The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-02
ROMANCE OF A "BEAT."

the hard working, versatile and tray
eled newspaper man who cares little TO
society-or for anything but his profes
sion, who told this story to Il group o
reporters the other night:
Give years ago was working on ;
New. York newspaper. One afternoon
iust..as | set out from the office to dt
my routine assignment the managing
editor sent for me. He held a yellow
cablegram in his hand, and as | en-
tered his room he glanced up from i
and said:
"Harding, | am going to send yor
to Honduras. You leave in two hours.
"IIe explained that a new uprising
was imminent an uprising that prom
Used to be bloodier one than any evel
before experienced by that country o.
constant revolutions. | need give you
no instruction., he said. You know
what news is. Go there and send it tc
us. We want the situation just as you
find it.
"We got into Truxillo after doubling
Cape Honduras about the same hour
in the afternoon that we had left New
York several days before.
Il strolled out that afternoon and
in order to get some idea of the situa
tion and to meet English speaking PEG
pie to save myself from feeling hopeless
isolation.
II suppose | watched the crowd FOL
an hour and had just started to return
to my hotel when a woman's figure
came toward me along the street.
Something in the fine figure and grace
full carriage made me think that had
seen her before, and | waited. | rec
ognized her as she came near me.
- Is this Miss Villiers of New
York; | asked in surprise, extending
my hand frankly. 1T is, she said, and
this is Stuart Harding. | remember
you very well. What on earth are you
doing here?'
81 have just arrived said to her
But what could have brought you
here?' drought me here?' she
laughed in surprise. Why, this is my
home.
Il did not know her very well in
New York, but she impressed me as
having great depth. She showed a
preference for my society, but when
she turned those deep, unfathomable
eyes upon me it always gave me a
shifty, uneasy feeling. She went in
elegant style, with good people and APP
peared to have plenty of money.
and now | had met Miss Villiers
again, and she was even more beauti
full than before. My pleasure at meet
ing an old acquaintance in this foreign
city was reflected in her own happy
face. | never see New Yorker here,
she told me as we walked along togeth
er.
''She was charming companion,
and | found that had walked by her
side until we had almost left the city
behind us and stood in front of state
w Enclosure. with residence sitting
tar back half hidden behind the lux
uriant foliage. We had become conf
dental. and her face was flushed with
a rich glow.
Miss Villiers. | said, wouldn't
it be advisable for you to go back to
New fork awhlie. llas9 fus'Mo,tns
Information 'ha. 'eiIioie iJ i, ~
danger here.
one glahceu up "' nr, .'di ',eu'
founded, she said hastily The rev
olutions are SO cruel. In case there is
one you will help the government, of
course. -, - .,ooa haa
one hau Piaceu iei so'eu hanu
on my arm III iier asi.d''o'i anu was
penulns eagerly lorwarn.
NO. ! answered. ioi an iiis.i ihet
toiu me ',at was say ns Iust :u "iia'
she e, ueslre'i me W say. w. ! VIII io..
Ihe so'ciniiitnl - w ~ W.. gu
win tne reNoiutiohists 'iIe peopie'
IN; eau .rus' spu, MIN: s
sald nan passiohaie.'. continue.
harulhs' KNEW II rom 'ile iiis'
nour met you III Ne" iofh' hho"
II now. am so gao you are mere
ferhaps you may heip us' ierhaps
you may de,' lse iathei'
res, there Is 70 ne d IG'oiulion'
ana plooeiy one ledi' rdtiiei ',ie
leader. lie mas sore grievances lor ne
mas peeh thrown OUT 9l power y! re
volt and then ne Is the champion Oh
prlhclple, oust ~ sooii az a., tne p!dha
mature the insurrectioh WIZ come
. she laid the Whoie plan OF the up
rising before me. She trusted me I'm
plicltly, even TO giving me the names
OF the leaders ana the GATE wheh the
outpreak was eApecteu 70 coilie.
AS l listened to her the convection
grew IN my. MIND that her 1ather was
about to stir up cruel and cauSeleSS