The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, September 15, 1908, Image 3
By ALBERT PAY
COPYRIGHT. 1908. B1
CHAPTER IV.
The Waltz.
ANCE with me!" repeated So
li ia.
The faroff orchestra had
struck up a dashing, gar
Jfarsovian air. Impelled by the music
and her glance of daring. Danilo sprang
forward.
In an instant the two were whirling
madly amid the Intricacies of a wild
Itussian daucc such as has for count
less centuries been performed from Si
beria's ieo plain to Tartar steppes?a
dance of youth, aginry. utter aban
don.
Yet as they came panting to a halt
at the last crashing note of musie the
face of neither reflected the exhilara
tion the swift motion and stirring
measures usually evoked.1 in fact. Da
nilo's brow wore a very perceptible
scowl. Sonia. too. was downcast. IIa:!
her rash experiment iVJled:
"You didn't enjoy that." said she.
"Not especially." he confessed. "Did
you?"
"No. You don't dance as well as you
did."
"You've probr.bly grown to prefer
French partners." be replied, piqued
at the reflection on bis dancing.
"From all I hear." she retorted, "you
have little right to reproach me on
that score. You dance a good deal at
Maxim's, don't you?"
"Now and then." be admitted.
"And with what sort of partners. I
wonder?" she scoffed, a touch of scum
in her sweet voice.
"With polite ones," said Danilo
Icily.
She winced ever so little at the re
proof and went on.
"I suppose you dance better with
them than with me."
"Possibly." be agreed1. "You see. I.
too. may prefer French partners."
She raised lier great dark eyes to
his. a world of meaning in them.
"Do you?" she asked, almost in a
whisper.
The distant orchestra had been play
ing agaiu. this time not a native air.
but a dreamy, infinitely sweet Vien
nese waltz. The opening uotes of the
haunting melody, though softened by
distance, were wafted none the less
distinctly to the listeuing couple.
Again their eyes met With a mutuaT-j
Impulse they drew toward each other.
Then began a dance as different from
the stillly eouveutioual ballroom waltz
as moonlight differs from a gasoline
flare. With more than a bint of the
free, marvelously graceful poses of
Slavonic dancers. Danilo and Souia- be
gan their wondrous waltz.
Throwing herself back Into the
strength of his circling embrace, the
girl's outstretched arms swayed like
wind blown lilies in rhythm with the
music, her light step scarcely tone-bin?
earth as the prince guided kcr through
*he mazes of 1 lie daucc.
It was a strange, dexterous blend of
east and west, of <tss?iu one*;;:! pos
toring and of gliding, modern waltz
steps?the very poetry of motion. Nor
from the first note until the last strain
of music died away did either dancer's
eyes leave the other's.
Lore, eager and eternal, was in the
gaze of each. Eye said openly to eye
''A luiiy went into the summer house v;;h
? <i ijcHllcinan."
what .snllen pride forced back from the
lips.
Then a last dreamy ehord and the
music was hushed. Danilo and Sen;:,
started, amazed, as though from sonic
vision of paradise. The widow, fearful
lest by Impulsive word she might
wreck her plan of bringing Danilo
ber feet, darted breathlessly away tc
welcome a now group of guests. The
prince, left alone, stared after her, open
mouthed. A clapping of applauding
bands aroused him.
"Bravo, bravo, my dear prince!"
wheezed. Oe SDlI^5E5ll2E. fcliiLne for
SON TERMINE
f HENRY W. SAVAGE
DMBBBOBiaaniBiBciiaonnni^
ward. "U nat a uefig?tiul luue dUncei
But is it customary to catch one's part
ner in a jiu jitsu grip like that, or is
it a fashion that has come in since my
waltzing days?"
j The old bore's feeble jest brought
I Danilo quickly back to earth and to a
sense of everyday surroundings.
I "Were you looking for meV" he asked,
none too civilly.
! "Only to see if you had succeeded
yet in finding who the lady is with
whom Pe Jolidon is in love. She must
be made to win him away from auy
ideas of marrying the widow."
"To blazes with that aud all the rest
of your silly plans!" shouted Danilo.
"Don't worry any more about the
widow. It's no use. I tell you. She is
going to marry a Frenchman in spite
of us all! Aud." he went on bitterly,
goaded by the chagrin and abject dis
appointment in Popoffs face. Tin go
ing to dance at her wedding."
"Going to marry a Frenchman, is
she':" yelled the distracted ambassa
dor. "Preposterous! I'll find a way
of stopping it.' And it is De Jolidon
she thinks of marrying;"
"What's that to me? I don't know
who she's engaged to. and"?
But PopofT waited to hear no more.
Catching sight of Nisb. he rushed upon
that unhappy clerk.
"Find M. de Jolidon!" he command
ed. "Keep your eye on him all the rest
of the evening. See if he makes love
to the widow and report to me. I
have already told Mine. Popoff to
sound him on the subject. Among us
all we ought to learn something before
we're done."
"You'll learn 'something' if you keep
on spying." muttered Danilo under Iiis
breath as he moved away. "But I'll
bet a year's income it'll be something
that will give you more surprise than
pleasure."
Dusk was falling. Above the myriad
colored lights that dotted Use garden
the moon was rising. Along one of
the hedged paths leading to the Stim
mer house a man and a woman were
slrolIi::g--Mme. Natalie Popoff and M.
de Jolidon;
"And so your worthy husband set
you the task of finding out whom i
am in love with'.-" De Jolidon was
saying.
"Yes." the ambassador's young wife
answered. "He Is afraid you will
marry the widow."
"Why shouldn't I?" queried De Joli
don jokingly. "You told me to."
"But?bill you won't, will you?" she
pleaded. "Why don'l you look at me':
What are you looking air"
De Joiiuou's eye; hail faiieu.on the
fan where It lay forgotten <?:i i he bible.
"The fan you lost and that your
husband pocketed," he said, bandln;:
it to her.
"Thank goodness!" Natalie exclaim
ed, seizing it; then:
"Lend me a pencil."
She wrote a sentence on the fan di
rectly beneath the three words be had
scribbled the night before at the ball.
"There." she sighed, handing it to
him; "keen that a.> a reminder.''
He held the fan up to the light and
read:
am?a?dutiful? wife."
?'Remember thai always," she ad
jured.
"Natalie!" he cried passionately.
"it is true?I am a dutiful wife. If
I have been foolish enough to listen to
your lovcninkilig, at least 1 have never
encouraged it. 1 have always rebuffed
you for conscience's sake. 1 am a dnti
rui"?
"Why remind me of the hopelessness
?if my love'/'' murmured De Jolidon.
"You may refuse to reciprocate it, but
von cannot prevent my telling you"?
"But I can. After this evening we
must not meet again. My husband
trust* me. This must be our farewell
interview. Don'l try to alter my pur
pose. I have made up my mind. Aft
j er this evening 1 shall never"?
"Natalie, you can't mean"?
"I do. This is the last talk we two
shall ever have together."
"Then." implored De Jolidon, "if it is
really to be our farewell iuterview.
why must we talk here in the garden,
where at any moment others may come
to claim your attention? Grant me a
final half hour of your society all to
myself. Let the talk bo uninterrupted.
Let us sit in the little summer house
over there. See?it is empty."
They entered the little inclosed ar
bor It was lighted by a string of
Japanese lanterns, and two rustic
chairs were at opposite sides of its
round ceuter table. There was a door
at.each end of the tiny room?an ideal
spot for a tete-a-tete chat now that the
moonlight had wooed most of the
guests out of doors.
The light wicker door swung shut be
hind the couple. Natalie quite en
joyed the prospect of listening to her
adorer's melodramatic words of fare
well and of posing herocially as a self
sacrificing, dutiful wife. In half an
hour at most she would rejoin her hus
band with the righteous consciousness
bi her heart of having dismissed for
ever ihe one man besides Popoff who
had ever made love to her.
So interested was Natalie in De Joli
dou's parting speech that she did not
hear the ambassador, just outside, de
elare excitedly:
"Nish. I'm sure I saw that summer j
house door elose behind a lady's skirt
Let's see who Is in there!"
(To be continued. I
The power of foes without depends
on the fears within.
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The best in the world.
SAVED FROM THE NOOSE.
Too Much Confusion in Witnesses'
(Jives Murderer but 20 Years.
In the Criminal court, at West
Chester, Pa., Angela D'Ermenegildo,
tne young Philadelphian, who was
charged with the shooting to death o(
Passuale deFelico and his son, Ales
? sandrc, on the streets of that bor
jough. one Sunday evening a few
jweeks ago. entered a plea of murder
I in the second degree. The plea was
accepted in view of conflicting testi
mony as to the facts of the crime.
The testimony was to tne effect
that Beuern in io DeGildo, who com
mitcd suicide and was an uncle of the
prisoner, had fired several shot at
Alessandro, the young shoemaker,
and then, when pursued by the mob,
believing that he had killed Alessan
dro, fired a bullet into nis own brain,
amid the shrubbery on the Veit lawn.
Judge Butler sentenced D'Ermene
gildo to serve 20 years in the Eastern
penitentiary, only one c?arge being
pressed by the commonwealth,
though it was claimed that the con
victed man had killed the two deFe
Iicos, and had wounded Patric. .7
phy id the leg and .Mike Saraceni on
the elbow. >
IN HARD LUCK.
Clerk in City Treasurer's Office Ar
rested for Embezzlement. ,
Chief Clerk Vital Tujague. of the
New Orleans city treasurer's office,
was placed in the parish prison
Thursday night on a charge of hav
ing embezzled about $30,000 in city
funds. Tujague was lormerly city
comptroller and has been actively
identified with local politics for many
years. The alleged embezzlement of
Tujague makes the fifth shortage of
a public official in New Orleans dur
ing the last IS months. *
Child Rescued From Hi^b Wire.
Little Sophia McTague, of South
Omaha, Neb., was playing on the roof
of a three-story building, last week,
when she climbed onto the coping and
fell off. Ten feet below her was a
mass of telephone wires. On these
she struck, grabbed them in her little
hands and held on tightly, yelling
as she dangled 30 feet above the
street. The child's brother leaned
far out of a window just by the wires,
grabbed the little one's clothing and
dragged her into the window un-i
injured. ?1
Took $75,000 From Miners.
Six feet, tall, handsome, well dress
ed and highly educated, Wilhelm De
Revy has been arrested at Cincitina
ti, O.. and locked up on the charge of j
embezzling $75,000 from three banks
in Uniontown, ra. Warrants for the
man's arrest had been mailed to,
Cincinnati authorities. It is alleged '
that the man was a bank clerk and j
that he failed to deposit large sums
that foreign-born miners in Pennsyl
vania gave him for that purpose. :>
Chicken Thief Killed.
Shot by a watchman. Peter Klossen,
at the poultry farm of W. S. Ginnell.
Garden City, L. I., Andrew Heinz
died, the next day, in a hospital from
his wounds. Heinz was shot about
midnight and had nine hens in his
hands when found by the watchman,
who had been given a gun to ward
off intruders. .Mr. Ginnell had been!
missing choice bens for some time
past. *-i
Thieves Hid Victim's Wooden Log.
Robbers who entered the house of
Oscar O'Harrah, railroad ticket agent
at Colliers, W. Va., hid his wooden
leg, and when he awakened he had
to lie, helpless, on his bed, and watch
them go through his clothes and steal
$125 in money and other valuables.
When they had finished, the burg
lars told their victim that he would
find his leg downstairs.
Fires Stiy Unabated.
A dispatch from Kort William.
Ont., says there is no charge for the
belter in the fire situation in this
section. The fire line now extends
from Grand Marias to Chicago Ray.
a distance of 25 miles, and it. is re
ported that the camp of the Pigeon
River Lumber company has been
destroyed. The fire damage in the
White Fish valley has b<-en very
great.
A Fatal Apple Hunt.
Daniel McKeever, 17 years old.
residing near London. Ont., was kill
ed near Pottersburg. He was out
shooting with some companions, and,
seeing tin apple tree in a field, jump
ed a fence, and using his rille as
a club, tried to kock theapples down.
The gun exploded, the shot entered
his body above the heart, tearing a
gaping wound. Death was instantan
eous.
Many Return to Work.
A large number of men returned
to work in the mining drstricf. last
week. The effort for a general re
sumption of operations in the Alaba
ma coal mines Is now on. and if is
estimated that during the week no
less than 10,000 men returned to
work after an idleness of over two
months.
(,'ot Him at fjnsl.
I Alleging thai ho is .lames C. Dun
ham, who 12 years ago. it is charged,
killed three men and three women at
Santa Barbara. Ca!.. Deputy United
Slates Marshal Lee McFe, on Thurs
day, caused th<- arrest of a man
known in the community in which
he had resided for a year. Whitmore,
Texas, as "Bill" Hatfield.
Bad Auto "Loop the Loop."
Their automobile turning turtle,
Paris Fletcher, a real etate man of
St. Paul. Minn., was killed aud his
wife was seriously injured last week.*
Dreams of golden streets will not
pass iu place of-deeds of the golden
rule.
DEATH ENDS POVERTY.
Wife's Letters Hint That She Might
Use Poison Also.
That desperation at his inability
to obtain work drove him to take
;.some subtle poison is the opinion
;jof the New York city coroner, after
>an examination of the body of C. H.
Brooks, who is thought to have gone
.to the metorpolis from Portland,
l Mo. In the dead man's pockets there
'Iwere found several letters, apparent
ly written by his wife, in which the
{writer threatened to kill herself and
(their children "if your next letter
jdoesn't 'ring something in the way
of encouragement." On the back
of the envelope of the letter, which
jwas addressed to "C. H. Brooks,
J1?9 Dnan street, care of W. L.
Ramage, with Armour & Co.," was
written:
"I don't feel as bad as I did when
I wrote this letter. Read between
the lines. I will write a better one
. Sunday. Cheer up?you will soon be
dead."
Y\T. L. Ramage, in whose care the
letters were addressed, declares that
he knew very little of Brooks. He
'haul that he beneved that at one
time Brooks had been a practicing,
physician, but had later become a
traveling salesman, it is the theory
of the coroner that the man, through
his knowledge of drugs, procured
and took some rare poison. An au
topsy wiil be performed to deter
: mine' positively the cause of his
:death. ?
WANT'S TO WED RICH WIDOW.
Young Athlete Furnishes New York
With Latest Romantic Rumors.
Fashionable sojourners at Sayville,
I L. I., a resort for the wealthy of New
I York, say no one will be in the least
surprised at any time to see an an
nouncement of the marriage of Mrs.
Edward Kelly, rich widow of the son
of Eugene Kelly and mother of Mrs.
Frank Oouhl, to Ralph Craft, 24
year old, athlete, yachtsman and
prime favorite all along the shore of
the Great South bay. He is an in
surance broker.
,: Mr. Craft has been paying Mrs.
Kelly very marked attention for a
year, has visited often at her. home
and has taken her on automobile
trips to Sayville. j
When the subject was broached to
Mr. Craft that gentleman did not
i seem in the least surprised. And,
what is more to the point, he did not
deny that he hoped to make Mrs.
j Kelly his bride. He did deny that
there is a formal engagement of mar
I riage.
I "It's all Vot," ,said Mr. Craft at
first, but he said it in a curious tone,
and when the name of one of Mr.
Craft's friends was mentioned as an
authority for the rumor that the mat
ter was being k?pt secret because
Mr. Craft, Sr., did not know of it.
the young man, a little off his gnnrd.
replied: "My father knows all about
it. He objects to it. But I don't see
what difference that makes."
85 STARS LEFT BEHIND.
Detachment From Battleship Fleet
Looking For Stragglers. J
A patrol from the American bat
tleship fleet is still searching for the
men who failed to go aboard 'heir
? ships when they sailed from Mel
bourne, Australia. These number 85.
Nearly all the stragglers left be
hind at Sydney returned to the fleet
A wireless message from the flag
ship Connecticut says that every one
aboa-d, from Rear Admiral Sperry
down, gratefully remembered Mel
borune, and that all considered the
Australian visit the greatest demon
stration of international friendship
in American history.
The Argus, reviewing the visit of
the fleet to Australasia, says in an
editorial: "A more orderly body of
men never landed. Officers and men
alike inspired sincere regard and es
teem: Never in history have two
countries of different flags found such
immediate and deep sympathy." *
Money Was Melted, But Not in Value.
While Frank Marks and his wife,
of Strongville, O., were away from
home, recently, robbers searched
the premises for the money which he
was known to possess, as he was dis
trustful of bauks. Incidentally, the
thieves fired the barn and the pig
pen. When Marks returned home
he searched the ruins of the pig pen
and surprised his friends by unearth
ing a lump of gold. He had hidden
his money, in gold coins, beneath the
pig pen floor, and the intese heat had
melted it. The lump was worth sev
eral thousand dollars.
Rood Horse Sense.
Only th'- fastidious sense of taste
of his horse, saved Robert M'C'or
mick, of Fat Mountain, Conn., from
losing $1,200 in bank bills, which he
had secured on selling his property,
a few days. McCormick, on return
ing from the bank, put the bills in
a sack of feed in tin- barn, thinking
the money safer there. The next
morning he fed the horse from I he
sack of feed which contained the
bills, and forgot all ahaul Mie money,
until his wife asked him, later, where
was. lb- rushed to the ham. rem
embering, but \u his great joy found
that the horse had not eati n the
money, lie had cleaned up I is food
but th-' roll of bills lay intact in the
manger.
Attentat Ity May Die of Wounds.
With both hands and arms swath
ed, a victim of blood poisoning, from
being bitten by wolves several times
during bis recent hunt in Wichita
mountains. United States Marshal
.lohn R. Abernathy. of Cut brie. Ok la..
President Roosevelt's guide who
["catches 'em alive," has returned to
his father-in-law's home, near Guth
rie, with his child-bride, with whom
he recently eloped. Abernathy may
develop hydrophobia as a result of
his wounds. *
FOUND NOT GUILTY.
Jury Returned Verdict in Case of
Dr. Linder.
A dispatch from Union says that
the case of Dr. \V. L. Linder, a prom
inent young physician of that city,
charged with killing Lucy Lipscy, a
jnegress. was given to the jury at noon
Thursday and they returned a verdict
of not guilty. Dr. Linder in his tes
timony toid of various threatening
letters, he had received from the wo
man and that he did not shoot her
until he saw her reach for her hand
satchel, in which he supposed she had
a pistol. The woman'^ dying state
men' was put in evidence by state, |
in which she declared she had not
threatened, him, hut loved him unto
death, would forgive him everything
and did not want him hurt. * ,
UTOPIAN DREAM SHATTERED.
St. Louis Millionaire Gives Up Plan
of Ideal Town in Indiana,
It is reported that the efforts ol
N. O. Nelson, the St. Louis million
aire philanthropist and idealist, tr:
onvert the little town of Dublin. Ind..
into a Utopian colony, have met with
failure. The people of Dublin took
little interest in his plans to erect
public buildings in which each citi
zen was to be a part owner. The pro
perty has been disposed of and will
be turned into a private residence.
At first there was a large number
of young men who took advantage
of the. philanthrophy of Mr. Nelson,
but the novelty wore off and the at
tendance fell away. Mr. N*els::n had
planned to spend about 100,000 in
Dublin enterprises.
Farewell Ride Ends in Tragedy.
Murder and suicide ended the fare
jwell ride of Joel P. Raker, a carpen
ter, and Mrs. Sylvia Hernice, a wid
[ow, of Vvabash. Ind., on Thursday.
It is said Mrs. Herince had planned
leave for Renton Harbor. Mich.,
where she was to have been married,
land her drive with Raker, an avow
ed admirer, was to tell him his fate,
'investigation showed that Raker had
(killed his companion while both were
lout of the buggy. He then loaded
her lifeless form into the vehicle and
[started to drive back to Wabash. On
the way he killed himself.
Romance of Charity Worker.
Nine years ago Mrs. Anne Dewees,
Iof Auderson. Ind., then an agent for
!the Indiana Children's Home society,
jtook an orphan for adoption to Farm
er R. W. Morrison's family, near Mo
j doc, Ind. Five years later Mrs. Mor
! rison died. Recently Mr. Morrison
met Mrs. Dewees, still in charity
work and proposed to her to take
charge of his home. As a result, the
two will marry soon. ?
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