St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24

manageable he or she Is quietly killed of
and easily resuTecIed when an uneX-
pected emergency in the development of the
plot requires his or her presence. Regard
ing the grammatical difficulties which ham
per inexperienced writer's, tle gifted au-
thOreSs has shown an equally Independent
spirit, amounting at times 10 sublunity.
The plot itself il fearfully and wonderfully
made. and furnishes both mystery and gore
enough To satisfy the most ardent admrer
of that kind of literature. Treating. as il
does. of the dark and dreadful romance of
a Mexican family OF wealth residing i'm
New York. it is clothed in warmth of
language and oriental spendOr cOmmingled
with metropolitan magnihcence such a. no
other author has yet succeeded in depicting.
The heroine is no common mortal, but one
with
An angels decp-frnged violet eyes; whose
perfect arms aud plnken, dainty shoulders
CLEAN like tinted ulnDastcr through net OF
costly gems boughten with her husbands
money.
And then the quiet dignity with which
this angel rebukes criticism OF her uncOuth
and unwecOme Mexican relative who is
visiting her.
..Remember. Mrs Marshland. she is nv
guest" aud the lads has az injured air which
seems wholly TO discOuntenance such I'M
ncard-of proceedings in her house, beyond
her control.
As, indeed, they are.
The persistence. too. with which the pol
ished villain visited the house, is cOncisely
set forth:
DefOe came often;
Defoe came very often.
When the general disappears mark how
subtey, In the ambiguous accusation,
which the generals son makes against his
fathers wife, the reader is left in unceT
tainty rs To the old mans fate.
Whether is it better TO let him die for,
though you kill him, / believe that from the
innate treachery OF your nature you will
never let him know who did the deed, or shall
eud his blindness by telling him who you
are what you are, and myself kill him with
those wordsg'
This despite the fact that the general sup
p0sedly had already taken his departure for
u better land. In the meanwhile the
Younger Zardec's Indian wife comes TO New
York from Mexico in search of her husband.
whom she finds surrounded by guests in his
fathers mansion. Though having just
alighted from the train. she is clothed in
regal robes and naturally enough makes an
impression when Zardec int, OduceS her Ia
the assemblage as his wife. Here the gifted
authOress finds it necessary TO recall hiStOr-
ical precedents to properly do justice to the
occasion.
'-Oh, my consciencel I don't know how
they ever got along with IL. II IL had not
been that they could remember Cleopatra and
PocahoutHs and Montezuma and Henry VIII.
and the Prince OF Wales. etc., ETC., IL would
nave been impossible To do so.
''Oh. dear Really, you sec these were all
Of our very best society-not the faster set.
These were the dignified and exclusive"
Rapidly the scene shifts for moment 10
town in Minnesota. not that the charac-
tiers thus introduced are necessary 10 the de
yelOpment of the story, but simply To give
evidence of the priters patriotic spirit. A
youth and maiden, possess ng a capital of
So. 43 yet married and start for MnneapO-
lis. but mysteriously find their way To New
York. Their departure is much commented
upon by the neighbOrS, and we are Informed
with b ting sarcasm that
Each one took the greatest pleasure to in
form the mother and sister. at no matter
what violence 10 Their OWE feelings, OF al th.
disagreeable things which some other indiv,-
uai had said. This method of performing this
Christian duty is exclusively the character OF
Minnesota people.
The story shifts back to New York again,
but. soon firing of metropolitan splendOr.
the authoress hurrieS fondly back to the
Northwest and tenderly inquiries:
And how is the calf with the patch all this
timer She has grown to be famous COW.
aud her home is IN the prairies of Minnesota.
So If We wish TO know about the calf or tine
Frawleys we must cross 10 them there.
In time the beauty of the Minnesota fam
ily drifts 10 New York and becomes an ac-
tress. DefOe, the accomplished villain
makes her acquaintance. and. with reckless
abandon. attempts to kiss her. She re-
pulses him. Mark the merited rebuke
which he gave her:
VIII you be so little of a lady as this? Your
social education has been wholly neglected.
Do you not know the difference between the
plying loving caress of gentleman and
the insult of a low lived rOwdyg
And Marga sensIbly replies:
mo, don't; and I don't know why you
should tiss mo This vac nnt
Helen Cuenarva; il was a penniless New York
city actress. Fer whole year be
had planned to find this third-rate actress
thus alone. Should she thwart him now with
her notions?
No indeed, she should not.
But il is. perhaps, in fine writing that
Mrs. DieudOnni excellS. Listen to this
beautiful apostrophe:
How long, o sea of blue and gold hast
fawned upon the hem OF England's emerald
rarment; how long with fOaming lips hasi
! risen up to kiss the southern sunny cliffs
white rising from the sea. Silver the cliffs
/ cut against the ether blue or dull gray they
frown against the veil OF chilly fog which
hides the fair enemy, France Was
| ever one come in. one great, white ship like
! this and bore no soul Is freight that was not
| sick with disappointed hopes or sad with loss
| of brlg ht ambItionss
And. perhaps. il is intended that the fair
authoress shall be herself indicated when
she thus refers to one Of her characters, a
| Minnesota author:
d. rrrl.~
| Just the same. Nobody can say IL Is not SO
and I've sold 20. zoe books mistakes and all
| IL should write description of something /
have seen, should sell probably 6O, OO0
| copies
And the sly humor with which she adds:
'No. you would not. Mr.. Framley. You
never could write another such good joke. -
But it would be unfair to the public to
destroy their appetite for the feast of good
tnngs awaiting in peruSal of Zardec. by
Oeing too liberal with them here. One or
two more bright gems must suffice After
/ the wreck of both his ''Mexic" and New
| York homes. we find Zardee moralizing
among the ruins of Babylon and apropos OF
his surroundings, the authOress remarks:
| Don't mention il 10 anyone. we breathe
| il In the strictest confidence; but to Judge
| from the latest discovery, the bas relief of
| Cleopatra. Marc Antony may have been In
| need of ready cash"
1t would be equally unfair to divulge the
strikingly original manner in which. the plot
whose scene of action covers three coun-