A NOVELETTE. _
By William Earle Baldwin.
(Copyright, "1891, by Globe Press Association.)
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CHAPTER VII.
(Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.)
CHAPTER I.
Langt‘ord finds Philip Davaris a Greek violin-
ist, in New York after the latter has been on a
mysterious journey. Finds a telegram dated
Paris: “Come at once.
Helene." Who is Helene? The two friends go
to Lenox later. Davaris’s strange agitation at
meeting a society girl, Gladys Montague.
CHAPTER II.
Two society men. Ned Lawrence and Thurs-
ton meet Davaris at the country house of Mrs.
Hamlyn at Lenox. Lawrence’s flirtation with
Constance Hamyiu. Miss Montague shows
Davaris a picture. “That man your father?"
he says and is strangely excited. After Davaris‘s
departure the picture is gone.
CHAPTER III.
Thurston and Havermeyer get lost while
hunting and take refuge in the house of an old
hermit in the mountains. Davaris’s name
mentioned. The old man charges the young
follows to tell Davaris: "Come to me as fast as
a horse can bring you." . ‘
CHAPTER IV.
Thurston and Havermeyer wake in the morn-
ing and find Westerly dead. Havermeyer takes
a “Kodak" of him. Seth Dowe's story of the
hermit and his elegance and breeding when he
first came to the woods long ago. Seth mails a
packet- given him by Westerly addressed:
Philip Davaris, Paris.
CHAPTER V.
Davaris suspected of stealing the picture.
He comes out from the house in a strange
manner and finds Gladys. She is puzzled at
this. Havermeyer gives Davaris the hermit’s
message. “Did you ever know a man by the
name of Cyrus Westerly?" Davaris repeats in
a dazed tone: "Cyrus Westerly."
CHAPTER VI.
Davarls recognizes the picture Havermeyer
took of the dead Westerly as that of a man he
knew when a boy in Greece. Davaris plays on
the violin to Gladys, he is about to propose to
her and acting strangely leaves hurriedly.
Ned Lawrence did not find the dinner
party he attended that evening very
entertaining. It was a stag dinner, or
very nearly so, for the one lady present
was the mother of the younger son of the
house which was entertaining.
They were left to themselves over their
wine, and the motion, “Shall we join the
ladies?" never came, for the old lady re-
tired promptly at half after nine each
night. The men began to talk horse over
their cigars, of the recent “Surburban,”
and how the despised Lorse, unheard of
and unthought of, in connection with the
”Queen of the Turf” had won in June.
Lawrence did not care for that sort of
thing now. The only recollection of the
races he had was of a hot dusty day, a
long-"suffering crowd, and, finally a dash
of rain to ruin the hats and gowns of the
woman, and also complete the ruin of the
ruin of their tempers. Lawrence had
in truth been in the thick of it, and had
lost a good deal of money on the favorite,
but he had lost it like a man and well—he
did not care for these things now.
She had taught him to think of other
things and live for other things. The rac-
ing was all very well in its way, and quite
the proper thing to talk about, but to him
the slur-Les of the great race were old. And
when young lilat-crmeyer lighted his
second cigar and began to tell the story
of, “l ’l;cn i wath in Canada last spring,
don’t you know. I caught a trout weigh-
ing exactly —” Lawrence thought it was
about time for him to go.
He was very sorry to leave 50' early, as
he had spent a very pleasant evening, at
least he told his host so, but it was with a.
feeling of great relief that“ he found him-
self in the open air. it was long before the .
time he had ordered a carriage, so he
started to walk up the road briskly. It
was arather long distance back to the
cottage and the hour grew late as he ap-
proached. .
The night was warm, although there
was a breeze from the southeast, and Law-
rence unbuttoned his coat and took oif his
hat to let the wind cool his heated head.
He. felt that something had sent him,
away from the dinner-party. Afeeling
vague and undefined came over him that
Gladys wanted him, or what was much
more to the point he wanted‘Gladys. It
was during the solitary walk that are-
solve shaped itself in his mind that he
could not sleep that night until he knew
whether she loved him or not. He felt
strangely happy as he walked along the
road. It did not seem that he knew ex-
actly where he was. Everything was
strange and unreal-the twinkling lights
in the cottages about him, the roads and
the lawns here and there that he had
known almost from his “boyhood. The
road stretched out before him like a gray
path, and he idly wondered if he knew
after all where it was leading him, and it
seemed that he had never been on it be-
. fore. _
He remembered dimly seeing carriages
pass by, the lamps gleaming on the road,
and once when he stood for. a moment un-
der a. street lamp, he remembered how
:1- some woman had nodded cordially to him
from a passing brougham. Then he
reached the cottage and silently entered
the hall. As he stood for a moment near
the door he was conscious of a strange
feeling. He did not know what it was,
but coming from a room near at hand
was strange music that found an echo in
his heart. and made him stop in his tracks,
with his hand on .the knob, and listen.
The tones came like the far away sound
of waves beating on the shore and then
grew louder until Lawrence felt tempted
to put his hands to his ears to keep out
the sound. The house was quiet as death
and so the sound of footsteps stealing
along the hallWay were more readily dis-
tinguished.
A woman Was coming along the hall and
paused before the half Open door-way.
She did not see Lawrence for her back
was partly turned toward him; but as
she came-from a passage way he had ob-
tained a view of her face and had seen’her
flashing black eyes. The face reminded
him of someones’s face, but then he could
not think whose. It did not seem like a.
woman's face and there was a. look on it
Important discoveries. '
,at the same time he was not the man to
came. You know what you must do. You
know that you must go away.”
Davaris was a man who had seme connec-
tion with this servant, a man who carried
culty in holding himself back, but a feel-
voice, but Lawrence in his excitement
that frightened Lawrence. R was a. set
determined lock and to him as she l
crouched near the door, it seemed that 3
she was like a panther ready to spring.
Lawrence did not remember ever seeing Q
the woman before in the house, but she
was dressed as amaid and laughing to :
himself for his strange fancies, he sprang
up the stairs. She was very likely one of ,
the servants attracted by the music which 3
had for one moment enthralled Lawrence.
He broke the spell and went to his room: a
He didn’t stay there very long, for it made
him uneasy to think of Gladys down there
with those people, and besides he wanted
a chance to speak to her on the subject
uppermost in his mind. .
He lighted a cigarette, and holding it in -
his band again went 'down stairs. The
woman in the hall was gone and in the
room there was silence. He turned
toward it and then paused. He felt that
his hand was shaking‘and that he could
hear the. beating of his heart tumultuous-
ly. He leaned against the banisters with
his side against the rail, and every time
his heart beat he could feel the motion in i
the sligst yielding of his body. Now that
the time for him to put it to the test had
come, he felt weak, and yielded to the
temptation to go out of doors and smoke
for a few moments. He wondered if that
feeling of weakness was a common failing
of lovers, and he wondered if he really I
was in love or whether he had been play-
ing with edged tools and had been out. If "
she loved him, all well and good, if she
didn’t, then it was England and the con-
tinent, or Africa—any where his paper
would send him, outside of America. He
didn’t ask for much. It was only to be
gone six months; then he would return '
and if necessary meet Gladys day after
day in society and no one would dream _
that there had been anything between '
them, and if such a thing harl been sus-
pected no one would think it serious.
He sank intoalow chair on the piazza”
and elevated his feet on the rail. It was
very quiet except for the singing of the
crickets by the hedge and the occasional
cry from a dog or some animal in the dis- i
tance. ’l‘hen Lawrence heard a voice and 3
a crunching of gravel on the walk. He
saw a figure of a woman step from a side
door and saw a man come from behind a .
bit of shrubbery. They did not know it,
but alight from a window! streamed full
upon them, and Lawrence saw Davaris,
the weird violinist, and the woman who
had been crouching at the door.
,_
[Is lingered and heard the woman's clear
voice reply.
They walker] near him. evidently
thinking the piazza unoccupied and in so
remote a cornerof the house,perhaps,
with a View to taking possession of it
themselves. Lawrence brought his feet
down from the rail at once and started ‘
up. He thought he would go away, but
the man was talking angrily to his com-
panion, and it seemed that he was
threatening the woman. Lawrence did
not care to become an eavesdropper, yet
run away and leave a woman in any sort
of danger.
“Helene,” the man was saying. “Oh
why did you do it? Why did you come?
Why didn’t you stay away as I told you?
You don’t know what you have done, and
you have made me angry.”
It was not so much the words them-
selves but the cold, calmly angry way in
which they were spoken that made Law-
rence know what they meant. He lin-
gered and heard the woman’s clear voice
reply:
“I know what you have done. I know
you have fallen in love with the woman.
It is something you have no right to do. I
Warned you, and you did not heed the
warning. Philip Davaris you know why I
It all seemed plain to Lawrence then.
on a low affair with this woman, yet dared
to love Gladys Montague. He had diffi-
ing came upon him to leap the railing at
one jump and confront the Greek and ac-
cuse him of this.
“There is some great mistake, I feel con-
vinced, Helen. And I know now what you
mean when you say I must go away, and
that I know what I mast do. Oh, I cannot
do it i” There was a note of sorrow in his
totally failed to observe it.
“It seems to me that you grow mere
chicken hearted as you grow older,” said
the woman with a sneer. “When you were
in Greece, you were not so scrupulous.”
“Do something?" muttered Lawrence
under his breath. Some plan for robbery
evidently. He must look into this.
“You are a' Greek,” she continued. “I
am a Greek. These years you have spent
in this country have made you turn into
an American. You do not remember your
duty to your dead father. Instead what
do you do? Look at me if you can while’I
tell you. You fall in love with a. woman,
you are crazy after her. you play to her
on a violin, you look into her eyes and '
utter her name. It is then that you see
me, it is then that you remember every-
thing, and you drop your violin and come
to me. Before you leave me to-night I
shall make you promise—" .
They came near the piazza and evident-
ly seeing that some one was already
there, or perhaps smelling Lawrence’s
cigarette smoke, they continued on their
way doWn the walk leaving a very much
perplexed man on the piazza.
It didn't take him long to make up his
mind that. something very much to the
disadvantage. of Gladys was being con-
cocted. And he wondered how how“ to
. peror’s reforms.
let her know of it. no couldn’t véry’weu
march up to Gladys, or Mrs. Hamlyn, for
that matter, and blandly say, "This man,
your guest at dinner this evening, is now
having a. clandestine meeting with a. ser-
vant girl- They are“ planning something
very much to your disadvantage in some
way, Itell you this that you may know
what to do to thwart them. Cut this man
Davari's and discharge your servant at
, once."
This, of course, was what he would have
liked to have done, but on serious thought
be reflected that it might be taking a.
good deal for granted, and Gladys would
think that his jealousy had made him
slightly crazy on this question of Davaris,
and his attention to the said young woman.
At any rate he resolved that he must keep
a good watch on the actions of the Greek.
Of course he did not mean to play the spy
or anything of that sort, but if anything
came under his notice, like the evening's
episode, for example, he would make the
most of it.
The man was an adventurer, without
doubt, and it Was his duty to expose him
as soon as possible. The woman—well,
the woman was quite another matter, and
might be his'wife, or his confederate, or
something of that sort. It was ,clearly
Lawrence’s duty to open his eyes and 'look
about. '
And then his thoughts went back to
Gladys. It seemed very odd that she
should be surrounded with so much mys-
tery and should allow herself _to be en-
tangled with such a strange man, a. for-
‘ eigner, and a man of much different ideas
and much different purposes from hers.
It surprised Lawrence a good deal, for he
thought she knew better than that.
But after all, who really knows a girl’s
mind? ‘
She doesn’t always know it herself.
It seemed to Lawrence a half. hour, but
it was really but five minutes that he sat
on the piazza thinking of these things.
Did he not owe it to Gladys to tell her
what he had seen that night, but even if
he did tell her would she believe it? Then
he arose quickly and entered the house
again, resolving to find her. if she ac-
cepted him, then it would be time enough
for him to tell her, and if she rejected him
.—why then she might take care of her-
self.
A rather selfish way to look at things,
but withal very human, and Lawrence
was human.
In the hall he met Thurston.
"Well, how is it?” askc i the latter.
“What?” replied Lawrence, staring.
“Oh—things,” returned Thurston.
“Well. I don’t know,” replied Lawrence.
“To tell the truth, I suppose I might as
well tell you, I may go away to-night and
I may stay. it's got to come io-night,
and I’ll be hanged if a girl rejects me if
I’ll stay in the same hense another hour.
If anything should happen, old fellow,
mind you, and i should go away suddenly,
back me up for all you are worth. Tell the
people next morning that Lam subject to
these attacks; that I usually leave a place
that way; that I had a sudden call on
business; that I received a telegram in-
forming me of the death of a very ,rich
relative—in fact anything. And, Thurs-
ton, I mean this, have an eye out for that
Greek.” -
“Who do you mean? Oh, Davaris. I
saw him not a quarter of an hour ago
making tracks for the hotel as fast as he
could leg it. Looked sort of done up about
something and didn’t speak to me as he
went by. I don’t mind that, for I don’t
think much of him, as I have told you be-
fore. As for the other matter you don’t
go at it in the right way. ‘Faint heart,’
and all that sort of thing, you know. If
you can win a fair lady do it in a manly
way and don’t cringe about and hem and
haw. but get right down to business.”
“Haven’t you got a book on ‘How to
Pop the Question; or, Proposals and Pro-
posing?’ ” laughed Lawrence. nervously.
“I sort of wish it was even. Well, old fel-
low, shake hands once for luck, and here
goes.”
The two friends who had carried this
conversation on by the foot of the stair-
case in an undertone gripped their hands
heartily together, and Lawrence clung to
Thurston’s large palm as if he didn’t dare
to let go. Then he turned away and went
silently down the hall.
Thurston looked after him and took a
pipe from his pocket. He went out on the
piazza and began filling it. His hands
trembled somewhat, and then he looked
towards the doorway from which the
light streamed out on the piazza. “Another
poor fool!” he muttered. “Another poor
fool !"
[To be continued]
lilislress and Servant.
An American woman who has been
living for some months in a. German
family in Berlin saw the practical
workings of one of the young em-
It dates back two or
three years and smacks strongly of
Bellamyism. Every servant keepsa
little book, to which every Week the
mistress employing her must con-
tribute a five-cent stamp provided by
the government for that sole purpose.
The book becomes a reference from
one place to another, its records
showing the periods of time spent in a
place and time of being in service. In
case of sickness or when age incapaci-
tates a servant from duty the govern-
ment redeems, the stamps contained
in the book, whose contents are really
a tax upon one class to assist in the
maintenance of .another less fertu-
natc. ‘ ’
The scheme is said to be regarded
with favor on both sides, the employer
as well as the employed—N. Y.
Times. \ ~ '
The Sacred Bird of India.
The adjutant may be called a sacred
bird; but as this epithet might be
misunderstood as if it applied to Hin-
tioo mythology I must explain that he
is consecrated to municipal duty, and
is sanctified by the protection of
municipal law. Any one who kills an
adjutant in Calcutta is punishable by
a. fine of a gold mohur,lor 32s. I
never found this law in the statute
books any more than I ever saw that
fabulous coin, the gold mohur, in its
original gold. But there is no English
magistrate in Calcutta who would.
hesitate to impose a fine ofagold
mohur on any one convicted of
killing an adjutant— Longman’s
Magazine.« ' - - ' ‘
HE WANTED ADVICE.
He Didn’t Know Exactly What to Do
Under the Circumstances.
“I want an opinion,” said a tall,
gangling young man, with a. rural air
and carpet sack, as he stole into a.
lawyer’s office in the big Neave
Building, and perched on the edge of
a chair. .
“Very well, sir; state the case,”
said the attorney, reaching for his in-
dex to hunt for “ bunko."
“ State the case? Well, I guess
not! I want an opinion. The case
ain’t any of your business. If you’ve
got any good opinions, trot ’em out;
or if you hain’t, say so.”
“ But no attorney gives an opinion
without hearing the ease.” '
The young man reddened uneasily.
“ Well—er—you see I’m sorter im-
pressible when it comes to gals!”
“ Very natural in a handsome young
fellow,” encouraged the attorney.
_ "Yes, I‘s’pose so. But I got en-
gaged to Sairy Smithers last spring,
and to git the size of her finger for an
engagement ring I borrowed her best
one to take to the jewelry shop.”
“Ah, very usual mode. That’s all
right.”
"' Yes, I s’pose so. But afore I got
to the store I met Samanthy Giggins,
an" feelin’ pretty kittenish over Sairy,
I hadn’t gone a mile beforeI hadnpro-
posed to Samanthy, and been ac-
cepted, too!” ,
“So Miss Sarah sued you for a
breach of promise? Bad ease.”
“ Yes, I s’pose so. But that ain’t
it. You see I was so discomboberated
that when it came to be accepted by
Samanthy, dogged if I didn’t give
her Sairy’s ring for an engagement,
an’ put it on her finger.”
“ Temporary aberration will cover
that all right.”
“Yes, I s’pose so. But you see
Samanthy told 'Jinny Jones that we
were engaged, and J inny told Sairy
Smithers, and Sairy she gimme the
shake.”
-“ And you want to sue her for dam-
ages, hey? Very nice case.”
“Yes, I s’pose so. But that ain’t it.
You see Sairy wanted her ring back,
an’ when I went to git it from Saman-
thy Giggins, she had heard of me and
Sairy being engaged first, had give
me the mitten, taken up with Steve
Fairflax, and give him my ring—that
is, Sairy’s ring for a keepsake.”
“Oh, yes, I see. And you want an
attachment to obtain possession oi.'_
the goods unlawfully detained by
Steve. That’s easily fixed.”
“Yes, I s’pose so. But that ain’t it.
teve was throwed ofi‘ a horse that
mornin’ and had his neck broke.”
“Oh, well, that will be all right.
Just serve the writ on the executors
or administrators.”
“Yes, I s’pose so. But that ain’t
it, nuther. You see it was so hot that
week they had to bury Steve afore I
got over to see ’em, and the ring was
buried with him.”
“ Hum-mm-m-m!
very different case.”
“ Yes, I s’pose so.
That makes a
But can’t I dig
Steve up some night and' git the
ring?’$
“ No, indeed! You will render your-
self liable to State Prison, or to vio-
lence from the family. Nor can you
hold the family responsible except
through Samantha; and you can’t
sue Samantha .and prove that you
gave her the ring without laying your-
self liable to prosecution for stealing
it from Miss Sarah Smithers; and the
fact that she jilted you don’t let you
off any easier.” '
“ Gosh! And do I have to get her
another ring like that one?”
" I guess you do.”
. “Well, that do settle it! I’m no
millionaire. If I can’t find a shop
where solid gold rings with .blood-
stone sets sell for two bits I start for
my brother Ike’s, in Texas, in the
morning, if I walk it!”
And he slid for the elevator.—~Cincin-’
nati Commercial Gazette.
Spoiled His Calculations.
Uncle Joe Holden, the astronomer
of Otisfield, who has been laboring
diligently for the past few years to es-
tablish the idea that the earth doesn’t
move, but the sun passes round
the earth once in twenty-four hours,
run against asnag afew days ago,
which bids fair to completely upset
his whole theory. _ While expatiating
upon the folly of the commonly ac-
cepted notions of astronomy, in a vil-
lage grocery store, “Why, only
look at it,” said he, “if the earth
is 8,000 miles in diameter and
moves at the rate of twenty-five.
miles per minute, the sling of it
would throw everything off from the
face of the earth the same as the
grindstone throws ofi‘ water.”
“ Well,” suggested the village doubt-
er, “ how about the sun, which is 92,-
000,000 miles from. the earth, and what
must be the effect of his velocity in
passing around the earth each day at
such a distance?” “ I never thought
of that,” said Joe, and parted with-
out another word.—Lewiston Journal.
The Girls of Virginia.
The women of Virginia are distin-
guished for their horsemanship, and
many of them ride like centaurs be-
fore they get out of short dresses. In
the fall of the year they can be seen
riding across the country unattended,
and frequently participate with their
husbands, brothers and beaux in the
‘ excitements of the chase.
The Virginia girl is generally con-
ceded to be charming under any cir-
cumstances, but when she assumes
her riding habit and mounts into the
saddle she is an outdoor picture of
grace and health that has no replica
in the gallery of nature—Boston Her
old. ' .
What He Didn’t Like.
Fuldres (nodding toward pretty
girlwith a dozen men talking to her)
-—.;“Yes, she’s deuced pretty and
smart and rich, but there are some
things about her I don’t like."
Tuxedo—Indeed? What are they?
' Fuldres — A dozen -men.—Detro_it_
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Wedding,
Invitations,
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