Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-04

he said of Raridan had much to do with
formulating the opinion that was to pass
into Clarkson history. The last few months
of Warrys life had won him this eulogy-
the work which he had done for Evelyn.
FentCn had learned to know him well after
the appointment of Saxton as receiver. He
had thrown number of important ques-
tons to Wary to investigate and he had
been ANA zed at his young lieutenant's ca
pacity and industry. He did not know that
a woman had been the inspiration of his
work; he thought that it proceeded from.
SaXtons influence and the pleasure Wary
found in labor that brought him near his
friend.
1t was not alone Warrys death but the
sharp. tragic manner of it, so wretchedly
inconSonant with his life that grieved and
compensations; for many read into his life
now recklessness and daring which it had
lacked. They spoke of him as though he
had been a young soldier who had fallen at
the first skirmish, without having been tried
in battle; all spoke of his promise and
mourned that his life had been harvested
before he had finished sowing. On every
hand lis good deeds were recounted; many
unknown witnesses rose to tell of acts of
generosity and kindness which would never
have been disclosed in his lifetime. Those
who had really known him no longer
lamented his erratic habits. They now
magn.led his talents; and his whimsical
fanciful ways they attributed to genius
1t was much easier to account for Raridan
than to explain Wheaton. Most of the
people of ClarkSon did not understand his
flight, if he had neither stolen the bank
money nor killed Wary Raridan There
was disposition for a time to reject the
story of the tragedy at the Pondexter
ranch house as 1t had been given out by
Bishop Delahe1d and John Saxton; but the
bishops word in the matter was final; he
was not man to conceal the truth Those
who had seen most of Wheaton were
the most puzzled The men who re-
NAMED at The Bachelors We're St.;rinad l,y-
the whole affair, but in particular they fail
ed to grasp the curious phase presented by
Wheatons conneetIon-or lack of connection
with it, They expected him to return and
even discussed what should be their atti-
tude toward him if he came back. AS the
days passed and nothing was heard, they
gradually ceased talking of him. but by ST.
lent assent no one took the seat he had oc-
cupied at their table When presently the
landlord sent Wheatons things TO be stored
in the cellar, and new men appeared in the
places of Raridan and Wheat ton they ex-
changed the oblong table for a round one.
to take away whatever i'll luck might follow
the places of the lost members of their
board
The chief shock to William Porter was a
shock to his pride. He had trusted Wheaton
as implicitly as he trusted any man, and
while his trust at all times had limitations
he had extended these beyond precedent in
James Wheaton's Sc. Saxton and Bishop
Delafield had gone to him as soon as posi-
Bile, with Fenton. 1t was important for Por-
ter to understand exactly what had occur
red at the Pondexter ranch house. The
newspapers had now announced Wheaton's
Tight; it was natural that the bank should
fall under suspicion, and that all of Porter's
interests should be jeopardized. A cashier
implicated in some way in a murder, and in
full flight for parts unknown. created "a
situation which could not be ignored But
Porter met the issue squarely and sanely