The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1899, Page 22

AY, APRIL 30, 1899 oo THE SAN FRANCISCO OCALL, SU i jon when con- costumes ht and d i rious. There were among them attitude, the impudence of his theft at first and his emotion mnyn:'ee b‘;)t:tlm“gntd homel;,ut}ur;g}%vlvu;“mé?ouu were those that were gra- fronted by my wrath, made all theories equally rynssl,’v!e{i qIL v;«:ft sf ‘r’x;\(:;:‘g clous, and how beautiful were those that were beautiful, with that air of Impressed by him that I wanted to run after him, an s s health in their elegance. My companion bowed to this one and bowed to through the crowd to try to owertake him ard make confession. that one. A childish vanity lit up his face when a ducal coronet decorated useless. I céuld not find him again. 2 . e the panel of a carriage from which a familiar nod and smile greeted him. Have you ever experienced this peculiar feeling of having been tho However, he related to me the story that he had told me about, and in ‘fate’ of some one? I mean of having met a man in a decisive moment 00 y 7 Which he_played a role fully impregnated with the old Yankee Puritan his life, and of having, by an action of yours, ummportant in itsclf, steersc Z spirit, and T felt by his tone that this dilettante, somewhat of a snob, was it upon cne course or the other? If not, I should have hard worl nak e 4% 2Pove all else & terupulous and fortured Puritan. In whom was always you understand the disproportionate place which this ordinary Casino inci- P~ ’ l "’d ’ < " / burning the moral and civil flame of the passengers of the Mayflower. dent began to fill in m W “It is now exactly twelve years ago,” he began. *“I was coming back “I had scarcely lef| ) from Italy and had stopped at Monte Carlo to see some friends. You don’t young thief appeared in my imaginatic see any connection between that hardly iceal station and the ‘Psyche’ of “Do you know, too, that retrospective e: Burne-Jones? Hear the rest of the story. I intended to stay a week in have beén under conditions too striking to o for g that abominable place, which has only one attraction, but it has that— of whose mystery we mentally force ourselves to seek the solution withou " P those wonderful gardens en espalier. 1 am often astonished, by the way, ; ; G ‘ a0 & bda ""A N 4 Y | ke ) that no essayist has written a page on the palms of those terraces. “Owing to what adventures had this child—for child he was, with those [") \ They ennoblo the Immortal soil Iying at thelr roots, as the work of a de- boish attributes of one thrust forward too quickly, which the lads 2 e A ) graded artlst—a Byron, an Edgar Poe, a Baudelaire, or a Verlaine—en- country preserve so late—happened to become a mean pickpocket? =\ % ) nobles the vices from which it springs. 1 suggest this comparison as an “Why had he selected me rather than amother as the victim of his ; {den which T have had during that visit while I walked in those paths, theft? Had he recognized an American in me. as I had in him, and bad 2 0'50 with that view, one of the most marvelous in the world, before me. he counted, therefore, in the event of detection, upon a fellow-cc 5 | e might have greatly enjoyed it, but, as always, with secret remorse. man’s compassion? A R i 1 attended the concerts, which are excellént, and you know whether I love “And, again, but this time upon reflection, T fell into this strain of i Oé music, and there was remorse with that pleasure, too. Behind that or- antagonistic sentiments, which beside the green cloth had made me pardon 4 qfl chestra, as behind those masses of trees and flowers, I saw too distinctly and bully in turn, 1 toc k myself to task as to whether I had done .V\< I ; D the detéstable gambling. To quict my scruples a little I used a process, either role, and a = began to i < itself upon me which was un o D which I recommend to you, and which is not my own invention. 1 had it s ble and irr . though irresistible. Was this really (h? v”\-"n'g 3 q from @ Boston woman, a pletlst and music mad. It consists in figuring man's first theft? Wes this moment in his life one of those grave instants > o ¢ 0l 15 © - mind. X t the gambling hall when the agonized face of the tion with strange distinctness. imination of a face which we llow us ever to forget it, and about what Is the little share of each visitor in the maintenance of the in which the whole destiny is determined? I should have known this be- ardens and theater, and systematically losing that amount in the Ca ry it when you go and you will find that vy “One evening I was {n the Casino to pay th 18 to say, to amuse myself by gambling, with the re S croupier had raked in a sum w:fi;-h 1 had determined to advance, and should talk tasIh d taken s ino. fore speaking to him as I had done. our consclence is much easier. “T recalled the pleading look which he had raised to me, and I now sw sort of tithe—that read in it a request which I had not understood at the time. What re- olve to quit when the quest? An appeal that I should not misjudge him by his offense, that I i ve him a h stolen for som disabled father? Suppose he wer ari help him one . else in invalid mother, for it will not astonish you ths 1 fully made up my mind to lose, I “Suppo! won from the start. T 1 109-franc bill from my pocketbook. A instance—for s were enough to change it to fifteen s-louis pieces, with which I had stolen for love? 1z them upon the green cloth by the handful “Twenty theorfes occurred to me, and T accepted and rejected them in cluding myself. It is a weakness that I developed in Europe—the love and unti] luck s t changes always. turn. I found myself too ur onable even to frame them, and this need of the past. See,” he added, pointing out to me the hall where we “I finished by losing all my winnings except 10 louis. I risked those pleading face returning to my mind, and I experienced a kind of were guests for forty-elght hours, and whose red brick Tudor style was two last pieces on the black—it was at trente et quarante—which had just remorse for having answered it only by a rough exclamation. seen through the green follage of the park where we were walking, ‘“‘that passed thirteen times. It anpeared a fourteenth. Tt was somewhat as though, crossing a plain by night, I had heard is what I love now-—scenery like that, behind which is the sensation of “T was preparing to gather in these new winnings. almost with regret, some one shout for help and had gone on without turning. : time. It is really absurd, since It fs not a past of which I make a part. when, leaning over the shoulder of the seated player behind whom I “T reiterate, 1 do not explain the peculiar Impression which this epi- The rule of us Americans is to boycott the Old World. We should be an- stood. I saw opposite me a hand reach out and seize the four gold pieces. sode had left on me. It is based upon the fact that it seemed really, actu- cestors, become the past of a greater America. All those among us who 1 looked at the thief who had just made this bold stroke, a very voung ally as though my two deeds, altogether impetuous—my compassion at do not foliow this plan do as I am doing—spoil their live: * e "« man. and, in spite of myself, although I had made up my mind to lose, first and then my anger—ought to have a determining influerce upon the When an American of the better sort, such as this one Is, criticizes the instinet of ownership was so strong that I cried: un himself with this lucidity, be assured that he forestalls you and tries to ““Those 2) louis are mine. monsieur.” 1 repeated, ‘They are mine! anticipate your own criticism. This is one sign among a million by which And. as I had instinctivelv said this in a very high tone, ‘one of the play ©e3e7 hould change- nown vouth. “Think what you w practical men, and are 1 of it, some of us Americans who are considered uch when necessary, are also confirmed spiritual- iings n the world Is shown the extraordinary amour propre with which this hypersensitive e ppened to see me stake the gold, confirmed what I said. ists and believe that there are. as Hamlet said. more t v race is tormented, and which seems simultaneously and with equal exag- “ “Those 20 jouis belonged to this gentleman,’' he said, appealing to the than our philosophy can understand. 1 am convinced therefare, that 2 eration to belleve in itself and distrust itself. This talk, and others of a croupier. who stopped paying for the deal to ask: have discovered this influence by a phenomenon of second sight. llke sort which this very intelligent *Jack” Ierley had with me later, ‘Who took those 20 louis?’ and addressing me, ‘Could you recognize “But let us leave that, which has nothing to do with the story of the all arose from the extreme perspicacity with which he perceives the him?' Burne-Jones water color, which I have reached at last < hidden defect of his great culture. To describe him in a word, rather “Certainly.’ T replied, and T was going to point out the place which “Nothing need be exaggerated. To quote ‘Hamlet’ again for you, this coarse, but yet exact, Kerley is onl maniac—the most refined and fa “This above all, to thine own self be true.’ one variety of the American Anglo- my thief had occupied half a minute before. He was not longer thers is my motto % < idious kind. But he is an Arglomaniac “Rapidly though these replies had been exchanged, and although I had “T ought, then, to say that, while T have never entirely forgotten tha all the same, and one who has grafted on his natural Yankee nature the not turned toward the coupier for more than a second at most, vet this young thief of MonteCarlo, his fmpression was not very importunate excep tastes, habits, Ideas of an Englishman devoted to art and culture. second had heen enough for the sharper to disappear, lost in the crowd on the days immediately following the incident. Then I stopped thinking Among the other prepossessions of an Englishman of this kind he has which pressed around the table. about it except at intervals, and certainly -1 was not thinking of it a acquired a liking for Italy before the sixteenth century, und his house “T cast rce around the crowd. saying. ‘He was over there and the day before yesterday at Christie's while I watched the auction s In Hans place really is a inuseum of the fifteenth century such as would all of a sudden. astonishment stopped my utterance. I had just recognized poor Furne-Jones' picture overjoy the surviving pre-Raphaelite. In this one discovers the imi- him by my side. "I had gone there hoping that one of those wonders would not exceed tator. He achieves an ideal which was the vogue when he entered English “His coup made, and, sceing himself on the point of being captured, he the amount which my very small fortune all me to devote to a wh life, and which even then was about to go out.. But what will not pass had glided. I don’t know how. to the place where his discovery was least It was, however, more than a whim that made me wish to have a reli away is the beauty of the tordo made by Filippo Lippi. which he discov- likely, touching elbows with him whose winnings he had just stolen. My this great painter. I liked him so much personally, and I happened to h ered in I know not what little town in Tuscany: nor will the delicacy of astonishment at the < the mosaics of the two stalls by Fra Glovanni da Verona. which formerl ation still more hected—that of feeling this same hand which just “While they were competing for the fragments left by the purest artis adorned the choir of Mont Olive Maeur, and which he managed to buy: before so nimbly tdo - 40) francs grasp my arm and squeeze it with a of our times I recalled my visits to his house, on the edge of Kensingt nor will the purity of stvle of thirty otk terra cottas, wood pressure in which there was a tremor. Our eves met. He had understood and the drawing room, which had been Richardson's, where he walke carvings and marbles which make of i om and library the that I recosuized him and had made this gesture to stop me if I had in- up and down amid green varnished furniture, with a backeround of t charming setting in which to pour tea to Duchesses imbued with estheti- e him same shade. With his light step. his graceful ges m. Mr. John W. Kerley is not only a devotee of Italian bibelots. 1 vou that he was a very young man. In this instantaneous cent blue, his transparent complexion, the snowy whiteness of figures also in the mixed band I h as he ght of him right heside me was increased by a nothing from his hand. tres, his eyes o gravitates around the peerage in with that thunder striking rapidity of sensatlons which he inevitably reminded one of some legendary being suc land. During the seasen you find_his name In all the Saturda 1o ch erises, 1 read on his livid face a distracted appeal, paint. some t and shy water sprite ready to wander amid the dee Monday oticed in His autumn is spent in visitng the derstood that Le was a fellow eountryman green sh silent grotto. Alas! Never again should I knock at th m country pla his winter between Cannes and Flor- y what slgn? T will not attempt to explain. and I will not try to de- door of Grange.’ and that was why in a moment regret for the dea ence 1 villa to villa, and you cannot_mention any person of note in scribe to ycu further what irresistible pity for the suffering imprinted of the great master became so strong in me that this fancy the p me me on the instant, so that I felt was my duty. One should always he may be. And, instead of that ession of a relic of him became a positive need and made me bid ter color of the ‘Marriage of Pswvche,’ which all at once rose 2as to 80, to 100, to 200, to 1000 art, politics or letters who has reached London without his finding the upon this face. still so young. overc: means to be one of the first to know him. unable to denounce him, although tk But to associate the whole year long, even on a footing.of intimacy, arrest a cheat, whoever and wherever with very nol 1 . very wealthy and very célebrated people when one’s nume 1 stammered: “It was I who gave this figure to the auctioneer; I who have alw is simply M hn W. Kerlev, and when one does not possess much more ““It's my loss. 1 should have watched my winnings more closely. abhorred works of art thus carried off by force of wealth, hecause t than 0 capital, necessarily entails a little suffering in that back- * * * I do not see now the person who took the 20 louis.’ a collector one should find a canvas, a scuipture, a screen, and ground of legitimate pride which demands that all intimacy suppose “Then you claim nothing more? asked the croupler. lay siege to it. court it, win it by the ardor of love, by the skill o ty. When one has a small character these things make one envious. ‘T claim nothing more.’ 1 replied. diplomat. by the patience of the devotea! 1 spent years in getting When one is timid they make one a misanthrope. The collector of Hans < soon 2= 1 uttered these words the hand which held my arm 100s- Filippo T.ippi. which T had found in a village near Luques. . piace is toc us to know envy, and too much taken up with society ened its grasp, and I can explain still less what followed. ‘T had just “A thousand guineas. and already the pictur risen to 1100. Tt 10 accept s He continues, therefore, to lead this aristocratic life, way, as | told you, fo a movement of entirely spontaneous pity, figure shows me toliy ard. aihhE he b ION DE a0 o T solirsady his fec ntly hurt in tr justified, too, for a poor wr etch whose imprudent agitation showed deg & to increase his little gallery so that v that. and in ticing auto-irony. Ye was not hardened in evil. ¥ T turned T saw a pair of eves transfixing me with a stdre. which et U R U U R e .ogically T should have tricd to complete my indulgence by speaking made me' stop short as though. with a blow. I had recognized the look an American and am not a millionaire. 1 am the only one to him to find out what were the hidien motives for this theft, which without recognizing the ma might, nerhavs, excuse it “All of a sudden my mind was cl ¥ relaMve poverty was the usual object of my shafts when t 1 did not do so. Hardly had I let fail the word which meant thief of Monte Carlo. older by twelve ve his shoulders broadened, his v, and this it was which led to the confidence that | wished immunity for this voung man than I was ashamed for this act of charity face expanded. but too much lke him is characteristic lines and a commentary. And then T stopped to present a sketch of as the most culpable weakness. 1 might also say as an act of complicity, certain hold and strong expression to make it possihle that T could be mis- { 4 ared to indicate fresh temptation art, lest I give way to ¢ an inspiration. Tt was the . T y now as he was that afternoon last July. when he told although I had exercised it to my own detriment. 1 no longer felt any t; He was dressed with an extreme care which apr HE story T t 1 was 1t last July his story o of which 1 could give. It was the uny follow- consideration for him whom T had just saved from an ugly predicament we 3 N f M i Syracuse t ct sule at Christie's of the sketches left by the late Sir Ed- but a sort of furious indignation, and as after dropping my arm he stayed » find him again thus, after so many years, stirred my curiosity so N. ¥ emed n v remark t onee took Eury res. The papers had published the details of the bidding, near me, visibly upset, and ‘wishing to speak to me without daring to do profoundly that T felt as though T must approach him, Then I saw that S g do Soith ANt Tes n e ¥Ba. mpted by that ex S hich ithe \legmatic Englishmen put in all so. T turned toward him brusquely. and in a tone low. but most contempt- he stopped lookitg at me to go toward the platform oceupied by the auc- I 9 erest. Toven hud it heen @ less singular (heir hobbies. T called to fetch Kerley about 4 o'clack, to go with him to uous and insulting, said to him in English: tloneer, and doubt as to the recognition seized me. S ok R & a house in Grosvenor ire, where there was to be a musicale, and “‘Get away, get away, vou d—d rascal! g “Meantime the sale went on. I thought I saw t he whom I had v rest in it on account of the narrator where we were to r gian air plaved by a Polish pianist, in the “He answered nothing. A blush suffused his face, which was livid just taken for my guardian thief was now bidding for the picture. Two thou John K more familiarly, “Jack” Kerlev—is, in fact. & house of a Scotch lady being in honor of a celebrated Austrian before. lips trembled, as though to say something which they did not sand two hundred guineas! thoroug ative typ 1 certain condition of mind, chs statesman, introduced in London society by a Portuguese diplomat! O. utter. eves moistened. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, then, “1t was knocked down. A name was given which I will not tell you t A gnlzable L degree among ma Cosme ! 1 found my man in his library. He was alone, dressed to g0 howing his head in shame, he obeyed my brutal command, and T saw him and T ask that you do not seek to discover it at Christie’ Tt is that of fellow ¢ § onthis Bids e ocear out and waiting for me. He did not notice my entrance into the room. break the ranks of spectators who thronged around the table, and disap- one of the man hest known as having made an immense fortune in Caps f t an 0 thoroughly was he hypnotized before a frame on an easel, and in which pear In the crowd, on his way to what new swirdle, toward what crime, mines. The notion that my unknown of the gambling house and the t X was one of the water colors which I had admired most the day before at or perhaps to what repentance? magnate of the African ‘claims’ were perhaps one and the same seemed Kerle res his country, and he cannot bear to live 1 He (p s, perhaps the most precious of all those relics of the great “His dishonest action en the one hand, and the other his strange o preposterous an idea that T could not find it in me to believe it true. I ¢ es ¥ nd it is Iy place he cares to live in. Again, like fought for by the force of banknot rubhed my_ forehead with my hand to exorcise the demon of likenesses. T f his w ntrymen, he is a man who has no age. His thin and presented one of the favorite subjects of the master, a ‘‘Mar- “T cared to think only of one thing, a Burne-Jones lost to me. and T left & it Y stronk lines; mighias he " In a mountainous landscape, rugged and green. like a the saleroom at last to avoid being seized once more, not now by tha iz > g e s SRt desh rbepishipe! Highlands, the flancee advances, sad. like a victim. and temptation again to dispute with some /mining man’ for one of the paint- y : g 8 iy G her companions, who scatter flowers along the path with a er's masterpieces, but by that of approaching this man to ask him if ha lor cor Unit s ys the biliousness inherited showing both resignation and despair. These tall, frail fig- had not vears ago robbed me of £16 at Monte Carlo, and if it was really he from pa W K w of wine for ral genera- with their long veils. look like a funeral procession. and whom I had brutally and justly taunted wi t his being able to find a tior his complex s if m . has never known the fresh- in the supple build of their almost ton attenuated bodies. in word in reply? You will admit that these are auestions not to ask.” * ¢ ¥ I W 1a ’ De- their dreamy profiles. in the color of thelr eves and thelr “And was it he?” T asked, as he becam ing s t I rley’s ¢ b possess that grace so profoundly. so Intensely English whic “And it was he.”” he answered. ‘How ppen to be at Christis's wi flashw t S A BOTC £t < has succeeded in presenting as the feminine type of his beside me during that sale? T cannot say. nor whether it was by chancs b0l Aptane il e that cour Yes. it was truly a gem of art, and one which could that he followed me into the street having met me. How did he ery o : t & mdex S0 oTter : omparison with the marvels of the Tuscany genius, that the learn my name and address? T am equally ignorant of that t ¥ = etacteTt Yoer 0f & curfolted o S0-C erican pauper had been abie to gather around him. 1 at once “This much is cert Trat evening when I returned from the opera of ex ¢ ensi nd effort, too much tk complimented him on it, putting my hand on his shoulder to let him know I found at my home the Burne-Jones water color f ch T had bid in W I was there, and 1 said, not without irony vain, with a note which T want to show vou. It contai N - eriof 5 Ah. =0 you let yourself be carried away, too, and commit the same fean character,” and. taking from his frock coat poc simile Indicatior folly as any mere New York or Chicago miilionaire, but you were cer- which his address was typewritten, he read Y s victims, and which is only tainiy well inspired. That water color is a masterpiece.” : « ‘Dear Sir—You have doubtless forgotten a little debt contra T A lecd, is Kerley's malady, and *‘Yes, Is| 1t he replie the usual bitter expression of his faca with you twelve years ago at Monte Carlo by young gentleman P . L oY Snneh Gid he seemed fo melt away before ccstacy. only, howey s quickly to give who: for his part=3 t forgotte is hante o this money i 2 Sy way again to an expression of singular frony. “I have not the means to and the lesson which accompanied it this young man has by ways hear him W make such a purchase.” he continued. ‘The few poor bibelots that I have hard work been able to become what he would take too long S P e A b IEr enta e hay merit. that they cost me a great deal of running about tn tell you how. But vou should know & man then 1 have a his quality of my countrymen. if T have not others—tha found himself at Monte Carlo literal : e B 1 have applied it badly. since I have spent thirty vears S paratth ich did n LR gone there with monay wh t belong And, in p up what a mine or petroleum magnate could procure in a min- the money ute. merely by signing a check. No. [ myself could never have hought this 2 prhgmamer ounbich YouUeird L In pardoning e ety ent, T rne-Jones. It was given to me yvesterday under circumstances so H e i et PO RaE et Aot ol it for the Tast twenty-four hours I have done nothing but look e D T red ek 1o Tonflop that veryilevpting s (¢ 5 hen ou came k: andle i o convince S S g Gk § $ ay s Ok TR name. was dofng when you came (. and handle it to consince myselt determined to remake his life by work and to start by earning ths aic 0L A A0 it fh i< ! detes: hlin hat first debt b ASs pai Sine BE honses Kk the frame between his hands, indging it as he looked at it L C ot Babibait, . Since the only and once more his face lit up with enthusiasm. “Good!" he added, put- he has 1 £ G vored him more » citizens who work ting the pi wn and looking at his watch. “If vou care to. we have tallor or time to walk to Grosvenor square across the park. 1 want to tell you how that gem comes to be in my house, where it was so little expected two e \lwavs regretted that he re nor where yvou lived, so “ ‘In his good fortune he has nothing of vou. nor where vou we he might payv thi cond debt to vou. Circ days ago. That thine.” and he pointed to the water col “Aoes great day to fuifill this Yow. Yol 11 allow St honor to the Old World, but the manner in which it came to me does to-day to fulfill this vow. you will alloy ir sir. as a fellow great honor to the New World also, and vou know that. although I do not counvEyman. sto Sheg . your aceepiance . . s picture. which y wanted. I owe you much more, sinee without 3 great generos toward me at a certaln moment of my 1 nv destiny would hava taken another course. T may add that I kept an exact a for twelve years of the amount which would be repaid to have calculated it at a hundred francs since ab, start to the mines of Colorado at the beginning of the Cape, and considered that you had a one hun share in my affairs. T had taken as capital just two times the $8) which you let me have. But like t} wity do vou not return to the United live with my fellow countrymen, T lov m. and 1 assure you they ara worthy to be loved. What there s at the bottom of the Americ d the unfortunate idea of is f initiative that You will meet nowhere else and America, under the pretense of tonishing capacity for turning over a new leaf and beginning again, I was still a child. Two years while—' d. 1 had been in Europe Seven He stopped sh r the holidays, and when yund’ his shaven lip > 1 had acquired a_taste rope. It never occurr w which hinds us all in t to spare my susceptibility. and 1 could see waver vague smile of disdain at the inferiority of Fu- to me to feel offended. We Kuropeans cannot take AR free by going to liv -~ point of vi e unity of our continent. There i3 - e h tile pakegk : U g0 there vou will at will. perhaps. come a time when our descendants will think we were very It e ul schlement Dlone that you s ach New elv in going from the <hort-sighted not to have divined this. but it is the truth—a formidable keeping this water color, and belleve me T dev to live there vou must work. Every ome truth. Meantime I was revenged for the disdain of this son of the New T omit the signature. There is In that the life of @ man. vou know, a is no room for a dilet n amateur, an i 1 by the simple fact that he was in a street in London, and also trie man. When vou ars astonished. you other nations on {his s ren 1 assure vou I should not bring m pleased at being there instead of promenading along Broadway or Fifth water, by our spirit of ent gners in their own country. I would at- avenue. We turned down Sloane street and into Piccadilly to get into know that nearly all of us b rprise, what you call our ‘p e inner ideal which sust n wir e itk through Albert Gaie, and now. under the most beautiful sk had his remorse from the moment of his error hich he used, and T only understood how a warm summer afternoon, in this fragrant frame of green foliage “When T received thia letter my first idea was to find h : o as he sed me to do, those cities where ter. we could watch the procession of all aristocratic and fortunate ¢ake back the picture to him. Then. on second thought. it 3 2. The carrlages rolled by one after the other °h other—highly varnished, beautifully uphols crossing and crowd- rred. with large ar=- ihat T ‘owed’ it to him ta ac simply a trust the cars driven along the electric wires And he continued *ept it, all the more so since T sh APRET SR unfinished, so marial bearings. with their big. powdered coachmen sitting upright on the Iy will has heen made a long time. and T do not regard my collect reathe evervwhere the future and hoxes and with footmen by their sides. ; S iy ORI T v 162E Tt FormE cily: fo Sepatune s osare, my collec ie polished but exhausted, well regulated but The carriages balanced on their -springs, shaped like a swan's neck. lived. But I shall be there after,my death is not this still b ed but impoverished verything belongs to the past, in- women decorated with perrl necklaces and di COCOCOO00C0000000000000000000000000000C00C0000002C0C0CTIC0NN0000000N0ITTVOROCOOTLC0NONO0OCI0CO0ULLO000000000000000000000000000000 A Bandit Who Lives in a Palace Cave. ' [} [} © © Utah Has Offered. a $5000 Reward for His Capture, but He Seems to Take Life © [ (] monds as if for a ball, ir good citizen in a way things in his cups: but at the present time o sawr nen s 8 Weyman Tells How He Writes His Bookss Carthy and his men is not known. though there are persons - who could guide a party within three or four miles 3 2 3 Tore “The Black Poodle” to Pieces to Find Out How It Was Constructed, and o wild and tortuous place for a serpentine . Then Started on the Road to Fame. o trail running a miie or more up and down (] of it. The path runs through a narrow CE00LO0N0000000000000000000000000000000000C0000COOCOO0 the heights. Again, at the end of the OO00C00000C0N0CO000 CO0O0000OC000C000000N00002000000000 o as Quietly as Usual. 0000000 DO00000 canyon and leaves it at a particularly trafl there is a passageway blasted and Epecial 1o The Sunday ¢ compelled to submit to trial before a Mountain robbers, or the “Hole in the cut through solid rock. The termination PEAKING of romantic-historical by sentence, and saw’ that each sentence court Wail Soclety,” as It is often called, has of this shorter pathway brings the rot novels, Stanley J. Weyman really had been polished and elaborated until no ALT LAKE, Utah—In the heart of Combination of Governors. been called the Napoleon of OutlaWrY. per to the entrance of the gathering has much to answer for. It was he further elaboration was possible. His in doubt, but it is known - : ra ore than any oth vho set flow- place, which is nothing less than a great more than any other who set flow ; s wanted in several parts of the biyeor mh ts nothing less than a ereat L T et faw o 1 determined that T also would elab- country for crimes of unusual atrocity. rock. into such a flood. His own first ventures °rte and polish, and these things I did His appearance is anything but prepo: This is the throne room of ‘the Trish- in this fleld had & quick and a very large M & story which T wrote and called ‘Kinz : sessing. He is about five feet six Inches man and from this there run in all direc- success. And they well merited it, for LiPPIl and Sweet Clive.’ I sent it to the story I spentinfinite labor. in height and welghs about 175 pounds. tjong tunnels, their openings artfully con- they were wrought out In the most con. COBBIll James Payne read it and so rew angyiounbeds and His forehead is narrow and forbldding. cealed, so great are the precautions of scientious, skillful way — written from SFeAtly approved of it that he asked me 1 could with difficulty in and covers deep set, gray eves. A fold {ne band, and their other ends terminat- abundant information and with a liter- 5P tO the office and encouraged me to con- myself to let it go fortt of fat curls over the point of his chil. jng at one or the other side of the moun- ary finish that Mr. Weyman had spent U7UE Writing. ‘But; he said, ‘why do you Whether all had been well said Little over a year agn, as will be re- membered, three Governors—Adams of Colorado, Wells of Utah and Richards of Wyoming—entered into arrangements whereby the militia of the three States were to be against the robbers Plans were made and the matter was well under way when the first signs of hostility between this country and Spaln learned as to of taking pains, and ove 3 8 y 3 : were heralded. The brave boys were 11iS mouth s wide and his ““";hm“"‘ Ir- tain. This is known from gtatements laborious years in acquiring: but they DOt Write a novel? You can never make ed forgot. It was = ,The Leglsiature of the Statc of Utah needed agalnst a greater and more than [°EWAr His nose is a pug and his ears made by miners and mechapics who were suggosted to other young writers what 27 INcome out of writing short storics’ the serial use of it e has determined that t famous Tom 1ocal foe and pression - are turn vard. taken by the gang to do the work and secemed a > indeed R SR “T answer: 8 ve no idea of plo: derived in all the sum of £2 McCarthy gang of bandits and cattle |ocu cog 4nd the repression of the oul- “with & small following McCarthy per- : e Soer we nuey o000 bee dioved, Emered, Si-d have no lded of DL a0y laid for a time upon the guber- who were blindfolded while approaching a very easy method. Scrape together from —Construction—suchas is necessars thieves T e broken up. A bill pro- natorial shelf. Perhaps it was well, judg- betrated several mail and express Tob- and leaving the place. old. memoirs and histories a good selec- broduction of a novel.” And then the kind I don’t think the ordinary m s viding' an_appropriation for th ¢ ing by the tales of the gang and fts Derles a number of vears ago on Sta%¢ put the most remarkable feature of all tion of romantic incldents and present man gave me a full hour of his time in the Weyman school have ever of hunting the men down has p. strength which are current cogehes “‘”,‘ 5 «“‘lr ‘f“'_"” anc ' U1e s the fact, boasted of by more than one them in a connected and more or less & paternal discourse on the carpentry deed, ever will, sweat over . nd reading, with all chances fc In fact, it has been decided by the ad- Mountains. It was Bis fitst appearance of e gang, that the cave possesses an dramatic order, in a more or less antl. fiction. He encouraged me to try and I any such heroic f n a nent into a law ministration of Utah that the soldlers D the country in this role. and before o .ajjent electric motor and dynamo, quated phraseol s anti- s i 1 as s bill s P 0! > agency h can o g long his daring exploits gathered ahout 3 ‘ eology, and there you are— Qid try, and again I failed. 1 wrote a master. B whit ar to t t to bs +ore not theagency Which can combat ande) s cholce company of criminals from L2Ken there piecemeal on horseback. It a recognized, well-paid writer of histori- nNovel of modern life, and it was lament- e SRS i with whi war to th ath is to be overcome the McCarthy brigands, or Dim 2 ch men) is even said that the system is used to Jaunched against the members of one of make the attempt with the best chanee the nelghboring States and Territorles. Ijgh¢ the rocky recesses. but the chier CoL nOVElS. : ehlyabad. Tenever smade mors - then S5 Henric & th )st mnotorious bands of murde of success. The movement of a body of After moving about considerably, always poast fs that it is for another purpose. ;. Mr- Wevman's own hands, as I have ($250) a vear during all those years ks fn solitude and will not suff and cutthroats known to the history of troops and a military campalgn would be Pursued by the sheriffs, the company set- Robhers say that wires run from the mdu..uerl. the method was anything but “It was by a mere accident that I was self to be inte ted on America. It is p sed that the deal- too much like an open book for the.eyes tled in a certain point of the Blue Moun- room of the chief to all approaches of the ¢25Y: he from the first strove for some- put on the road which has led me—well, Day after day he writes ste ings with the robhers, who have held por- of the vigilance of this band which has tains, on the line between Colorado and fortress and communicate with charges ChINE like literary perfection and for a to—well, to being respectfully greeted by hours—from 8 o'clock in the tions of three States in abject terror for long ago taken precautions against just Utab. The loss of'some of the most dar- hamite. They have stated that it 5004 While his career was an extraordin- the clerk at that bank over the way. I til 1 o'clock in the 1 whose agents are scat- such a move on the part of outraged D& Of his comrades had seemed to give (.ould be possible for them to annihilate arily tough struggle. Here are some in- was up in London and was sitting in the is engaged on a 1 breadth of the land, justice. McCarthy an idea of establishing a ren- , regiment of soldiers and that the ex- Leresting literary confessions he made two ts aside the sum of $3000 sen, the famous tern a T 3 drama he smoking room of the New University months in perfecting tt three years tered the length Wil be as harsh and merclless as those The people have come to the conclusion Jezvous where he might retreat when pioding of dynamite jn the approach F three years ago to his friend, R. H. Club thinking rather despondently of my months in writing out the pl used by the outlaws themselves. They that the only way to deal with the gang S0rely pressed. % from the west side would close the pass- Sherard: past and even more despondently of my twise preparing it for the st may be invited to surrender to submit to is through men as wary as they. The Fastness of the Bandits. age Instantly, after which they could Then,” sald he—this was after an un- future, when I happened to notice on the When Ibsen sits at his de y nes deserve 1 hment their crimes and posses to be sent against them will not Miners and prospectors have in a num- either lle in the cave with security or es- toward venture at the bar and some ut- little table which stood by the chair on those who refuse and defy the officers hesiege the rocks which hold the gang, ber of instances wandered close upon the cape from one of the many openings and terly disheartening experiments in news. which I was will be hunted down and dealt with but they will depend more upon killing retreat of the bandits, and have always scatter oyer the country. paper work—“then I tried short stories Baird's ‘Hi through persuasion of !"“l‘““‘r : l‘ ‘1'-*”» the members one by one as they venture been warned away and never molested A former Deputy United States Marshal for the magazines and failed at that, un. took it It has generally acknowledged for out for supplies. They will try to invest if their business in the locality was clear- of Utah is authority for the statement til one day there came into my hs % av se Wi e to pY o e 3 ACTS sceres some time that ordinary methods/of pro- the place and starve out the outlaws. ly peaceful. A few have engaged in a that there are fifty yskalemns lying in a Anstey’s tale, ‘The Black Pnndl:.' 2?»23? °§§§':'Tnf;3;xf{ d:::)flw:e:efl:t:::;‘r t"“f' l’h‘(ll‘l\xi l'\l-l n‘\\;‘lkt- ' cedure will not do with the mlen who They may be successful, but it will not fight with the outlaws, who were retreat- gulch not a great way from the mouth which everybody was talking. I sai s ponalas ol ek chuble; Miad -t rumblg COPles, of each drama, The s lawlessly reign In the heart of the Blue be done. according to the judgment of Ing to their granite foriress, and have of McCarthy's canyon. The Marshal says myself, ‘Let me see Why everybody is with thunder and drip with bloed. ang Contains the general ide o ! write out the play he has sitting a copy of Professor ly easy task b ory of the Huguenots’ I drama is, so {o sp took it up rather mournfully and turned in his head, and he has n g beer Mountains, or Roan Ridge. They are not people who know, in a few days or weeks. lived to tell about it. From these sources that he saw the place himself, and that talking about this story.” And I took § ; = second deals with it S8 1 inclined to submit to the law in any ex- It ia generally believed that there will ba o faint iden has been gained of the char- the skeletons represent persons put out home and read and reread it, til | enmt he T ued b andtng i Anewe i B < tremity, for they are all amenable for bloodshed on both sides before the object acter of the place. Now and then one of of the way by robhers, who reared they to the conclusion that its captivation lny and the Stic of arms in & oecias 1288 oo W henevar he ic one the greatest of crimes and will probably of the Legislature is accomplished. the band, while VIeIting a town not many would Teveal secrets they had stumbled in the extreme carefulness of its work. was elogant and refimed. and taroy s lIeh (it Work of this ind dle fighting rather than be taken &nd ~'Tom McCarthy, the leader of the Blte miles away, has revealed a number of across. manship. I pulled it to pleces, sentence the Huguenots and St. Bartholumews (OrdiNE (o certain fixed ru & s o ew's he never deviates.