Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-23
that happiness cannot be yours. All men

ly," said Lady Barbara proudly. My
former marriage was entirely happy.
Until serpent entered our Eden and
turned our bliss into misery and shame,
said voice from the window.
The voice fell on both hearers with
amazement as the eavesdropper stepped .or-
ward Into the room. But Bretterly was the
first to recover from the surprise into which
both were thrown by the interruption.
Springing to his feet, something met his
eyes which almost froze the next words on
his tongue.
"Constam The DEVIL" he muttered
through his closed teeth.
No, that's where you make mistake,
Bretterly. Consult your looking glass when
you get home, and you'll recognize the lin
eaments of the gentleman you allude to.
Lady Barbara had risen by this time,
and was standing looking at the apparitien
for so it seemed to her in her bewilder-
ment-With her hands pushing back her
beautiful tresses from her forehead, and her
eyes dilated with wonderment, a trife va
cant too, as though her brain half-paralyzed
with wonderful joy could not take in the
meaning of the miracle which had been
wrought in her life in moment.
What Barbara, don't you know me
yet ?" Constam exclaimed.
And with cry, Lady Barbara sprang
into her husbands arms, which were opened
out to receive her, and she lay with her
head upon his breast sobbing convulsiyely
while he, kissed her again and again.
Bretterly looked on transfxed with amazed
disgust and wrath to see his love-dream
wreeked forever, before his eyes.
"You must see that this is no place for
you, Bretterly," said Costam, after he had
soothed his wife into calmness. Il was
sorry to interrupt that little comedy of
yours, but there was no help for il. Good
heavens, what an actor you are! You al
most persuaded me to believe that you were
in love with my wife"
"Curse you, 1 will be even with you yet"
And Bretterly turned round to look for his
hat.
'I don't think you will"
"No?"
"No! Not a second time. You see I
know you," Constam went on with provok-
ing coolness. II didn't before. But now L
know you down TO the ground. You have
been even With me once, but good deal has
happened since then. However, I will
settle accounts with you about bygone mat
ters another day. Just now you had better
leave us alone together. 1t is long time
since you separated husband and wife. u
do owe these seven miserable years to
that MANI" cried Lady Barbara.
''To his villainous wiles and my own
criminal folly. And when my back is
turned he comes making love to my wife.
but when he came courting Penelope he did
not reckon on the return of Ulysses"
81 will wish Ulysses au revolr, " Bretterly
mockingly replied to this taunt. 'You
understand Constam, it is au revoir, not
good-by. When next we meet positions
will be changed, and the laugh will be on
the other side. An insurance company
which has been defrauded by an absconding
rogue is likely to cut up rough" And with
this Parthian shot, Bretterly made for the
door, and in spite of his threat, passed out
of the two lives which he had thought to
destroy, and which he had involved in such
bitter sorrow.
1t is unnecessary to add that the Universal
did not take the line which the venomous
hatred of Bretterly would have had them
persue. When Mr.. Constam called at the
ohices in Cannon street on the morning after
his return, accompanied by Lady Barbara,
were soon concluded to in
demnify the insurance offices that had
suffered in consequence ofhis reported death.
There were difficulties to be overcome, but
these were soon arranged to the satisfaction
of all concerned. Mr.. Constam chose to
which matters were arranged to the good
Offices of Mr.. Weber, and when later on
Mr.. Webber accepted an invitation to visit
him at Greystoke Court, he heard from his
lips the story of his adventures, as well as
the facts that are set down here.
Mr.. Constants account of his strange dis
appearance was too lengthy for it to be de-
tailed here The outline of the facts can,
however, be briefly told.
When he quilted the Elysium on that
night after the Derby, he had no
of setting up hue-and-cry. He
had formed no plan of meeting or escaping
from the ruin which he had brought down
upon himself. He strobe on, needing little
whittier his steps led him, until at sunrise
be found himself in the east of London,
with hungry crowd of dock
laborers waiting for the dock gates to open.
Curiosity ledshim to join in their CONVEX
sation, and when he learnt from fragments
of talk that the clipper vessel Kangaroo was
to sail for Melbourne that day at II, the
idea suddenly dawned upon him that here
was mode of escape from his difficulties. !
He decided to sail for the New World and
there endeavor to repair the breach that his |
had made. If he failed he |
would remain dead to his wife and family |
succeeded he would return and take up his |
Did position once more. AS things were, he
was better dead than alive.
After securing an emigrant's passage in
The Kangaroo, he cast about for dealer in
clothes, where he could exchange his raj
ment for the garb of a workman. Chance
threw him in the way of Isaacs- He soon
completed his meager outfit, but before the
bargain ended he saw that he had reused
the Jews suspicious.
To ALLOW the dealers curiosity and bind
him to secrecy he adopted the following de-
vice: He placed all his jewelry in heap
IN the table and asked Isaacs to value them.
The value which the Jew placed upon them
was considerably less than half the sum
which the stones alone were worth. Not
he took the money the Jew
offered, remarking that "these articles are
worth four times as much" I shall want
hem again before long. Keep them until
you see me again, and if /. find you have
been secret 1 will redeem them at ten times
he sum-"
'I will keep them until you redeem
,hem," the Jew replied.
'Then 1 was right" said Doggett, when
le heard the story. 'Isaacs was in his pay,
ind a search warrant would have supplied
he missing clue"
Mr.. Constam, in the disguise which the
Jew supplied him, had no difficulty in es-
,aping the inspection of the Plymouth de-
ectives. since the Kangaroo did not touch
and again after leaving Gravesend until
Melbourne was reached. Arrived at Mel
,ourne he went up country, and did we'll by
'oughing it, and began to lay the founda-
ion of great wealth. He had been thus
for five years. and had grown
weary for sight of his wife and children,
when the colony of Victoria was plunged
nto state of excitement over the news of