Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-01-06

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Mrs Martin. Her possibilities as an
insurance risk developed in 1900, when
| the first policy was taken out, and
eight policies in all, amounting to S29,.
| 500, were obtained upon her life. The
reasons for the taking out of this large
Insurance has been given by the
Sneads and the Wardlaws as their de-
sire to see her established comfortably
in her middle age, when her endow-
ment policies would come due, or TO
give her the opportunity of establish
! ing school for the better education
OF the young women of the south.
Mrs, Martin and Miss Wardlaw are
for time engaged in looking after a
college in Murfreesboro, Tenn In the
novel Laura seeks the retirement OF
Murphysburg. Missouri.
Tragedies Alike.
The stories move on to the final
tragedy. Laura Hawkins is arrested,
accused of the murder of Col. Selby.
Mrs. Martin is taken into custody by
the police on the charge of the wilful
murder Of her daughter, as is also
Miss Virginia Wardlaw. Mrs. Snead
is detained as a witness.
rs 1t true that you are so poor?"
asks a reporter of Mrs. Martin.
81 am not" is her reply. II have
my pension from the city as a teacher
and ! have property in Tennessee
"And this is the day." she remarked
on her arrival in the Tombs, that the
interest falls due on my Tennessee
land"
the Southern hotel in New York, the
papers are represented as setting
forth in flaming headlines, just as they
do now when the authorities are en-
deavoring to ascertain how it was life
left the body which was found in the
bathtub in the desolate house at East
Orange
1.-THE morning papers, to quote
from 1.-THE Gilded Age" "blazed with
big type and overflowed with details
of the murder. Accounts in the even
ing papers were only the premonitory
drops in the mighty shower. The scene
was dramatically worked up in col
umn after column. There were
sketches biographical and historical.
One journal had long dispatch from
Hawkeye reporting the excitement in
that quiet village and the reception of
the awful intelligence.
During the night subtle electricity
had carried the tale over all the wires
of the continent and under the sea;
and in all villages and towns of the
union from the Atlantic to the terrific
ries, and away up and down the Pa
cific slope, and as far as London and
Paris and Berlin, that morning the
name of Laura Hawkins was spoken
by millions and millions of people.
while the owner of it, the sweet child
of years ago, the beautiful queen of
Washington drawing rooms, sat shiv-
ering on her cot bed in the darkness
of damp cell in the Tombs''
Events follow swiftly in the pages
of the novel. The heroine is calm
and collected, she denies all knowl-
edge of the crime, she devotes the
months that intervene before her trial
to the study of the law of the state
and is acquitted.
The great university scheme was
defeated in the national legislature
through the exposure Of bribery
scheme, and at the last the children
of Silas Hawkins shake themselves
loose from the entanglements by per-
hitting the acres to be sold for taxes
and so they escape the curse which
hung over them from their earliest
years
The close of the book in which is
written the destiny of the Wardlaws
and the Sneads in "The Gilded Age"
of to-day may not come for
months to come, and many tale of
southern pride and of the pursuit of
! the unattainable is yet to be tol6.