Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 March 1891 — Page 2
III.—A MIXIXG OF PICKLES.
By Maj. ALFRED 0. CALHOUN. Illustrated by T. A. FITZGERALD.
[Copyright. All rights nwrv,M Henry Hon.-h ill in k*spair.In vain lie trieil to banish the shadowy ideal from his heart by a greater devotion to his art. Whether he worked at a landscape or a marine scene the face of the lx'autiful jtivl he had seen on the cars would appear in the foliage or rise from the waters like another Undine.
A hundred times he would turn away from the canvas, thinking by force of will to dispel the torturing illusion, but •:as it was the creation of his own brush it would not vanish.
One afternoon ho dashed his palette anil brushes on the studio floor, and, springing to his feet, called out in voice of agony: "Merciful powers! Am 1 never again to paint anything but that face? Can I never again think of anything but that facer"
As if in reply to his question a quick double rap sounded 011 the door behind him. and in response to his nervous "Come in" Tom Woglv, his own private detective, stood before him, his face as impassive us a tobacconist's Indian.
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"-•I ny news, Tomt"
"Any news, Tom?" cried the desperate young man, and he looked as if an immediate homicide would follow a reply in the negative.
But Tom Wogly showed no alarm. Shaking onl the crown of his soft felt hat he looked carefully inside, as if trying to discover how ho had lost the lining. and then answered with that double antiquity for which ancient oracles and modern detectives art? alike celebrated: "Well, sir. there ain't nothin'as you might call downright startling to report. I ain't got wliat I'd call a reg'lar straight tip on the gal, but I kinder think I'm onter the heavy villain gent, jidgin' entirely by the face in the pictur'. If you (lrored that face right, why" "Where did you see him?" interrupted Henry Henshall. vnd he picked uphishat to be ready to dash out when he got the information. "It w.is last night, sir, a falkin' to a mysterious woman, whose face was hid by a veil. Them two was right under .Lufyot'a stater,
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the woman acted as if her dander was np and she didn't care who knowed it: ami the man he tried to soothe her and *et her an example of street etiquette by talkin' low. "Well. I sneaked round to see what I could hear, but the man got onto my little game, and hurried to a cab that was standin' near, and as he drove off he railed out, 'I'll see you. Louise, some hour to-morrow night:' then I tried to talk to the veiled lady, but she threatened to rail the jjolice. I ajKilogized. and she itarted off at a go-as-you-please gait that would luivc won lirst money at a walking match if she could keep it up. "1 shadowed her to Second avenue, near Seventeenth street, where she vanished into an every day kind of hoarding house. That's the report, sir, anil if you could let me have another fifty to hire aside partner, for I've got to have one or die for the want of sleep, why, I'll credit you with it when the job's over, .which Ihope'll be very soon."
After this long speech Tom Wogly aonglied into his hat until the crown threatened to hurst, and Henry Henshall .handed him five ten dollar bills.
The young man was about to question the detective further when a heavy step ..was heard outside then the door ojiened without, any preliminary knock, and a handsome old gentleman, with a troubled face, entered and said: "Harry, my eon, I mast sec you alone at once."
The detective jammed the money into flia 1locket and liis hat on his head", and vanished with a curt "Good day, gents!" "What is the matter, father? You look troubled," said Henry, as ho placed a chair for his unexpected visitor. "Then I look as I feel," replied Mr. Henshall, with a groan that came from his heart. "On the top of the failure of Biggins & Lewis, our westorn agents. I this morning learned that my cashier Aaebewi faithless. He fled to Canada on Saturday, and a harried examination of his books shows that he lias robbed me of at least $200,000." "But yon are rated at a million surely you can weather tho storm," said Henry, hope rather than reason prompting his words. "If yon woro a business man, as I wanted you to be," said Mr. Henshall impatiently, "yon would know that a man's rating by an agency is never an evidence pf the_cjislijip can. copupaRd."
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Then, rising from his chair, ho laid his hands on his son's shoulders, looked eagerly into his eyes and added, "Harry, you can save me if you will!" "I, father?" and behind the old gentleman Honry Henshall saw the Undino face peering at him from tho pictured water on the easel. "Yes, you, Harry. Sit down and when I have told you all 1 am sure you will fall in with my purpose, for I have been to you a good father, and I feel that you will be to mo a dutiful son."
Henry sat down, and, taking a chair facing him, his father went on to explain his troubles. "1 am in tho power of one man," he said, "and by a scratch of his pen he can ruin or save me." "Who is that?" asked Henry. "Edward Hartman." "The banker?" "Yes, Edward Hartman, Lena Hartinan's father. Harry, you and Lena played together as children, and Mr. Hartman and I—wo were neighbors and good friends in those days—often laughingly spoke of the marriage of you and Lena. From that time to this she has loved you. She is an only child and her father is worth §0,000,000. "If you will call on her at once I may get time to think, and if you ask her to marry you it will save "me and your mother from an old ago of poverty, and in the end you will bless the day that you took my advice."
Mr. Henshall held out his trembling hands appealingly, and Henry, who sat with his back to the picture, took them «nd said impulsively: "I would give my life gladly to save you from trouble, father, so I will do as you request though it will be unjust to Lena Hartman to offer her my hand when I cannot give her my heart."
Rejoicing much at his son's obedience Mr. Henshall left the studio. Then Henry turned to the easel, and more distinctly than it had yet appeared he saw the beautiful, mysterious face looking up appealingly from the water.
He contrasted this exquisite ideal with the real Lena Hartman, the art child that haunted him sleeping and waking, with the large, full faced and stupidly good natured banker's daughter.
Henry Henshall's mind was certainly in an unusual state of perturbation, but it was placidity itself compared with the condition of his unknown idol.
The sudden disappearance of Mr. Crawford and his family from No. 3— West Thirty-eighth street was at the suggestion of Dr. Watson, whose keen ears and sharp eyes were quick to discover the hourly increasing curiosity of their neighbors in the apartment houso, and it was Dr. Watson who secured the new and moro secluded quarters on Kowenhaven place, near Sixty-seventh street aijd Central park.
Being retired, well furnished and on the ground floor, the new apartments were preferable to the old ones, and Miss Brown, the governess, who of late had shown a coquettish interest in Mr. Crawford, declared to Edna that it was "a perfect little paradise of a homo."
To Edna Crawford, who seemed to have lost in'erost in life, it mattered not where she was or whither she went, so that tin.' place offered her a refuge from the haunting eyes of Dr. Watson.
To avoid meeting this man at table she feigned sickness aiul had her meals berveil in her room: but the very means used to avoid him brought him into her presence with an eager tender of his professional services.
When he was out of sight site loathed him when he was near, with his strange eyes burning into her face, or his fingers pressing her pulse, while he pretended to look at his watch, she was as powerless to resist as a bird under the fascination of a snake.
Fortunately, the doctor was now away tho greater part of every day, and Edna would take advantage of liis absence to comfort herself with the magic violin.
She shunned her father, because he was forever sounding the praises of the doctor: and, for the same reason, she avoided Miss Brown as much as possible, though that lady's increasing devotion to Mr. Crawford did not escape her notice.
One evening after sup)er she heard Dr. Watson saying to her father in the hall, "I expect to see a party'from the west to-night, and if there is anything of importance to communicate I'll wake you up 011 mv return after 12."
To this Mr. Crawford replied in a nervous voice: "If there is not a certainty of arranging the terms, so as to prevent publicity, we must sail for Europe on Saturday. I feel as if 1 could not hold up much longer under the strain."
After tho doctor had gone out Mr. Crawford camo into his daughter's room, and, to his great delight, sho was less excitable and moro demonstrative in her affection than usual.
After an hour's talk sho kissed him good night, saying that sho felt weary and would lie down, and requesting him to toll Miss Brown that sho need not see her again till morning.
As soon as her father had gono out Edna quickly placod her violin and several rolls of music in the case, then hurriedly put all her jewelry and a change of clothing into a little valise and lowered the light.
Sho waited for an hour after Miss Brown had gone to bed in the adjoining room, then quickly put on a street dress, and carrying the valise and violin case left tho house as noiselessly as a shadow.
Looking neither to the right nor left She made her •jvay to the Third Avonuij
Elevated road and took a car bound south. She got out at Fulton street, utterly iguorant of her whereabouts, and quite as uncertain as to her destination, but to her greut joy sho saw a respectable looking hotel near tho station, and this she entered with a confidence of manner that in no way indicated her feelings.
Sho wroto her naino on a blank card "Miss Louisa Neville," and asked the waiter who appeared in tho parlor to have her registered and a room assigned her.
She had fiS la mtlih, besides her jewels, and ijk, so sbfl taought, would enable her to lifo till sho could find a place for the oasroisB of her talents.
Althongu JwTigry, Edna Crawford went down to the dining room tho following morning, and while waiting for her coffeo she looked over a paper that lay on tho table.
It was a copy of that morning's World, and a glance at tho "want" columns decided her us to what sho should do next,.
After the merest apology for a breakfast she put a veil over her hat and hurried to The World office, 011 Park row. Sho was about to write out an advertisement, applying for the position of governess, when a handsome, middleaged man, with a refined German face, raised his hat and said, as ho handed her a slip of paper: "Bleaso to ogskuse me, mees, but I am not sure if miue is goot English. 1? dot spelled ride?"
With a flushed face and trembling hands Edna read tho following: WANTED—Immediately, a young lady who coo piny violin solos in a European concert oomjanv Apply in person and with own instrument ». Herr Karl Steinmetz, No. Union square. New York.
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|To he continued.]
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Under a much more sueeosFfui treat in («*t that Dr. Huntsinver has been using for Uit* piidt seven months, his practice has greatly Increased. The Doctor now treats more Ey©, Bur. Noso aud Chronic Catarrh patients wrMi Milder remedies and better and quicker eurc*» tftiun ever before. This treatment is especially iufted to Children nnd peculiarly sensitive* persons.
Special attention to the l.ot.geHt Stnnriiaj and moat I*ittlcuit vttHvh to Cure. Also a). Jtargtcul hk Cataracts, Ctohh Fye*,Ieforinitien, etc. Operations onthcKye Ball porformed without Pain.
A neglected or badly treated Chronic Catarrh Is Uie greatcau.se ol so much deafness in the middlcaged aud elderly people, alsoofeonsumption. A chronic discharge from the ear te very dangerous to life, as it is liable to cause mood poison or brain disease. Consultation free.
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KKi'KKKNG^, Geo. D. Hurley, attorne} M. law, son Frank, discharge from earsaud Joafness John K. Court noy.lawyerjson,bad eye mdears G. L. Mills, deafness etc., twentyyears standing Gils Mnyer, daughter vontlned nine mom hs in dark room wit violent eye disease, cutting total blindness Israel Patton. total blindness from eatarucl Miss Claru Alston, violent. ulceration of eve hall: Smith,wife, eye disease: A. K. Itiiyles«. tin iher. tye disease: Dr. James Thompson, deafm *B,au 'f Crawlordsvillc. Hon. Silas Peterson, doafness, had case. Potato Creek: Frank Pow. rs ehironic catarrh, hanker. Colfax: Congressman W, D. Owens, Logansport, discharge from ears and deafness Judge Wuugh.
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