Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-01

certain style which is attractive among q GER
ain class, though il is the very opposite OF
good style. He was in evening dress, but
there was carelessness about his costume and
an odor OF tobacco which limited that his even
ing mad not been spent in very exacting society.
well, he said at last, looking first at Do
lores and then at her mother. IF you will not
go In with me and pull off fortune perhaps you
Will help me by loan. I have pledged my
ser 70 take hundred shares, and have paid a
deposit OF twenty per cent, which will be for
feited II don't take them up, to say nothing Of
the dlscredit Will you lend ME eight hundred
pounds for three months?"
My dear Leon, you talk as If we we're Roths-
chllds. my poor girl and l."
Il talk with perfect knowledge of who and
what you are, replied Duverdier in a cold,
hard voice and with a cruel emphasis upon
every word. Il talk with the knowledge that
Dolores has but to lift mp her finger in order
to get any money she wants out of that old
money bag Perez, whom YOU and she only
tolerate because he is a money bag. She has
only to say to him i have caprice which will
cost me thousand pounds'-a gown, a horse,
an orchid. what you will-for the check to be
written and the cash at her disposal, to fling
out of the window if she likes"
What if he were to guess that the caprice
was another name for a lovers necessity?"
asked Madame Quijada
He will not guess. He is blind and help
less where Dolores is concerned"
Well. he IS not going to Do fooled this time.
l forbid my daughter to lend you another
louis. You have bled us enough already
enough for a lifetime. You belong to an in
satiable race-the race of gamblers Race
course, Monte Carlo or BOurse, it is all the same
thing. Call the vice by what name you like. it
means ruinI'
And yet if it had not been for one venture
of mine you would never have been able to
make new start in life at Madrid a woman
OF good family said Duverdier, white with
knr III
refuse to help me in my need!'
You had better forget that old debt, for fear
L should remember it too often" said the elder
woman.
There was something in her tone. something
In her look, that sienced him for time, and
when he spoke next all the insolence was gone
from his speech.
For PHYS sake help me with few hun
dreds,' he said. If you refuse l am a lost
man. and know you have something in an old
stocklng-more thousands than l am asking
hundreds. You are too clever a woman not to
provide for the hazards of the future
II have provided you can't suppose shall
dest oy that provision in order to save you
from peril which would be renewed in less
than six months. If things desperate in
you can and try your fortunes somewhere else
l never thought this good place of residence
for you"
You have made up your mind?" he asked,
with sudden herceness.
'Irrevocaby"
$50 be it. Goodnight, Dolores"
He took her in his arms before she could re-
sist him, kissed her passionately and walked to
the door.
What are you going to do?'
You will know all about that tomorrow" he
answered, and banged the door behind him to
give emphasis TO his words.
Dolores would have rushed out of the room
In pursuit OF him. but her mother stopped her
on the threshold.
He means to kill himself" cried the girl
wildly.
Not he, child! OF thousand men who make
that kind of threat only one ever realizes it.
he belongs to the nine hundred and ninety
nine"
To be COntinuedl