The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-30

-The eoaversas;on Arffssd sway" ~
repeated. rsdsetivsiy, Anssrine The BIhas
- hand. As stood thsrs with my has
in my hand shs said: 4 have - nay
heart On becoming IN snthoresA ! said:
u don't 80 Why ron cannot do that foo
must remember this double life '-hefo b
assumed the stern tone Of . DoraiisA
nsn stainless, shove rsproaeh. ssproduc-
Ing the patefnal. advisory manner Of she
counsel he said he eavs TO tbs young
woman. This double iife.' said. may
come 40 against you any EmA He has
you In his power. A younG girl cannot
afford that You should marry him -
soon q You can She said: I von't do
that nov, anyway. There 10 NO danger Of
his giving me MP Then she spoke Of IN
entertain msnt as Vine street. She aid
there IVES TO b eornstiss play. / have
been going 70 Cincinnati ever since vas
. boy, bUs never knew which one OF the
hills Wins street was on. She said IL was
entirely preper, perfectly Breckin-
ridge seemed anxious TO MAKE assurances
douhiy sure on this poans-s'thas We might
ride. I asked If they would let her 90.
She said she vas . summer bcardef and
she knew no rule against IL Then .
recognized - Mr.. Brown, for, although
did hot know he was connected with the
school. he had represented Jsssamins
county in the Legislature. We shook
hands, and he said it would Be perfectly
proper for us to 90. Then took dinner
as the Burnett house. and after dinner
walked up TO stable and selected car
riags without any particular thought
about what kind wanted Il Was . warm
August evening. There was quite little
group on the portieo. Nothing was said
about closed carriage or about my hav-
ing sore throst no aiIusion whatever. NO
excuse. nor any reason for any excuss."
In . mild deprscatory gesture with
which he brushed away the breath of .
suspicion of improperly from his action
Ut that time, he knocked . lumber from
the stand with . crash which startled the
room, and men looked around apprehen-
sively rs though they thought Of Kentucky
shooting-ironA
I'VE started in IN entirely proper way"
he resumed. '.Any excuse would have
been wholly ont Of place, nor WAS any
reason asked"
For the first time the how OF silvery de-
precation was harshiy torn by the matter
of-fact query of Maj. Butterworth: How
long were you at the college that after
noon 2"
"Oh, about an hour or IN hour and .
half There was . light conversation,
which deepened into tense, grave con-
versation and afterward became light
again."
the next dayf"
Nothing wss said about going to Lax
ington tina. day. and the next day. when 1
started to Lexington. was surprised to
fird her on the train"
"whas do you know about any bogus
telegramsf"
az never heard Of any such telegram un-
til after this suit was brought. There
was no way could have sent any bogus
telegram. This IL entirely new to me-"
"What do you know Of her going to
Sayre institute in Lsxingtonf"
az knew nothing OF it whatever until
afterward; nothing whatever in any way"
"How long were you driving that even
ingf"
81 can't say. Mr.. Butserworth. We got
back before the school Was closed. just
about 10 o'clock"
'.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 no allusIon to my
family surroundings in any way"
did you make protestations Of love to
this womanf"
az did not"
"Did you go to any concert that nightf"
I'VE did not"
"Vhat was there in the conversation,
bearing, dress or appearances Of the plain
tiff to indicate tina: she was not girl of
mature years."
"She seemed to BE- young woman Of
% or - Sho might have been 10. She
was fully grown young woman Of per-
fsctly proper Misunderstanding for the
first time at the plaintiff-"very defsren-
tiai, very"
Anything to indicate that she was not
aproper young woman?" asked Mr.. But
tsrworth.
Col. Breckenridge wanted none of his
hearers to cherish . suspicion that he
would have ventured forth with sn inn
proper person. His disclaimers were re-
peased and in his softest tones, Not the
slightest" he replied, mot the slightest
Her conduct Was entirely correct. Moth
ing WAS said about her peculiar relations
to Mr.. Rhodes" There was marked in
Fiction upon the word peculiar" as If
Mr.. Breckenridge did not wish to speak
outright of such things as those relations.
Returning TO the drive. he continued:
1--WE left the lefthaad road at the top of
the hill because she said the righthand
road through the park was un comfortably
hot by the gas lights. So told the driver
10 turn 10 the left"
"Were The windows Of the carriage open
or shut?"
"They were open," replied the colonel.
and without prompting he came to the
heart of his narrative. AFTER We had
driven quite q distance" he said. ''she
was talking at some length about her de-
sire to go into journalism, 70 be an
authores., and we had spoken of George
Elliot. She took OF her hat and put it on
the front seat. put my arm around her.
There were no protestations on nay part.
no offer of love- What occurred was in
the natural way. put my arm around
her and drew her TO me. was man
with passion. She was woman with
passion. That was Oil. There was no
ouicrv by her: no resistance, Man a. l
was, | took liberties with her person."
Just case of Illicit loysf" broke in
Mr.. Bniterworth.
That was il. Batterworth. | am man.
she a woman. human. both OF Us" Con-
tinuing: That was going out Going
hack there was hardly . word spoken
until We got close to the city. Under the
gas lamps / took out OF my poke,
stamped envelope. She was on my iefs