The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
GUY BONYNGE.
Detective Cronkite Accounts for
the DISAPPEARANCE Of an Old
Link Extinguisher.


The Bonynges we're permanent guests at
that high class apartment hotel, The The
ssurus, n had been for the five years OF
their married life.
Helen was fond Of her lofty apartments
overlooking the drive and the river. There
she had gathered her pictures and curiOs;
there were her birds and her plants. The
moment you entered you felt her PERSONAL
ity. overshadowing. oblitersting the still
ness of the hotel and creating a home.
Guy. too, was well content with his quar-
ters. It was quiet and domestic up there
attractive qualities to him noW, however
tame they seemed in his bachelor days.
When the doors were closed and the cur
tains drawn, and Helen with her embroid-
cry and he With his magazine and pipe
we're on either side OF the evening lamp,
he felt IN IL they were suspended in some
magic hsbitation far above b mirage OF
q city. He liked the isolation; it made him
forget, II made his happiness secure.
The Bofynges had q fair income, Which
no more than suficed. After the fashion
OF the im~provident. they were natural in
their extravagances and unnatural in their
economies. . >"
Hence, II happened tna1 "hen my
planned q more extended outing for the
summer than prudence would advise, they
authorised the landlord to sublet their
apsrtments during their absence. He was
an experienced and kindly man who would
exercise due caution in tenants: choosing q
staid, old fashioned couple, perhaps or q
prim spinster, afraid to lean back In a chair
for fear OF doing harm.
On their return Helen looked around
her home with the sharp' comprisns So
OF the housekeeper who has a place for
everything and everything IN it's place.
-Something Ii missing she said. lie
me see.'
1T looks all right to me- suggested Guy
inefectively.
.Hushl As IL I didn't know she inter-
posed rood naturedly. 1T Ia some one OF
those things you collected when abroad,
and I strung along the top OF the bookcases.
Absurd; but III have Il in a moment.
.I threw out q lot Of that truck, don't you
remember?' continued Guy, even more
iperectively.
Al this juncture the telephone announced
that Judge Josiah Marcellus would call on
his former ward. In the joy Of greeting
the eminent jurist Helen suspended her
Quest.
lou look IAkACh nHA OAA
abe said after d little. Another one OF
those extraordinary cases OF yours, l pre-
sumo. Why don't you give over the strain
Of dramatic situation 10 younger mens Anu
connns yourself to the less wearing phi
losophy Of the lawf'
L should nave TO give up active pracucel
them replied the Judge, and o host OF
clients who have been educated TO depend
upon my advice.
Every case worth litigating has its situa-
ton. Every assault upon rights. natural
or legal, 10 q drama. Take this matter
which ] have, l confess, been mulling over
In my mind, for instance.
1T involves q question OF ~survivorship
between father and daughter. b died
about the same time. Inc iatner ieit =
second wife. young and handsome; the
daughter, N afianced lover IN whose favor
she had made q will.
The property ct stake 10 q large one
and comes from q collateral relative II
must ave vested tn the n OF these tive
who died last. How Ia this 10 be determined
In the case OF two healthy persons said 70
have sufOcated In the burning norse IN