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word at her-"Wantoni"
The syllables were live Goals flung
upon her breast. She cried out and
put her hands to her ears as If to shut
out the sound.
At that epithet and her cry Gordon's s
countenance turned livid His fingers
hardened to eteel. The air swan red.
But the girl divined she sprang be-
fore him and laid her fingers on his
arm. His hands dropped to his side;
he remembered suddenly that his an
tagonist was aged, decrepit. What had
he been about to do?
For one heartbeat Teresa held Cor
don's glance. When she faced her dis
traught husband, her eyes were like
blue-tempered metal. Those weeks of
baffled quest had been slipping the
leash OF grlhood. That one word had
left her all a woman. Her lips were set,
and resentment had drenched her
cheeks with vivid color.
"Siguore,' she said. Il would to God
1t were still yesterday
She turned. and went proudly down
the path by which she had come.
The old man had not moved. Now
he raised his stick and struck Gordon
with it across the brow. A white
mark sprang where it fell, but the
other did not lift his hand. Then
Teresa's husband, with an impreca-
ton, spat on the ground at the friar's
feet and followed her toward the gon-
dolas.
The whole scene had been breath
less and fate-like. To the padre il
was a furry of hellish passions loosed
from the pit. The storm past. still
shocked from the violence of its i'm
past, his mind wrestled with a doubt.
His first glance at the faces of the
man and the woman as he emerged
from the gate had been full of
suggestion. They had not seemed
to spell guilt yet could be
tell? What had been the husband 8
whispered charge? Was the bearing
of the woman, which seemed to mirror
innocence, really one OF guile !? The
man here before him, accused of what
specious crime he could only guesst
Why had he come to the monastery? !?
Had there been, indeed. more than
chance in this encounter at the
shrine?
He looked at Gordon, but the latter.
staring out with a gaze viewless and
set across the lagoon, seemed un-
conscious of the scrutiny BE not
forgetful to entertain strangers!'' That
had been the monastery's creed. Aye,
but If it should be entertaining an
angel of evil unawares? He thought
of the lifted stone-the mans hand
had just dropped it back into place
at his approach. He remembered that
when he called Gordon from the gate
on the morning of his coming he had
seen him bending over the shrine. The
fact seemed to disclose significance.
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"Feresa!" he entreated.

'Feresa!' he entreated.
You said that night that must for
get we had ever met. Did that mean
you merely pitied and spared me? That
: YOU are still to -be-all that Venice
says?"
1T was what had been that
counted!"
NO.. no." she protested. Cant you
see that does not matter to me now?
1t Is only what you were then that
counts to me, Your voice, your eyes,
what you said-you made me care!
Was 1T all lie?'
He felt his heart contract at this visf-
Die suffering whose root was so un-
selfish a desire. His resolve crumbled.
Teresa,'' he said in tone as
strained as her own. whatever of evil
1 nave done has not been since | have
known You. You have walked some
thing in me that would not sleep again.
1t was this you saw and heard and
felt. | could not hide 1t. 1t has
stayed with me ever since! 1t will al
ways be with ME now whether | viii
or no. | did come here by accident.
But | have stayed because the past
Venice and my life there's hateful to
me! II has been SO since that morn
Ing at La Mira.'
OH" She breathed, ;~then when YOU
asked me for the prayeT-you did not
you meant"
1t was because it was almost the
only unselfish and unworldly thing
had ever known. Because it was a
thought for the scorned and unshriven:
because of the very hurt il. gave; be-
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cause it was a prayer of yours-for
met
While he spoke a great giadness il
lumined her face. Have you kept it ?''
He turned from her instinctively to
the shrine. his hand outstretched to
raise the fiat stone. But as suddenly
he paused. He had placed 1t there IN
half-sardonic mockery; not with the
pure faith she would infer from the ac-
ton. He could not stand in a false
light before her.
He let the stone fall back into It's
place.
AS he turned again to answer he
confronted two figures coming through
the gateway few PAGES off. One was
an old man, his bent form dressed
gaily. The other was Padre Somalian
The latter, in advance, had alone seen
the lifted stone.
Both, however, saw the emotion in
the two faces before them. The padre
stood still; the other sprang forward,
passion, his piercing eyes on the pair
with evil inquiry.
The attitude of ownership was un-
mistakable. Gordon felt his veins clog
with ice. This senile magnifico Ter
esa's husband! This-a coerced Vene-
tian mating Of name, of rank, of lands
alone-for her? The sight smote him
Poihiuiiy, YET Will a. Stl dhSS, pitleI
comfort.
There was even more in the old
mobiles look than Gordon guessed;
more than anger at her presence here.
this young bride of his. apart from the
gondolas. He had recognized the man
in the monks robe. His voice rose in
a snarl:
''Unbaptized son of a dog! What is
he doing on holy ground?" He point
ed his stick at Gordon. THE aban-
doned of Venice Has not his past
fame penetrated here. Padre, that you
lend him asylum? Call my gondoliers
and 1 will have him flung into the la
goon,''
The friar stood transfixed. shocked
and panied. Never since he had met
Gordon on that very spot at sunrise.
had he asked even his name. Suppose
the stranger were all the other said.
What difference should 1t make? The
fixed habit OF the monk answered:
What he has been Is of no question
here
The grandee sneered at the padres
answer.
e"You left the gondola, to be sure. to
pray" he said to Teresa, then turned
to Gordon. who waited in constrained
quiet; wolf in sleeps clothing! Did
you come for the same purpose
Teresa felt In Gordon's silence con-
troll that stilled her own violence
of feeling. Her husband saw her
glance and maniacal suspicion darted
like lava through his brain. If this
meeting were planned they had met
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stood there He was recalled by a
voice from the path behind him between
him and the gate, his only way of es-
cape-a voice that held him spellbound.
Father, give me your blessing!"
With an overmastering sense of the
fatality that had beckoned her to the
lagoon path at just this moment to
mistake him for one, of the padres, he
turned slowly. She was kneeling, the
exquisite fabric of her dress sweeping
the moist shingle, her eyes on the
ground. awaiting the sign.
He reached out his hand with a
hoarse cry:
Not thaty Teresa. 1t is I-I-who
should kneel to your
The words broke from him at sight
of her bent face, not rs brides should
be, but weary and llstless. Underneath
the cry was quick thrill of triumph.
Though she was that day another
mans wife, yet she had suffered! But
the thrill died in a pang of reproach.
If she did not care, better the harshest
thought of him now!
She had sprung to her feet in pas
sionate amaze.
"Youl" she exclaimed; ''ah, you!"
In the exclamation there was a great
revulsion and greater joy. Her gaze
swept his pallid features, his costume
her sick imagination had pictured
nlIu III SCSu6S OIL IlbdluIy, Will evil
companions! She began to murmur
broken sentences:
II have wronged you! That night
on the square-it was not the you that
/ had known. You had tried to leave
that life behind-the past that had CIV
en- you that name! You are not what
they say-not now! Not now!''
He stopped her with a gesture.
1T is I who have wronged you," he
said in a voice hard from repression
do not judge me by this robe: 1t
means less than nothing. / am here
by the veriest accident. Not for pen
ance or striving
For an instant she recoiled, instinct
cropping in the maze of doubt. What
was he, erring angel or masquerading
evil? 1t was the question she had cried
to herself all this time, blindly, pas
sionately, her judgment all astray-
the query that silence had at last an
swered with the conviction in which
her long planned marriage had seemed
as acceptable fate as any. Now her
soul. wavering anew, spoke its agony
in a direct appeal:
Tell me! tell me the truth" she
pleaded piteously. II have suffered so
since that night. have not known
how could / know What to think. /
believed what you said at La Mira,
every word! And It is not your past
! think Of now: 1t is only what you
were that very hour and since-and
what you are to-day. Was it only a
play-to make me sorry? Did you
pretend it all?"
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The man who read snatched at the
top of the paper. The date was
March 9, 1918. He felt a mist before
his eyes. Almost two years ago. and
he had not known! For two years he
had had daughter from whom he
was not necessarily debarred, whom
hatred in England could not touch.
A thrill ran through him. He felt 4
recrudescence OF all those tender i'm
pulses that had stirred in him when
Ada was born. The mothers dislike
or indifference had doubtless con
cealed the fact from him. And in
deed, when in that time had he de-
served otherwise? Why was he told
now? Who had brought this record =
The padre. watching him curiousIy.
saw the pang that shot across his face
the pang Of the new remcrseful con-
science
The gentleman in the gondola." he
said. asked to see you"
II will go down." Gordon answered
He closed the window. drew the iron
bar from his coat and slipped II back
between its staples.
CONTINUED Next Week.
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CONTINUED Next Week)
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
FORMER FOES MEET AS FRIENDS
Rare Evidences of a Reunited Country
Shown by the Ceremonies at New
Bern Yesterday.

New Bern. n. c.. May 1S.-With
impressive ceremonies and in the pres
ence of the immense concourse Of peo-
pie there was unveiled in the National
Cemetery today a handsome mont
ment commemorative the valor of the
Ninth New Jersey volunteer infantry
in the civil war. The monument is 1!
feet high. and is surmounted by a life
like figure Of a uniformed soldier at
parade rest.
Patriotic addresses were made by
Governor Glenn Of North Carolina,
and Governor stokes of New Jersey.
They extOllcd the valor and virtue of
both states in war and peace. pointing
to causes both states had to glory
over. and they reioiced in a truly unit
ed country "where at least one south
rrn audience would cheer at the men
ton of Grants name, a northern audi
ence at the name of Lee Former
Confederate and Federal soldiers unit
ed in decorating the monument and
the New Jersey soldiers raves and
in decorating the Confederate monu-
ment in Cedar Grove cemetery.
Among the occurrences of the day
were the retur of the captured Beau
fort county plowboy flag. the Dresen-
tation by the visitors of a United
States flag to the Confederate veterans
and a reception to the visitors by the
Confederate organization, The monu-
ment unveiled was erected at q S
Of $1,000.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
NINE ADDRESSES MADE
Second Day of the South Atlantic
Missionary Conference.

Asheyille, n. c., May 1S.-The sec.
end day of the South Atlantic Mission
airy conferences was given mp to the
study of the fundamental principles
underlying missionary labor, and the
work accomplished by the Methods:
Church, South. along this line. Nine
addresses were delivered.
Bishop c. Il. Galloway, Of Missis-
sippi, spoke to $500 people at the audi
torium this evening. His subject was
the Far East of Today and the
Church's Opportunity
Bishop FL. c. Morrison. of New Or.
leans, addressed the conference at the
day session On the "Church's Supreme
DUTY"
Addresses were made by the Rev. O.
.. Brown, of Vanderbilt University, the
Rev. James Atkins, and other leaders
of Southern methOdism.
There are about 1900 delegates In
the city. G.. W. Vanderbilt will throw
open the Biltmore estate tomorrow to
give them opportunity of visiting it,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
ARRESTED IN NEWPORT
johnson Admits the Confession to the
Chester Police. But Later Denis That
lie Was the Author, ~-t,~ss =.

Cincinnati, May 1s.-Albert johnson,
colored, was arrested in Newport, ky.,
today for sending Threatening letters
through the mails. The officers express
the belief that he is the same man
who wrote to tho Chester, w. Va.
chief of police, eonfessing various
crimes for which other men haf been
OF were about To be punished. A pos
tai card to James Moar, son of Captain
Luke Moar, threatening him with
death was turned over to the United
States postal All .horities and led u
Johnson's arrest. Johnson acknowledge
ed writing the postal and was hen
asked:
did you write that letter tn the
Chester, w. Va, chief of police"
Yes, sir, | die and every word in
that letter is true he responded.
why do you make these voluntary
confessions?"
Because | am now converted and |
intend tt lead a better life. had three
other men spotted to kill in Cleveland.
but since my Conversion | have 3ban-
doned that idea. | informed The men
that they bad had close calls for their
lives, and thought religion was all
that saved them
Later Johnson ~retracted his state
ment that he hai killed five persons.
Il have been bad" he said, but |:
have killed anyone and don't
know anything about that letter."
Johnson's record in Newport Includes
an attempt to Kill Amos Phillips by
shooting, but Johnson claimed that he
acted in self defense.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
Letter From A Johnson'a to Police Of
Chester.
REMARKABLE LIST OF CRIMES
Besides Murders. the Writer Admits
Having Executed Many Robberics
and an Asa alt on n Woman. Tor
ut,ich Crime. He Says. Another
Man Was Lynched-onverSiou
Given as Cause Of Confession. -

Chester. W. Va May iS.-fn q letter
TO the police authorities of this CITY q
signing himself "A Johnson" and
claiming 20 be a partner of Henry VIII
liams. who was recently executed in
Roanoke, Va. his confessed to hve
murders ard numerous robberiea Tie
says he has been converted, His dates
and in which the different
crimes were committed as furnished in
~Johnson's letter are more complete
than the police records, and the au-
thorities believe !te authenticity.
According 10 Johnson he Killed q
woman at Chester, W. Va. TWO ltai-
ians at Uniontown. Pa, a man nj
Hypdman, Pa. ana a woman at Martins
Ferry, Ohio. He also claims 10 have
assaulted & woman at Stauntor, Va,
for which crime he says another man
was lynched.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
BATTLE MAY BE DELAYED
Position of Russian Fleet is About 700
Miles from Southern Part of Island
of FOrmoSa.

Honolulu, May 1S,-A special corre-
spondent who recently proceeded from
here to Kwan Chau Bay observed at
Il o'clock at night, May 18th, n hum
dred and fifty deeply laden junks pre-
sumably loaded with provisions for the
Russian fleet, anchored southwest and
twenty miles off Cape st. John. The
junks exhibited signal lights which
were extinguished upon the steamers
approach to Kwang Chau bay.
Even in case Admiral Rojestyensky
decides not to take these supplies on
board, or if the Hong Kong report Is
Incorrect, the Russian fleet, May 10,
was still about 700 miles from the
southern part of the island of Formosa,
where it has been asserted Admiral
Togo may give battle, and j. is doubt
full if the fleet can now make more
than about 200 miles a day under the
most favorable circumstances.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
S FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL ROOM cOAFEssEs TO FIVE MURDERS
Florida Man, in New York, Ends His
Life.
Tie Man Had Been Despondent for
Se.cral DAYS and Had Referred to
Some Trouble mt Deland-Death
Was Caused BY Morphine Poisoning.
The Woman's Story.

New York, MAY 1s.-Herbert Leon
Kepler, a bookkecrer. whose homo WIS
in Deland, Fla, died in a la Sls-
sens Hote; at 4btf street IN Saith
avenue today from morphine poisoning.
With him at the time was q woman
who told the police that her maize was
Dona Miller, and that she left peland
with Kepler two weeks ago. Mrs. Mil.
Ter said she left her husband to come
with Kepler. She was detained by the
police.
In the room which Kepler and .he
woman occupied the police found two
small bottles. One was filled with
morphine and the other nearly empty
contained a trace Of drug.
Mrs. Miller told the police that Keep
Ter had been respondent for several
days and had told her that unless faith
err did something at once to fix up the
trouble at Deland ne feared something
dreadful would happen.
When Mrs Miller was arraigned In
police court she was remanded II the
custody of the without eXami-
room indicated that the man had de-
liberately taken Ills life. 1t was ad-
dressed to his nephew, John Raymond,
who is employed N this city, and said
Good Bye Jack. | thank you fcr all
you have done. You know as well as
| the reason for this and will forgive
me. Again | thank you, and again |
say a last good bye.
tSigned.) HERBERT"
Raymond told tie police that his un-
Gle was at one tune a prominent .eu-
mis- playes, land that he won the south
ern championship several years ago
Later Mrs. Miller told the coroner
that a portion Of Ter story as she gave
1t to the police was untrue. She had
not lived with her husband in several
years, she said, and did not flee from
Deland with Kepler. She had beer IN
New York or vicinity for several years
She also told the 0 hat she had
been a witness to the William Hooper
Young murder in this city several
years ago. She had lived in the house
with the murdered she said,
and had first introduced her to Young.
Mrs. Miller also said that Kepier
left a letter addressed to his father
and mother begging that he and Mrs.
Millersbe not separated in death and
that his parents and daughter forgive
him for his act.
In view of this letter the police be-
lieve that kepler intended to kill both
himself and the woman.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
PASSED AMID WILD TUMULT
City Gas Works OF Philadelphia Leased
for a Period Of Seventy-ive Years.
Kisses and Cries of Thieves Greet
Ell the Action of the Councils.

Philadelphia, May 18.-Amid scenes
of disorder unprecedented in the annals
of Philadelphia's legislative body. the
city council tonight voted 10 lease the
City Gas Works to the United Gas and
Improvement Company for a term of
IS years for the total sum Of $50 .0o0,-
600, the money 20 be paid in various
amounts between the end of 1907.
Council chamber End committee looms
were crowded with excited citi Zef.s
protesting against the lease.
The climax wa; reached when the
vote in common council was
ed after three hours of debate. The
moment President George McCurdy an
nounced the vote a great uproar Was
started in The lobby, which was crowd
ed t 0 the door. From all over n gal
lery came Kisses and cries Of thieves, :
The outburst was somewhat startling
to the presiding officer, who made a
vain effort to quell [. Finally he sent
for a squad OF police TO clear the gal
Iery which started disorder anew.
The crowd continued to hiss and
call the councilmen thieves and other
until the police arrived and
started to clear tins gallery. As the
people moved out they sang unoompli-
mentary songs
All through the session OF co.imon
council there was disorder. In select
council there were SO many policemen
on duty no one dared to interrupt the
proceedings. There was neither a cheer
nor a hiss when the bill passed that
body.
Mayor Weaver is expected to veto the
bill, and in that event both chambers
will probably pass IL over his veto
The vote In common council was a 10
8, and In select council 81 to 4. There
Is only one Democrat In each body and
both voted against the lease.
The bill was amended so as to o
vide for a slight return In price OF
gas.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
HAD TO LEAVE VLADIVOSTOK
All Foreign Commercial Agents Asked
to Get Out of the Fortress.

WASHINGTON. May 1s.-Richard s.
Creener. American commercial agent
at Vladivostok. has cabled the state
department that all the foreign COM
mercial agents there have been asked
to leave Vladivostok fortress and are
given permission to reside in the cities
of the maritime provinces. Mr.. Green
er himself was lust leaving Vladivos-
tok fo- Haborowsk. 1t is recalled here
tina 9 similar measure was adopted
by the Russian authorities at Port Ar
thur at the beginning Of the invest
ment of that place by the Japanese
land and sea forces and hence It IS
assumed that Vladivostok is exnected
tn become a centre of the seat of war
very soon
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
WELL. KNOWN IN DEIAND
f, KeDler Left Suddenly on May 9th With
A Woman known as Jessie Miller.

Deland, Fla, May 1S.-Herbert Leon
Kepler is a son Of w. L. Kepler of
E%auclaire, Wisconsin,, who has :. win
ter home and large orange grove on
Lake Winnemissett, near here. The
Keplers are prominent people Of Eau
claire and are well thought OF heie
The 20 is about 20 years old, and has
been married twice. His first wife IS
divorced and the second is suing for
divorce in Wisconsin. He left here
quietly and suddenly on May 6 with 4
woman known as Jessie Miller. She
is of medium height with red hair. The
Miller woman came here last fall.
Kepler's mother, father and sister
are still here. Nothing can be learn
ed here of Kepler's death or OF The
history of the Miller woman.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-23
dwelling Of Monument Attracts Dis
tinguished Gathering.
mcnt Were in Attendance-Goyer-
nnr Glenn. Several OF His STAFF and
Military Companies From Raleigh.
Goldsboro and kznston Took Part i'm
the Ceremonies-A Gala Day for
icy Bern.


New Bern, N. C.. May 1s.-This has
been a gala day for New Bern and the
city has probably never entertained
such a distinguished assemblaga as
has been gathered here today for The
purpose Of participating in the cere-
monies incident to the unwilling of he
monument of the Ninth New Jersey
United States Veterans at the Nat
ional Cemetery. Governor Stokes
OF New Jersey, and about one hundred
and twenty-five citizens of that state
came down here. Of this nunlEe.
eighty were members of the Grand Ar.
my of the Republic, and survivors of
the 9th regiment. In addition to these
Governor Glenn with staff and mem
bers of his official family and their
wives and daughters nave been guests
OF the city. Military companies from
Raleigh, GoldsbCro and Kinston were
in attendance.
The procession was formed in the
business section Of the city and march
ed to the cemetery, a distance of a
mile. There were over five hundred
men in the procession, and they made
a very impressive spectacle while IN
the line OF march.
The first address was made by Gener-
al Stewart, commissioner in charge of
the monument, who gave a historical
sketch of the regiments career in the
Civil war, the general himself oeirg
the commander Of the regiment. AS
commissioner, General Stewart gave
Governor Stokes the custody of the
monument, who in an eloquent address
turned it over TO the care of the Unit
ed States government.
Governor Glenn made the closing ad-
dress, which was a splendid o%ratorical
effort n rapturcusly applauded. The
exercises were Witnessed by more than
5000 people. People came from nearby
counties in large numbers, and there
| were several excursions and boat loads
of people.
Last night the presentation of the
Beaufort Plow Boz flag was made by
Governor Glenn to the woman who
made it, Mrs. Mary Joyner, now living
in Columbia, S. c.. She in turn will
deliver it to Captain Harding, to whom
she gave it in 1861 upon the organiza-
ton OF the Plow Boy company. The
events of the day closed with a ban
quet given to The state officials of
North Carolina by the veterans of
New Jersey.