The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-22

Benton had deemed IL his duty TO
impart full details, and Miss Buffers
father had thanked him for so doing.
A brief interview followed; some in
consequent and rather pitiful excuses
were made by Dudley, but what ex-
cuse avails in such cases, when offered
to faithful and single-minded girl?
Mr.. Duncan Dudley's ring was returned,
few cold, stinging words were spoken
to him by his ex-fiancee. an insult or
two offered by her father, and then
Hon. Duncan was shown tremendously
to the door. Added to all of which,
he next day had the,happiness OF hear
ing that his eX-chum and present un-
doer, HadleyBenton, had again pro-
posed to Miss Butler-this time sue
cessfully. The marriage, said the So
ciety papers, would take place within
30 days.
From this time commences the down.
fall of Hon. Duncan Dudley. For even
third son can find ways and means
wherewith to go to the "demnltion
bow-wows," and the thorough velocity
of Dudley's down-hill pace is even yet
spoken of as an example of what a
man can do in that line, even in Lon
don. For it is not every day that
young man can get himself kicked out,
hguratively and literally, from several
of the laxest of clubs, and not every
day that he can not only disgrace him
self but the generations of good, proud
people back of him.
No mans downfall was ever more
artistically complete and finished than
that of Duncan Dudley. He was at the
bottom of degradation's hill, an out
cast and disowned by his family, when
an old UNCLE, from whom he had ex-
pected to inherit, sent for him and
offered him His choice between pistol
and travelling expenses to Australia.
Dudley chose the travelling expenses,
promising to take the next steamer,
under an assumed name, for Melbourne.
Two days later he purchased instead,
under the name of John Simpson,
ticket for Panama. And with that pur-
chase. ends the career of Hon. Dun
can Dudley, so far as Great Britain is
concerned; ends, also, our interest in
Miss Aileen Butler, who soon afterward
became the unhappy and unloving wife
Of Mr.. Richard Hadley-Benton-with
which latter parsonage we have not yet
finished.
Regarding Mr.. John Simpson, second
class passenger from Liverpool on the
British South American and Panama
steamship liner Paloma, it would be an
impossible feat to follow his fortunes
and misfortunes through the next ten
years. OF his life in Panama, Brazil
and Central America reams of paper
would be consumed in the telling, also
more of my time and yours than either
of us would care to lose. AS a matter
of briefness, he had been anything and
everything possible in his attempts to
gain either honest or dishonest liv-
ing. He had logged on the Amazon,
dug for gold (Which, like Rachael's
children, twas not'O in the Guianas,
gambled unsuccessfully in Panama, and
at last, in desperation, had drifted to
the Mexican border. There he had the
fortune (or misfortune) to save the
life of a Mexican girl, the only daugh-
ter of a ranchero, who owned ranches
and mine or two in the western part
of Mexico, just then in process of de-
velopmeHt- various English and
American syndicates.
This girl, Anita by name, was rath-
er pretty; though dark and chubby, as
Mexican girls often are. But she was
sweet, innocent, and very faithful, and
she let Simpson see that she cared for
him, and would marry him if he so
desired. Strange to say. he did de-
sire his life had been such that the
pure and unselfish love of even a Mex
lean girl meant much to him, and he
swore that he would reform, once mar
ried to Anita. Not that he loved her.
Love Mr.. Simpson had killed with his
own hands ten years ago and more. But
some men can live up to much of a
standard without good woman's help.
Simpson was of this ilk. Wherefore he
married Anita, sobered up in a man.
ner that astonished even himself, re-
fused TO accept help from his some
what grumpy father-in-law, and found
a job as assistant assayer in the Mex
lean mining town of Palma Sola, in
the very center of the gold and silver
mining district which English and
American capital was in process of ex-
plotting.
In the course of time Simpsons en-
ployer died, and Simpson continued the
assay Office on his own account, for he
had learned the business during his
five years apprenticeship, and chemical
knowledge gained by him while a!
Oxford also TODD him in good stead. He
sides which he had learned a great deal
about mines and mining, and knew
what was ore and what was not. you
may not realize it, but this last is
great attainment) Also, in addition
to his assay office, he now had small
ore-buying agency and was, in fact,
making money hand over fist.
Anita, though now very fat and mus
tached, had, nevertheless, proved very
good and faithful wife and mother. and
Simpsons lines had not been cast in the
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