The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-11
HORTENSE, She TELLS A TALE,
OF WHAT BEFELL II Err IN STAID
OOkLYN'S PALE.

All lnNN IN ihOuhNls f1taNtlll
Help was Ncar-tnd Now She's Home.
Hor'ensc Levy lives in Brooklyn. She
htt wears old. At school she Ia considered
,o,her deficient in mathematics. physical
culture and nature study, but in English
literature and composition she scores
cyery month 0S or better out Of a pos
sble 100.
These scholastic data are interesting,
in view Of what subsequently happened to
Hortcnsc.
Monday morning she started for school
10 usual. Monday noon she did not come
home to lunch Her mother got nervous.
Finally she went to the school. Teacher
said that Hortense hadn't been there at
ALL She had married her otherwise perfect
record by absence without excuse. Then
there wero running and searching among
the LEWIS When at o'clock Hortense
had not been seen the facts we're reported
70 Capt Maude of the DeKalb avenue
station The captain put all his spare
detectives on the case. They hunted
through Brooklyn and Flatbush and the
docks No Hortense.
Al o'clock in the evening the door OF
the supperless Levy Hat opened and there
was Hortense in the fesh-her clothing
slightly awry, but clipper and in good
spirits.
After she had been embraced by the en-
ure family Hortense told this remarkable
tale
Il was spirited away. AsIleft the house
two gentlemen approached me and asked
me 10 have some candy. / refused, be-
cause remembered that have been told
never to talk to strange gentlemen, But
they followed me. Suddenly, at the en-
trance TO dark alley, felt a hand laid on
my shoulder and voice Kissed in my
ear
-'1hia is the girl She shall rue this
day.
1t is n strange thing but the imagnn-
ton Of the novelist is often proved by the
events OF real life. For example, the pop
ular novel "She Loved a Sailor which
Hortense rs all the Levys know had a
habit Of reading under the bed when no
one was looking, contains a passage just
ike this. Yet truth is often stranger than
fiction as the next canto OF Hortense's
adventures shows:
The sack choked my screams. felt
myself dragged to a cab and driven rapidly
you know-I found myself in dark and
noisome cellar. Two men entered and
bound my hands.
At this point all of the Levys wanted TO
know what the two men looked like
-One Of them, said Hortense. was
man Of handsome yet sinister aspect.
He wore a brown suit which revealed
rather than concealed the play OF muscles
in 1.-the yet stawart figure. There was
something in the glance he bent upon
me which alternately attracted and re-
PEELED me
Gracious cried all the Levys. who
have been more assiduous in studying
the market page than in acquiring knowl-
edge Of literature through Laura Jean
Libby.
That's what I said went on Hortense.
But il didn't do the least bit of good.
Selling my arms the most villainous look
ing OF tho duo bent me gradually to the
earth. Realizing that | was in the grasp
of a power beyond my strength | gave
way. He bound me, and. hurting me
into n corner, he cried;
SO much for this girl"
Did you ever hear the lke?' said the
family
But Fate was with me went on Hortense.
Il had not dined since morning and called
for food 4 panel opened IN the wall OF
tho room and n scanty meal was thrust
through. At that moment voice whis-
pered
When 60, release the catch
Gathering all my strength, j reached
through the opening. There was the catch.
! released It, trembling in every limb.
No one was near. | darted through and
stood upon a strange street"
Strange, again, how truth is anticipated
by fiction. just such an adventure befell
the heroine IN Those Eyes OF Blue" a
book which had been recovered from Hor-
tense the week before and dumped into the
ash can 80 one but the cook recognized
THIS great literary coincidence Hortense
went on:
was alone on the streets OF great
city, but free Yet the dread hour was not
yet wholly past A hand was on my arm.
turned Before me stood the chief OF
my prosecutors. He said: Girl, you shall
not so easily escape me- Where was | TO
fy' Yet Heaven was with me A stranger
Of kindly aspect was at my side. He said
" the villain
You shall not touch the girl
She Is my daughter" Kissed my sinis-
ter prosecutor
You lie! l am not your daughterr
you poor lambl What did he do?'
breath
He skunk away. Ny deliverer. who
was young man III light suit, said:
May ! send YOU homeY
Who are your l cried.
You will yet know he said with
that he put mo on Dekalb avenue car
Tor This happened by the Brooklyn Bridge
and was gone
Chapter VI OF 4 Love You True" said
ttho cook, who has access to Hortenses
library
The Leyys went up at once and saw
capt Maude Hortense was too tired 10
80 with them, 30 the captain got only !
synopsis Of the tale That is why he sent |
ON all has detectives 10 look for man |
who D. sinister vet repellent.
but yesterday morning. after Hortense |
lad rested the captain insisted upon
having her down to the station and talking |
To her IN private. Mr.. Levy waited out
eide the door.
Papa said Hortense, when she came |
out The captain says that it isn't so. l |
guess he's right
She gave us hades Of night, but its |
tI M the days work." said the captain
yesterday
=. My daughter had halucination, said
Mr. Levy
I heard the third degree being admin
hierrd with hair brush. said the ianitor.
Miss Hortense will be back at school
to-day
MINES LETTERS OPENED?
Former Copper Man Charges That His
Wall Has Keen TamDered with,