The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-30


grew grave looked as though she felt like
crying, took out her handkerchief, put IL
to her face and d. got up & ana wasea yak aive tn
had not seen her mother. / have never.
in fact; but she said her mother had not
approved of the contract and ii had made
unpleasantness in the family. l spoke or
her grandfather. | knew her grandfather
and her uncles. We had ceased to Walk
the room She was sitting on the dlvan:
and / was standing beside her. L started
to leave, after some expressions OF sym
plaintiff did, It's much worse than that.
He insisted on marrying me. l did not
want to be like Aunt Lou with a house1ui
OF children, and unable TO educate them.
She put her handkerchief to her face.
A BIT OF ACTING.
Here Colonel Breckenridge spoke very
slowly, and reproduced the mournful tones
which young woman might use in making
such a confession. He said: "She said: i
gave him a higher proof than that con-
tract Then 1 said she ought TO marry him
anyway. She said: L can't. have grown
away from him. 1 know what other men
are, and his very presence is offensive to
me- / replied: You can't afford not to
marry him; young girl as you are Then
the conversation drifted away. There was
nothing more / could say. She seemed 10
have said all she cared to-
There was an exquisite minor key of
retrospective pathos as the Colonel sunk
conversation drifted away" he repeated, re-
flectively, lingering the Bible at hand. AS
l stood there with my hat in my hand, she
said: L have set my head on becoming an
authoress.' L said Why, you can't do
that, but you must remember that this
double life-(Here the Colonel assumed the
stern tone of a moralist, man stainless,
above reproach, reproducing the paternal,
advisory manner Of the counsel he said he
gave to the young woman)-this double
life,' / said, may come up against you any
time. He has you in his power. A young
girl can't afford that You should marry
him as soon as you can She said: 1 won't
do that, anyway; no danger OF his giving
me up .
Vine street. She said there was to be
cornetist play. / have been going to Gin
cinnau ever since was a boy, but never
knew which Of the hills Vine street was on.
She said. in an entirely proper way-per,
fectly proper-(Colonel Breckenridge seemed
anxious to make assurance doubly sure on
this point that we might ride. 1 asked IL
they would let her 60 She said she was
summer boarder, and she knew of no rule
against it. Then young man came into
the room, whom / recognized as Mr.. Brown
for, although 1 did not know he was con-
nected with the school, he had represented
Jsssamne @ county IN the the HegisIa1furhe 16 re- we we
fectly proper for us to go. Then took
dinner at the Burnet House. After dinner 1
walked up to a stable and selected a car
riage without any particular thought about
what kind Ii was. 1t was warm August
evening. There was quite a little group. on
closed carriage or about my having sore
throat, no allusion whatever no excuse.
nor any reason for any excuse"
ENTIRELY PROPER"
/ In the mild deprecatory gesture with
which the Colonel brushed away the breath
of a suspicion of improperly from his
action at that time, ne knocked a tumbler
from the stand with crash which startled
the room, and men looked around appre-
hensively as though they thought of Ken
lucky shooting irons. 1--WE started in an
entirely proper way" he resumed.
ANY excuse would have been wholly out
of place nor was any reason asked"
For the first time the flow OF silver
depreciation was harshly torn by the mat
ter of fact query of Major Butterworth.
afternoon
"Oh, about an hour or an hour and a
half. There light conversation which
deepened into. a tense, grave conversation
and afterward became light again."
Did YOU speak Of going to Lexington the
Nothing was said about going to Lex
ington that day. and the next day, when
| find her on the train
What do you know about any bogus tel
II never heard of any such kilograms
| until after this suit was brought. There
was no way / could have sent any bogus
telegram. This is entirely new to me
What do you know. about her going to
Sayre Institute In lexington"
II knew nothing of 1t whatever until
afterward. Nothing whatever, in any
waYio allow long were YOU driving that even.
II can't say, Butterworth; we got back
before the school was closed. Just about
Did you have any conversation about
| your first wife?"
None whatever. My first wife was not
alluded to. My dead little boy was not
| mentioned. There was allusion to my
| family surroundings in any way"
Did you make protestations of love to
| II did not"
Ibid Pld you y;% go, go to any concert that night?"
What was there in the conversation
| bearing, dress or appearance of the plaintiff
to indicate that she was not a girl of ma
She seemed to be a young woman of
eng been nineTeen memen 81 She af, was fully grown
very deferential very"
| Anything to indicate that she was not
a proper young woman?' asked Butter
worth.
| A SELF-CONFESSED LIBERTINE.
Colonel Breckenridge wanted none of his
| hearers to cherish a suspicion that he would
have ventured forth with an improper per-
son. His disclaimers were repeated, and in
| his softest tones Not the slightest" he
| replied; mot the slightest. Her conduct
was entirely correct Nothing was said
| about her peculiar relations to Mr.. Rhodes -
There was a marked infection upon the
word peculiar" as if Mr. Breckinridge
did not wish to speak outright of such
things as those relations. Returning to
the drive. he continued: 1--WE took the left
hand road at the top of the hill because
she said the right ran through the park
and was made uncomfortably, hot by the
| gas lights. So 1 told the driver to turn
to the left"
Were the windows of the carriage open
or shut?"
They were open," replied the Colonel
and then without prompting he came to
the heart of his narrative. after we had
was talking at some length about her
desire TO go into journalism, to be an au-
thoress, and we had spofoen of George
Eliot, she took off her hat and put il on
the front seat. L put my arm around her
There were no protestations my part
in the natural way" Here the Colonel
admitted the charges made by Miss Pol
| lard of what took place during the ride
Continuing, he said: THAT was going oue
Going back there was hardly word spo
ken until we got close to the city. Under
stamped envelope. She was on my left
hand side. L put my hand in my pocket
and put something into the envelope. She
refused TO accept IL. l said. There are
great many little things you need"
What was in that envelope?' Mr. But
terworth inquired, but the Congressman ig
nored the interruption, and continued "A.
| we got out / put il into her hand closed
her hand on it, and bid her good night"
What was it?" repeated attorney Butter