The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-05
THE JERSEY CITY NEWs FRIDAY, FEBRuARY 3 1sa2.

rrusvIus rnar You VIII una the accompnny-
ing statement OF accounts correct, remain
unwilhngly, ScYLLA.
P. S.-You may thank my sister for getting
four money back.
Half dazed and hardly knowing what
he was doing, he hastily opened the box
and took out n by one the trinkets he
had given her in their dainty morocco
cases-hearts, darts, anchors for hope,
serpents for eternity; at the bottom he
found another letter, just like the
former, only more bulky. With a sink
ing heart he tore it open. 1t contained
a long bill, stretching over several sheets
of note paper, setting forth every item of
his expenditure at Richmond, at Green
witch, at Blanchard's, at K~ettner's, al
EPSON, Ascot, Sandown and Kempton
Park; for ices and exhibitions; for car
riages, rail and cab; all that he had
spent from start to finish in entertaining
the Sisters Pool. And with this lengthy
list of expenses were bank notes for EGG
lbs. i'd. per cent. of the total.
He was allowed to pay for his own en-
tertainment. but was recouped for all
his outlay upon the two ladies. The adj
justment of accounts was on the strict
est yorkshire"
Was ever a man so Inundated? He
had fancied himself beloved, and he dis
covered that he was despised. What
could he do? Send her hack the money
so insolently returned to him? Useless!
The thing was too deliberately done on
her part to admit the possibility of un-
doing. She meant to insult him-had
been meaning it all the time she was
leading him on with every fascination
she could command. He must stomach
the ~affront, but he could not pocket that
money, hard up though he was.
In an advertisement in the second col
umn of The Times the treasurer of a
well known hospital for women and
children acknowledged the gift Of e379
lbs. I'd. from the Sisters Pool.
The people who praised the munif-
cence of the gift wondered at the odd
ness of the amount, which was the exact
total of the sisters restitution to their
entertainer.
A week later a relative, who was a
city merchant. offered Gladbrook a part
nership in a business which eventually
opened up the dazzling pathway to
wealth.
He bought an estate in his own county,
stood for his division of Cragshire and
entered parliament.
The American tour Of the Sisters Pool
was n succession of triumphs. Before
they had been in the country three
months Cissie had married a rich stock
broker. After two years domestic I'M
happiness he lost his entire fortune in a
single day and committed suicide before
night. Carry remained single. They
returned to England to find other god
desses ~reigning in their stead and q new
a of fanatics w%orshiping at new
shrines. Scylla and Charybdis were
never again the attraction they had
been. Even their old admirers found
them wanting. They said, 1.-The elder
one is coarse and vulgar, while the
younger is doleful and uninteresting.'
Life is short, but fame shorter. That is
the history of the celebrated Sisters
Pool, as told Inc by Gladbrook himself,
now M. P. from C~ragshire, in his study,
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evening, pieced together with much
which Carry told me long afterward.
They sank lower and lower in public es-
timation until Scylla fell a victim to
alcoholic paralysis, nursed in her last i'll
ness by the faithful Garry, who left the
stage after her sisters death and sup
ported herself for the rest of her life by
giving elementary music lessons to the
children of the lower middle class. She
made a little money in this way, and
with this and the interest on some
money left her by an unknown friend,
kept herself comfortably for the rest of
her days. She always read the political
news when she returned homo after her
work. Gladbrook never gave up
his stall at the Vampire until the Sisters
Pool retired from the boards, and then
he never entered a music hall again.
He never knew that while the elder
sister had pursued him with a relentless
hate the younger had fondly loved him.
and for his sake had refused more than
one advantageous offer on &he other
- Mo- V1-lr Duao