The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30
FOR VEAL OR WOE.
From the New York Times.

| L4dJuerS. InOugnJ Inab they were very
clever when, in the first bloom of young
love, they had a memorial photograph
taken together, with her gentle head
fondly resting on his gallant breast.
There were to be only two Impressions
struck from the plate, and, oh! what a
consolation each one would be for the
awful hours of separation, an ever-pres-
ent sign of inefTable bliss! But they never
| fancied that the plate retained its repro
! ductive powers, nor that it was destined
to fall into the hands of vengeful George
Percy, and when they reckoned without
George Percy they reckoned without
host.
For this young man was romantic of
| temperament and ingenious of mind.
From his earliest perception he had
| known and loved Jane Dobbins. From
his earliest perception he had vowed that
she should be his; and so, in the heyday
of his discretion, having seen her ruth
| leSsly torn from his mental embrace
through the diabolical arts of a hated
| rival, he swOre that he would have his
revenge. OF course, he must dissemble-
that was an essential of the passion. Ar
thur and he had always been good COM
rades, and so they must continue He
false words and hollow smile. He must
and he did
But time was his friend, so avaunt de-
spair! The lovers were young and their
complacent parents had declared that
they must wait. Alas! Was he not man
enough from the nettle opportunity to
pluck the flower SUGGEST Only bring on
the nettle! Meanwhile he would watch
and wait 1t was at the acme of this con-
viction that Arthur one evening, in food
| of that cross confidence which is half the
pleasure of being iplove, showed the pict-
ure to George Alas, the blindness of
fate Among the mental ingenuities with
which George was endowed was a very
| pretty taste for the natural sciences
Chemistry, through its facility in pro-
ducing light from darkness, sound from
silence, and smell from scentlessness, had
always appealed to his imaginative quail
ties.
At school he had been allowed the run
Of the labOratOry-and sometimes run
from it-and there was nothing in the
nature of smoke, stencil or explosion,
which he had not generated. He went
further in day than Faraday did in his
whole life and as for Daguerre, he could
take care of him without half thinking.
Indeed, in time, photography became a
delightful avOcation to him, and its mys-
| teries were Camerical, not chimerical.
He had gained a well-deserved reputa-
| ton as an amateur operator. and it so
happened had long been in the habit of
developing his work in the very gallery
where the young lovers had so wantonly
made light of their most sacred emotions.
| And more, he was so engaging in manner
and so generous in returning favors that
| he had the free use of the establishment,
and came and went as if his will was a
centurion a latch6ey being his guide by
! nj Of 1et1 111s nd
all of this he clean forgot in the selfish
rapture of displaying his happiness.
| But George remembered, and when he
| had carelessly read the makers name on
the back of the photograph he could
| scarce retain start and the conventional
| chuckle of foreseen revenge. In a flash
| came an idea which gradually developed
into full-grown purpose. He could, he
| would. he did. He knew many a secret of
the craft; now was the time to call that
Knowledge to his aid. One night he
| searched further and he found negatives
of Susie Graham, great friend of Ar
thurs, and of Robert Prince, an ardent
admirer of James, With infinite care he
prepared new plates, and, 10! when he
had developed these and taken their i'm
pressiOns there were two pictures, one of
Arthur's and Susie, and the other of Rob
ert and Jane, in the identical conjunction
of affection in which it had seemed clever
to Arthur and Jane to exploit their young
love.
''Aha!" Kissed George with half-sup-
pressed mirthless laugh, as he pulled his
which shone with an internal fire "Aha!
1 have them on the hip, and I'll feed fat
the ancient grudge owe them"
And well he might laugh as one who
laughed last The following week the
little Jane, while dreaming idly of her
felicity, received an anonymous package
and went. The following week the ardent
Arthur, while impatiently counting the
! days of his probation, received an anony
nous package and swore. The next day
two notes, pregnant with grief and re-
| sentiment, crossed each other.
''Faithless Arthur: | return the ring
and other presents All is over; so never,
never speak again to Jane"
read one.
''Ficlzle Jane: Since you no longer love
me, beg to herewith transmit your let
tiers and the slippers you sent me last
Christmas. | think they are just his size
I remain, yours Indignantly,
ARTHUR"
read the other
How shameless!" sobbed Jane when
she received the latter. What nerve!"
| grOwled Arthur as he tore the former into
bits. And thereafter the hearts that had
beat as one throbbed most Independently
| as two.
Arthur was seen smoking on the street,
and thus became a warning of dissipa-
ton And George, who now called as
siduously on June found his anticipated
| joys almost as enlivening as Quaker
meeting. For the poor child was glum
and distraught, and too simple to hide it.
Her cheeks grew wan, and the sparkle
of her eyes deadened into melancholy.
Her parents became alarmed, fearing a
decline, and, as absence is remedy long
since declared standard, they decided to
send her on visit to her Aunt Abigail in
the metropolis.
| OGeorge heard the tidings with conster-
nation Was this the end of his chican-
cry! Then he had been deceived. Hero
ines truly had the unpleasant habit of
! fading, but they always married the viii
lain before acquiring it. Must he yield
to remorse, to despair2 No, at least, he
knew when she was going-at least, he
might receive her parting glance. So he
hied to the station and entered the car,
! where she sat listless and detected.
! ''Good-by, Jane" he whispered. "Will
! you not write to me2 You know how con-
| slant I've been even when it was hope
! leSsu
Il hate you!" said the girl, with
! sudden burst of instructive passion.
| And George sped TO his room and butted