The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-08-08
A RESCUE.
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her and had she been manifestly very
fond of him. He had deferred asking her
Ito be his wife until he should be admitted
ito the bar But It seemed tacitly under
stood that they were eventually to be unit
led.
Judge, then, his feelings when a dark
and dreamy looking youth just returned
from some years of leisurely life in Paris,
was observed to cast his glances admiring-
Ily on her and to elicit Aom her such blush
es and droppings of the eyes and evidences
of pleasurable perturbation as she had
never shown before. Her only near rela-
tive, an aunt, with whom she shared her
home, was not ayerse to the handsome
stranger, and as the girl had as unmistak-
ably rs speedily fallen In love with him
there was nothing for the law student to
do but to abandon the hope of ever max
ing her his. He continued to visit her.
Nothing was said between them on the
subject, save what was spoken by the eyes
and thoroughly understood. Her look
plainly said: 81 am sorry for you. You are
always my good friend, but love the 9TH
err" And his countenance answered, II
have no right to complain" He and the
successful stranger treated each other cool
Ily, but politely. 1t was in due time mr.
ranged that the stranger should marry
her.
Imagine the emotions of tho law stu
dent when, by some course of crcum-
stance. he learned that the stranger was
no other than defaulter who had fed
from New York years before, and had
whilein Paris changed both his name and
his appearance. The evidence of the stran-
gers identity came to the law student by
accident. 1t was such evidence as he could
not rely on for use against the stranger,
and it was known to no one in New York
save the law student, the stranger and one
other person whose interest it would be to
conceal It,
What would you do II you found out
but could not prove, that the man who
was about to marry the girl you Low ed was
a scoundrelS
He wrestled with the question day and
night. He knew it would be useless to tell
the girl herself. She would ask for evil
dence, which he could not produce. She
would then consider him the prosecutor Of
her lover, and to prove her confidence in
that lover she might even precipitate the
marriage.
At last the law student bethought him
self to seek the counsel OF his friend, the
philosopher.
To the philosopher the law student made
known his predicament.
The philosopher smiled.
but how can the evidence be satisfac-
tory to you and yet you be unable to make
use OF it," he asked.
because it Is vested In woman who
alone, besides myself and him, knows the
secret, and who Is paid by him to keep It,
l have neither the money to outbid him
nor any willingness To buy evidence"
HAS he money enough to keep on for
ever buying her silencef"
81 think not, but he can keep buying It
until the marriage Is accomplished.
"Then II he is not rioh, II he lives ex-
ipensively and II this woman who knows
his secret keeps raising her price, after the
fashion of blackmailers, the case is easy
enough. You take vacation. Visit some
where. Stay away for six months. But
first put me In way to make the mans
acquaintance and leave the rest to me"
The law student at first refused to leave
the field and vainly sought to know more
of tho philosophers plan, but eventually
he yielded. He caused the philosopher to
be introduced to the girls aunt, aud then
he took "A trip to Cuba.
Questions that he Immediately put to some
of his acquaintance he heard n piece of
news that sent him in umazement to the
philosopher.
"How is this'" cried the law student
eXcitedly. Instead of showing up that
Iscoundrel as you promised to do, hear
lyou have actually made him your agent
1t can't be true. ?"
"Oh, yes Fortunately he was looking
laround for n business opening when first
met him. wanted some one to look after
my little real estate Investments, by which
live, and he gladly accepted the posi-
ton"
| "But you have given him the very
] means of keeping that woman silent. My
only hope of her ever betraying him lay in
his becoming unable to put up the hush
money"
"My dear boy, pause n moment. See
how have managed the affair. You and
knew the man to be thief. We needed
evidence to convince others that he was n
thief. Now, / long ago arrived at the gen
eral rule that q man who is once thief
will be thief again, given the temptation.
All we had to do in this case was to sup
ply the temptation. l supplied tempta-
ton. ! gave him my affairs to manage -
"Tbis little document.
And tho philosopher handed the law stu
dent u warrant for the arrest of the stran.
ger.
As I anticipated, :" continued the phi
losopher, she began his populations before
he had been my agent two months. OF
course he expected to conceal them by
making good the amounts after his mar.
lriage for his hanoee has money. That
document ought to be served at once
But, great heavens! the shock to her.
"Would better come now than when it
would be too late. She'll recover. People
|get over these things. We can move open
Ply now. The thing to do, since we could
mot prove our man guilty Of an old crime,
WINS to show that he was capable OF new
ones. And this time we occasioned our
own evidence"
The law student never married the girl,
but he had the felicity of seeing her saved
from the chagrin that would have been in
eyitable had she united her life to that of
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