The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

| ter when he was arrested next day at
the suit for Baroski for 22o guineas, and,
in default of payment, locked UP in a
| sponglng house In Chancery lane. When
Morgiana learned what had happened to
Ter beloved Howard she, of course, rushed
off to his prison and tried to throw her
self weeping into his arms. But the
captain berated and abused her; told her
that 1t was her extravaganza that had
| brought him to this pass, whereupon the
faithful woman rushed back home again
and pawned all the plate in the house
thereby raising enough money to pay
Baroski's debt. Having. paid the claim
she went joyfully in to tell her hus
band that he was free
But was he free? Oh, no. for the news
OF the collapse of Capt. Howard Walker
had travelled rapidly abroad and during
Morgiana's absence at the pawnbroker's
| other detaffing wrts had been lodged
against him. you were not such fool
as to pay7' roared Walker, and when
his wife falteringly said that she had
paid Baroski's bill the worthy captain
began abusing her in language which
cannot be put down on paper When
she at length tainted he threw the con-
tents of the water jug over her and, as
she revived and shook her glossy locks,
he babe her go to Byzantine for financial
help. HE was an old flame of yours, ;"
sneered the captain. But before Nor
giana went on her mission the captain
borrowed what little change she had left,
so that she had to walk-and ordered
bottle of wine. At first Morgiaha said
that after what had passed between them
she could not go to Byzantine. But Wal
ker said. you will go to Byzantine and
ask him to take note for the amount
of this shameful demand of his. and
he said 1t with look which made his
wife quail and consent. This shameful
| demand was a bill of the perfumer's
against the captain for supplies for Ave
| years, and figured among the detainers
which had been put in against the cap
| tain.
| Poor Morgiana was nearly fainting
from want of food and from her exer-
| lions of the morning when she arrived at
| Mr.. Eglantine's Emporium" Byzantine,
left to himself would have been moved
to pity and compliance, but the firm was
Mossrose & Byzantine now and the fl
nancial end of 1t was entirely In the
hands of the senior partner. So that ex-
| petition in search of succor for her
adorned Howard was futile. The dis
| trcssed woman staggered out of the shop,
and as she did so encountered Mr. Wool
sey. Good heavens. Mrs. walkerl'
| h., ain
her troubles to sympathetic ear. Help
had come at last, and for the rest of her
| life Morgiana had the sheltering care of
the honest and chivalrous tailor. 1t was
found useless to try to make any settle
ment of Walkers debts. the captain him
self said 1t was useless, and determined
to "go through the courts" as he had so
often done before. OF course, he loudly
berated his wife and told her and every
body else who would listen to him that
her extravaganza had brought him to
ruin. And the faithful, trusting creature
began to really believe that it was
through her that her husband had come
to grief. AS TO the number of queer
concerns in which the captain was in
|
day when it came out, but he had kept
just inside the line of legality SO that
they could not send him TO prison for
fraud, though the fraud was apparent
enough.
SO now we behold the Ravenswing in
stalled with her mother and little baby
yes, to make matters more complicated,
little wanderer from the regions I'M
known had come to Morgiana-installed,
I say, in little cottage, In modest
quarter of London, where, with the help
of Mr.. Woolsey, skillfully and secretly
bestowed, and the income of her mother,
the once dashing Mrs. Howard Walker
got along as best she could, Borrowing all
the while for the hard fate of her hus-
band and giving him every penny she
could lay hands on in order that he
might luxuriate in the Fleet prison, to
which he had been removed. She pawn
| ed everything she could and gave the
money to Howard, who grumbled because
| it was not more, and had a royal time in
his dungeon cell. She carried the baby
on one of her daily visits to the Fleet
in order that its fond papa might see it,
but the captain was so visibly annoyed
and SO evidently considered the child
as another of Morgianas extravagances.
that she didn't take him again. The
crisis of Mrs. Walkers self-abnegation
came when one day the baby, in infantile
play, pulled off It's mothers cap, and
Mrs. Crump and woolsey. who happened
to be present, discovered that Morgiana
had cut off her beautiful hair
Then the whole story came out. She
had cut off her hair and sold it In order
that her husband might have money to
gamble and drink in prison. Mr.. Wool
sey forced from her the miserable story
of her sacrifices for her unworthy hus-
band. and said that II she would promise
to discontinue such practices he would
give Captain Walker certain allowance
regularly. He went to see the captain
and. as much as he loathed and despised
that adventurer, made the same PROPOSE
ton to him. The captain. glad of GER
tainty instead Of the intermittent
amounts Morgiana could give him, &C.
cepted, after hagging for as large an
amount as he could get.
How to help Morgiana was a question:;
she would gladly accept help for her
worthless husband, but would not allow
Woolsey to help her II she knew 1t. The
kind-hearted tailor had, at the sale Of
the furniture in the house in Edgware
road purchased for Morgiana the little
| rosewood piano at which she used to sing