The Republican journal., 1873-09-25
Through the Heart.
BY DIR. {. A. JANE.

BY DIR. {. A. JANE.
There was IL great party gathering at
supper in the Chry santhemum Club, which,
as everybody knows, is in Broadway,
nearly opposite the St Johns Hotel Some
ten on Il dozen young men were seated
round Il long table, some busily stewing
oysters IN silver chatingdishes, others
mixing wonderful salads, while more were
! slipping their Sauterne. and watching the
operations of their companions with Il sort
Of hungry interest One could see that it
was going to be a late affair, for at the
head of the table sat Otis Renshawe, and
wherever he was found there was great
laughter, hard drinking, and late hours
| AT present he was encompassed by con-
genial set. Chauncey Messenger, Frank
Cadelle and Il couple Of dashng young
! English officers, Just arrived from Canada
and honorary members of the Club, We're
in themselves quite enough to keep the
bali going.
| | belonged to the Chry ysanthemun-al-
though a sober medical man-because it
was to ne a most useful institution. Sub
ect to be called out of doors at a moment 5
notice, and in any weather, to witness
some mortal agony, | frequently found
myself on my return much exhausted, and
| in need OF some retreshment. The Chrys
anthemum supplied this need; when all
| public places We're closed, and even bar
rooms yeiled their lights, the life of the
ChlN santhemum began; and, as its doors
We're not closed until three in the morn
mo. and even then the judicious walters
winl1ed at in-comings, there was no place
in town suited my purpose better, albeit
it had the name Of being rather "tast''
concern.
"llalloo Doctor" cried Otis Renshawe
rs entered, having just come from ter
rible death-bed; '.ust in time for a capital
| stew or slice of canvas-back. There's
some Clos Nougeot warming on the man
tclpiece that's better, ! can tell you, for
| the constitution than any amount of your
| prescriptions.
'You wouldn't think so, Otis" | an
! sWertd, If YOU We're to know all the
scrapes got YOU out of before you had
any teeth. I'm afraid your Burgundy
wouldn't have done you much good at that
| tender age
by .Jove i wonder that can stand the
sight of YOU, Doctor,' said Otis, gravely,
IF | We're to put you to some awful tor
ture, ii would only be a fitting reward for
all the salts and SIENNA with which you
poisoned my youthful happiness"
.'Pshaw!n cried Cadelle with a sort of
sneer which was hahitual to him; lit was
all for your good, Otis If it were not for
the good offices of Dr. Jane you never
would have had the fine complexion with
which you dazzle Miss De Lupa."
Otis brow slightly contracted, as if the
speech somehow grated on his ear; but
quickly recovering, he joined heartily in
the laugh that was raised at his expense.
If | have dazzled Miss De Lupa," he
answered, smiling, $50 much the worse
People seldom look long at any thing thai
lazzles them: whereas | thought, Frank
that the other night at Mrs. Stuyvesant's s
| ball her eyes rested for q considerable
time, and with evident pleasure, on youl
finely formed features. She seemed to en-
JOY the prospect"
70 my utter astonishment instead OF
joining in the laugh that rang through the
room at this retort-tor at two O'Clock in
the morning men are not critical as to wit
Frank Cadelle grew pale as death, anC
said hlu'riedly: "Otis you will oblige me
by treating Miss De Lupa's name les:
familiarity
''Certanly, my dear tellown' replied
Otis, i'll perfect calmness, though ! coulo
see his ewes flash for an instant al have
obliged you more than once, and shal
be very happy to do so again
There was Il dead silence for Il moment
The men around the table looked at one
another with Il puzzled air. then one Of
the English officers, Il Captain Garth
dashed headlong into conversation and
succeeded in breaking the dangerous
pause. | saw better than those at the
table perhaps, that there was an under
current in all this. Although old college
companions, members of the same club
and apparently excellent friends, there
had always been a rivalry between Franz
Cadelle and Otis Renshawc. Frank was
handsome fellow enough but somehow
Nature had not destined him to be an in
tellect.lal light of the age. At college
Otis Renshawe, who entered at the same
time, had beaten him at everything; no
alone at Latin theses and Greek hexame-
ters but at pistol-shooting and gymnas
tics; and us to Otis Renshawes game o
billiards, ii was at the same time Franz
Cadelle's admiration and dispair. AS ottel
happens, circumstances CHANGED SO tina
this rivalry continued into after life
Neither of the young men We're rich, ant
when the beautiful millionaire, Miss CART.
De Lupa, who was said to possess cavern
in Mexico where the stalactites were silver
and the stalagmites gold-when this tai
foreigner burst into the charmed circle o
New York society, it was not wonderful
that Masters Frank and Otis found them
selves, very much to their mutual disgust
bowing the knee at the same shrine. Fo
the sake of Miss De Lupa's reputation, a
n girl of fashion, 1t must be said that sht
oscillated between her two admirers will
almost perfect impartiality. If she danced
the German with Otis, she was sure to cal
out Frank when it was his turn; and i
Frank accompanied her to the theatre, sh'
gave to Otis, who always contrived to b'
on the opposite side of the house on thes'
occasions, one of those mysterious, becaus,
lmperceptible, signals with her fan, whicl
brought him to her side between the acts
ii will be easily seen, then, that it did no
require much wind to fan into a flame tn
sparks of rivalry that lay smoldering il
the young mems bosoms.
In spite of the artificial hilarity whicl
Captain Garth and his companions ha'
succeeded in promoting subsequent to tn
dangerous fragment of alteration tina
took place just after had entered, l coult
not help feeling a sensation as of comins
misfortune. l can not explain why thi