The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-11

drifted further and further apart. He.
with touch Of senility that is shown
by even some of the best balanced of
old men, was caught up by the glamour
of the footlights. He became Familiarity
known among the chorus girls as the
old man" There was nothing bad
about him-he was just showing a little
coltishness in his old age-the embeTs
in the ashes of his life were cracking
and sparkling again for a brief season
before they died out entirely.
Doubtless nothing ever would have
been heard about IL if II had not hap
pened that one day New York was
shocked by a tragedy of unusual i'm
pOrtance. A great man, a very great
and famous man, was shot to death by
a young millionaire as the result of
quarrel over a woman. When Milady's
husband heard Of the tragedy he faint
ed. He saw at once-Or thought he saw
"a great danger for himself If his name
was ever mentioned in con- eection with
that Of the man who had been killed.
He feared exposure, OblOquy-ruin per
haps-but more than all else the con-
tempt Of his wife, Milady. From that
moment his every effort was concen-
trated on keeping his name out Of the
case. In the natural course Of events
there was no reason why it ever should
be brought into IT He did not have even
the remotest connection with the TRACE
dy. He had been simply an occasional
companion of the man who had been
slain, and an innocent participant In
some of the rather gay meetings of
which the famous man had been fond.
But Milady's husband was obsessed
with the fear Of exposure. He forgot
business, forgot society, forgot home
everything-in his effort to keep his
vv,ev,%FCnaH in
ton with the people concerned in the
terrible affair. He employed lawyers,
politicians and others to use their In
fluence to protect him from exposure.
They took his money. They did moth
ing Some Of them, knowing his state
of mind, stirred others to brighten him
still further, and he became one Of the
richest pickings that the swarm of
vampires ever had in New York. Day
after day. week after week, month
after month, the man was tortured by
these blOOd-suCkers tearing al his
bosom.
Just when his mind was in its great
est turmoil, when he was the most
sorely distressed, a panic Of unusual
violence visited Wall street. His bust
ness needed his best care and attention,
but his fancied fear filed his mind to
the exclusion of everything else. Had
his brain been as clear and his judg-
ment as calm as in former days he
might have set his house in order with
out a bit of trouble and have weathered
the storm. But with hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars that he had thrown
away to the flock Of vampires that
hung about him continually and with
his business affairs upset and in disor-
der he suffered enc severe financial loss
after another He made feeble efforts,
il is true. to stem the tide, but his for
rner courage and ability seemed to have
deserted him and he sank deeper and
deeper into the miTe of failure. The
more he was beset IN Wall street tn
more the blackmailing vampires
pressed him close. He was literally be-
tween the devil and the deep sea, and
one day the city was astounded and
Wall street shocked by the news Of his
failure.
It was a crushed and broken old man
that went to Milady's palace in the
most golden part Of golden New York
that evening, and It was a poor old