Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-06-03

lO EN- M AN UEL STEIN ID dARDl
in England.-Emile Haas in Basel send
this. Though you me have forgotten
not You. 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 1 should at
once think this was addressed to the
Emmanuel Steinhardt I knew? There
might be others of the name in Eng
land, but surely no other to whom the
implication, which 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. It
was scarcely probable, 1 thought, that
Steinhardt would see it; he read little
of newspaper literature, knew, and
his usual paper was the local daily.
What, then? In spite of my ab-
horrence of him, and my wish to>avoid
him, should not, for the woman's
sake, inform him of this? I pondered
this idea all the rest of the day, until
the evening, when I 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 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" (taking up a copy of The
Times). eyes," he continued, reading
it over and chuckling at its compost
ton. 81 suppose she thought she must
write English for an English paper.
(He laid the paper DOWN. "Poor
Emile, she wants me; but can't 60,
you know. must go to London about
my lawsuit again. I might send Frank,
but I 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 I
should. She thinks she would like to
see me and speak to ne, 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 was 60
ing to be IA clergyman"
He turned slowly to the fire, took up
the poker, and carefully raked out the
ashes from the bottom of the CRATE.
Was memory leading him back reluct-
antly to those days of his youth, and
compelling him to ask himself whether
for all he had gained since then he had
not paid too great price?
"Well," said he, manifestly shaking
something off, and turning to me,
"what do you say, Mr.. Unwin? will,
of course, pay your expenses, and you
will take Emile letter from me, and
money! daresay she means she needs
it,
81 am much obliged to you, Mr..
said 1, "but-"
"Oh," said he, "it is I will be
obliged, but of course that does not
matter"
SIT is so unexpected" continued;
1 might have added, "and extraordi-
nary"
"Well, yes; I daresay it is. But you
know what the Frenchman says about
the unexpected"
"Let me consider it for a day; and
if decide to go shall be ready to set
out at once"
"Oh, yes; consider it, and consult
your friends. But if you do not go,
nobody will 60"
l went Immediately from him to
Birley, and stated at once the extraor-
dinary offer had received.
eco, lad," said he; sit will be q
pleasant holiday for you, and the poor
woman, of course, would rather see
from Manuel than only get a
letter from him."
I hesitated; did not desire 6. holi-
day then, even on the Continentfwhele
l had never been, but at the same time
some change was becoming necessary
my finances had sunk.
'But," said I, "I believe he has
asked me only to get me out of the way
for some purpose. I think he suspects
I have been finding out something
more."
Sand what does that natter" asked
Birley. "Look here, my lad; I know
you re in a way about Louise. Now it
strikes me if you 60 away for a little
while (and you may as we'll go at
'Manuel's expense), things will turn
out better for you than you may think.
You see, at the same time as you are
away, he is away, too. Frank must
come back to the works, and there will
be no reason for keeping Louise at
Take my word for it, he'll
bring her home; l shall manage to
see her, and if she claims my protec-
ton as her other guardian, 1 shall TAX
her home with me, and when he comes
back he can't ta' her from me. Don't
you see, lad?''
admitted the force of the reasons
he urged, and all next day (Which was
Sunday turned them over. My going
might certainly be to Louise's advant-
age and to my own. Even if Stein
hardt brought her back to Timperly
only for visit of a few days, there
would be sufficient opportunity for Bir-
ley to take her home to himself. On
the other hand, my refusal to go would
bring no advantage nor prospect of ad-
vantage. And might not, indeed,
offer be a suggestion of