Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-20

given circumstances was difficult, but court
ship in the given circumstances is always
difficult. and there are no circumstances
whatever in which women have not been
Wooed and won. Detective Ackeray began
his courtship on a street corner and con
tinued ii in station house. He had de-
pr1ved her OF protector who did not pro-
tect, he wished to provide her with an
other who would. he had not hunted down
Harvey out of malice; it had been his bust
ness to work up such evidence as there was
and he had done his business and got his
reward, and the prosecuting attorney had
done the rest. These things he told her
roundly, with manly straightfurwardnes
that should have won the heart or the i'm
agination or fancy of any woman. When,
instead of listening to him, she reviled him.
with feminine finish, point and fiuency. be-
fore gathering crowd of chatting auditors
ne proved himself a man to be depended
upon In an emergency; one of the strong
dumb souls Carlyle and Mr.. Ruskin used to
celebrate as natural leaders and governors
OF men; he promptly placed her under ar
rest as drunk and diSorderly. The next
morning in court she sufficiently demon
strated her disposition to disorder by treat
ing his honor with an alternate haughtiness
and eioquence which made the audience be-
hind the rail litter and the double bench of
hluecnats shake with involuntary mrth
The bailiff cried ''silence." and threatened
to clear the court: his honor passed SEN
tence of $40 or ten days. Detective Ack-
cray paid the fine.
In the corridor of the magistrates court
he gave Nettie what he would have be an
pleased to call professional" advice. ..See
here, Net, the next time t chew the rag
with you about. cuttin up in the streets an
booZin you want to listen-see?"
She did not listen the next time nor the
time after, though it need not be doubted
that she was impressed-yes. and subdued
and attracted-by the might and decision
mainly because he had vanquished her kins-
men, and little because he had beaten
her as often as she needed it and not
Gftener. In equal logic she ought to have
loVed the prince, mainly because he had
Vanquished Harvey. and "a little because II
ne did not beat her to silence her tongue
ne mad discovered method of procedure
which much more nearly silenced 1t than
anything that Harvey had ever done ana
the strong point Of every woman is logic
the women in their conventions and clubs
say SO. But the second strong point or
every woman is her gift for concealing her
logic. Nettie Jeliffe concealed hers so far
at least as Detective Ackeray was con-
cerned, as long as in all human endurance
woman could. She became an old Offend
er in the several magistrates courts in me
district throughout which Detective Ack-
cray had authority. The charge was Al
ways drunk and disorderly, and the COM
ptdlhant always Detective Ackeray: and
sometimes as the months passed she hao
oeen drunk, and she had always been dis
orderly. She could not go back to her kins-
me1l-her mere presence reminded them roo
wildly of an unpleasant Incident OR cor,,so
cation of Incidents. which had taken Mace
at the moment Of her departure. she coul1
not retain position even when she got
one because of the frequency with whicn
she was under arrest: and, besides the ract
that she was Harvey Jeliffe's wife was NOT
commonly regarded as a recommendation
AS Is PAID her fine. or let her pay 1t her
self, or work it out, as a Jockey miebt c.
tie or punish spirited horse which he toos
a pride in training Whether he paid her
me me or not. he always repeated to her that
b nag n91t time ne tried to chew the rag with
sences from home and her proved tntern-
Perance MADE her an improper guardian
Tor little Blanche. When the child Nos
t IAN. away from her, also at the instiga-
listened. e 'eiine
ihree months afterward she was legally
ana absolutely separated from Harvey. and |
was ra married to man whom she addressed
SCHeumes as George" sometimes as
dear. and little Blanche. who was re-.
stored 10 hei home, was outspoken in her !
approval OF her new papa Detective Ack
cray was George" He was also dear"
III.
1t has been remarked in the first part of |
this tale that Harvey Jeliffe on becoming a |
pehltent IN the great - penitentiary had
no notion or intention Of ever bidding for |
the notoriety that has CONT to him in later
years as the prison demon. He went 10 the |
STIR originally with the idea Of getting all |
the good time that the law allows a man
who has been sentenced to four years and |
OF keeping out OF all rows as his wife had |
ADVISED He did that which all wise men |
who are sent to prison do: in the language |
OF the pugtlfst, he gathered himself To-
gether Men who go to prison for the first |
I'M. lime nave more dimcuity In achieving this |
Ieat tnan those who have been there be-
FORE but TO live at al successfully-end |