The Leader., February 06, 1903, Image 7

C H A P T E R X VII.
.is is what happened to Dallas. In
'aftertioon, as he was sitting in his
rooms inditing a letter to the beloved
irt, the door opened suddenly
Ml lady entered with some lit-
There was no need for her to
veil to make Dallas aware
lisitor was Lady Paugerfield.
I is the matter?” he cried, spring-
to his feet.
Ikspordahip knows all. I have left
fvever, and I have come to you.”
alias grew white under the bronze
;i which the sun had dyed him. He
it through a moment long and compre-
sive as that o f the drowning man.
loTtgl lost forever, himself saddled with
irago whom he had certainly never
>d and whom he abhorred to-day, his
lition ruined, his life done for—this was
t tax on the pleasant and fashionable
uaemcnt of leaking love to one’s neigh­
’s wife.
lie stood staring at her; his face, nl-
ys expressive of the emotion of the
ment. wore a horror-struck expression,
ich could scarcely be flattering to her
/■hip under the circumstances. She
v at him with bitter reproaches. That
tht way with a man! a woman sacri-
JMi everything for him, and then, the
'^ment things went w rong, he wanted to
off.
Dallas leaned against the chimney piece,
«awing his unde^ lip, and incapable, In
iia desperate situation, of saying any-
mg. i He only felt an unutterable hor-
,r, a sickening sense of a lost life, of
in, ptisery, wretchedness.
"‘What doe« he know? How does he
^owT he gasped at length.
¡¡•I gave that wretch Amelie warning
night, and she went to him after
Incheon to-day, and he came straight to
and made the most violent scene. It
emi ahe found one o f your letters and
•pt i t f the fiend!”
Dallas racked his brain to remember
hat he could ever have written to her
Myall ip He did not believe himself fool
!iough to have sent her a really com-
^ ■ In g
letter.
,#“ W
Wfcnt
vaa in the letter?” he asked.
at ■
“ I io n ’t know’ . He would not let me
')• it| but he threatened me, nnd I told
;)m «should leave him, and I have.”
‘ ‘But you can’ t stay here!” cried Dnl-
« I - ith more energy than he had yet
f sphiyed. “ Any moment some on may
jme in and see you.”
“ flfhat do I care?” cried her ladyship,
olently, bursting into a passion of sobs..
lYon have got me into this, and you must
°^t me out of it.”
* Dallas felt himself a brute. He ought
* soothe the grief of this distracted lady;
I le circumstances required expressions
ill- tenderness on his part, and he felt
j-othiftg but anger, impatience and general
?spair. He must move heaven and earth
> gef her away from his rooms—to pre-
ail on her, if possible, to go back home;
ut H was hopeless, knowing her moods
■ w’ell as he did, to say a word until she'
Irad cBmed down a little. And, perhaps.
fte tp ll, the worst would happen, and
a!« would have to take and keep her for-
yer. T w h n t in the world had he even
?en in her? And then he thought agon­
isingly of the girl he loved, whom he
e *>ked upon as an angel, and w’ho would
mOfr perhaps be lost to him forever. The
uifir »opened again—very quietly this
i^me; ¡Dallas had not heard the slight pre­
liminary tap—and Mrs. Trevanion came
She was well in the room before she
aljaw Lady Dangerfield crouched in a low
( hair, sobbing violently.
Then she
looked at Dallas’ pale, distracted
j 1ac$$and grasped, in part at least, the sit-
iation. She prepared to retreat, and
^"rnaóe a beckoning sign to him, which he
Obeyed.
* “ What on earth does this mean?” she
ediaked, looking at him with frightened
ae»ye». F “ My dear boy, how can you be »o
:)jttoprad«‘nt ?**
lfy “ Imprudent!” he gasped. “ I expect I
im about ruined!”
He leaned against the framework of the
loor, looking the picture of despair.
“ She has left Dangerfield and come to
D e c a y s he knows everything; and what
n the name of heaven am I going to do
wnfrith her?”
is nonsense!” said Mrs. Trevan-
heton^sharply. “ She must be mad. She
jigeanaot stay with you. Does she want to
iia you?”
[ f t suppose so,” uttered Dallas, despair
must get her away from here
said Mrs. Trevanion. who was
ixious about Dallas as she would
^ ^ ¡ b e e n had her own son been placed
d<* In ipaimilar predicament.
)t- | “ I don’ t know how,” he answered.
Id -W hen she is In one of her tempers, she
won’ t listen to reason.”
“ I shall go and talk to her,” said Mrs.
Trern'iion. with determination.
¡I» H “ I » ipossible!** cried Dallas, in a smnth-
«red voice. “ She frould never forgive
vi me. Resides, awful as this business is, I
can’t shirk it.**
pBou must go away and leave her to
m e*
iow , ”
Dallas was so much in the habit of do­
ing w hat his friend told him, that, in spite
of dreadful misgivings, he obeyed her,
and when the street door closed upon him
Mrs. Trevanion went to interview Lady
Dangerfield, feeling about as unopuifortu-
ble as she had ever done in her life.
Mrs. Trevanion’ s manner is so quiet,
and her tone so cool that they have a
mesmeric effect on Lady Dangerfield;
and every word is so true that it goes
home. She stands with her face averted
from the speaker, and a new light begins
to daw’ n upon her. After all. she has
committed this escapade in a tit of pas­
sion; his lordship has been very angry,
but he said nothing about leaving her or
turning her out of the house; she left it
m an access of passion; he is not to know
where she has been, unless Mrs. Trevan­
ion betrays her, nnd that (with a pang of
rage) she is not likely to do, for Dallas’
sake. But her head is not cool enough to
reason, so she simply does what the im­
pulse of temper prompts.
“ I have not the least intention of sacri­
ficing anything for Mr. Broke,” she said,
contemptuously, behaving, figuratively
speaking, like the ostrich, W’ho puts its
head in the sand. “ I came to say some­
thing to him, and he ran away like a cur,
so I can’t ja y it But I suppose,” with
sarcasm, ” if you can come and see him
there is no reason why I should not do
the same.”
Mrs. Trevanion smiled.
“ You flatter me very much,” «he said.
“ But what a woman of my age can do is
not what is permitted to a young woman
like you.”
Lady Dangerfield curls her lip supercil­
iously, as though to say:
“ You need not think you take me in by
that.”
“ Well,” she remarked, “ we may as well
go out together, and I will get into a
hansom.”
Mrs. Trevanion turned to her with
sudden movement.
“ Just this once,” she said, “ make a
friend of me and trust me. Let me drive
you home; it will be better for you. And,’
looking Lady Dangerfield straight in the
eyes, “ think what you will of me, but
when I give my word it is sacred; no one
shall ever know a syllable of this.”
“ I don’ t care whether they do or not,’
said her ladyship, recklessly. “ And I
would not trust auy woman in the world
on her most sacred oath. But I think
it quite possible, for the sake of your
dear Dallas,” scornfuly, “ that you will
hold your tongue. All right; you can
drive me home If you like, and then come
back to be thanked and blessed by him.’
The following morning Dallas received
a letter from Lady Dangerfield, which
was a choice specimen of invectives, mal­
ice, nnd sarcasm, but it was dated from
her husband’ s house, and contained no
hint of spending the future or any part of
it in the society of Mr. Broke. Indeed,
she went so far as to caution him against
presuming to call at her door or approach­
ing her in public. With a de^p sigh of
relief, Dallas tore the letter into fifty
pieces; she was his enemy for life.
C H A PT E R X V III.
June was delighted to return home. As
for Tom, his joy at recovering her was
exuberant; he could hardly take his eyes
off his darling, and returned for the nonce
to the lover-like demonstrations of the
first part of their married life, which June
in later days had so sorely missed.
Madge came up to the Hall every day,
and the cousins talked with much inter­
est of the incidents of their stay in town,
and looked forward exceedingly to the ad-
veut of some of their London friends at
the end of the month. Mrs. Trevanion
was coming; Dallas was to spend a week
with them, nnd also a Mr. Carslake, in
whom Madge took a certain amount of In­
terest, and who had evinced a decided
partiality for her society. In her mind
June had already arranged a marriage
between the pair, ns Mr. Carslake was in
every way desirable, with the exception
of being perhaps rather too old.
It
would have seemed strange that so very
grave and quiet a man should attract and
be attracted by a madcap like Madge,
did not the very smallest experience teach
one that opposite and not aimilar quali­
ties most frequently draw the sexes to­
gether.
A week later Mr. Carslake and Dallas
arrived.
Mrs. Trevanion was to have
come on the same day, but her son had
caught a severe chill and had to be nurs­
ed at home.
Three days went by—three pleasant
summer days, with blue skies, and a hot
sun tempered by delicious breezes. Mr.
Carslake, Dallas, June and Madge made
a very happy quartet. They rode and
drove, played lawn tennis, strolled in the
gardens, sat under big trees, went on the
lakelet—always together, and yet suffi­
ciently apart to be able to carry on their
conversations out of each other’s imme­
diate hearing. Tom was tremendously
busy with various bucolic operations, and
no smallest thought crossed his mind of
| there being any danger in leaving tw'o
such handsome young people together as
h’ s wife and Dallas. June was hl§; to his
way of thinking, the marriage ceremony
locked the doors of- a woman's heart and
gave the key over to her husband’s keep­
ing. There wore only two sorts of women
—the right s«»rt and the wrong sort. June
was the right sort; therefore, for her,
there only existed one man in the world,
and there was no earthly occasion for him
to watch that no one else had designs on
his property.
So fur his confidence was perfectly jus­
tified. June loved her husband, and was
not likely to have a thought about any
other man, except, perhaps, that he was
good to look at and good company, and
Dallus was full of his unfortunate pus-
aion, and, although never unappreciative
of a pretty woman, had no thought or
wish that might endanger his host’s and
cousin's peace of mind.
Dinner was over. June was about to
rise from the table.
“ Let us go with you; may we?” said
Dallas, in a low voice. “ We don’t want
to drink any more, and this night is too
heavenly to be spent indoors.”
Tom and Agnes remained sitting; tht
other four had risen.
“ I will stay with you, Tom,” 'said Ag­
nes. “ May I, June, I have several things
to say to him, and then we can go and
look at darling boy.”
June was sensible of that irritalion
which her cousin invariably produced in
her. She hud remarked how Agnes had
been straining every nerve to amuse and
interest Tom during dinner. The embryo
saint had even herself little coquettish
airs, and Tom had laughed and talked
more than usual, and seemed in the best
of tempers and spirits.
“ By all means stay and talk to Tom,’*
returned June, with a perceptible change
of tone from that in which she had just
been speaking. “ But please,” w’ith de­
cision, “ do not go up to the nursery. I
particularly dislike having Tom disturbed
in his sleep.”
“ Why, Juny,” cried her husband, “ you
go up every night of your life yourself,
uud the boy sleeps like a top; nothing
ever wakes him.”
June would have reiterated her prohibi­
tion, but, not wanting to be made to look
unamiable before her other guests, she
turned and went out of the door, which
Dallas was holding open.
“ Let us go in the boat; shall we?” he
suggested. She acquiesced readily. The
moon was coming out, and both thought,
as Dallas pulled lazily at the sculls, of
the last time they were there together.
"W hat a night!” she said. “ I wonder,”
smiling, “ what has become of those young
lovers.”
“ It is going to be a match, is it not?”
asked Dallas. “ Well, he Is s thorough
good chap; but I should have fancied him
a little bit too old and serious for Miss
Madge. But one cau see that she does
not think so.”
“ How I*wish," said June, drawing her
slim fingers through the water, “ that
Lady Jane was here! Then you would
be happy, too.”
“ I am very happy,” he answered, with a
long sigh which a little belied his words.
“ I wonder,” pausing to rest on his oars,
and looking very earnestly at June, “ if
it will ever come right?”
“ I hope so,” June uttered, kindly.
Dallas bent still nearer June, and gazed
at her even more intently.
“ Do you really think,” he said, “ that
marriage is a good thing?”
“ A very good thing,” she answered,
smiling.
"But,” said Dallas, “ what is one to do?
Most likely a man can’t marry the first
woman he falls in love with—very lucky
too for him, generally—and is he to go on
being faithful to her memory?
And
then,” a little smile curling his lip under
his fair mustache, “there are so many
cunrming ladies going about the world,
one would have to be made of marble not
to fall in love with them. Do you remem­
ber,” resting on his oars and looking at
June, “ this time thre^ years ago? I was
most aw’ fully in love with you. I was
miserable for a long time afterward.”
June smiled; the time is past and gone
when the memory of Dallas’ short lore-
making and sudden flight could wound
her amour-propre; she has even got over
the dreadful humiliation of having been
kissed by him.
•‘Were you awfully in love?” she asked,
archly. “ Yet you went away and made
no sign. By the way,” as if stimulated
by sudden curiosity, “ why did you not
wish me good-by or send me a message
before you left? It was not at all civil
of you.”
“ Don’t you know?” said Dallas, with
some eagerness. “ Did Tom not tell you?
It was he who sent me off and made me
promise not to see or speak to you again.
And” —here Dallas was about to reveal
how Mrs. Trevanion had dissuaded him
from writing to her, when it occurred to
him that Lady Nevil, however much she
liked the other lady, would not care to
have been discussed by her and himself,
and paused abruptly. “ It was rather a
shame of you,” he went on, changing
his sentence, “to let me think you did not
care for Tom.”
June leaned back against the cushions
and looked up at the dark-blue sky.
“ It was quite true,” she said, thought­
fully. “ I did not love him then; I felt
quite sure I never should; and yet,”
bringing her eyes slowly down again to
the water, “ a year later I adored him,
nnd have gone on adoring him ever since.
I suppose,” smiling a little, and letting
her eyes meet Dallas’ , “ a woman’s heart
is a very curious and complicated tiling.”
(To be continued.)
ANKENY IS NAMED.
W ashington Legislature Selects the Man
from Walla Walla.
Olympia, Jan. 30.— Levi Ankeny, of
Walla Walla, became United States
senator from Washington yesterday, re­
ceiving 99 votes on the 13th joint l>al-
lot. After the action of the caucus the
voting was merely a formality, hut it
brought with it more oratory of an ex*
planatoiy nature than has ever before
l>een heard at Olympia on the last bal­
lot of a senatorial contest. The sudden
death of John B. Allen, who in years
gone by had fought fierce political bat­
tles on this fiekl with the man now en­
joying the plaudits that go to the
victor, threw a sombre spell over the
joint session, and much of the rancor
and bitterness which has marked the
closing hours of the fight had van­
ished liefore the shadow of death which
hung heavy over the hearts of the men
who had stood by the dead leader in
many a similar contest.
This almost
tragic closing of the life of one who
had made so much political history in
Washington, coming simultaneously
with the long-deferred victory of his
rival of many years’ standing, gave an
inte^pely dramatic air to the situation,
and at the joint session tumultuous ap­
plause for the living mingled with elo­
quent and heartfelt tributes to the
dead.
The final ballot was: Levi Ankeny,
9y, Harold Preston y, John L. Wilson
2, W. L. Jones 1, George Turner 23.
Preston and.Wilson were put on the
committee to introduce Ankeny, and
all three made speeches, in which there
was a note of sadness on account of the
death of John B. Allen.
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE.
Venezuelan Crisis Causes Increase in Ap­
propriations for Army.
Washington, Jan. 31.— The Vene­
zuelan situation, especially the atti­
tude of Germany, was discussed by the
senate committee on military affairs to­
day, and the situation influenced the
committee on some matters pertaining
to the army appropriation bill, among
which was the decision to accept the
house provision relating to transports—
that they tie retained in the service.
The committee also provided for an
increase of electricians, skilled gun­
ners, machinists and others who take
care of and handle guns in the seacoast
defenses, borne other additions were
made in the bill with a view of improv­
ing the eervioe.
The discussion was general and earn­
est, and tho conclusions reached were
that the honor and dignity of the coun­
try would be maintained, and that
Germany should not be allowed to
“ bluff” the government by any attitnde
she might assume.
Will Retain Army Transports.
Washington, Jan. 31.— The senate
committee on military affairs today
made an adverse report cn Senator
Perkins’ amendment to the army ap­
propriation bill authorizing the secre­
tary of war to lease the army transports
for terms of five years and to award
contracts for transportation of troops
and supplies for a similar period. This
action is taken to mean that the com­
mittee favors a continuance of the pres­
ent transport service, sending by com­
mercial lines only such freight and sup­
plies as transports cannot handle.
MEXICANS STEAL BULLION.
They Break Into Bonded Car and Throw
Out $40,000 In Silver Bullion.
Alamogordo, N. M ., Jan. 31.— Some­
where between this place and El Paso,
Tex., a United States bonded car, in
transit from the El Paso smelter to
Chicago, loaded with 600 bars of si^ er
bullion, was entered by robbers and 80
of the bars stolen.
At Jarilla Junction the broken seal
was discovered, and an investigation
revealed three Mexicans in the car.
When an attempt w*as made to eject
them they palled knives and a lively
fight took place, in which the crew was
victorious and drove the robbers away.
At Dog Canyon Sheriff Hunter saw
three Mexicans, who took to the brush.
A call to halt was answered by a fusil­
lade. A running fight ensued. Hunt­
er shot a Mexican through the heart.
The other two men escaped, but posses
are after them.
Officials are of the
opinion that the bonded car was entered
by the robbers jnst outside of El Paso,
Keeping large quantities o f djnam lte who threw the bars out of the car, to
and gun powder In a wooden store In be gathered up by confederates.
The
a thickly settled portion o f an Incor­ value of the missing bullion is estimated
porated town, in close proximity to at $40,000.
many buildings and persons, Is held. In
Urged to Be Brutal.
Rudder vs. Koopman (Ala.) 37 L. R. A.
489, to constitute a nuisance which will
Chiacgo, Jan. 31.— Major General
render the proprietor liable for dam­ El well 8. Otis, in a lecture before the
ages caused to other persons In case students in the college of commerce and
o f an explosion, even if this Is due to administration at the University of
a fire which originated without his Chicago tonight, declared that promin­
fault on the premises o f a third per­ ent Filipinos urged him to pat down the
son.
rebellion in the Philippines by devasta­
tion and marder.
D o not read while lying down.
NO ANSWER YET
Bowen Still Waiting Reply to His
Demand from the Allies.
WAS
PRACTICALLY
AN ULTIMATUM
II Rejected, He Will Call Together Seven
Other Creditor Nation* to Protest
Claims for Preference.
Washington, Feb. 2.— The European
allies have not yet
answered Mr.
Bowen’ s proposition, made
several
days ago, that there shall he no prefer­
ence of claims of Germany, Great Brit­
ain and Italy against Venezuela over
those of other nations. Minister Bowen
thinks the delay shonld be construed
in a hopeful light, on the theory that
the delay in the answer of the powers
indicates that they realise the import­
ance of the matter.
He still expects
a favorable reply to his contention, and
believes that the questions at issne will
be settled at Washington,between him­
self, acting for the government of Ven­
ezuela, ;aud the representatives of the
powers.
It is reported that an answer to Mr.
Bowen’ s demand has been received in
Washington, hot the report cannot be
onfirmed officially, and the ans war,
if received, was not transmitted to Mr.
Bowen. If the answer did arrive, the
suspicion is that it was nnfavorable to
Mr. Bowen’ s contention, and in view of
his positive attitude in the matter, was
not not presented to him, but was with­
held by the representatives of the
allies, in order that they might again
impress upon their governments the
importance of the question before sub­
mitting a final answer.
It became known today that Mr.
Bowen bad addressed to the representa­
tives of the allies what might be re-/
garded as an ultimatum, as defining
his position.
Mr. Bowen declines
absolutely to discuss the question, bat
it is known that he said to the allies
that if they persist in their determina­
tion to receive preferential treatment
he would call together the other credit­
or nations having claims against Vene­
zuela, with a view to their making a
formal protest against the demands of
those who participated in the blockade.
The effect of this would be that the
other seven creditor nations would be
lined up against the three allied pow­
ers, with the result that the settlement
of the whole matter in all probability
might go to The Hague, if it is to be
settled at all. This note is believed to
be having its effect in staying the
final determination of the question by
the allied governments.
HAJtD WINTER IN ALASKA.
Much Snow and Temperature so Low that
Even Eskimos Suffer.
Ban Francisco, Feb. 2 .— Alaska is un­
dergoing the severest winter that has
visited the Northern country in 20
years. Even the Eskimos, who are ac­
customed to the cold, are suffering.
The little cod fishing schooner Pearl,
which has arrived from the North,
brings news of the condition of affairs
in the icebound land. The Pearl comes
from Unga, Alaeka, with 18,000 cod­
fish. Her officers stlte that the ther­
mometer at Unga fluctuated between 10
and 12 degrees below zero.
Snow has
fallen, covering the ground to a great
depth. The white men residing in
Unga were greatly affected by the cold.
The crew of the Pearl had also suffered.
The Pearl had a hard time fighting
her way out of the ice.
For 16 days
the schooner lay motionless in an ice
field, 200 miles from Unga. Only by
strenuous efforts was Captain Ipsen
able to free his vessel from the pack
and reach open water.
Cuba D on't W ant Spanish duns.
Havana, Feb. 2.— The interest dis­
played here in the claims presented
by the Spanish minister at Washington
for payment for Spanish guns left in
the Cuban fortress it only lukewarm,
and even if it shonld appear that the
ownership of the guns is vested in
Spain, it is not probable that the Cuban
government will consent to pay for
them. The guns in question number
40 in all, bnt all save four 11 and 12-
inch Krupp guns are considered of too
old a type to be worth purchasing;
Explosion In Oil Refinery.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 2.— As a result
of an explosion at the works of the
Standard oil company today, four men
were more or less injured. One of them
probably will die.
The others, it is
thought, may recover. A safety valve
on an oil still blew off and a tremend­
ous explosion of gas followed.
The
pecuniary lose is slight.
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