The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-14
A SURPRISE
IS PLANNED
FOR POTTER
Miss Van Ness Leaves
for Honolulu.
TO SEE HIM ONCE AGAIN
TOUCHING FAREWELL SCENES
AT THE DOCK.
The Woman Who Attempted Suicide
on Account of Misprized Love
Seeks the Object of Her
Affections.
TO SEE HIM ONCE AGAIN
TOUCHING FAREWELL SCENES
AT THE DOCK.

When the Alameda which left this port
last Thursday, arrives in Honolulu, ASH
ton Potter, corporal, clubman and breaker
of welI-exercised hearts, will receive d
surprise If he takes the bait that Is Of
fered him he will meet the incoming
steamer before it arrives and search the
decks for a fair unknown to whom he
has. by this time, received a letter OF IN
PRODUCTION The fair one with an aureole
of crushed strawberry hair circltng her
head is no other than Violet Van Ness,
the young woman who first thought she
would cut off her life and then thought
she wouldn't because Potter. was not as
devoted as he might have been.
Ever since the fateful night when Violet
Van Ness reached out her right hand and
scooped a Smith & Wesson from her bu-
reau, by the use of which she thought
eternal happiness might be bought, her
life has been full of dreams OF the young
soldier who went along with his regiment
and left her to pine In thought and in
the misery of solitude. She tried to for
get him and the mightiness of his bish-
opric father who lives in New York but
it was of no avail. With recurrent per-
slstence the one great subject of her
thoughts forced itself upon her mind.
The man she loved was Ashton Potter
and she must see him again at any cost.
So when the last steamer left for Homo
lulu Miss Van Ness had taken passage
and was aboard under an assumed name.
Just five ninutes before the Alameda left
a hack rushed down to the vessel and a
pretty woman of terra Gotta head adorn-
ment jumped out to be embosomed by
the embraces of a number of her lady
friends who were there to bid her good
by. 1t was a touching scene, and Miss
Van Ness gave way to a flood OF tears
and paroXysmic grief that was only
quelled by the much forcible eloquence
of her friends. Miss Van Ness cried
aloud that she would see him once again
and this time there would be an account
ing. She also said that she felt that she
would never return.
Her friends all knew of her intention to
go to Honolulu and the reason of 1T. To
them she confided some time before she
under any circumstances. Her love for
him, she confessed, was just as strong
and deep-seated as ever, but. with an in
vocation to all the gods of every myth
ology she bade him beware and not 10
trifle with her affection. In order to give
Ashton Potter surprise, she had a let
ter sent to him which told of her coming,
but it was not in the name that he knows
her by. 1t was an assumed and fictf-
tious name, which she declared
would make him come out into the har-
little plan would not miSCdrry she would
then confront him, her future conduct to
be determined according to the reception
which he offered. Some say that she took
her revolver along with her. While they
do not think that Potter is in any dan
ger they fear that Miss Van Ness may
end her life If she is rebuked.
The Alameda is due in Honolulu to-
day.