The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1900, Page 7

PRBEE DDD RIED Mopyright, 1900, dy The Proms Publishing Company Now York World) CHAPTSR I The Dead Man, HE bells were calling early morn ing worshippara to church, Tn an attte lodging, in Bydney, Australia, a man lay dead He had just died Tho handle of hiw door turned, A Deautiful child stood on the threshold, ('s not my Grandpa Gunnery,” sald aloud, as she gaxed calmly at Church-Conaett, It hed been an even- ing of much morriment and congratula- tom, The bride's home was filled with Wedding guests, moetly girl friends of the Freemans, and | had mounted my | jhorse and id "Good olehtt" amid jmuch good-natured pleasantry and | laughter “Riding past the White Hart hoaterry, ;Church-Conett, t eaw a tall, gentle. |manty man enter that Inn, 1 nottced |hin particularly, for strangers wore ao. | iufrequent in the vilage that they at EPP Rabe bebe eee errs Ww a plaintive undertone (nh the enualc ine of earth, and pain, and atnd that ? rank ambl ‘the rich awelll init dying Wway iM ike a haunting ¢ i nly joy Appluae Wo! bern a sacrten And the singer was for the moment f warded only with a niga slaty that sutured aanont all eyes. Violet tr bled with emotion, and t felt that f loved her better lights were turne wilight var ik the alle pagal pet, a Lorn f applau: the corpee. ie itracted attention, "A CHO) PAOD DE DER ted e Dae eR aE ERO Rada aD Y preva upon the ‘Then sho went out, clos 0 door | DUY@r from Derby,’ I raid to myself, an to repeat t The former Behina bi PRES aeere: RD aeRt T rode quietly along, ‘oft amid howers of rice and old slips became very. friendly with May and Duld see matter gravely nd her, Hew ib hon Siheae pers, or better or worae, we were Pansy Haneett, and we were almost oe head dximpiy mad, Tt Yot Mark Gunnery was doad late when T reached tho Hall, | man’ and wits, and the following day we «| r Qnee properly intros |oanpot be done On Monday at mid-day, the postman, | 44 pt for the eleepy boy wailing left London for Paris. ¢ { ahman outside of F "Who wan that singer? It waa an Punting in to deliver n letter, noariy | take my horse, 1 found that the mn) a nd i Ha and easy contiallty | tallan aang: but. could Nave @morn Alaa! child and letter had both of |“! Was in no mood for sleep, ao sat our two months on the Inent, hw H ebt his own] and dale rbyehire? down by the open window, thinking @ CRAPM and novelly entirely pew to i ‘tw with them reached Mark Gunnery too late, " rw, CMOKINE her, Although county born and bred, hands | asked her ho questions, ‘The next day, after some inquiry, they /OVeF the evenin of the day and of that shoe had no iking for the country or for a 6¢-| postions, T wan under {ntorred the body, No one secned to | Whch wan to be the arent event of the quiet pleasurer, Our letters of Inte | iii fella atone | 7 ow lee abe M morrow, |t was natural, perhaps, at totes | tit! nds, koAw Wan to make ‘ie mon y nla wuld recogntae know anything about him, A fow tinea | morrow fide (ounces dase an lobototelofetetobotefeoielet (oatil to ater well am himaclt Tae it'in others, [Wan als $n the newspapers rooorded a sudden | Me a Aa Oe ONO R Tema hinie, WAS IT A SPIRIT? The last few week no doubt, In love, and fullorhed love te death and lonely burial, And that | =alone there with my hoart=t was made a change In me. | began to th Another night of such enchant might have been the ond. But somo. |COMPelled to acknowledge that the alt. myself netually in love W wife, | ment, and | might never have seen » a » the y on \4 te a dante again u c orrow, alan! brow Ghing happenod. It wae this, A follows pee n Was Hol #o patlafactory as could ; Atielpat hy - Hit Last “ bh uae war bt hen Saranl: oe the ehasats ugh the old |MAVe been desired, My esteem tor and yon hy wire | broken forever, and the goid # y bovkoase at a sale after Mark Gune|4mration of Violet Frecnan might do- | » ardor She| "Violet was Away pext mor Hery'n decease, Before making use of | YlOp Into love on closer acquaintance, «in Home, to some fashtonable acquaintance it, however, he had it thoroughly ren+ vated, and in doing this a secret draws er Was Wikoovered. 1t contained @ closely written manu Borlpt Ii read ay follows “About four years ago a thing hap: pened (0 mo which sealed my destiny @nd damned my life. “TL was in Bagiand then, I had been married over five years to a woman of considerable beauty. We had one child, ® daughter, three years of age, who was the pet of the household and the charm and comfort of my tite, My wife, Violet, had been & Misy lreeman, of Long Chase, and was the daughter Of @ near neighbor and an old friend of my father, We lived pleasantly and fairly Kindly together, in the old hall, mith my father, I never crowed her temper, and was affectionate to her after ma wort, but we neither of us pretenied to have much love for each other, @he was, In her way, an Ambitious woman, and had married ine for money and position, and a name that was known and respected through: out the southwest of Derbyshire. doubt | was regarded as a good catch, or Violet Freeman would not have mar- ried me, I was not particularly hand- home, but education, travel, and society had done something for me, and cer- tainly made me fo differ somewhat from the bulk of men of the well-to.do farming cinae around ua, no Teootlection. ‘of my mother. uy father, Ambrose Gunnery, could (rice bis ancestry for centuries, He wed to laugh sometimes, when fn a more than ordinary postal ood, and say: ‘You must marry, Mark; you are my only son, and there has siwaye been & Gunnery at Church-Conasett Mall, “8o it was aottiod between us, 1 had, | of course, had sundry love affairs in MY Youth and college days, but nothing serious, and had then met with no ‘woman to whom my hoart had gone out fn & supreme affection. To me, one Pleasant and attractive girl was much 4a another, The young Indy of my fa- ther’s choice was praised for her beauty and amiable disposition, If ahe ap Proved (his plan, and willed ¢o marry me, it would please the Squire—as Church-Consett cniled my father—and no doubt I should be happy enough with her, fo, at the time I thought| Mttlo more about tt, but applied myaelt| 0 the busin affairs of the large farm and mmail estate belonging to Chureh- Consett Hall, Violet Freeman had evidently become Very much in love with me, So the Wwoolng time sped amesthiy, and ihe date of our marriage was in duo courve arranged, “The nlaht before the ceremony 1 had weturned fate from Long Chase to ATTACK CN THE BISHOP, Rev. Henry M. Lengel, of Reading, Calls Potter to Account. and it mikht not, It never occurred to |ine that the mariage might, on her part, [be one of convenience, If such | thought had intruded, i would Wh | been soouted As disioya! to her who |to be my wife, Then my thougnts| turned to the Individual who had passed me to enter the White Hart, 1 had not ween hie face, but hie galt and general bearing seomed familiar, Onur rorving man, 1 thought, would know who he was, 1 would make inquiries tn the morning, ‘It was wummor time, and the weet breath of the night flowers stole into | the chamber (rough the open window 8 Tat last tay down to rent, #till think tng of the morrow—and of that atrang 1 could not have slept long when a noise awakened me, The door was opening, | Halt awake, 1 asked who was there, but received no reply, Thinking T had been mistaken, I let my head fall back | upon the pillow again; but a minute! afterward heard some one tread lightly | Acro ¢he room, It was a alippered foot; at eaoh wiep the heel seemed to} Greg acrova the floor, “I watted now in silence, my right hard clenched to defeid myself, if nec» essary, wher-whoever or whatever It was, came toward (he bed, and, with an audible sigh, sat down beside tt, 1 felt far trom comfortable, and suddenly, out my hagid to, mrasp the tte, ir. othing wan there! 'T aprang from the bed, and obtained & light, The room was empty! “My nerves recelved a shock; but, after exami yd artment, I blew he Lit envial i a of nit ham i oe is conaterna- orror be ined, for Nt ately afterward 1 die- Uinetly hp vd one rine he chats and—with the #aane sll ofoee the Hi, ant leave had lain own | mot leap | "nd Po footetepa ix ent. On reaching thet Se fagly to be a corrkior leading to a iy "ot the Noise contains Ing & number of tinge upd rooma, {he end of which there w tal }!o the servanta’ apa Her. |howerer, 1 low alt oh Obtaining & Nght, T quietly exninined the room with an uncomfortable and eerle feeling; but | (he search was vain, att ‘es not the writer's wish, in this dion a ol ihc ly dresaed. duvetion gave is the entree into just the way crowd which pleased her For my own part, I shoudl have been a chur! not to mave enjoyed tho rev familiar scenes company , | beautiful and attractive companion “We were at Rome for just over a fortnight, siaying at the Grand Conti Hental, and had got in with a plearant circle ‘of fashionable people. | Viole\'s beauty and grace proved Irresistible, [na to attempt to analyse oocult| and we found ourselves welcomed Inia f rexplain away ors eulties, ‘The | quite as much of the bert Homan so. has undertaken imply to re-| ciety as we wiehedt For h d facts, or what appoar | be, iy to him to her investigation, next morn: ine” of the mysterious event Rigel uy (the last chapter and a casual "Only one |neldent, tloularly to do with ‘hie narrative, We had pleked up with a rich Australian who came on with ua from Florence to Rome, named Bir Gorion Hassett ever, hax par among the servants furnished i ae “With his wife and two daughters, fiely to throw ilght upon ft, NY in “ihe dhey, Australian-like, were doing the | puede, of preparation-for Violet Continent regardiess of expense, | myself were leaving for the Conia should say that Gordon wae the son of im ately ites ange core one of Fy. oe deat tenant-farm> breakfi dent was tl ust into ore, Tw residence in the th hacky ed'ee memory, Colonicn haa Moment him # fortune an "There no heed to hwell in ge I tide, and, although # self-made man. upon the events of the day, or of {tour which followed our Unton, wore duly married, and the carriage which conveyed us to the station drove DR.PARKER USES TEXTS IN NEWS London Clergyman Be- gins Editing Venture in Mogerate Way. 1° by? 3! educated and well ty and Mm entiy well known In Anglo» Colonial politics for himself and family to be received well everywhere, Violet ANT-TAMMANY Manhattan Club Banquet to Be a Big Event. RRADING, Pa, Deo, 17,—Rev, Henry M, Lengel, pastor of the Church of the Pollowers of God, in his Sunday ser- mon bitterly atiacked Bishop Potter, of Now York, for hte aitd on “The Need Of an Kducated Clergy.” He ealdt shop Potter talke as if he had Rever felt the love of Jesus Chrivt. 1 do not hewtate to say that 1 doubt confess more 1a : auy other huni for the Wor. ‘Who the a ike Pokies, wie’ att sete the ‘everviey” who ie, NH touen vine" every we lives of the poor thomeeives and know fellow feels about i his oo on bua tot Did yet tht Sa feo eh rua ee a, hone 0 iy collewe? LONDON, Deo, 1f~The first wave Of] The celebration of the thirty-Afth an- the London Sun under the editorship of | niversary of the Manhattan Club Is set Rey. Dr, Joseph Parker, pastor of the) for next Saturday evening, Democra Clty Temple, appears thie afternoon, of national prominence have been bidden The column where the day's betting leito the feast, but {t 18 intimated that usually published contains, uader the! wijiiam Jennings Bryan, whose friend+ caption, “Latest News,” "The wages of fahip for the leader of ein ta de and other well-known! 4 noted campaign feature. hax been texts, followed by a vigorous protest! overlooked by the Committee of Invita- aguins, gambiing, The article declares] tion, "If @ paper cannot live six daye withour! wiiem C, Whitney has taken mreat pandering inal the Seal Interest in the celebration and has con and the sens) (let tt wither awa: in another editorial Dr” Parker fy Aa suited with the various committees, 1 tho ‘disistrates to “apply the cat and|' & Question of moment whether ihe Wipe out Hoollgantam,”” Otherwine the paper ls much the etne mefit Of the Bilk Stooking Democrecy, te Gal ine ad Ty ng gulumns Delve} will take part aa an organisation in the i announelng eeohed| next tmuflcipal campaign. ‘Thia point jody, will be defind In ail probability at nex: Ghastly Bast End Trage Seem Baturday’s dinner, It is diatinoetly art) ‘Tammany, and it @ hinted that ex-Bena- LITTLE SPLINTER KILLS BOY) (or"bevis 11 ttre presonon at the am r A) be Stight Wena In ¥ Fridge cy I ured to em: ‘The Manhattan Club was the social While walking about bis home in hie| Meadquarters of all Demoerats until FEAST [9 SET; ‘ammany waa) Woman, Mantsitan Club, which la the dae [ | have sani refinement exouraion to one of the Roman ai burbs “tefetebatetodebelolmtelotebatabetmtetetet Jeveloped yo and hough im aire that teate | ordering round my horke sacar a Peo ecco cr rey the Wontered however « Aid slower me with ihe wealth beauty and Meare cans i bat In her chalt Whether 1 would q Tune “time Lave nearly got the ‘ Mf hunger, and t was on th tof and oaptering p inect her, Nunery wk 1 was r, the frat gong fo 0 | Went the and told of the # lunch f 0 serv lay aw py penutitul flowers. the pinoe ¢ At the far a! af one of the long where hale hhdde by a Hiiver eparmne and on huge bow and. Pansy strolling In, apmsinearm witle-twing, 1 Riner? Two ted theenael ver baoks turned toward me Joining table 1 should have with their at ® wmall ad riven and apoken t LL REI: RRR TH RTA TENN FRNA m7 THK WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17; 1900, A WEIRD NARRATION. OF EVENTS, INVOLVING LOVE, SORCERY ANDTHE GREAT MYSTERY OF LIFE AND DEATH. PP EDEOTEP ET PERE ORID HE OORT EDEE O44 OP OdOR EES. Lt ominwed he 1 walked \ ns felt Wait tntwera : by ked , Ml Kanon ir and placed. | and Make } Teverently ani i a Your Own jour nlAHL the telle af ay H : au myselt th the eh { Terms. § 3,98 t Margueter imask and _BXCEPTION AL VA ALVES” iv HULIDAY GOODS, ‘AND 8 HH AVE, [EWAN Sia 1ANOS m but twas hapo - f jlook only to the case in buylig a plano, | fooner were they! and while we give alter 10 OLE CARE than May said to Panny and while we give at } Ap “Pam ao sorry that you were not with Work, His the interior of our pianos | Ue lant night: it war cone of the moat Which by of the greatest liiportance to us, then recount: and it is the action at interior workmans | ed (0 her alater the effect torloun wong, knew at once who it wan’ phe i there's no one else in Rome who could sing Hike that ‘It wan not Horace de Vere? tnquired of tha 1d leva hid | possessed ear that about him and Vi » CuRorly, | it nolve, Wut it fatied to butraet thet attention, | way move, and yet the very hain it Viotet un nes me qufet, What could the girl have OF hy y about my wife? ‘There was Boarcely time to either me or mean for Panay continued at once “Thad it from Lady Arthur Hur, who was a echoolfellow of M (hun Violet Freeman. nery when phe wi fhe gave me auch a deseription of him He's the very man anan ike Mee, Gunnery could pe have helped failing In love with, T belleve they were ene gir up to within a few weeks of her Aren't some girle lucky Sark "t nnery a splendid fellow ik: ehed t et niet, and to me that he perfectly jo Hut then she's eweetly “Pretty dy nd yi nt using fn her face bot a taet an r Shear! ve Me RIRY: ead Mare 6s") (4) The Present Comfort | aisn vice ty ra (2)--The Future Welfare, hing frat tov “hin before OF the Child! — YOUR Child!) i thet” ane taved um ty = I Sageationsis cat anys Wold: ONES may ping once at Long chikee. and if he willed her to come to him, a seoret and Irresistible Immulve sent place he wae In " unt fancy having and oF Yo of feeling hat, beauttfal as rhe was, iT had never credited her with bet bewan to say to mynelt; Thin Sy you have married has never shown here elf til now, Her love for you haw Drought out thehidden fire of the towels | the master passion has awakened the foul,’ I watched her one night, ae a master ot melody enthrailed a large private assembly und ing capliver, mon} tt earried tas with tim, will th tale eagern J them beyond the at White ights, tinknow! SONSTERN | My ¢ TN kradually lowered, and the melo HORROR MAY BE IMA fan moon beams flooded the quaint muse | f had carr ATION AND OTN BD." gallery in which we gat, and then ® |Volee comenenced to ving, Joining Most} L had been writing fweotly in the melody, We saw ho one, | and reluctant Jbut the musiolan played as if (hal volee | was lover n Nad brought freah Inspiration to him. |¢o be with Viol Hurely there never wan such music! TE! est pleaaure in exintente, 1 wout wie only a simple Italian meloty, but! a horse round after lunch, | thought, it might have been an angel bY MONK] and join them, or meet them If returns the Divine Unseen, only, alos! there] ing HELEN ELLER VIRIA FAR AVE TO THK, OT $2000 Famous Deaf, Dumb and Blind Woman Learns to Speak. Mrs, William K, Vander- bilt Now Has All Her Mother's Legacy: BOSTON, Maas, Dec. 17-A npeech by| Mra, W. K, Vanderbilt, jr. formerly the blind, deaf and heretofore dumb] Mit Virginia Fajr, has more than Helen Keller to the freshman class of | $209,000 in the wettiement of the eatate Rafelitfe Collexe, of which ehe tw a]lett her by her mother, Mra, ‘Theresa Hee he latest astonieh+| Hair, according to the AEth accour Viner Presidents a the lies iach ch has been Med to. a Han Franc ing feat of that marvellous youns)oourt by John W. Mackay and tichard Tt was delivered at a class june Dey, tne trustees of (he enti cheon in Pay Hall “paiva ieee ahow iat Me i! ¥ wided shat the 16 ot her Tt was brief, as whe hae only yet mam duughier, Virenia, now Mem. Vander tered fow words and phrases under the] Dit, phould be paid when she became years old Vanderpiit tilt fhe bared of 818 id her beaueat of 81,4 ne, b an neoumulation, $58, 2 twenty-five tultion of Mina Sullivan . It was spoken in a tow, unmodulated |; volce, but was strong and could readily be unde amillar with My: yA remrary, and $20,000 a9 her, It r applause, which, Mrs Theresa A. “Oelrioha, her slater ot 1 10 hear. [aleo received #29000. aw har fart of rest veraat nut much Among he adv ances mynd y the (rus. wily h Mew tots were thevet Hermann Olerlens every day 1s snowing tho] ban" to Mee. Golrichs, Hak ah, to, Mew same capa how to-uiter | Vanderbidt, 290M, Hounds ay ie other Aolde which she has applied her wonderful PONeTE, he repeats Words and phrases again and again until she ean modulate the tones and give the pruper expred: alone. Mins Sittivan CASTORIA 3 to do her tarding bare foot Inet Friday, Jowoph Tiee, | Mebard Croker broke away from is and Jin Clitcago, has accepted a call to the 1 aie Por Infants and Children, Chteawo Ranot coming tere, | The Kind You Hare Aap Bo Bought The Rey, 1. 4. Moses, of Temple Terael, Boars the mation verge an Erie ila Ai hut continued the viv mw where hi lordahtp Amt to Walt his ploasure, could not mubmit to that even from a] but Imagine one man having such & power as that over anot wife, And that's what Lady ¥ Horace de V. nery, They ne name, but t helleve In it M, leaning over toward hor alater, ‘it's my bellet chat Mark! Gunnery ought to know about th if 1 were he I'd take my wife into another | heentaphere, ext of renol of such a ma The Some dintange jimi 4 neh ini ence, rand T think I’) mee him | and really, were | a man, if he got be) witohing my wife-that |e, if 1 really loved her-l’d wet a gun and shoot him wicked 1 helleve people fr and happler before such bie hid anything about | y Meat behind the épergne petrified My heart #eemed suddenly turned | wtone. nT looked up, a few minutes! afterward, the fr ‘were Kone. | (To Be Continued) “OWED ATER Leonard Fainted As He) Had Saved Miss Huff. George Ieonan's attempt to rave from drowning in Milltown Pond, near Now Brunewick, N, J, Ms Balth Huff, mace him the hero of the place to-day Mise Hufl was skating when she bi through the lor, Leonard dived her, but me } f surreunal A rope soarta wo ™ de by the ather "oh and just wore pulling Leonar and the woman out of the wa Leon fed tainted. Mine Hum fell back ints MA the hy water ant wat drowned. It was two hour before Leonard was restore! to PON AclOUAnOR:, Special Notices, ROMAGOK W WiKATHEN TRIPS ore wazraaiei Wi, H, ha E as DAVID HARUM ROF NS. mr had sie ra : 4u0U 1 ERT i : Arnusements q, “UL TOSCA PARK OPENS SAY wef er & BiAL's, oo NGObMAN BLIND, C Beni ie vgs, 50c| vee OA an COLUMBIA, ..'"y.ih fone aes. “FLORODORA | sie coeca™ Bane a DALY'S" t Bcd a is MONTAUK sap a 4 GIRL SKATER... ship that bay gained tion for the tury Used planos of star are seling al bary 8175, $2 | amounts Write lor catalogue We PAESE PIANO CO,, 109 West A2d St COWARD “Good Sense” |" Shoe For Children, [As The Shoe with just two distinct Ideas behind its JAMES 8. COWARD, her to the very 268-272 Greenwich St.,nearWarron ot. NX SUIT ABIL i VOCAL +H, DETSON& CO,, od [c NOT Browdwiy 9 Nye 1 remeneenenpe anteanen sen sown» eensmmaren —————————— seen am i PALACE, Soe! MAUD tht’ Criterion Theatre Afr HARE. THE GAY LORD QUEX PETER F, 1% DAILEY, Hodge, Boioe & & Co. 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