Putnam patriot., 1908-04-24

. Ao aAst424 stt HiiSf. ara watch n1FHar 1 aeai RICHARD WILLIAMS ] .s young man made a number of i copies of the telegram and had them [ sent ie xaiiouS junction points along 1 all possible routes between Texas and New York. in the hope that his father i might be intercepted on whatsoever l train lie might he passenger .csld re-
 eeiVe ane of them. And in order to i make assurance doubly sure he gave orders that the teegrams were to be i repeated regardless Of expense until i the sendee had been reached Richard
 had perfect right to say that he was
 well and unhurt. and in consideration of Mir. Renwyck's method of doing 1 business he persuaded himself that he
 was also right in adding his noncom- i initial warning. By this he hoped to | put the cattle king on his guard. in which case he trusted 10 his fathers
 shrewdness to circnmseut the enemy | This duly discharged Richard called
 at St Luke's hospital and WAS much l distressed to learn that Lord Croyland l was not doing well at all. He had de-
 veioped high fever and in his pres ] ent condition could receive no visitors. | Richard therefore could only leave the
 earl's mail. securely done up in pack i age addressed to Mir. Richard Vii Hams. with the message that Mir. Peter 1 Wilson had called and would come 1 again within q day or two. Th,ns. nav ing nothing else to keep him in the | city. after Il stop at a flower shop he
 returned to Irvingten
 1 In the meantime the final rehearsal of
 "The Man and the Bird was material l ly interfered with by an upheaval of i conflicting emotions oil the part Of Miss lmogene Chittendon. By the
 morning post that young lady received i letter. which she read through sep-
 eral times then ran ta her raem flung | herself nnen the bed and expressed her
 emotion in te1rs aud Mysteries Miss Renwyck. in passing through 1 the hall caught tie seaua ef weeping
 ana went in to comfort her She found 1 Miss tmogena in truly lffiahle state and the better part of aH baHr e.apsod before an Intelligent explanation of l the trouble could he obtained Miss l Chitfeadan bold her staeF in ieyky, dis. i joinfed sentences. so ia1eespersed with
 sohs and gasps that to quote her in de. tatl weHf he aA Ht5eH iiHa5 ssjAiiisas
 The thread of the rouauce ran in tbis
 wise.
 Several months previous te the open ! ine of this narrative Miss Imogeae
 had heeu pupil in | fashionable l yonng ialies' school in Morristown. | \. ]. Like many of her males, she had carried on innocent airtations be ] heath the very noses of certain stately l gray headed warlens ef preprietY 1 harmissly enough h her last and 1 most violent anuire tn occur, however.
 she snli9leniy found cause bitterly te 1 regret her fashness.
 Mr RodeTich l'itzeeerse- last MofrlsfoMn object of Miss lm1gene's
 transient aaecJions-posed as leu
 tenant in the United States army on l leave of absence spending q furough
 at the qniei iiitle Jersey tnWn. lie WAS
 Of romaplc disposition and appeared
 very dashins blade. hewilderingly good looking to leui=np schnolGiri ih 1 spite of certain physical defect The ! lieutenant was possessed of nany oth- CT accomplishments, known and un- l known 10 MSs inc.ene. among which. | according to the young lady's own | statement. he could make love just 1 beautifully in the moonlight "SFf garden wall that was just covered 1 with broken glass and horrd wire with siickers all over il.
 Be that as it may this Romeo was ! untowar,lly discovered in the midst sf l q most poetical speech across the 1fore said wall one spring night aisont ]" o'clock. and the touching love seeiie then in progress came to an abrupt isoi to say painful end This was caused bv tine pulling of Roderick fitzs-oi'Ses ladder from under him ny tine villain in the piece-the night watchn,an-
 who had treacherously erept aioug the garden wall at the insfigation of the tgota.onist of tie drama. the prineI- nal of the school. W bo. splendidly serv- ed bv her intelligence department. had rufhlesSly interrupted the course Of true Iese.
 The little drama ended in two more acts ree first q severe curtain lecture
 and a strict quarantine until gradna- fion day for the fair Juliet and the
 second 2 brief hospital scene for the d1sturbed Romeo who bad encountered
 the watchman's club at the foot Of the
 iadd,.r.
 Niss Iimoeepa of course WAS furious
 Therefore she wrote quite dozen let
 fers te the affiic,ad martyr. which she
 succeeded in smeggling to him. ex
 pressing her sentiments in far warmer
 phrases fhan otherwise might have
 been dictated hy dissection or were
 justified by ffi. facts of fhe case. Sile
 felt that her youthful heaHt-the dear
 Rolerick's leg. to say noihlng or ms
 besd-was broken sT'Fsmediabsy. though
 the human heart acquires longer
 time to heal than fractured fsasD or
 cranlum. But time cared both hffic-
 tions. and if came aboat in fhis wis~s
 \ few days following his recover,
 MT. Fitzgeorge left town tsfwesn i've trains. Many whlsperings went aronDd as to the cause of this precipitafe de partufe. and many strange eoini> deuces were noted. Among them was the somewhat prominent mention of 4 merchants safe discovered the morn ing after his departure in condition resembling Miss imogenes brokrn