The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17

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 The asking of this favor of Lusl1
 paved the way to the greater misfor-
 tune she had yet to encounter in her life and. in fact, was the cause, al- l though not immediate, of it's early end- ing. Lusk becoming infatuated with
 the girl had proposed to. and been re- iected by her some time previous to her ] acquaintance with Smalley. Lusk was much older than Miss Stannard, and
 while the bland and dgnified lawyer
 had been uniformly kind and helpful to | her and she appreciated his worth great l ly, yet she found little in him to attract | a girl of her makeup She could not 1 learn to love him, and she told him so | frankly. This refusal, however, only | served to heighten the lawyers passion 1 for her. and when her request came for | his good offices toward securing employ ment for her brother he at once granted | it, conditional upon her visit to New York with young Stannard to obtain the coveted place. While walking in the streets of Brooklyn with the girl, the | brother being a short distance in ad- vance, Lusk again proposed to her and,
 upon receiving his second rejection, he calmly drew a revolver. Then, telling
 her that if she would not marry him she
 should not be united to anyone else, he fired the weapon three times at her. leaving her bleeding, screaming victim
 on the sidewalk Lusk then placed the
 pistol to his temple and blew out his
 brains.
 Hannah Stannard received three bull
 lets in her head from Lusk's pistol.
 One pass q completely through her
 skull, one was probed for and found by
 the surgeons, and one remained in her
 head up to the day of her death, years
 afterward. She experienced many
 months of suffering from her wounds, in
 New York hospital. and then, to the
 surprise of her friends, she recovered
 her strength, although her left side was
 partially paralyzed from her injuries,
 and always remained so. She never
 made allusion to Lusk nor to the causes
 which led up to the shooting, nor was
 she ever heard to upbraid him for his
 cruel act, holding, it was supposed by
 her friends that the shooting was part of the fate in this world that had been decreed for her.
 Upon leaving the hospital she became imbued with a desire to study medicine and she did so, subsequently, graduating with honors and locating in New York city. By this time she had practically forgotten Henry Smalley, as she had never heard from him since he left America and she supposed he had given up all thought of her. She had consent- ed to marry Dr. Theodore Humber, of Newark, N. J., in the autumn of 1869, and the arrangements for their nuptials had been nearly completed when she was again disappointed, this time by the sudden death of her betrothed.
 After this pr. Stannard devoted her energies to travelling abroad with some of her wealthy patients, and while in | Naples met an Italian nobleman, the | Count di Spazza, who followed the ex- ample of several other men and fell in love with the blonde American. Miss Stannard was at this time at the height of her loveliness. Her beauty was of that impressive and pleasing cfaracter that causes men, and women, too, to turn second time to contemplate it. Combined with her charm of manner and her personal graces it won for her hosts of friends. She could not tolerate the count, however. and the rejection of his suit so humiliated him that he. too, ended his life, as is supposed, as he was found dead by the door of his residence on the following morning stabbed through the heart, his own dagger being in his lood-staned right hand
 This episode led the unfortunate American woman to cry out for the first md perhaps for the only time in her ca- ger against her apparently unhappy ate and against the knd-hearted who interfered with her carly life and removed her from the sphere into which chance had thrown Ter. In grievous distress she moaned to friend:
 "Oh, why did they not let me alone, where I belonged? My life in the orbit II which I was originally thrown surely ,ould not have brought me any more or my greater misery than have thus far 1nown."
 The Di Spazza suicide was the cause if her speedy return to New York.
 Six months later she was summoned 0 what proved to be the death-bed of l lel DSloNeu loslGI ldllleI, INIT. MullI, he head of the Mum school. During he many weeks in which she was sub- ( in attendance upon MT. Mum |. ot a few of his old-time scholars came ack to the school to pay their last trib- Z tes of love and venera ton to their for Ter tutor MT. Mum had been teach I r who, to very remarkable degree, ad retained the respect and affection of 5 he students he had sent out into the c ,orld in past years. Among the num- CT came Henry Smalley, now the Aus d ralan sheep-raiser but with his hoped 1r fortune still unmade. In far-off p ustralia he had occasionally heard of 1e various episodes in Hannah's life, 4 nd as he had never heard from her di- ectly he believed that she had been un- p 'ue to him, and he accordingly felt cry bitter towards her. Some of Han c ah's closest friends in the Mount Tom J ,untry were fearful that there might 9 still another tragedy in her eventful p fe when Smaley again met her, if he tier were inclined to be revengeful for a ar treatment of him.
 But nothing of that sort occurred. A I 'eat tragedy was impending over Han