The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-30

I come up against her at any time.
She insisted that she could not
marry him and said oh, well, he viii
always want TO marry me anyhow. so
there is no use for hurry.
The conversation drifted to other
things She said she had an ambition to
he an authoress and thought she had
some talent in that direction.
THE CARRIAGE RIDE.
Mention was made of some concert
where some cornetist was to play that
night and she said she would like 20 90
IL was ut place on Vine Street Bill. and
as 7 had never been up there and wanted
to see the inclined railway, | said | would
take her, and asked if she co aid get per
mission. She sail she could. and after
asking me to bring carriage
left the room, and a minute
later young man came in, who
said he had met me and introduced himself
asAlr. Brown. the son Of the president of
the college. He gave the required PER
mission and I went away. That evening
after dinner l left the hotel. and
going to n hack stand picked
out carriage without any care
whatever and went 10 the college. 1t was
a closed carriage, but did not get it pur-
pOsely When J got TO The college there
was quite little group on the porch
Now, | WaIS u ask you ri ght here
! said Mai Butterworth, was anything
said by you about o throat affection as
| your reason for bringing closed car
| riag5l"
mot word was the answer Moth
! ing was said by me to that effect"
HIS RETURN TO LEXINGTON.
Continuing, Col. Breckenridge said that
! times when he would return to
! Lexington, and he told her the
time. He denied that they
went to Lexington by prearrangement;
/ and that he had met Miss Pollard the
next day at the public library in
| Cincinnati that he took her
next day to the assiguation house of Mrs
! Rose and that he had sent boyus tel
! egram to Miss Pollard sikned with her
mothers name to secure permission for
! her TO 60 to Lexington. Miss Pollard tes-
| titled to all these things
He had nothing to do with Miss Pol
| lard going to Sayre Institute at Lexing-
! ton, and knew nothing of her being there
! until he met her on the streets in LeXing-
! ton
How long did you driver" referring
to the carriage drive from Wesleyan
| College,.
We got back about 10 O'Clock. / think and
| il is my impression that there were people
on the steps of the college when we came
| back. "
Col. Breckenridge denied that he had
| ever mentioned the name of his first wife,
or spoke of his dead little boy, or said
| anything whatever about his past oys or
| sorrows, on the ride TO the concert, as
| Miss Pollard had claimed.
Did you make any prote5tation of
| affection or make any love TO the plain
| tin on that ridea' asked Maj. Butter
worth.
MANA ~-I
DIDN'T GO TO TIE CONCERT.
Did you go to hear the concert that
night"
mo we did not. When we had driven
little way we came to the two roads
that diverged, and the driver took the
left hand road at her order
How did you come to take that left
hand road2'
The night was pretty warm. I had a
headache, and when we came to the di-
verging roads she said perhaps l would
like to drive out in the cool instead of
going into the hot, gas-lighted concert
room. / said / did not know much about
music and | dld not care, so when we
came to the divereing roads she told the
driver to turn 10 the left"
The windows were OPEN
state, colonel, Just what took place in
that carriage ride
I cannot repeat exactly what was said.
After we mad turned 10 the lett auG had
ridden some distance l should say in
fifteen or twenty minutes NAV be a little
longer, she was talking about her
desire TO become an authorizes aud
said something about George Eliot.
During the conversation, she took o I her
hat and l leaned forward to put il on the
front seat. and put my arms around her.
There wero no protestations of love on
my part, so far as 1 can recol-
leCt. There was no offer of love.
no article. no nothing except | pat my
arm around her and drew her TO me.
What occurred was-I was a man with
passion, she was woman with passion.
and l took liberties with her person.
This was without any protestat;on Of love
on my part; without any resistance
or protestation on her part,
and Wi bout any seduction on
the part OF either to the her. 1t was
the human passion of man.
and 5ulh l was, with willing
compiaisance on her part"
MADELINE ANGRY.
Madeline Pollard heard this story with
a curl of s-orn on her lips, Once she had
rose in her chair, and was drawn back by
her attorney, Mr. Carlisle.
"toW long did you drive after these i'm
proper demonstrations"
Very soon afterward we turned
around and drove back, and she got out
of the carriage
What converse ton did you have on
your return3"
What did you talk about"
We turned around and there was
hardly WORT spoken until we got close
10 the city. had taken ont oc my pocket.
under the gas light, an envelope was
IN the habit of carrying undirected
stamped envelopes when was absent from
home, I took out one OF these blank
envelopes She was on my left-hand side
IN the carriage, and ] put my hand in nv
pocket, nut some hing into the enye.o one
aud put ii lnto her hand she refused 10
accept it, ] said There are
great many littl things that YOU need.
things that you will have to have,
She decliued 10 accept it, We gut
nearer to he town and as We rot out of
the carriage / put it into her hand and
smut II, ana then opened the carriage
door. She got out; / babe her good
night. She won't up the steps, I got into
the carriage and the carriage drove on
What was in the envelope"
"A bill
How much"
My recollection Of it was that it was
q so bill"
MISS POLLARD ALMOST historical.
Miss Pollard 81 n.Fitar1auf baJ h.,,,