Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
Now First Published.)
(NowFr Publish
DOLL A &C r A G Y:
An American Story

BY A NEW HASD.

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ure it with the poison of condescension.
This mental stand made his life in Lon
don very real exile to Blarnaby He tool
his wife around the fascinating town, SHE
| no less. perhaps even better, able than hi
to appreciate the lessons the old streets
teach. They re lived the lives of the thous
and brave souls who had pilgrimed up tC
London shrine in search of fame, perhaps
of fortune, or of competence, or, failing
these, of a crust and a remembrance when
the release comes.
| What but the emotio,s of an exile could q
man like Blarnaby feel when, in the dusk
| they would wander through streets all gay
with festivities tina. once he joined in!
This is the home of Lord Lovelace, my
dear, whose honoIed guest l was when
came over six years ago. That Is the win
dow of the dining-room where l met some OF
the foremost men of England, and they
made me an equal And now! Now l am
here-outsider
''Yes-but not alonen'
'GodIbless you! my darling. Inever knew
what friendship was until you turned life's
purgatory into paradisen'
"Yes, we know it now. Would to God
we had been wiser years ago!'
And in the fearful silence that succeeded
these frequent wellings up of mutual love,
too long suppressed, they keenly realized
afresh the soreness of a lifelong blunder
and the bitter penance of their self-punish-
| ment.
OF course they had to earn their liveli-
hood. Blarnaby had faced that squarely
| from the first. For himself, he had no
great prospect of success if it had been de-
| pended upon MS own unaided efforts. He
| would have been obliged to do one Of two
| things; either take common clerkship
somewhere and live the best he could on
the salary, or apply to some of his moneyed
| acquaintanceS for capital to start him in
| He moi hay Oucrht
himself to do either. Then what had he in
| mind?
Matrimony in Young folks eyes is all
| honey and moonshine, at least for time.
| They are quite confident they can live on
both, or either, or we may spell it without
the 81" Maturer people give the bargain
matter-of-fact turn before they seal it.
To the practical genius OF Mrs. Shicksper,
now Mrs. Blarnaby, was the notion due
which babe fair to smoothe their path in
| the new world. They had talked matters
over fully and wisely. There was no dover
| OF dollars in Blarnaby's wife's pocketbook,
| but store of strong common sense was in
| her clever head, and it proved an all-suffi-
Gent capital for their joint enterprise.
| Mrs Shicksper, as we have seen, was
well experienced in journalism. She had
| long been acknowledged as the smartest
| lady special correspondent in the states.
| There was scarcely department of news
| paper work with which she was not ia
| millar, ami everything she wrote had the
lnint-mark of her own bright and CHEEKY
! Individuality. Unknown to her husband,
wishing to give him welcome surprise
when they reached London, she had an
ranged with several papers of high stand
ing to send them series of London letters,
relying on her hus bands wide knowledge of
| men and affairs to give ler work a quality su-
perior to the average timsy twaddle which
at that time passed for intelligent English
correspondence.
Imagine Blarnaby's delight when his wife
told him of an assured income, even if not
very imposing. from her pen. Then try to
picture hers when his practical brain built
grander edifice upon the good foundation
she had laid.
His new scheme was unlike the Wyom-
ing scheme in these important points: 1t
was practicable at once, filled a public
want and was sure to succeed.
After repeated sittings in committee of
the whole house, the quorum being two, it.
was unanimously decided to establish 1.-THE
Anglo-American Press News Exchange
Objects: To furnish authentic, honest and
wcll-written correspondence to the leading
newspapers of both countries for the infor-
nation of readers on both sides the Allan
tic and to place the London office, with its
facilities for giving information and re-
ceiving communications, at the Sc vice of
Americans on tour Temporal Office,
Johnson's Court, Fleet street.
The venture required but little outlay.
The scheme was shrewdly planned, the
correspondence was the best that had ever
been received by the papers, the guiding
intelligence of Blarnaby showed in ever
line of it, and the thing was q triumphant
success from the start. Tourists, politi-
clans and writers flocked to the exchange.
glad to avail themselves of its facilities
and make new acquaintance Within
lran he had 90 81
handsome rooms near Trafalgar square for
the accommodation of their fast-ncreasing
patrons. By-and-by the bureau undertook
literary work, in compliance with the urg-
lngs OF editors who were weary OF some
bogus and bungling agencies that had nigh !
ruined the market. The Office laid on its |
novelists, explorerers, scientists, poets and |
sermon-selling parsons Just as it had laid |
on It's water and its gas.
All this achieved in half year!
Now was Blarnaby's old prosperity re- |
turning? No: he was enjoying the smiles |
of a new good angel. No such heart happi- |
ness had he ever known i'll the old DAYS as |
now. Then it was the miser-chuckle over |
money swept into the caSh-boX-a sordid |
Joy, legitimate cause Of comfortableneSs, |
pride, thoughtfulness, yes, but never of |
happiness. 1t belongs TO another plane. |
There was, too, the never-absent dread of |
sudden loss of sudden gains. The element |
of speculation, chance, is fatal to mans |
true peace, and where peace is not, happi-
ness can never come. Now, there was no
misery-giving fear of what to-morrow's |
tapes might drag out from the mystery
machine on the Wall street sphinx The |
exchange was now Independent of ordinary
ups and downs; it was able to 20 of itself; |
and better still, it was fulfilling mission ]
dear to the heart of the true patriot-states-
man OF any country helping TO bring the
peoples of the mother and daughter-lands |
into closer sympathy with each other by |
truth-telling and hum bug-exposing news
paper correspondence. This was the crown
ing solace to Blarnaby's heart for the panes
OF his exile.
The exchange was a little fortune in
itself, as we see; but it brought other ben
etits in its train. Blarnaby was much
sought after by the great tinancers of the
country. In his present positition he COM
manded so much of the precious knowledge
of EuropeaE finance, which is power indeed,
that he was confidentially Entrusted with
much secret information by the magnates
of the money markets of London, Paris,
Amsterdam and other capitals. This they
did, knowing the status he had held and |
even still held, among his countrymen,
whose gold they wished to allure in their
direction through Blaruabys influence.
This means that he possessed the where
withal TO greatly multiply his own pos
sessions, and Blarnaby was never one of
those who pretend an indifference to grapes
beyond their reach. If ever a man knew
the value of dollar, De Witt NJ. Blarnaby
was that man. But he did feel and cultivate
an honest contempt for vulgar display, and |