoe.’” *“Well, if you insist,” said Millie. Then Mrs. Marland remarked in the qui- etest voice in the world: “There’s some one in the temple.”’ “What!" cried Millie. “‘Eh!” exciaimed Calder. “Nonsense,” said Charlie. “Isaw a face at the window,” insisted Mrs. Marland. “Oh, Mrs. Mariand! Was it very awful 2"’ “Not at all, Millie—very pretty,” and she gave Charlie a look full of meaning. ‘‘Look, look!” cried Millie, in strong agi- tation. And as they looked, a slim fizure in white came quietly out of the temple, a smile—and, aias! no vestige of a blush—on her face, walked composedly down the steps, and_standing on the lowest one, thence—did not throw herself into the water, but called, in the most natural voice in the world: “Which of you is coming to fetch me?” Charlie looked at Calder.” Calder said: “I think you’d better put her across, old man. And—er—we might as well walk on.” They turned away, Millie’s eyes wide in surprise, Mrs. Marland smiling the smile of triumphant sagacity. “T was coming to youto-morrow,” cried ! Charlie, the moment his canoe bumped against the steps. “What .do you mean, sir, by staying away a whole week? How could you?” “Idon’t know,” said_ Charlie. "You see, I couldn’t come till Calder—" “Oh, what about Calder?”’ ‘“He’s all right.” “What? Miss—the girl you upset out of the canoe?” “I think so,” said Charlie. “Ah, well,” said Agatha. “But how very ourious.” Then she smiled at Charlie and asked: ‘“‘But what love can there be, Mr. Merce- ron, where there is deceit?” 5 Charlie took no notice at all of this ques- ion. ‘Do you mind Calder going?” he whis- pered. “Well, not much,” said Miss Glyn. Thus it was that the barony of Warmley returned to the house of Merceron and the portrait of the wicked lord came to hang once more in the dining-room. So the cur- tain falls on the comedy, and what hap- pened afterward behind the scenes, wheth- er another comedy or a tragedy or a mixed half-and-half sort of entertainment, now grave, now gay, sometimes, perhaps, de- lightful, and again of tempered charm— why, as to all this, what reck the specta- tors who are crowding out of the theater and home to bed ? But it seems as if, in spite of certain drawbacks in Agatha Merceron’s charac- ter, nothing very dreadful can have hap- pened, because Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth, who are very particular folk, went to stay at the Chase the other day, and their only complaint was that Charlie and his bride were always at the Pool. And, for his own part, if he may be al- lowed a word (which some people say he | otight not to be) here, just at.the end, the writer begs to say that he once knew Agatha, and—he would have taken the | risks. However, a lady to whom he has shown this history differs entirely have married her. the question. Copyright, 1894, by Anthony Hope. AFTER THE RIDING-MASTER. A. FARNSWORTH ON TRIAL ON THE CHARGE OF MISDEMEANOR EMBEZZLEMENT. But, then, that is not JUDGE CAMPBELL AFTER HEARING | THE EVIDENCE DISMISSED THE CASE. A. Farnsworth, proprietor of a fashion- able riding-school on Pacific avenue, ap- peared in Judge Campbell’s court yester- day morning to answer to the charge of | misaemeanor embezzlement. The complaining witness is Isidor Danzi- ger, who rented his furnished house, 2825 Pine street, in October last to Farnsworth and his family, but was compelled to evict them, owing to non-payment of rent. After the eviction Danziger found that his chattelc had been well-nigh wrecked, the linen was soiled and lying in heaps in the closets, and about half of it had disap- peared. ¥ On March 4 Danziger obtained a_search warrant and recovered the linen belonging to him. 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This system has been applied to canal-boat towing, and it is claimed that for that purpose it is in many respects su- perior to electrical propeller systems de- the Board of Supervisors to set aside a lot on the Mission Creek lands near Channel street for Fire Department purposes. signed on the principle of the trolley, many of the disadvantages of which were shown in the recent State experiment on . - | time need be wasted for repairs | motor can be at once procured from the | motor station. i | brought against the trolley | the Erie canal. Theoperating motor, run on a able strung along the canal, carries a t, from which the operator controls the movement of the boat. Perfect command of the boat is always insured, and the sharpest curves can be taken with ease at full speed. If a motor goes out of order no another Some of the canal haulage are: The nece E ing the boat so as to keep the trolley on the wire; the difficuity of two boats going the same way and the rear one passing the front one, and the fact that on becoming disconnected from the trolley the hinS boat loses its power and cannot forge. ahead of the boat in front of it. Inelectric cable haulage the boats simply steer by each other and exchange motors and go on their way. -~ Among late pat- ents are many devices for giving warning electrically at any appointed spot of an abnormal rise in temperature in any apart- ment where such device is placed, and several of these appliances are so effective that their introduction must result in lim- iting the number of accidental fires of such magnitude as to require the services of the fire brigade. The alarm has a compart- ment whi s divided into two unequal parts by means of a flexible division. hese are filled with two gases of different 1 expansion, and if the temperature rises the ‘ uit is closed and an alarm is given. This alarm is said to be extremely respon- sive to the slightest change intemperature, and it can be adjusted accurately to indi- cate any degree of heat. A~ Eiectric Foor-wARMER—A feature which strikes the Amecrican traveler in England as peculiar is the foot-warmer in the railway-cars. On the ordinary car there is no provision for heating. even in the depth of winter, and without the ubiquitous rug and_the foot-warmer the | passenger shivers in helpless wretched- ness. As provision is being made for light. *¥.| ing the cars on some of the English lines by electricity it is proposed to adopt th»‘ same means of heating the indi\'idnal foo warmers with which any one ‘can be sup” plied on request. The electric foot-warmer 1s fashioned out of asbestos cloth, of which there are three layers . Tre ELEctrIC LE.—The electric candle is in great request in England for the lighting and decoration of dining and other tables. An -ingenious device for lighting the candles is provided by placing small pads under the tablecloth and taking the current from them by means of two in points in the base of the candlestick. he candles, of course, are extinguished on being taken from the table and are re- lighted when they are replaced in the proper 'position, They aré so arranged that the bulb and the glass_imitation of a wax candle can be removed, when the candlestick can be used for an ordinary candle. A Georgia Nugget. A nugget of gold. valued at $105 was brought to the 50nstilmiou office a day or two ago by W- B. Candler of Villa Rica. Mr. Candler reports great activity in gold mining about Villa Rica, where much money is being expended in vlantsn The history of gold mining in Villa Rica is ) wild ahd romantic, recalling some of the most interesting incidents of Georgia life. —Atlanta Constitution. e An Eastern Rajah Had a ruby which lighted his paluce at night. More precious than gems are beautiful teeth, which light up the face when displayed by a smile, Use SOZODONT and your teeth will be brilliant as jewels, your breath sweet as the roses of Cashmere, b