Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
THE SAVING OF Mr., O'GRADY

an phWat nave yeZ been doing wild Mrs.
O'GraGy?"
MY dear" said my wife. reprovingly.
Il perceive that your opinion Of Mrs.
O'Grady is as poor as your Imitation OF
the dialect you associate with her name"
Il don't know her at ALL" replied, on the
defensive.
1T was not necessary for you to say so in
so many words, my dear" said my wife, In
a tone Of voice it is not worth " bile to ex-
plain to married men. when you have
| seen Mrs. O'Grady you may hold to differ
ent views concerning her"
AS usual. my wife was right in her con-
clusions. for when 1 saw the lady 1 was
more than Surpr!sed-I was delighted
She was of that type Of Spanish women
We see In pictures. and her name bore no
relation to her whatever. AS she and nv
wife were on such excellent terms, my pro-
baton as a stranger was short and in a
few minutes We were chatting away like
| old friends
Really 1 said to her. you must par
don me, but may 1 ask about your name ?
AS Tar as can recall, l do not remember
having heard Of the OGradys Of Cort.oya
or Seville, or even of the Alhambra"
And still l am Dolores O'Grady," she
smiled.
Which being interpreted" said |. with a
daWning consciousness, means that you
were once Dolores Somebody ELSE and some
irish hldalgo or don came your way and
You have guessed 1t" she said
Then /! recalled an old friend and college
mate OF mine, Tom OGrady a daredevil
DICK sort OF chap. who had no sooner
what little property he had into cash and
went on On some adventure to one OF the
SCUM American republics
| aon,t know, madam I said which
VI the - Gradys has been SO fortunate
out tnere Is one l used to know who VAS
worthy o. even such good fortune a. to
| De your husband. His name was Tom,
ana we were brothers for five years"
She took tiny little locket from some
place about her where women usually
carry such thiT 81 End handed II to me
LOOK at fha.," she said, and did
by 1oVeI beg your pardon" 1 ex-
canned ana apologized in the same breat tn
Its Tom" .'-'
That evening Tom arrived, and our re-
spectire and respected wives promised TO
let Us have an hour TO ourselves ~ NC
would give the first two hours after dinner
70 tnem. This We readily agreed to he
cause we knew that no other course was
ielt 10 us. and We adjourned to the apart
nents of the OGradys
Well, well. old Tom" 1 said whom we
n s disposed ourselves comfortably how
did 1t ever happen" and 1 smiled over AT
Mrs. O'Grady. '
THAT'S what 1 wanted to tell YOU when
we nave our hour together" he laughed
nat selnsh creatures men are" said
my wife. Why not let US know now?
hSSSi u1u Inc pleasure of
Mr. o'Grady until this evening hnt Ing
ried." VIC oeeh mar
Tom OF me- q"heo
Fifteen years"
Ihree to the good Of me. Dolores and I
nave been struggling along with each
ot M. ior dozen long and weary years"
Mrs. OGrady threw him a kiss from the
ups OF her pretty fingers in response.
Ihats our experience plus three wears >,
said my wife, and L threw her a handful
of kisses. i
,o Let us have the story of your life. old
fellow l said coaxinsiy, which was en-
ureiy unner essary, for Tom was az
aH :Gons TO tell It as l was to hear it
once upon time" he said, bowling
to all of us. there was one Thomas
OGrady. an American citizen of Irish
descent, better known as Tom or old
Iom' ana he went to South America and
mlngIed in a revolution. one Of the things
which Is always tap in a South Ameri
can republic for anybody to ,ningle in
W whenever he Is disposed to do So This
Drop the didactic and general" inter-
particular gil"
AS l was saying" Tom continued. Il
money had in mines and coffee planta-
ton, and kept out of politics."
AN freshman and kept out Of politics?'
Tom smiled.
Kept out OF politics until 1 thought
had some show and then went in like"
IAN Irishman," suggested.
just 80, my boy" he admitted land We
had 1t lively. 1 still retained my American
citlzenship In case Of an emergency. but
that did not interfere with my duties as q
BOSS end a boss I was, though 1 could
moi vote. At the end Of five years 1 had a
tremendous influence a coffee pIantation q
paying mine and a good bank account In
New York city, where 1t was safe was
twenty-seven years DID, and a rising young
man at that age has heart. IL he is any
sood al all, and was some good IL L do
say II myself. l was Eot much on society
as that term goes. but knew some of the
pest families In the place and visited them
men mere were some other families 1 did
not visit. notably that OF the man who was
my opponent always in the field of politics.
He was a RI h old fellow with two sons
and daughter-Dolores. there, remembers
her quite welf..and Mrs. OGrady nodded
pleasantly. as II she had no fears now of
any pretty girl anywhere-"and he was a
hghter from Wayback As 1 saw 1 never
visited the generals house, but / did meet
ms daughter at the houses Of my friends.
and OF course she. Of all the girls 1 met.
must be the one I should fall In love with.
l don't know why Cupid sends his victims
such luck. but I've noticed that he often
does. l mad known the generals daughter
about year when the forty-seventh reyo-
mtion-or was 1t the hundred and forty
seventhr he asked Of his wife with "a
smiie-"occurred. and I was in It I'D to INV
neck The others 1 had managed to keep
out OF, but this one caught me before I
knew 1t, and 1 found myself the head and
front OF the party against the government.
The only thing did not like in the affair
was that the general was at the head of
the government party. and the generals
daughter was the sweetest woman in the
world. and We were in love, general or no
general. Well. the scrap came Off in due
course, and after shooting the town full of
holes for week or SO, and soaring the
women and children into fits. my side went
to pieces and ten Of its leading spirits went
to jail From that point the transition was
easy to the sunny side Of a wall on the
outskirts OF town. and early one fine morn
Ing we found ourselves grouped there with
nifty government soldiers drawn up in line.
pointing loaded guns at US. In plain En-
glish, 1t was an execution bee, and We were
the guests of honor. I had fixed up my
business affairs In the few days allowed
me. and as there was no one 1 thought as
much of as did Of the generals daughter,
1 willed all my property to her. thus pro-
posing to heap Goals Of fire on the old gen.
tleman's head. while he was after mine
You might think I was frightened as I
stood there before those guns, but wasn't.
True. I was a bit nervous, but I wasn't
scared at all. and I insisted on facing the
shooting party and giving the command to
hre. They wouldn't let me do that, though,
and had t. face the vail with INV hack