The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-25
MIKES LOVE
and SOCIALISM
The Duchess Of Sutherland Has
Written a Novel.
BOOK JUST ISSUED AT LONDON.
Considerable knowledge Of the Miseriss Of
WoTkIngmans Life Shown.
NO CURE FOR THEM IN SOCIALISM.
fcco'tlrg 10 Tho Tiled Author The wsge-ssmnp
Class Can ONLY 30 6silsrsd IN Condition
b. Gradual Development.

London, Oct. 25.--The Duchess of
Sutherlan1's novel, "One Hour and the
Next" AN anti-Semitic story. treating
rather extensively Of she melancholy
side of working class life, but inter-
estins and certain 4 create discussion,
was brought out yesterday
Robert Lester, the hero a restless
man Of wealth and culture and che
husband OF an invalid wife. becomes
an active socialistlc worker aud sue
ceeds IN making needless trouble be-
tween employers and employees i'm the
manufacturing town me selects as the
field for putting his theories into prac
tice. He engaged In this work primarily
TO distract his mind from the suffer
ings of his wife.
To assist him in the task he has as
sumed he employs as his secretary Ar
hes Stanier, handsome. innocent girl.
the daughter of a schoolmaster. she
rails in love with him. She does not
Know that he is married. He never en-
couraged her. but observing his influ-
enc employs II TO urge the girl 10
greater endeavors in the work he has
undertaken.
AN ENIGMA TO HER.
To her he is something OF an enigma.
She tries TO fathom his influence over
her.
How he dominated her. this man iu
ms originality and his restlessness: how
she longed Ito probe the mystery of his
career"
: Lester sends Agnes on mission to q
drunken socialist agitation. The task is
Tat a ln hlF sst,. ~
tors greet her with:
Are YOU Testers lass? The lucky
DOG! You are a ---- finer girl than we
get down here. Does he keep YOU for
the party or FOR your pretty eyes?''
OppoTunely rescued from this situa-
tion. her ardor for Testers cause cools.
but falling again under his influence. she |
promises him to speak at meeting of !
strikers, Upon gaining her consent Les |
ter ia delighted
Their hands met. Lester booked at |
her in appreciation. How pretty she |
was with her curIs tumbling about her |
radiant face and sparkling eyes! Her |
lips, I'm her breathessness, parted a lit |
tie, showing the small white teeth the |
color coming and going in her clear
complexion.
she fingered Intentionally in her at
titude Her breath famed his cheek.
and thus IL was without premeditation |
without intention and under the passing
impulse born of her childlike beauty
and OF their playful words he kissed
her.
or THE KISS TO HER.
'To her il SO med but Se fulflment
or all her hopes til climax Of all her
unspoken thoughts. Lester was not like
other men WHO night have hirts with
empty words. who might have fed her
vanity with hauery.
THE very dist 2nCe Of his manner she
remembered only as dignity, his formal
lty AS respect. He loved her Most sure
y he loved her. a kiss must mean so
much TO such man. What need now of
further control. OF continue struggle
)f self-tormenting analysis?
In utter self surrender she clung 10
him. She whispered: 'Ah. I know now.
have wanted to know so long how |
! Early ! love YOU.
Almost before the words were utter
"a he had thrust her SO brusquely from |
him that, had she not caught the cor |
1er of a table. she would have fallen" ,
Agnes's father had witnessed the !
'cene and interveneS. Testers socialist |
G endeavors collapse and eventually be |
Agnes learns that he is mar |
led. and. overcoming in time the agon- ,
---ef the revelation. returns 30 her
life.
The serious mission Of The Duchess
lovel Is to show that the working
b benefited by sudden
hange, but only by gradual develop /
uent. Considerable knowledge OF the I
ctualstcs Of tn workingman's lot Is
hown by the titled authoress. '