Richmond Palladium (Daily), 22 November 1901 — Page 6

lUCIIMOSD !A1LY PA IX VDIU3I, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1901.

THE COURTSHIP OF VANDYKE K. BROWN

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' Ixtndon society experienced a reiuarkable thrill when Vandyke K. Brown, tLe young American niultimil1 ion a ire, announced bis intention of crossing tbe "herring pond" in (search of an English bride. Aristocratic matrons trotted out their marriageable daughters as bait for this Cru.sus and spent fortunes at the milliner's. Of course the wise knew all along that be would choose his bride from Kajjlisb society or, if not, he might find a suitable mate among the fair gaiasy ofi

ladies on the west end stage. One or other was Inevitable. But Vandyke K. Brown did not carry out any of the maneuvers already plan ned for blin. One day be calmly shaved off his mustache and beard and. as Burning the commonplace appellation of Richard Seymour, set out alone for England. Society on both sides of tin Atlantic was disgusted at thus being given the slip and for the nonce felt completely baffled. It was a briubt June morning, and

Richard Seymour, as he should uow be called, was seated In a first class rail way carriage at Iondon Bridge station waiting for the train to carry him down to the quiet little watering place of Westbrook, where he contemplated upending a couple of months In seclu sion and enjoying himself. So far he bad eluded capture by society and laughed at its futile efforts to thrust him Into a fashionable marriage.

lie was the only occupant of the car

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and fell va the wavelets as tbey watched the red sun sink Into the sea. I think we understand each other well enough to eak without restraint don't we? be remarked casually as be drew in the oars. "I suppose so, said Madze Wiltnc slowly, lowering her Lead, for she fel the color creep to her cheek, although his back was toward her. "In that case would it surprise yov very much if I told you that I Ioe yoi adore you? His earnestness caused him to half turn in his scat ""o that is, yes. it might. He laughed. "Weil. Madge, it's tic anyway. I'm afraid I'm a silly f-ikw

at u.akiag love, because I've bad no experience in such matters. I can oal; ask you to Iwlieve me when I ay tha I love you with my whole heart any soul." . ? . He threw his legs over the seat am' faced her. She vouchsafed no reply but be knew his words had made as Impression, so be took her hand.

"I do believe you," she said at length, I

but there was sadness in her tone. Vhy. Madge, you're crying!" She brushed aside a few stray tears and bravely looked him in the face. "You have made a confession to me and I in turn will make one to you, she said. "I loved you the first time I saw you." "Madge r "But listen. Father and mother liked you. too, until you told them that you were a traveler for a firm of jam makers. Iick, can't you change your calling, because because I ask It?" For the first time that day Seymour

felt nonplused. Haphazard he hail styled himself a commercial traveler In order to make his incognito the more complete, and the result was unexpected. At first he was half inclined to tel" her everything, but before he came to a decision she continued: "It is difficult, I know. Perhaps I

the train was on the ougni not to nave asseu it. nut. ou.

move the door was thrown open, and a IJick, I don t know how to tell you

man in a large brimmed felt hat jump- everytniug.

ed In. Seymour looked up as a porter He started ami looked mto ner race. tmnrei the d.mr with a crash as onlv "You are hiding something." lie said.

porters can and then continued the Suddenly she covered her face with Study of his morning paper. hands and burst into tears. Before he reached Westbrook he "Yes, I am. That wretched man! found himself in a dilemma. Firstly, h. that wretched man r she sobbed, a paragrapli in the paper proved that "Madge, dearest, whatever is the he would have some difficulty in main- matter? What wretched mau?" taining Iks lacognito after all. for it "Mr. Vandyke Browu." announced his intended visit to West- He turned his head away and with brook. Now. this on the face of it was effort restrained himself from burst atrange, because he had revealed his se- out laughing. But the gravity of cret to no one. Secondly, a careful ex- the situation soon stifled his mirth, amination of his fellow traveler's face "What the man they are making all caused hfrn to start, for the man be- this fuss over in Westbrook? I camr fore him ltore a striking likeness to down in the same carriage with him himself prior to his having undergone What has he to do with you?" the shaving operation. He therefore "Nothing: only he's been making love began to wonder whether the para- to me, that's all." graph In the paper referred to himself "Th? dickens he has!" Seymour or to the other man. who so nearly re- clinched his teeth, lie began to think eembled Vandyke K. Brown as New the joke had been carried too far. "Tell York knew him. me the facts of the case," he said But on reaching Westbrook his gravely, doubts were at once set at rest Step- The girl dried her eyes and looked

ping on to the platform, he was aston- P w'tl a smile. Isbed to see the town band drawn un "l must first tell you that fathe: In aline preparing to enliven his ears knows Mr. Granville-Martin, the maywith breezy music. Moreover, the may- or of Westbrook. or. in all his robes and paraphernalia "Fatheaded lunatic!" muttered Seyof office, was waiting with his council- mour, referring to the official in quesors to receive some one, and the entire tion. population of Westbrook, visitors in- "An1 he recommended us to come eluded, seemed to have crowded Into here for a holiday. Well, when we had the road thai ran parallel with the sta- bton iu the toyrD about a week we tion. heard that this Mr. Vandyke Brown All thU Seymour took In at a glance had arrived here also, and soon afterand then hesitated as to whether he "vard father received an invitation Bhonld make a bolt for It. But there from Mr- Martin to meet him at lunch was no need. The mayor came forward in t,ie town hall." and. passing him without so much as a Seymour groaned. look, went straisrht up to Seymour's fel- "Father is so awfully silly and low traveler, who was now struggling thinks that because he's well known with a weighty portmanteau, and held an1 has lots of money I ought to marry out bis hand. him. And he's come over from Ameri "Welcome. Mr. Vandyke Brown." he ca to find a wife to- Just 113 if there aid affably. weren't plenty of women in his own The other looked up. surprised, and wintry good enough for him!" then grasped the outstretched hand "But you have met him?" wlh decision. "Y'es; that's the unfortunate part of "Good morning, Mr. . Whom it all. He took a fancy to father, and have I the pleasure of addressing?" when he came to our house he was Oh, my name's Martin. I happen to TerT friendly to me too friendly, In r be the mayor of Westbrook." tact. And now that you've let that out "Pleased to meet you, I'm sure., 1 about being a traveler father and expect my visit to this town will be a mother are bent on my marrying him. cry pleasant one. But I never antici- 1 tell you. Dick. Vandyke Brown's ! pated such a reception. I must con- caJ. n1 1 hate him! The first thing fess that I was in hope I should not be he did this morning was to borrow recognized." money from father leeause he said he "In that case I must ask your pardon had left his checkbook behind." for our Intrusion. But we thought we "This is more than a joke." murmur- i ahould like to show our appreciation of ed Seymour. "I must find out what your choosing Westbrook for a hoU- the fellow's up to. But, hang it all, if i day." respouded the urbane magnate I betray myself there's an end to all i meekly. peace until I've tied the knot with : Just then the band struck up "See. some one." Then, aloud, he added, j the Conquering Hero Comes" Sey- "But how do you know he's in love j mour thought there wa: a distinct hu- with you?" 1 mor lu the selection of the tune and "Because he asked me to marry him j the twain moved off. Some outrageous aD-d So back to America with Mm iui- ; mistake had been made accidentally , mediately. But you'll meet hiia. your- -j

for on purpose; but by whom? And J OQ ".hursciay evening when you j who was the pseudo Vandyke K. I come to dinner with us. Don't be rude j Brown. He thought it would be better' to him. whatever you do. or it'll make 1

to let things remain as they were, for the present at any rate, although he resolved to kep his eye upon his impersonator. ' "But for cool cheek that man takes the biscuit, with the factory thrown In." he muttered. And when be had ordered a porter to ;plle Ids unpretentious luggage on the . too of a cab he turned away and indulged In a hearty laugh. ; Seymour's ojblect in coming to Engiland had been attained he had fallen ; In love, rie scarcely knew how it hapfpened. bnt before he had been In West brook a week he found himself bope-

. iessiy struggling wun tne nrst symp-i j toms: not that she was a society or the- j atrk-al beauty, a Venus to look upon! or anything of tbit sort. From what ; t toe could gather she was the nlv ,'

, daughter of a country squire; pretty but not beautiful, and be. being the re verse to quixotic by nature, soon realised that he had found the woman be I was seeking. j It was the seventh evening of his vls- ; it. and their acquaintance bad ripened wondrously. Aey were sitting tojj0rtber,la a small rowboat that rose

our case more hopeless than ever."

adju-ned to the drawing room, whither he found the pseudo Vandyke K. Bi-urt a aMid the mayor had already preceded him. Formal Introductions followed, but Seymour played his game carefully, and it was not until the met! was half over that he had much to say to the guest of tha evenlug. The dessert bad been placed on tbe table, and the servants had withdrawn. From time to time Mrs. Wiimot had fiven hints about her desire to see her daughter well married, and at the present moment a discussion was taking place between herself and the impostor as to the girl's curious ideas concerning the matrimonial market. "I think you'll admit, Mr. Vandyke

Brown." said the lady, with a touch of hauteur, "that Madge is good looking

and ought to make a brilliant match.

We want her to have some soul above

jam!" "Yes. yes; but may I ask to what you refer?" "Oh, only a former lore affair of hers, that's all. It's past and done with

I now.

"I'm glad of that. There may-be some hope for me, then," he remarked brutally. -r Seymour felt Mrs. Wilmot's eyes upon him, and, looking across the table at Madge, he noticed that her cheeks were on fire. His blood begau to boll."'; "It's very strange that you should have forgotten me so soon, Mr. Vandyke Brown," he said pleasantly. The person spoken to looked tip quickly and ?egan to fidget with the stem of his wineglass. Mrs. Wilaiot likewise pricked up her ears. As It

happened, the mere fact that the despised commercial should boast acquaintance with such a magnate as the millionaire raised him a hundredfold It her esteem. ' '"I soon forget faces because I see so many in the course of the year. Might j I ask where I hd the pleasure of meeting you?" asked t!-. great man with condescension when he hud re

covered his equanimity. "We had three weeks' loating together just before you left New York." Mrs. Wilmot's opiniou of. Seymour was going up by leaps and bounds. The Impostor's spirits were, on the contrary, sinking to zero. He stared hard at the interlocutor and doubtless saw his doom pronounced in his eyes, for he paled visibly. However, he meant to fight hard to the end. "How curious! I thought when you came in that I had seen your face somewhere, but for the life of me I couldn't remember when or where. I have a fearfully bad memory, you know." "Is that so? I was nnder the impression that you had a very good one, as you remembered me when we met In New York, although we had not seen each other for seven years." The antagonists, unable to give vent to the anger that consumed them, looked daggers at each other across the table without speaking. But he

v."La had assun.i'd the role of millionaire for some purpose as yet unknown to - anybody but himself was well aware that Seymour was pl,-iylng"Vrith him as a cat might with a mouse; Every one else, mystified at the strange

turn the conversation had takeu. suffered It to continue without Interfering. "And now that I have met you again, old boy, I'm going to book you for that $100 you borrowed of me at the station before I left, ha, ha!" added Seymour, laughing. "Didn't I send you a check? Really my memory is becoming terrible. You shall have it this moment." To hide his confusion he pulled a checkbook from his pocket, together with a fountain pen, and. opening the former, laid it flat on the table. Then just as tbe strange individual threw a filled In check across the table and was sipping his wine a hurried knock came at the door. Before Wiimot could reply a domestic with a scared look burst into the room, followed by three police Inspectors. The "millionaire" was on his feet In an instaut to face the intruders, and his hand on the back to the chair quivered. "What's the meaning of tfcis extraordinary conduct? What do you want?" demanded Wiimot. who had risen also and stood staring from one person to another. Meanwhile Mrs. Wiimot was perilously near swooning. "I'm sorry to intrude, sir." said the foremost representative of the law, who displayed a paper suggestively in his hand, "and I will explain everything in a moment. Iiogers and Harris, arrest that man in the king's Danic," he srtiieil. pointing to the scoundrel who jwtsod ;is Vandyke K. Brown. 'Now. sir, I am at your service. This j man is not tbe American millionaire, i bnt a f. rser who's been wanted by the j

lard for some months back. As you do r;ot appear to be nwartn sir, the real

Mr. Brown arrived in this country In- !

cognlto, being clean shaved, and for a

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m our mris.

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MARTYR TO SCIENCE.

Views of Mtsa King. Inoculated Witn Tubrre oloili Germi. Miss Emma II. King, who has been inoculated by Dr. George D. Barney of Brooklyn with serum from a consumptive cow. was In splendid spirits the other day, says the New York

Journal. "I never felt bettter In my life." she declared. "I am in excellent health. The fever following the inoculation has entirely disappeared, and my temperature, pulse aud respiration are now normal. 1 really have no fear as to the result of the experiment. I expect to develop the first symptoms of consumption and then to be entirely cured of the disease by Dr. Barney, in whom I have full confidence. "It is not true that 1 am a professional nurse. I am interested in medicine from a purely lay staudpoirt. I believe in Dr. Barney's cure and am confident that after he has made a consumptive of me he will make me well again. "I was not able to go out much today owing to the bad weather, but In spite of the absence of my usual exercise I felt in grand condition. My pulse and temperaiure became normal and my appetite was good. 1 expect to develop consumption, but in the meantime J am not worrying much about it. "I have to laugh at the newspaper suggestions that the health officials should interfere with Dr. Barney's ex-

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"I wonder they asked me to" meet a! long rime he was successful in hiding

A Word of Warning. "Xow, Hani." said .Noah in kind but

get a doctor, so we gave

I Kit g s New Discovery, which gave j quick relief atd permanently cured lit. We a! wavs keen it in the house

you were invit

ed, and so was Vandyke Brown, before you said what you were. So now they couldn't withdraw the invitation without being positively rude. But be careful, Dick, because they're trying to part us by stealth." Thursday evening, then, we will have some fun. rejoined Seymour sotto voce as he picked up the oars and rowtd furiously in the direction of the shore. Seymour scarcely knew how to act toward his rival when he presented himself at the house the Wilmots bad taken for the season at o'clock on the following Thursday evening. At first he had decided to telegraph to his Lcn don banker to come down and prove fcls identity, but upon second thoughts he resolved to try and drive his enemy vanquished from the Ceid without betraying his incognito, j .After fasTing arranged his toilet be

firm tones as he noted the approach of f and whOOPiDg cough. It cured me Thankag.vm. "I want yon to bear j of chronic bronchial trouble that no

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millionaire. Knowing that l was only j his identity. Taking advantage of this.

xravewr. saia Seymour, ignoring ner the man we have arrested and who is j

remark. "Well, it's like thi

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throv us off the scent by disguising himself and posing as the missing millionaire, with the result already known to yon." So saying the inspector made a grab at the criminal's beard, which came away in his hand. -It's a very good disguise, sir. as you may se but it didn't deceive the law. The gentleman on the other side of the table is the real Mr. Vandyke Brown." -How do you know that?" roared Seymour.

"Can you deny it, sir?" asked the inspector. -No. I cannot. I am Vandyke fv. Brown. from America, and. with voor permission. Wiimot, the lady opposite me will shortly be my wifethat Is, if she has a soul above jam And even Mrs. Wiimot was eventually bound to confess that she knew he couldn't be a Jam maker, after JL Peony Pictorial Magazine.

your instincts for the wore American. ?

Right HpTf. Novelist I'm so sleepy I can hardly keep uy eyes open, and I must finish this chapter tonight. His Wife Wait t:ll 1 get the butcher's bilL I'm sure that will open your eyes. Cincinnati Enquirer.

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It Would Be Too Coatly. -Women never go shopping in Turkey as they do here, do they?" -WelL I should say not It would put an end to polygamy in mlirhty short order if they did." Chicago I'ost.

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