Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH ~. 1908

gossip about HIM and Lady Maud, which had very
nearly become scandal. The truth that they
were the best friends in the world, and nothing
The millionaire for sometime had been in
terested in unusual sort of charity which almost
filled the lonely womans life, and had given con-
siderable sums of money to help it. During the
months preceding the beginning of this tale he had
also been the object of of those attacks to which
very rich and important tnanc1ers are more exposed
than other men, and had actually been accused of
having done away with his partners daughter, who
had come to her end mysteriousy during panic in
proved in the clearest possible manner and he
had returned to the United States to look after the
interests of the trust
When Griggs heard the news of Margaret's
gagement to Logothet he Immediately began to
wonder how Van Torp would receive the intell
gence and if it had not already occurred to Lady
Maud that the millionaire might make final effort
to rout his rival and marry the prma donna himself,
the old authors observation suggested such posi-
bility. Van Torp was man who had fought up to
success and fortune with little regard for the OBJ
stacles that he found in his way. He had worked
a cowboy in his early youth and was apt to look on
his adversaries and rivals in life either as refractory
cattle dangerous wild beasts; and though he
had some of the old fashioned ranchers of
fair play in fight he had much of the reckless dar
ing and ruthless savagery that characterize the last
disappearing Western desperado
Logotheti, the other hand, was in many
respects true Oriental supremely astute and super
lativey calm but mbued at heart with a truly
Eastern contempt for any law that CHANGED to OPP
pose his wish.
Both men had practically nexhaustible resources
at their command, and both were determined to
marry the prma donna. 1t occurred to Paul Grggs
that real struggle between such pair of adver
saries would be worth watching. There was
limited money on both sides and equal courage and
determination. The Greek the more cunning of
the two by great odds, and had now the considerable
advantage of having been accepted by the woman;
but the American far more regardless of CON
sequences himself to others in the pursuit of
what he wanted, and, short of committing crime,
would put at least broad Interpretation
the law. Logotheti had always lived in highly
civilized society, in Constantinope, for it is
the greatest mistake to imagine that the upper
classes of Greeks in Greece Turkey, at all
deficient in cultivation. Van Torp, the contrary,
had away from civilization when half-educated
boy; he had grown to manhood in community
of men who had little respect for anything and feared
where those who compete for it buy it at any price.
from a lie to a life.
T ADY MAUD was thinking of these things she
IL disappeared from Griggss sight. and not at all
of him. She was very busy with her thoughts, for
she little afraid that she had made trouble.
Ten days had passed since she had last written to
Rufus Van Torp, and had told him. among other
things, that Madam da Cordova and Logotheti were
engaged to be married, adding that it seemed to her
one of the i'll assorted matches of the season,
and that her friend the singer to be mis-
cradle herself and make her husband perfectly
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