The Huttig news., 1908-12-12


 C'Hagan, advising him to profess ig- norance of his employers where sbouts
 At 1922, or in the midst of his ad- nonitions to the ianitor, he changed his mind and decided to stay in New York. and instructed the Irishman to bring him q suit case containing a few necesSaries; his intention haing to stay cut the night at the club. and SC avoid the matutinal siege of his lodg 1 i7gs by reporters and detectives.
 At 10:45 einb servaat handed him he card of representative of the Evening Journal Maitland directed hat the gentleman be shown into tn, tecert on room
 At 10:46 he slVulked out of the clui by a siae entrance, jumped into ca and had himself driven to the East Thirtysfourth street ferry, arriving there just in time to miss the last train for Greenfields.
 Denied the shelter alike of his lodg inss. his club. and his country home. the young man in desoair caused him self to be conveyed tq the Barthold hotel. where, nogsessed of a devil of folly, he preserved his incognito b. reg. istering under the name of M. Dan iels." And straishtway retired to his room.
 But not to rest. The portion of the mentally harassed. sleeplessness, was his; and fer an hour or more he tossed upon his bed (upon which he had thrown himself without troubling to undress), pondering, to no profit of his, the hundred problems, difficulties and disadvantages suggested or ere ated by the events of the past 24 hours
 The gray girl. Anisty, the jewels, himself; unfagging. his thoughts cir cumnayigated the world of his TO- nance, touching only at these four ports, and returning always to finger forrest in the harbor of sentiment.
 The gray girl: Strange that her personality should have come to domi. nate his thoughts in a space of time so briefi and upon grounds of inti- macy so slenderl Who and what was she? What cruel rigor Of circum- stance had inpeled her to seek a live lihood in ways so sinister? At whose door must the blame be laid. against what flaw in the body social should the indictment be drawn, that she should have been forced into the ranks of the powers that prey-a girl of her youth and rare fiber. of her cultivation, her charm and beauty?
 -Io grace and gentleness, her ingenious sensitiyeness, her wit; they combined to make the thought of her. to him. at least. at once terrible and a delight Remembering that once he had held her in his arms, and gazed into her starlit eyes. and inhaled the impalrable fra grance of her, he trembled, was both glad and afraid.
 And her ways so hedged about with perils! While he must stand aside, i'm potent. a p liar of the social order SC, cure in it's shelter, and see her hound ed and driven by the forces of the Law harried and worried like an unclean thing forced, as it might be, to resort to stratagems and expedients unthink- able, to preserve her liberty.
 It was altogether intoerable He could not stand it. And yet-it was written that their paths had crossed and parted and were never again to touch. Or was it? It must be so written They would never meet again After all, her concern with. her inter- est in. him, could have been nothing permanent. They had encountered under strange auspices. and he had treated her with common deceney for which she had repaid him in good measure by permitting him to retain his own property. Their account was even, and she for ever done with him. That must be her attitude Why should it be anything else?
 "Oh. the deYili" exclaimed the young man in disgust. And rising, took his distemper to the window
 Lesnin ing on the sill be thrust head and shoulders far out over the garish abyss of metropolitan night The hot breath Of tho city famed up in stifiing waves into his face, from the street below, upon whose rainted pav0nents men orawled like insects-rouud nov. ing srots, to each his romance under his hat.
 The window was on the corner, over. look ng the junction of three great highways of humanity: Twentythird street, with it's booming crosstown cars. stretching away into the dark ness on either hand; Broadway, fork ing off to the left. it's distances merg ging into hot glow of yellow radi anee; Fifth avenue, branching into the north with it's desoate sidewalks oddly patterned in areas of dense shadow and cold, clear light. Over the way the park loenaed darkly, for all it's scattered arcs. a black and silent space, we'll of mystery
 It was late, quite late; the clock in frcnt Of Dorlon's (he craned his neck to see) made the hour one in the morning; the sidewalks were com paratively deserted, even the pillared rort.eo of the Fifth Avenue hotel des. titute of ioungers. timid hint of coolness, forerunning the dawn, rode