Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-07-03

WAS dl OnTe arrested Dy tnlS:-
"TO EMMANUEL STEINHARDT
in England Haas in Basel send
this. Though you me have forgotten
not you. l am in very much trouble
and fear from you, many times since
first, now again. Come to me, come,
before the TOO late must be gewrit-
ten" "a Basel address was ap-
pended.)
Was it not natural that should at
once think this was addressed to the
Emmanuel Steinhardt l knew? There
might be Others of the name in Eng
land, but surely no other to whom the
| implication, which l read between the
lines of this advertisement, OF broken
faith with woman would so we'll ap-
ply. And she seemed in urgent dis
tress; she begged him to 60 to her. 1t
was scarcely probable, l thought, that
Steinhardt would see it; he read little
OF newspaper literature, l knew, and
his usual paper was the local daily.
What, then? In spite of my alb
horrence OF him, and my wish to avoid
him, should l not, for the woman s
sake, inform him OF this? pondered
this idea all the rest Of the day, until
the evening, when took it to Birley.
Certainly" said he; "the scamp
Let him know Of it. suppose he only
married my sister because she had a
bit of brass"
So 1 called on steinhardt that very
evening.
"Thank you, Mr.. Unwin," said he,
when had told him my errand; "but
some kind friend has already sent me
the paper" ttaking up a copy of The
Times). eyes" he continued, reading
it over and chuckling at its compost
tion. 81 suppose she thought she must
write English for an English paper :"
Gle laid the paper down. "Poor
Emile, she wants me; but | can't 90,
{ you know. must go to London about
my lawsuit again. l might send Frank
but really want him here" He
paused and looked at me, meditatively
"You are doing nothing, Mr.. Unwin.
Would you go for me? You would,
: really and truly, do better than ]
should. She thinks she would like tc
see me and speak to me, but she
wouldn't. She seems to be very ill
; dying, suppose she thinks herself
. poor woman-and to speak to people
sick and dying is more in your way
than mine. She will like to hear YOU
she always liked clergymen; she liked
me little when we thought l was go.
! ing to be "a clergyman.
He turned slowly to the fire, took NJ
the poker, and carefully raked out the
t ashes from the bottom Of the CRATE
Was memory leading him back reluct
antly to those days Of his youth, anC
compelling him to ask himself whether
for all he had gained since then he had
not paid too great a price?
"Well, said he, manifestly shaking
something off, and turning to me
"what do you say, Mr.. Unwin? l will
of course, pay your expenses, and yor
will take Emile letter from me, anC
money! daresay she means she need
, it."
81 am much obliged to you, Mr.
e steinhardt," said I, "but-"
r "Oh," said he, cit is I will b.
a obliged, but of course that does no
Il matter"
"It is so unexpected, 1 continued
s l might have added, "and extraordi
: nary"
u "Well, yes; daresay it is. But yo
know what the Frenchman says abou
the unexpected"
"Let me consider it for a day; an
3 if l decide to go l shall be ready to Sc
u out at once"
y "Oh, yes; consider it, and consul
II your friends. But if you do not &C
u nobody will CO."
e l went Immediately from him t
n Birley, and stated at once the extraor
o dinary offer had received.
3, "Go, lad," said he; cit will be
/ pleasant holiday for you, and the poo
n woman, of course, would rather Sc
somebody from Manuel than only get
n letter from him."
s. hesitated; | did not desire holt
IS day then, even on the Continent wher
d had never been, but at the same tim
s. some change was becoming necessar
g considering the low condition to whic
l. my finances had sunk.
"But,,' said l, 81 believe he ha
'i asked me only to get me out OF the wa
q for some purpose. think he suspect
l. 1 have been finding out somethin
l. more"
"And what does that matter?" aske
}; Birley. "Look here, my lad; I kno
u you're in a way about Louise. Now
'e strikes me if you go away for a litt
while (and you may as well go {
~ 'Manuel's expense), things will tur
d out better for you than you may thinI
g. You see, at the same time as you al
"a away, he is away, too. Frank mu
come back to the works, and there wi
& be no reason for keeping Louise {
i Blackpool. Take my word for it, he'
te bring her home; shall manage
ID see her, and if she claims my prote
" tion as her other guardian, shall tai
her home with me, and when he com,
ID back he can't ia her from me. Don
t, you see, lad?"
,e admitted the force of the reaso,