The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1903, Page 15

} e 4 fy 2 iS Ss i i ee ee AI PORTE IR PR TINT xr foowewes BYE AVION HOPE (YNOPSI® OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.) Jock Mastin, loca director of kn Engl bank ta the South Amertean publle of Aureataland, ie bribed by the President of that republic t9 00.000 ot te tania Pinde C pr the Such @ step would not Tain the Blgnorina and the Colonel, whowe fortunes nee invented in the Seok, ot would expose Martin's unwarranted $300,000 loan and send him i. The trio pian a revolution, in the hope of overthrowing the President and gt iaing’ poseresion of hia forvuve They succeci in capturing the cap but the President escapes Ie Br, Fefugre in a frien acht and fesuee a proclamation offering $5,000 the capture eo: Martin or the Colonel, CHAPTER TIL Love and Finance, ¥ frst step was to restore the ‘borrowed’ $300,000 to the bank. For, as I was present when the private sate in the President's room was opened, and as I saw the huge pack- @ges of money there and as there were witnesses present, the colonel had been reluctantly forced to give me the full sum he had promised me. ‘That afterncon I received, at the hands of a street boy, the following rote: “On Board Yacht Songstress. “Dear Mr. Martin—I must confess to having underrated ! your courage and abilities. If you care to put them at my “@isposal now I will accept them. In the other event, I >q@must refer you to my public announcement. In any case it fmay be useful for you to know that MvGregor designs to - marry Hignorina Nugent. I fear that on my return {t will ‘Be hardly consistent with my public dutles to spare your Ufe- (unless you accept my present offer), but I shall always look back to your acquaintance with pleasure. I have, if you will allow me to say so, seldom met a young man with such natural gifts for finance end politics, I shall anchor five miles out from Whittingham to-night (for I know you Mave no ships), and if you join me, well and good. If not, I ehall consider your decision frrevocable. Believe me, dear Mr, Martin, faithfully yours, “MARCUS W. WHITTINGHAM, “President of the Republic of Aureataland.” not seo my way to fall in with his views. He sald about the money, but I knew well that its return be @ coniition of any alliance between us. Again, I gure that he also “designed to marry the signorina,” Teast have a rival on the spot, I preferred McGregor thet capacity. I did not, however, tell MoGregor about letter, merely sending him a line to say I had heard the Songstress was hovering a few miles off, and he ‘petter look out. done, I resumed my Interrupted progress to the a's, When I was shown in she greeted me kindly. We had a letter from the President,” I said. ,"" said she, “he told me he had written to you.” , have you heard from him?’ atte a g FE Fea} just a little nots. He is rather cross with me.” oT ‘ean quite understand that. Would you like to see my Matter?” “Oh, yes," whe replied, carelessly. ‘"Ghe read it through, and asked: “Well, are you going over to him—going to forsake me?” “How cin you ask me? Won't you shdw me your letter, sChrtetine 7" John," she answered, mimicking my tmpassioned “T may, steal the President's savings, but I respeot donfidence." “You see what he says to me about McGregor?” “Yes,” paid the signorina. “It is not, you know, news to me, But, curious to relate, the colonel has just been here himself anf told me the same thing. The colonel has not a tiles way of making Jove, Jack—no so nice as yours nearly.” * Thus encouraged, I went and sat down by her. I believe & took her hand. “You don't love himt”’ “Not at all," she replied. @he added a moment later: “The colonel declares he will marry me this day week.” I caught her in my arms and kissed her, whispering You will Ye true to me, sweet?” ‘ “Let:me go,"" she said. Then, leaning over me as I flung myself back in a chair: “It's pleasant while it lasts; try not to be Broken-hearted if it doesn’t last.” “It you love me, why don’t you come with me out of this sink of iniquity?” “We must wait, Jack. ‘But this I will promise: I'll never marry the colonel. If it comes to that or running away, wot ran away. “And Whittingham?" The signorina for once looked grave. “You know him,” ehe sald. ‘Think what he made you Go! and you're not a weak man, or I shouldn't be fond of you. Jack, you must keep him away from me.’ ‘At last I accepted my dismissal, and walked off, my hap- piness damped considerably by the awkward predicament in ‘which we stood, Clearly McGregor meant business; and at this moment McGregor was all powerful. If he kept the feins 1 should lose my love. If the Prestdent came back a worse fate still threatened. Supposing it were possible to earry off the signdrina, which I doubted very much, where wero we to go to? And would sho come? On the whole, I did not think she would come. In spite of my many anxieties after this eventful day I enjoyed the first decent night's rest I had had for a week. ‘The colonel refused, with an unnecessary ostentation of scorn, my patriotic offer to keap watch and ward over the city, and I turned in, tired out, at 11 o'clock, after @ light dinner and meditative pipe. I felt I had some reasons for self-congratulation: for con siderable as my present diMculties were, yet I undoubtedly stood in a more hopeful position than I had before the revo- dution. I was now resolved to get my money safe out of the SONO OF THE STATES. tly Being an Example of a Rolling Stone Growing Mossy. Missouti'e crop is boots cote and, those: eucky'» erop ‘oni ReMteth yp 1s ee Tioals. Post-Dispatch. ANSAS raises wheat and cain, Whiskered Pops who ne'er refrain, But sing e’en now in hard ttmes strain. —tutchinson News. New York raises Roots and—well! It's the State that owns Odell. a —Elmira it+ Pennsy’s greiitest crop ts coal, Brightest. citizen's a mole. ster, Pittsburg Leader. Jersey's lightning and her trusts Spread her fame when something busts. Trenton Argus. 2 Maryland's the home of Schley Tee ee oe Balti PR eeyree (THIS STORY BEGAN MONDAY AND WILT, END AD SATURDAY.) (By Permission of George Munro's Sons.) ‘ ul URE: | i country, and I had hopes of being too much for McGregor of worldls touched on fulfilment of the vows to cherish in sickness and in health, for better or wore, which Mrs, Virgil took and presumably underntood at the time of her marringe. A PLEA FOR THE DEFENSE, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Horace Greeley's Granddaughter Upholds the Old-Fashioned Views of a Wife's Duty. 2S. LAURA FE, VIRGIL, who applied to the Jersey courte for a divorce M from Willis 2, Virwil, who robbed the bank of which he was cashler and fed to Canada several years ago, haw been denied 4 ree ty the New Jersey Court of Chancery on th ound that her husband did not abandon her, since he offered her a home in his new abiding place This decision has ted a great deal of discussion among the champions of women's rights, 1. As mot with saurp criticism even from persons who ako a more conservotive stand. Mra Warrlet Hubbard Ayer, in one of her admirable articles in The Evoning Magazine, made the contention that no woman shonld be refused he dissolution tle that binds her to a orlminal 1f she desires and prays the Court for freedom. This ds the point of view of common sense and expertence and certainly that wisdom, Hut there seems another side to the question not yet Mrs, Virgil's application ts hardly in keeping with the adequate Mre, Ayer says that while no criticism can be made of the woman whose jove causes her to prefer {gnominy with her husband to a life of ease and dig- alty without him, the wife herself should bo left to decide the tremendous {n the other matter which shared my thoughts. question, This ts, of course, true, yet it seems to me that the wife did decide ‘The return of day, However, brought new troubles. I was iit whon she pronounced the vows which made her Mra. Viretl, roused at an carly hour by a visit from the colonel himself | vere Aver refors to embezzlers as of diseased or degraded honor. And the He brought veny disquieting tidings In the course of the night every one of our prockumations had been torn down or defaced with ribald scribblings; posted over or alongside them there now hung multitudinous enlarged copies of the President's offensive notice. How or by whom these seditious measures had been cted we weré at a loss to tell, for the officers and troops were loud in declaring thelr vigilance. In the very centre of the Piazza, on the base of the President's statue, was posted an enormous bill: “DEATH TO TRAITORS!" “How could they do that unless the soldiers wero in it?" asked tho colonel, gloomily. “I have sent those two com- panies back to barracks and had another lot out, But how do I know they'll be any better? I met De Chair, the senior major, just now, and asked him what the temper of the troops was, This little brute grinned, and said: ‘Ah, mon President, it would be better if the good soldiers had @ leetie more mone! “That's about it," sald I; “but then you haven't got much more money.” “What I've got I mean to stick to,” safd the colonel. “If this thing fs going to burst up I'm not going to be kicked out to starve, I'll tell you what it fg, Martin, you must let me have some of that cash back agafn.” ‘The effrontery of this request. amazed me, I-was just drawing on the second leg of my trousers (for {t was impossible to be comfortable in bed with that great creature fuming about), and I stopped with one leg in mid- air and gazed at him. “Well, what's the matter? Why are you to dance out with all the plunder?’ he asked. ‘The man's want of ordinary morality was too revolting, Didn't he know very wall that the money wasn’t mine? Didn't he himself obtain my help on the express terms that I should have this money to repay the bank with? I finished putting on my garments and then I reptods “Not a farthing, colonel; not a farthing! By our agree- ment that cash was to bé mine; but for that I woulda’t have touched your revolution with a pair of tongs.” He looked very savage, and muttered something under his breath, “You're carrying things with a high hand,” he «ald, “I'm not going to steal to please you,” sald T. ‘You weren't always so scrupulous,” he sneered, I took no notice of this insult, but repeated my determina- tion. “Look here, Martin,” he safd, “I'll give you twenty-four hours to think it overs.and let me advise you to change your mind by then. I don’t want to quarrel, but I'm going to have eome of that money." Clearly he had learned statecraft in his predecessor's school! ‘Twenty-four hours {s something,” thought I, and @etermined to try the cunning of the serpent. “All right, colonel,” I sald, "I'll think st over. I don't pretend to like it, but, after all, I'm in with you, and we must pull together. We'll see how things look to-morrow morning. “There's another matter I wanted to speak to you about,” he went on. Iwas now dressed, so I invited him into the brenlfast- room, gave him a cup of coffee (which, to my credit, I didn't polson), and Began on my own eggs and toast. “I suppose you know I'm going to be married?” he re- marked, “No, I hadn't heard,” I replied, feigning to be entirely occupied with a very nimble egg. ‘Rather a busy time for marrying, isn't {t? Who ts she?" “You know as well as I do {t's the eignorina.” “Really?” I replied. ‘Well, well, I fancied you were a Uttle touched in that quarter, And she has consented to make you happy?” I was curious to see what he would say, I knew he was a bad Mar, and, as a fact, I believe he told the truth on this occasion, for he answered: “Says she never cared a straw for any one else.” Oh, signorina! “Not even Whittingham?" I asked, maliciously, “Hates the old rufflant!" sald the colonel. i once thought she had a liking for you, Martin, vut she laughed at the idea. I'm glad of tt, for we should have fallen out."* “And when fs it to be?" “Next Saturday." As soon as he left I set out for the signorina’s house. My scruples about loyalty had been removed the colonel's overbearing conduct, and I was ready for any step that promised me the fulfillment of my own designs. It was pretty evident that there would be no living with McGregor in his present frame of mind, and I was convinced that my best course would be to cut the whole thing, or, ff that proved impossible, to see what bargain I could make with the President. Of course, all would go smoothly with him if I gave up the dollars and the lady; a lke sacrifice would conciliate McGregor. But then I didn't mean to make it. “Onp or other I wfll have,” said I, a8 I knocked at the door of Mon Repos, “and both, if possible.”” ‘The signorina was looking worried; indeed, I thought she had been crying. Without more ado, I disclosed my own perilous condition and the colonel's:boasis atiout herself. “What a villain that man is!" she exclaimed. “Of course I was civil to him, but I didn't say half that, You didn't believe I did, Jack?" There's never any use in being unpleasant, so I said I had rejected the idea with scorn, “But what's to be done? If I'm here to-morrow, he'll take the money, and, as likely as not, cut my throat tf I try to stop him" “Yes, and he'll marry me," chimed in the signorina, “Jack, we must have a counter-revolution.”” “I don't se what good that'll do,” I answered dolefully. “The President will take the money just the same, and I expect he'll marry you just the same.” “Of the two, I would rather have him. Now don't rage, Jack. I only said ‘of the two.' But you're quite right; it couldn't help us much to bring Gen. Whittingham back, “To say nothing of the strong probability of my perish- Ing in the attempt:"* “Are you really very fond of me, Jack? No, you needn't say so. I think you are. Now I'll tell you a eecret. If you hadn't come here I should have married Gen. Whittingham long ago. I stayed hero intending to do ft, and he asked me very soon after you first arrived,” “But McGregor?" I asked, in a hoarse whisper. She drooped her head on my shoulder. “I daren't. stay here, Jack, with him,” she whispered. “If you, can't take me away I must go to the President. I shall be at toast safe with him." “Say the word and I'll shoot McGregor!" “No, no, Jack!" she cried. “You must be quiet and cau- tous, But I must go to-night—to-night, Jack, either with you or to the President,” “My darling, you shall come with, me" ald 1 “Whére?’” “Oh, out of this somewhere.” “How are wé to escape?’ Bears the PhuNe B88, way B8Ch, v8.90 is 1 eye audience laughing « wai 2 ished eieenty have a plan! ‘The very Sissacore Evais & Hopper, THERE AND BACK. i ‘Be . 'WEST END MR. LOUIS it MAN us “All om Account of (To Be Continued.) pean a tops ty one husband wherever he may choose to go. thou goest T will go, thy people shall be my people and thy god my god,’ originally spoken to Naomi, her mother-in-law, they have come to express the sentiment with which a woman looks at marriage. in ight-weight cheyiot in the new shade of Royal blue and ts trimmed with broad cloth in @ darker shade and drop ornaments. priate for all the season's suitings, linen and cotton as well as wool. 27 inches widd, 3% yards 3: yards 2 inches wide, 5 material has figure or nap; yerds $2 inches wide when material has neither figure nor nap. measure. measure, and they will be promptly mailed {oF word diseased, as applied to a moral aberration, {a in accord with the theories of the most advanced criminologists. of a woman to be freed from a man suffering from some physical ailment. as marriage {8 supposedly a unton of souls as well as of worldly interests, é&c., why should greater indulgence be shown to a wife who applies for a divorce because her husband 4s an embezzler and sho refuses to minister to a mind dis- eaped? would revolt at the plea Yet, Public sentiment Tho decision adverse to Mra. Virgil was given on the technicality that as her husband was willing to provide a home for her in the country of his adop- tion he had not abandoned her, In perhaps the generality of cases where men have forfeited position and honor and become wanderers on the fnce of the earth, they have done so to Eratify the expenstve tastes of some woman. excepticn to this rule, and as his wife makes a simple plea of abandonment, ft 1s to be inferred that she fs the woman upon whom his money was spent. Mr, Virgil is probably not an When a woman marries she knows that ft fs a part of her duty to follow her ‘Though the words of Ruth, ‘Whither " were But avestions of sentiment aside, tt {s the law that the wife stall live in the pince devignated by the husband. Virgil had presumably not broken any vow he made at the altar, and when reasons of safety forced him to go to Canada he had @ natural expectation that his wife would go with him. Mrs, Ayer asks what right a man has to make an alien of an unwilling wife. Legally he has every right, though aa a matter of domestic expediency {t would of course be very unwise for him to enforce it. She puts the query tf ‘a womun thief were to escape to Canada and her husband preferred daily as- elation with an honest woman would the Court refuse his application for divorce? The legal question involved, that of abandonment, would not be the same, since it {s the husband's whereabouts that constitute the conjugal residence and not the wife's. This may not be just. In these days, when it has be- It may not be right. come the fashion to mfke a skipping rope of the line which divides the upper and the nether world. and those who exectite the most extravagant capers in the process win the most applause, !t 1s, perhaps, not always wise to have pro- nounced opinions, An Ideal Walking Suit. ce roa w THE w EVENING WORLD'S »# HOME »# MAGAZINE »# WiLD ANIMALS ONE HAS MET. THE WROUNDER. at tna) Fae Eu) ee opine or ted we fy vp deme ——— a _ +? 7 You am Ri whetneh a ¢ ings HE Wrounder—so-called from the fact that he hangs @round—is an animal with which almost every one in more or legs familiar. If you ain't with him, he tries to be with you at any rate. He exists in all parts of the world, at all seasons of the year, and is somewhat more numerous and disagreeable perhaps in large cities and in warm weather. Scientists have recently discovered that the Wrounder fs, without doubt, a mongrel of the fox and monkey—the char- acteristic traits of which animals he etill, to a great ex retains—being cunning and foxy and invariably making a monkey of himself. Those who have had occasion to see a great deal of him inform us that he has no home nor shelter, that he lives in the streets, principally on the corner near some saloon, both day and night. If he eats or sleeps, no one has ever feen him do efther. He 4s, however, known to drink a great deal. In appearance, the Wrounder cuts rather an amusing and pathetic figure, especially when followed closely by a police- man, His face usunlly wears a biand and insinuating emile that refuses to come off. His neck, which ts composed of indla-rubber, Is so wonderfully under his control that he can Jet it out to any length, or look ‘behind him without moving or turning his body or causing himself any inconventence whatsoever, Some say he can even tle his neck into bow- knots, but such information is not authentic. There seems to be a decided bend in his arms, said to be caused from the habit of keeping his hands so constantly in his pockets. His legs are warped in various wa; jome knock-kneed ant Seppe me WEDNESDAY EVENING, | MAY 18, 1903. oo “ie — y CLOSELY POLLOWED BY A POLICEMAN others bowed out. Now and then an animal ts found with one df each Kind; this comés from continually standing im all sorts of weather, His greatest weight is centred in his feet. These are large and fiat and assist him greatly in per= forming his principal duty, that of holding down the side walks which might otherwise fly up and hit some one in the. face. The Wrounder in also useful in other ways; for im stance, in the advertising business. A group of these inter esting animals decorating the front of a saloon or other building is an indication of popularity and prosperity of the proprietor thereof. The larger and noisier the sound outside, the greater the prosperity inside. He haa most wonderful discriminating powers. Wateh his expression and you will be able to tell, without looking your self, whether @ lady or gentleman is coming, and, if a lady, whether or not shé is good looking. He is a critic on ladies figures, complexions, hair, dress and ankles, especially an- kes. 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