Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04

rs For. even suppoSing we could save five
or six thousand year apiece, what would
srch a pitiful little sum he to me? Wha;
would ten thousand bc--or even twenty:
oh. l wonder nv hair isn't white already
prrhars il NAV even come to living in tn,
country, And don't doubt all my dia
mon3s will lave 10 go. And-and ms
gowns will I've sold around TO anybody
Tvbc'U take them, rs Grace Hackensack':
were when her husband went to smashr'
'Nou'd better wait till you know how
things really are" muttered Hector, witt
lowered head and hands in his pockets sT
dare saw they'll turn out beaStlv enough >
CHe Glanced here az Alonzo, and with nc
gentle gaze)
Money neglected is apt to be money
lost"
"Uncle Crawford never neglected his af.
fairs. said AloEzo.
perhaps he didn't. But he's been get
ting On IN wears. Gu were a partner in
the coucern-as well as he. But YOU ONLY
turned up thcre once fortnight, and some.
times not even that.
"I never found myself wanted when I did
turn up" said Alonzo, with indifference
rather than good temper.
That WAS because you took no interest
in the concerns of the firm
At this the brother-in-law of Hector
slightly frowned. But he said, without the
least ka7shness: 81 could never master
matters Of business, and l think was wise
enough to realize that modesty alone makes
Us tolerate incompetence
'sOh. poohr retorted Hector. "Idleuess
and laziness are not incompetence
\ flash left Alonzo's eyes then. mo"
he replied, ''if they were you'd be an i'm
bcciie."
''oh, come, now" scOwled Hector. 81
don't spend my time rs YOU spend it,"
True. " Alonzo shot back ''You spend
il in gambling: l don't. In drinking;
rarely drink. In the society of women
whom YOU morally despise; to me that sort
of woman is apt TO be drearv bore All,
DC. Hector you're entirely right; we do not
spend our time, you and /, in at all simi-
lar way"
Hector was now pale with rage. 1t had
never occurred 10 him till few minutes
ago that his brothcr-in-law avoidance of
tie banking house would bear disastrous
frGi; B2t the horrible shock of recent
things had made him anxious to pour blame
on some one. and his old dislike of Alonzo
supplied. rs il were, the needed victim.
We'll, " he grumbled, tossing his head
detiantlv. Il don't strike attitudes in front
of pictures and statues, and have fresh
flowers brought to my bed before get up
Of i morning, and change my clothes FIVE
times day, and pretend I'm great artist
when I've hardly got speck of real talent.
Al least I behave like a man.
''Oh. no, Hector Van Santvoord," rang
Alouzos interruption. ''Pray don't flatter
yourself that you've ever behaved like a
man. \ man ! mean of either brains or
TriuCiple"'
.'Ionz! Hector! YOU mustn't quarrel, |"
cried Kitty, springing from the sofa.
Al don't quarrel with blackguards, !"
returned Alonzo, 81 avoid them. But
yhen one of them happens to be my
hrother-in-law aud is insolent, plain speech
cant be shIrzed"
.'Oh. Lonz; now Lonz" she pleaded.
You, Kitty" he went on, ''have good
reason TO know what blackguard that man
really Is He stole you from your home
when YOU were TOO young to understand the
misery that such match might bring on
vnu. And afterward, having married you
merely for your money, like the heartless
tricksger that he was, he soon turned mar
riare into the most horrible mockery. And
such a man talks to me ot idleness and 1azi-
ness, The money my father left You has
been his reason for sleeping himself in
both. Is an i'll wind, as they say-and if
this catastrophe brings him the Justice he
deserves, il won't have been quite so bad a
Cne after all. -
AIGnzo spoke with what for Hector WAS a
new ire. q new force He might have said
thrice as much and vet kept within the
bo%ndS Of veracious invective. Perhaps a
Qu8IIn OF conscience caused Hector to stand
Etaringiv silent; perhaps, like most men of
q bullying Jurn, lac was no match for nerve
ana uluc6 when they sprang from unfore-
seen sources. Thus far he had known only
the soft and indoleRt side of Alonzo, laugh
ing with irony, either patent or furtive,
when people declared the young man solid
below all his li~h:ncss or intellectual not
wi,hstanding his iriyolities. Abruptly
Hector found himself confronted with a be-
ing Of whom certain rumors had reached
him. but whose actual existence he had till
now discredited Alonzo returned his stare
tor several seconds, and then stopped down
and kissed KITTY on the forehead; for by
this time his sister was clingiDg to him in
blended sympathy and fear.
"ExcuSe me, " Re said, in a voice greatly
moderated. Il should not have spoken as
J did-that is. moi before YOU = q I'll
see YOU o. write you soon. Trust me, and
-oel-bve "
once out in the keen cold of the Iamplit
avenue. he asked himself If he had not
really been right in Tebuking, with what
ever hear. the impertinence of q man who
of ali Others might with best taste have
bridled his tongue. The mental answer to
this question was a vehement eyes" He
lad dismissed his carriage at the Van SAINT
words door. expecting TO dine with his
sister: well " re mCditatcd. zone dimes, If
one can in s.Iitc Of all conceivable troubles,
except it be calamity 10 ones peptics?
Gramercy Park was good distance away,
h. did not feel like appearing at any of his
clubs, and so he presently decided on the
e, al
Here his appetite certainly proved slender,
so busted were brain and heart with these
late volcanic tidings, and with the lurid
threat Of IO-iuorrow's fresh Developments.
But all the while he kept silently whisper
ing TO his unpalatabIe soup, his unengaging
outlet. that a heaven Of tenderness, of COM
passion. OF sacred fellowship, waited him
from Kathleen when she should have
learned just how greatly he stood IN need
CT them al.
.'i}u5 her msther-her mother" a voice
within him seemed to urge
''Oh' nc made mental answer to the
voire 'whv should not so radiant a rose
have a big, sharp thorn? Let us allow that
the mother is to be monstrously trouble
some. That Will only deepen the blessing
OF hathleen's constancy.."
"NIv dear" said Mrs Kennard to her
daughter, rs they were being driven uptown
together after quitting Gramercy Park, II
do hope Alonzo will not be late at dinner
again to-day. People with great establish
luents need not mind delays of this kind,
hut We, IN our dctcstable little Fifty-third
street lat, are quite destroyed BY them"
"A,olzo isn't going to dine with us to-
dav. mamma" said Kathleen.
''No" And pray, why Hot?"
Kathleen gave the reason, and her mother
,.r....t,.i II with u litrle screnm tMercy