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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-04

W. INTON had noticed the young
woman several times before
he realized that an indefin-
able force prompted him to
be on the lookout for her every day
when he came down town for bust
ness.
During the many years he had been
In business he had passed casual
faces, year In and year out, whom
he did not know and did not care to.
He only remembered them when he
saw them; but he caught himself
thinking Of this face-when It was
absent.
Hinton as As years old, but he
had not lived long enough to know
that this was a dangerous symptom.
He really felt ashamed of himself.
when he saw the dai-ty form next
morning, as he walked across the
common; for he took mains to watch
her from a distance, and saw her
enter one Of the largest department
stores in the city.
He felt that he was taking an I'M
fair advantage OF her; an instructive
fneness in his nature admonished
him that to watch young woman
to whom he had never been intro
duced, without her knowledge, Is
quite as rude as il he addressed her
with the object Of beginning a flirta-
ton. 1t troubled Hinton all that
day.
He was also sorry that she entered
the department store; somehow he
imagined that she was made for a
higher place in life.
He looked regularly for the girl,
and she came as regularly across his
path each morning, and always dis
appeared through the same doorway.
So when one noontime he found him
self actually in the department store
he blushed.
He knew not even what he could
buy as an excuse for being there,
but he decided on a spool of black
thread. He asked for it with the
same deliberation he was wont to
use in the purchase Of 1000 tons Of
iron.
The girl who waited on him had
seen his kind before-so she thought.
She chatted in a. semiconfidential
manner that Disconnected Hinton
very much.
Then he saw the face-the same
face he had seen morning after morn
ing-but so different. She was dress
ed faultlessly and in the hight of
fashion. She passed nimbly about
the store, and seemed to be lavish
and extravagant in her purchases.
1t was the same face, but clad diff
ferently. Her splendid sable furs
became her much better than the
plain, black broadcloth she wore as
she passed along the common.
Hinton blushed again and said,
pray excuse me-" when he noticed
the clerk, holding his little package
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lesson. It's pity I did not have it
years ago. 1t would have done me
good"
WAS there a lght?" she cried in
dismay
Brace shook his head with that
mockery of smile.
"There was no fight" he assured
her, sadly. "Your-er-friend took
me into a coal yard just below the
corner of the street where we alight-
ed and gave me one first-clasa thrash
ing for MASKING"
"But you were not flirting" she
exclaimed.
"Your friend was not the sort of
chap who draws fine distinctions" he
reminded. I'm fact, sought to ex-
plain that | was not a rnasher, but
that we we're engaged and there had
been row."
"And he was sorry then" she
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an awful suspicion crossed his mind,
and his face was very sad as he
walked down to his office.
He opened the drawer and put the
package of ribbons beside the thread
ana the handkerchiefs. There was
something deeper than to feeling Of
shame within him now: II was dis
appointment, bitter disappointment.
That evening he did not try to
read. He sat smoking in front of his
crate, and thought very hard. Every
thing within him cried out against
the suspicion-and the outside evil
dence, too-and yet he could not get
1t out of his head.
The girl was probably a shoplifter.
a professional thief! And he had been
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He thought about 1t great deal
at times when he was accustomed to
think of other matters, and even
when he should be asleep. He was
not looking well in consequence.
But he set himself to find out. 1t
gave him a respectable excuse for
his spying. He watched quite boldly
now and saw the girl leave the store
at various times. Within the store
he saw her in different DISCUSSES.
Time went on and the suspicion
that the girl was thief, buoyed UP
by the hope that she was not, almost
floated away. 1t would be impossible
for her to keep 1t up so long-if she
really were, he reflected. And the
stronger this hope grew, the more
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This time he bought ribbons =
such picture! Hinton buying rib
bons. 1t would have killed him If
any of his directors had seen him.
But he reflected, he might as we'll
have a daughter as any one-even
If she were an imaginary one.
Just across two aisles, and direct
ly opposite to him, eh saw the same
face. This time the person to whom
1t belonged was clad in deep black.
Her clothes had dingy and faded
appearance. 1t was a splendid make
up for a forlorn and impecunious
widow.
1t set Hinton to thinking; then
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impatient poor Hintor was to find
out.
He contemplated the old-fashioned
way of finding the girls mother and
laying the matter before her but
that certainly would not do. She
might misunderstood his motives.
Then, if the girl wa" a thief, the
mother would doubtless be in league
with her. Hinton was truly in des-
pair.
On the other hand, Miss Marion
Stetson for that was the girls
name, was entirely unconscious Of the
interest she had aroused. She had
noted his strong, earnest face, as she
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1898

Whereas, there was no one in the
l4th regiment good enough to be-
come the husband of Kitty the Kid:'
and
Whereas, the aforesaid Kitty was
not to blame for that, and did not
want to live as an old maid; there
fore
Resolved, That she was entitled
to bust the rules and regulations and
marry where she could and wanted
to; and
Resolved, That If there is the
devil to pay generally, and the serv-I
ice goes to the dogs. the said Kitty
is not to be held to blame-not by a
darn sight!''
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regarding her as an angel! Yes, he
certainly had, he couldn't deny 1t
now-even to himself.
Vainly, in contradiction to this
suspicion, cried out the facts that she
always entered the same department
store and that after she had entered
she assumed the different DISCUSSES,
but 1t would not down. Deep down
within him every desire to his heart
rebelled against the idea.
A vague sense of duty warned him
that he ought to do something to
save the young girl. This new sensa-
ton amazed him quite as much as
the others which had preceded it.
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come on a matter concerning the
whole regiment in general and Co. A
in particular"
Then out with 1t, for it's my busy
day.
"You have now been a widow
woman two years, Mrs. O'Riley."
There's no doubt Of that. SER
geant."
"And tits said that one of the
teamsters from town has called here
at your rooms no less than three
times during the last week to ask
for drink of water while his wagon
was waiting to be unloaded."
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don't know when you are tired. Your
brain is tagged. Better throw up ev-
erything and run down to Old Point
for fortnight"
But the doctor had not located
Hinton's disease in the right place,
and he had no medicine that would
help It II he had.
Hinton obeyed orders, but he did
not stay two weeks, or one. lie
longed for that morning walk across
the Common. and that mystery in the
department store.
So he returned unexpectedly to his
apartments one night, and saw the
same face and the same cloak the
next morning, and was in the depart
ment store that afternoon.
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"I'll be hanged If she haslo

I'll be hanged If she hasi"
Three months later there came ru-
mors that Kitty the Kid was engaged
to a merchant in the town, and the
regiment bowed it's head in sorrow.
At the end of six, report came to
the fort that she lad been duly mar
ried. The regiment went into mourn
ing.
Sergt. Brady was seated in his Of
flee with humility in his face when
Kitty's mother was announced. On
this occasion she was paying him an
official visit.
"You have heard the news?" she
asked.
He bowed.
Gould Kitty have Gone anything
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/O'Riley until she was about
IA years old, but the members of Co.
A hid been more observant.
lrhis was because she was the
laughter of Corp. O'Riley, whose
wife was laundress for the company.
and because Kitty had been the best
looking and smartest kid in the bar
racks since she had been able to tod
die around.
At 4 years old she won the name
of Kitty the Kid" and this had
stuck. At she knew the name of
every "A' man. At 6 she knew the
drill and all the bugle calls. At z
there were only three or four men,
berst of the company that could beat
her at reading and spelling.
When she was three years older
her father was killed in fight with
the Indians, and every man in the
barracks picked the kid up and
kissed her and murmured poor little
gal!' as he sat her down.
1t was about four years later that
Sergt. Brady received what was
called "the great snub." He had been
ten years in the service and eight
years a sergeant, and he was sort
of father to the company.
He was the first to speak consol-
ing words to widow O'Riley and the
first to hold the kid on his knee and
wipe away her tears with his ban
dana. That was his visit Of SYM
pathy.
When he made his official visit he
was in full uniform and his face wore
a grave expression 1t vas wash day
with Mrs. O'Riley, but she turned
from her tubs to receive the caller.
Mrs. o'Reily," began the sergeant.
as he stood stiffiy before her. "I am
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else under the circumstances?"
He shook his head.
And will the regiment take any
action in the case?" asked the caller.
1T has done that already, Mrs.
0'Riley. 1t was bound to do it. 1t
has held meeting and
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"And whose business is that. may
I as?"
mrs. O'Riley, there are rules and
regulations that are printed, and
there are rules and regulations that
you have to carry around in your
head. It's those same rules and regu-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-04
MlM|MI

~ ESSlE sat staring at the adj
vertisenient let into the
panels above the car windows
with eyes that were filled
with tears. The quarrel had come,
Just as everyone said 1t would.
There were many things about
brace Hapgood that were very win
ping, but from the cradle he had
cen the pampered child of e.. indul-
Int mother, and had come to re-
hrd the whole worlc as being Great
ia for his especial comfort.
In the early days of the engage
hent he had deferred to Bess, but
once the solitaire argued authority
he had gradually commenced the
process of training that was to At
her for the position of his wife.
Meek, loving little Bess stood it
as long as she could, but this after
noon. coming from the Templetons'
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~ HE uembers of the 14th regi-
ment as whole didn't pay
much attention to Kitty
/O'Riley until she was about
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-04
THE HOUSE DETECTIVE

Wv INTON had noticed the young
woman several times before
III he realized that an indefin-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26

| OF the Abruzzi, not only as commander with
less sanguinary victories TO his credit than those
| of the Japanese general. but also as a member
OF the reigning house of country which has
furnished to the United States a larger proper
ton than any other nation in Europe of thrifty.
hard working immigrants who develop into use
full and patriotic citizens of the United States
Reference has been made above TO the strain
of old time chivalry in the character of Prince
Louis. which has figured largely as an in
centve TO his deeds of daring. He may be said
to have inherited it from his father the late
Duke of Aosta, who recalled so much TO mind
the knight Of the Middle Ages that he seemed
somehow or other out OF place in the latter
half Of the nineteenth century. The loftiness
OF his principles and of his sense of honor were
scarcely in keeping with the age in which he
lived and hardly of nature to fit him
for the duties OF modern government. Elected
TO the throne of Spain. which he accepted only
with the utmost reluctance and from a sense
of duty. he contemptuously abandoned II after
a reign of three years rather than submit 10
political compromises rendered necessary by the
situation, but which constituted too great a
strain on his conscience The Spaniards are
perhaps the proudest nation in Europe. and the
people. from the greatest mobiles down TO the
most ragged beggars, imbued with a sense
of personal dignity which is carried to lengths
that sometimes seem almost absurd. The dis
dainful manner in which King Amadeus flung
aside his sceptre and DOTTED his crown because
ne could not reconcile his notions of honor and
OF chivalry with theirs created a profound i'm
preston among them. and although he was
never loved, yet ii is doubtful whether Spain
ever had a ruler more deeply and universally
respected Some years after his abdication I
was brought into contact with the ex-King
notably in Paris. where he made a stay of some
duration in the early summer Of 1873. and was
witness while there Of a curious and charac-
teristic incident in which he played the leading
role In those days the French protocol was
lar less cleverly organized than il is TODAY
mistakes OF ceremonial and Of etiquette we're
frequent especially on the part Of the states
men IN power and the ministers were wont 10
issue invitations to official entertainments in
such an indiscriminate manner as sometimes to
lead to the most curious rencontres.
Thus, on the occasion in question, III. late
Senateur Teisserand de Bort who was at the
head OF the Department of Commerce and AgrI-
culture, gave great reception, to which he had
asked almost everybody OF note In Paris at that
moment Among his guests were ex-Oueen Isa-
bella of Spain. her husband, ex-King Francis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26

His son. tho Duke OF the AbruzzL too. bears
honorable marks OF injuries sustained the
battle fields. not OF war. but Of geographical SCI
ence. For Of his hands is manned from the
effects of the terrible arctic cold to which he
subjected in his memorable Polar expedition. the
account Of which is entitled Farther North
than Nansen.'
The Duke was born at Madrid. during his
fathers tenure OF the throne of Spain. indeed.
only few days prior 10 the abdication OF
Amadeus and he was baptized not only II
Prince OF Savoy. but also Infant OF Spain.
II was. In fact the departure of Queen Victoria
from Madrid before she had recovered her
strength sufficiently which brought about the
illness TO which she succumbed. The Queen
was a most beautiful and gifted woman. a par
ticular favorite of her father-n-law old King
Victor Emmanuel. who entertained the highest
possible opinion OF her cleverness and sound
Judgment. She daughter of the illustrious
and princely house of Pozza della Cisterns,
which in 1921 sided with the Liberal cause in
Piedmont, and suffered accordingly. and through
her mother she was related to the equally his
toric Belgian family of de Merode, through
whom tho duke has inherited some extremely
valuable mining property and real estate in the
dominions Of King Leopold. The Duke Of the
AbruZzi brought up in the navy, to a great
extent under the supervision and care of his
uncle, Prince Thomas OF Savoy. Duke OF Genoa,
only brother OF Queen Marguerite. and ranking
officer of the Italian fleet. In his midshipman
days he had as his messmate and particular
chum young Menotti Garibaldi grandson o.
ltaly's famous patriot, and on one occasion,
when the ship which they were serving hap
penCd TO touch at Barcelona. n special request
was made Madrid 10 the Italian Envoy. to the
effect that that neither the prince, who had beer
born Infant OF Spain, nor Yet his young
friend GarIbaldi, should be permitted 10 go on
shore lest their presence should be made the
occasion Of political demonstrations in their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26

them whichever way he turns. Soon the mis-
sionary discovers that the heather half a world
away IS far more interesting than the heather
swarnling about him every hand. In this
latter fact Is a depressing power difncuIt 10
define or describe, but tremendously real in ex-
perience The atmosphere Of a heather land
seems to steal mans enthusiasm. 1t reins the
war horse, chaf1ng at the bit, down TO the jog
trot Of the livery hack. Sc the ordinary mis-
sionary finds himself Flooding along established
lines and living not at all the life he expected
to live when he sailed from his native shores.
OF necessity, since he early learns That ne
must look upon himself an expensive piece
of board property. the missionary must taGe
thought for a comfortable home and physical
sustenance. Thus arises that much nooteo
question, the nnissionary's residence. Times
without number IL has been charged that the
missionary dwels in palatial house and SUD
sists the fat of the land, with an army OF
servants to minister TO his wants.
My judgment has affirmed the criticism
made to me In numerous specific cases that the
dwellings of the missionaries entirely too
sumptuous for persons of their vocation Rightly
or wrongly the Church and the world associate
the idea Of sacrifice with the mssionarys call
ing; the natives. too, quickly come TO see the
apparent discrepancy between the preaching OF
elf-denial and the practice of material luxury
some OF the most serious structures upon the
missionary's style of living have come 10 me
from native preachers. Often. L am convinced
the fault lies directly with the boards at home
some missionaries have lamented, in my hear
Ing, the elaborateness and impressiveness or
their residences. They deplore the contrast be-
tween their houses and those of the wealthiest
natives. The missionary. they reason. Should
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26

honor. Barcelona being the principal centre of
Since then the Duke Of the Abruzzi has visited
every corner of the globe, not a prince, but
always officer of the italian navy. and
usually on board an Italian man-of-war, leaving
friends wherever he goes. Clean lived. and with
his name untouched by any kind OF scandal he
entertains the most romantic affection for his
aunt, Queen Marguerite, who played the part
or mother TO him after the death OF Queen Vic
toria IN his early infancy. He has shown this
devotion In many touching ways has associated
her with all his successes. and last year. when
he scaled and explored Mount Ruwenzori, gave
her name to its Hottest peak. He is the third
of three brothers, the two elder being the Duke
of Aosta and the Count OF Turin, while he has d
half brother in the person of Count Salem the
issue Of his fathers second marriage to Princess
Letiua Bonaparte.
There are many who are asking If the duke
has mission 10 the United States. and if
there is any Interior object in his visit beyond
the representation of Italy at the festivities in
connection with the jamestown celebration. To
this IL may be replied that the prince realizes
that he can best serve the cause of Italy. both
in the Old and New World. by encouraging
those of his countrymen whom he finds settled
here 10 give their fullest need of allegiance Ia
the land Of their adoption, since II is by beConI-
ing useful and prosperous citizens of the United
States that they can acquire sufficient political
influence 10 sway its sympathes in the drec-
ton OF the land OF their birth.
EX-ATTACHE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26
IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY.
Summer Boarding Houses in stroudsburs
Reopened- Sports Enjoyed.

Stroudsturg. Penn, May . (SpeciaD-The formal
opening Of number OF the leading summer board
ing houses to-day marked with pleasant memo
ries. II like the casting OF of old winter gar
mentS for the lighter and newer summer garb. The
streets Of the old town. and particularly the
dents of the place, wore broad smile. and the
most frequent remark heard was. I'VE are now
open for business" The midsummer spirit
everywhere.
To-day summer sports had their Official opening
The local baseball team. which is looked upon as
OF the fastest in this part OF the state. had a
game with the East StToudsOurg Normal School
team. The attendance was large on the Highland
Country inks the golfers were at their best and
words OF praise only heard from summer
boarders who took particular notice CT the i'm
for baseball or golf visited the nearby trout
streams and were successful in landing many good
sized trout Since the last shower the catches have
Increased, both in number and size OF the treg-
taken.
The new trolley road IS rapidly nearing compile
tion This road will carry thousands OF passerSeEa
10 and from The Delaware Water Gap. because %
be got from IL different points Leaving Scrouds-
burg il has a number OF long grades to reach the
top OF the mountains that surround the town On
the north, east and west From the top OF tas
mountains many views which were hereecfose
almost unknown 10 the summer visitors on account
The Water Gap view exceis all others. by bringing
into close view the whole region
A number OF auto mobile parties stopped mere
this week and were entertained AZ the hotels.
Touring cars will add greatly 10 the pleasure o.
the summer