San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-16

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concentrated stare.
1t was some weeks after the attempted
assassination of Talbot that Mr.. Roose-
welt, Mr.. Largely and Edgar Julian re-
turned from Florida. After all, they
had been o~utgeneraled and beaten by
Ellis. Largely had attempted to get a
restraining order on the affidavit and
bill drawn up by Julian, but Ellis had
avoided the whole matter by persuading
Largely's Floridian coadjutors that it
would be safer to tie their faith to a
southern man rather than to an adven-
turer from Illinois. Mr.. Roosevelt had
%interposed with a proposition of COM
promise, which, being favorable to Sir
Edmond kane's schemes, received the
support of all the foreigners, and was
finally, with some notifications, accept
ed by Ellis; but the victory was with
the young mountaineer, giving him con-
troll of a strong combination of roads
which. in the future, would be of i'm
mense value.
Il never saw a fellow so full of ex-
pedients and so popular with everybody"
said Largely to Mr.. Roosevelt during the
course of the adjustment.
He was the man You were going to
crush inside of twenty-four hours" re-
piled Mr.. Roosevelt.
'You thought he had no backing"
added Julian.
Largely WINGED, and rolling a cigar
across his mouth from one corner to the
other. chuckled dryly and said:
He is like an eel, when you get him
you cant hold him Talk about a
Yankee being slick"
Il shall never again think of a bill in
equity without recollecting how easily
he punctured your injunction scheme"
said Julian, with something like harm
less exultation in his tone.
After all" interposel Mr.. Roosevelt,
Ellis has done nothing not strictly hon
orable, and he deserves all he has
gained"
oh. | admire the fellow. Talk of
western cheek and impudence-why he's
worse than a lightning rod man. re-
sponded Largely, ''he talks his way
right through everything. AS for lying,
his sort of misrepresentation can hardly
be called that, but he promises every
thing that he thinks will please"
The people like him and honor him
greatly, said Mr.. Roosevelt. He makes
friends Of high and low"
Yes" laughed Largely, she has made
friends even out of us! Here we sit
marshaling his various qualities and at
tainments, while be walks off with the
prize"
To Edgar Julian the calamity that had
fallen upon Colonel Warren Talbot pre-
scented nothing especially strange or in
result of some private quarrel, growing
out of "a business transaction perhaps.
Of course he knew nothing of the cir
cumstances that have been detailed
touching the conduct OF Ellis, nor of the
mysterious incidents of Rosalie's moon
light walk with Talbot, and he did not
dream Of any possible connection Of Miss
Chenier with the matter.
Some things he had ordered came from
Chicago during his stay at Jacksonville;
among them was ths Provence cross.
One day he took this, and without any
preliminary words let the gold chain at
tached to it fall around Rosalie's neck.
Thus" said he. turning to Mrs. Roose-
welt, Il restore to Miss Chenier the old
ancestral cross of her family"
In the midst of her recent trouble Ros-
allie had actually forgotten her dreams of
Provence and of the souvenir that Julian
had promised to fetch. Now, as she
glanced at the antique cross and chain, a
rush of strange sensations overcame her.
A deep blush flowed into her cheeks, and
almost instantly left her face in
tensely pale,
Mrs. Roosevelt rose and went to her
niece. She had heard from Rosalie the
story of this cross, and in fact she had
heard it many a time in her own young
girlhood. 1t was n of the Chenier
traditions.
1T is not a bad ornament" said Ju-
liam, taking a step backward and look
ing critically at the dull gold Is it lay
the beads of red insect amber on
the girls white throat. THAT dent the
peasant told me was caused by his hoe or
mattock, or whatever he dug with, strik-
ing it, but Like to .ipaGpe-H vEas