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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-08-31
CHAPTER II.
A Made Goes Round a Table.

a Made Goes Rouno able.
For tonight, from the moment he
had appeared, she had recognized an
unfamiliar mood in him, and it had
come out the more they had discussed
the Chatworth ring.
She wondered, as he heaped her err
mine on her shoulders, if Harry
might not have more surprises for her
than she had supposed. Perhaps she
had taken him too much for granted.
After all, she had known him only for
a year.
She herself was but three years old
in San Francisco, and to her new eyes
Harry had seemed an old resident
thoroughly established. So firmly es-
tablished was he in his bachelor quar-
ters, in his clubs, in the demands
made upon him by the city's society,
that it had never occurred to her he
had ever lived anywhere else. Nor
had he happened to mention anything
of his previous life until tonight, when
he had given her, in that mention of
London ball, one flashing glimpse of
former experiences.
Impulsively she summed up the pos
sibilities of what these might have
been. She gave him a look, incredu-
lous, delighted, as he handed her into
the carriage She had actually got a
thrill out of easy-going, matter-of-fact
well-tubbed Harry! 1t was comrade-
ship in itself. Not that she would
have told him. This capacity of hers
for thrills she had found need always
to keep carefully covered. In the days
when she was shoeless child-those
days of her fathers labor in shaft and
dump-she had dimly felt her world
to be a creature of a keen, a fairly
cruel humor, for all things that did not
pertain to the essence of the life it
struggled for. The wonder of the
western flare of day, the magic in the
white eyes of the stars before sunrise,
the mystery in the pulse of the pound
ing mine heard in the dark-of such
it had been as ruthless as this new
world that looked as narrowly forth
at as starved a prospect with even
keener ridicule. Instinctively she had
they required
Fatherless, motherless, alone upon
the pinnacle of her fortune, she had
known that such an extraordinary en-
trance, even at this rather wide social
portal, would only be acceptable if
toned down, CLOSED over and drawn
out by a personality sufficiently neu-
trail, sufficiently potent and sufficiently
in need of what she had to give The
successive fickers of the gas lamps
through the carriage window made of
Clara's profile so hard and fine little
medallion that it was impossible to
conceive it in need of anything. And
yet it was just their mutual need that
had drawn these two women together,
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She felt that she had been stupid
where she should have been most deli
cate. 'But you don't understand" she
protested, leaning far toward him as
if to coerce him with her generous
warmth. THE Chatworth ring was
nothing but a fancy I had 1 never
thought of it for a moment as an en-
gagement ring!"
By the light stir of silk she was
ed UP quickly to encounter that odd
look. Clara's face was so smooth, so
polished, so unruff1ed, as to appear al
most blank, but none the less Flora
saw it all in Clara's eye-a look that
was not new to her. 1t was the same
with which Clara had met the an
nouncement of her engagement; the
same look with which she had con-
fronted every allusion to the ap-
preaching marriage; the same with
which she now surveyed the mention
of the engagement ring-a look Meth
er approving nor dissenting, whose
calm, considerate speculation seemed
to repudiate all interest positive or
negative in the approaching event ex-
cept the one large question, What
is to become of me?" Many times
Clara had held it up before her, not as
a question, certainly not as an &C
cusation; as fiat assertion of fact;
but tonight Flora felt it SO directly
and imperatively aimed at her that it
seemed this time to demand an audi
BILE response. And Clara's way of get
ting up, and standing there, with her
gloves on, poised and expectant, as if
she were only waiting on opportunity
to take farewell, took on, in the light
of her look, the fantastic appearance
of a final departure. I'm afraid"
she mildly reminded them, chat
Shima announced the carriage ten
minutes ago!"
ooh, dear, I'm so sorry!" Flora's
eyes wavered alphabetically in the di-
rection of the waiting Japanese.
Clara's flicker of amusement made
her hate herself the moment it was
out. She could always depend on her
self when she knew she was on exhi-
bition. She could be sure of the right
thing if it were only large enough,
but she was still caught at odd mo-
ments by the trifies, the web of GER
tain social habit into which she had
slipped, full-grown on the smooth sur
face of her fathers millions. Clara's
feeting smile lit up these trif1es to
her now as enormous It took advan-
tage of her small deficit to point out
to her more plainly than ever to what
large plumbers she might be liable
when she had cut loose from Clara's
guiding, reminding, prompting genius,
and chose to confront the world with
out it.
To be sure, she was not to confront
it alone; but, looking at Harry, it
came to her with moments qualm
that she did not know him as well as
she thought she had.
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be such row kicked up, the proba-
bility is the thing'll be returned and
no questions asked. Purdie's keen
very keen. He's responsible, the exec
utor of the estate, you see."
But Clara Britton leveled her eyes
at him, as if the thing he had pro-
duced was not at all the thing he had
led up to. "Still, unless there was
enormous pressure somewhere-and
in this case 1 don't see where-I can't
see what Mr. Purdie's keenness will
do toward getting it back
Harry played a little sulkily with
the proposition, but he would not pick
UP the thread he had dropped. 81
don't know that any ore sees. The
question now is-who took it,"
"Why, one of u.s." said Flora flip
PANTY. "Of course, it is all on the
Western Addition"
Don't you believe it," he answered
her. cts COMPOUNDED fine profess
sional job 1t takes more than sleight
of hand-ft takes genius, thing like
that! There was a chap in England,
Farrell Wand"
The name noated in a little silence.
HE kept them guessing" Harry
went on recalling it; 'did some great
vanishing acts" aaa
you mean he could take things
before their eyes without people
knowing it?" Flora's eyes were wide
beyond their wont.
Something of that sort. l remem-
Der at one of the embassy balls at
st. James he talked five minutes to
Lady Tilton. Her emeralds were on
wnen he began. She never saw 'em
again"
Flora began to laugh. "He must
have been attractive" sl
WELL" Harry conceded practically,
che knew his business"
But you can't rely on those sto-
ries," Clara objected.
'You must this time" he shook his
tawny head at her; 81 give you my
word; for was there"
1t seemed to Flora fairly preposter-
Gus that Harry could sit there looking
so matter-offact with such expert
ences behind him. Even Clara looked
a little taken aback, but tht effect
was only to set her more sharply on.
"Then such a man could easily
have taken the ring in the Maple room
this afternoon? You think it might
have been the man himself?"
His broad smile of appreciation en-
veloped her. ooh, you have a scent
ike a bloodhound. You haven't let go
of that once since you started. He
could have done it-oh, easy-but he
went out eight, ten years ago."
"Died?" Flora's rising infection was
a lament.
Went over the horizon-over the
r-nge. Believe he died in, the col
onies."
"Oh," Flora sighed, then shall
have to fancy he has come back again,
just for the sake of the Chatworth
ring. That wouldn't be too strange.
It's all so strange 1 keep forgetting it
is real. At least" she went on ex-
planning herself to Harry's smile, cit
seems as if this must be going on
long way off, as if it couldn't be so
close to us, as if the ring wanted so
much couldn't really be the one that
has disappeared" All the while she
felt Harry's smile enveloping her with
an odd, half-protecting watchfulness.
but at the close of her sentence he
frowned a little.
"Well, perhaps we can find another
ring to take the place of it"
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She Read 1t, Reread 1t, and Read 1t Again.

element over what he had actually
seen. For the evidence that he haC
/ seen something was vivid in his face
She shook the paper at him. "Tel
us everything, instantly"
He gayly acknowledged her RICH
/ to make him thus stand and deliver
He shot his hands into the air with
the tightening vivacity that was il
him a sort of wit. mot guilty" he
grinned at her.
Harry, you know you were in it
The papers have you the most i'm
J portant parsonage"
Upon my word, But look here
wait a minute!" he arrived deliberate
ly at what was required of him. 81
you want to know the way it hap
/ pened-here's your Maple room" He
began diagram with forks on the
cloth before him, and Clara, who ha6
watched their sparring from her point
of vantage in the background, now
leaned forward, as if at last they were
getting to the point.
"This is the case, furthest from the
door," He planted salt cellar in
his silver Enclosure. II come in very
early, at half-past two, before the
crowd; fail to meet you there" He
made mischievous bows to right and
left. 81 go out again. But first 1 see
this ring"
what was it like?" Flora de
manded.
"Like?" Harry turned a specula
tive eye to the dull glow Of the can
delabrum, as if between its points OF
flame he conjured up the vision of the
vanished jewel. Like bit of an old
gold heather god curled round him
self, with his head, which was most
ly two yellow sapphires, between his
knees, and big, blue stone on top
Soft, yellow gold, SO fine you could
almost dent it. And carved! Even
through a glass every line of it is
right. I couldn't seem to get away
from it. l dropped into the club and
talked to Butler about it. He got
keen, and 1 went back with him to
have another look at it. Well, at the
door Butler stops to speak to chap
going out-a crazy Englishman he
had picked up at the club. I go on
BY this time there's a crowd inside,
but I manage to get up to the case.
And first I miss the spot altogether.
And then l see the card with his
name: and then, underneath I see the
hole in the velvet where the god had
BEEN"
Flora gave out little sigh of sus-
pense, and even Clara showed CLEAN
of excitement He looked from one
to the other. "Then there were fire.
works. Butler came up. The detec-
tive came up. Everybody came up.
Nobody'd believe it. Lots of 'em
thought they had seen it only a few
minutes before But there was the
hole in the velvet-and nothing more
to be found"
"But does no one know anything?
Has no one an idea?" Clara almost
painted in her impotence.
"Not the ghost of glimmer of a
clue. There were upward of two hun
dred of us, and they let us out like
a chain-gang, one by one. My number
was 1913, and so far / can vouch there
were no discoveries. 1t has vanished
sunk out of sight"
Flora sighed. ooh, poor Bessie
Chatworth!"
Harry stared at her. He had the air
of a man about to give information,
and the air of man who has thought
better of 1t. His voice consciously
shook of its gravity. well, there'l
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(To BE CoNTINUEDl
Crouch Justified.

Excuse me for looking groucty this
morning" says the Philosopher of Fol-
ly, "but fellow owned SIS to has
just recovered from pneumonia"
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
TWO BROKERS SUSPENDED
FOR ROCK ISLAND CORNER
s. 3. Chaplin and =. D. Counties Are
Deprived OF Exchange Privileges
Temporarily.

NEW YORK, Jan. l3.-suspension
from the New York stock exchange
for 60 days Is the punishment handed
OUT To simeon b. Chaplin. OF the head
OF the New York and Chicago firm o.
s. b. Chaplin 4 Co. for participation
in the Rock Island corner OF Dec,
27 last. when manipulation sent the
common shares OF the Rock Island
Company from 80 TO 81 and back again
In II minutes.
y +. ID. Countiss. one OF Chapins part.
ners and the only other board mem
Der of the firm, was suspended at the
same time for 80 days.
Notwithstanding recent rumors con
cerning the Rock Island deal. involv-
ing the name OF Daniel G.. Reid. chair
man OF the board OF directors OF the
Rock Island Company. for whom. II II
said. Chaplin g. Co. executed their buy.
ing orders, the verdict of the stock
exchange governors indicates that the
mfractions OF the suspended members
are not regarded very seriously.
They were found guilty OF ''acts det.
rimental TO the welfare of the ex.
change for which the constitution OF
the exchange prescribes suspension OF
not more than one year.
No other members OF the exchange
are to be punished. though IL is known
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
WOMAN APPEALS CASE.
She Is Convicted Of selling Liquor To
Orunkard.

BRONSON. Mich, Jan. 13.--Tho
finding OF a jury In the circuit court
at Coldwater yesterday places Mrs.
Theresa Paulson. of this place. In Q
strange position. drug store here.
conducted by her husband. 10 In Mrs.
Paulson's name, and though Ii 10 gen
orally known that the woman has
never been in the store she was con-
victed OF selling liquor To an habitual
drunkaTd. A sentence OF $50 fine and
$50 costs or 80 days in the county jail.
the minimum penalty. was passed. but
Mrs Paulson has appealed To the SUI
preme court. and saws she will tight
the decision 10 the last.
The case was brought as the result
OF an agitation for the strict enforce
ment OF the local option law. and moth
ing developed during the trial 10 show
who made the sale. Artfmus Card. the
man whom the authorities claimed
purchased the liquor, testified that he
had never been In the store before.
and did not know the person TO whom
he talked on this visit Mrs. Paulson's
husband and a clerk are the only per-
sons who wait on customers. Mr..
Paulson bought the store only re-
Gently, putting 1t in his wife's name,
and the latter. as stated. never has
been inside.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
LACKAGE MADE STUDY
OF GIANTS OF FINANCE

Studying the public acts and the
private characters of the big men OF
the financial world proved a fascinat-
ing occupation for Wilton Lackaye
when he was preparing the role OF
John Haggleton In "The Battle" IL
Is sort Cf composite impression MIR.
Lackaye offers In his Interpretation
OF this strong character.
Although Haggleton Is a man well
on In years and with physical strength
depleted. he has lost none OF his vigor
OF mind and speech and the same Is
true OF many OF our semi-Invalid
money alngs as far as I have been
able to learn" said Mr.. Lackaye. dis
cussing the play I'm which he Is now
appearing in the Garrick theater. AS
he rested In his dressing room be-
tween acts. Take James j. Hill. for
instance. Mr.. Hill picks his steps
carefully perhaps and is mindful not
To sit IN draughts. but let anyone pre-
sumo to tell him anything upon which
he has decided opposite views and he
will below like n bull--as strong in
lung power as ever. Take any of
these big men of the type John Hag-
gleton aims to represent They may
be doddering In walk. just as he is,
and peevish In temper, just as he is.
but let anyone meet them on their
own ground OF knowledge of how To
finance great railroad or conduct "A
giant corporation, and there You find
the strength and the talent that have
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
FARMS MUST pR0IJCE
MORE, Is BROWNS WARNING
President Of New York Central Says
Shortage OF Food supply 10
Threatened.

BOSTON. Jan. ia warning 10
the American people that the produc.
tion per acre must be increased by
more Intelligent methods or short
age In the food supply will result. was
delivered by President VIM. c. Brown.
OF the New York Central railroad. In
an address before the New England
railroad club last night. He said the
wages OF labor must be increased IN
fair ratio with the steady increase In
the cost OF living.
at the height OF new flood tide OF
national prosperity, WAS Intended for
warning OF the most serious import.
Its gains added force by it's reiteration
of the recent admonitions of James
J. Hill, another great railroad man.
as we'll as those of visiting students OF
our internal affairs and IL is. especially
timely In view OF the fact that the
employees of all the railroads east OF
the Mississippi are formulating ce'
mands for an increase I'm wages. based
on the increased cost OF living.
In this connection Brown says:
wages must go up In about the same
proportion that the purchasing power
of the money the laborer earns goes
down" Brown said In part:
The most portentous cloud dig
cernible on the political or economic
horizon at this time Is the steady re-
lentless increase In price OF every.
thing that goes TO make up the cost
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
PANToMIME WRITTEN "
BY CHILD FOR CHILD
Thirteen-Year-oid Boy Writes the Mu-
sic OF a Yuletide Production
To Conduct Orchestra.

LONDON, Jan. IA 13-year-old
composer. Moritz Lutzen. has been so
delighted with the dancing OF Miss
Mary Glynne. the child actress, that
he has written the music or a new
pantomlmet specially for her
This pantonlime-a labor OF love,
which has been written by n child for
a child-will be played entirely by
children. and the young composer will
himself conduct the orchestra al three
special matinees at the Strand thCatcr
on Tuesday. Thursday and Friday OF
next week
Master LutZen told an Express rep
resentative. with boyish enthusiasm,
how he came 10 write the music OF
this new rendering of Cinderella"
Il went 10 see Miss Mary Glynne-
the little girl who dances and acts so
prettily I'm The Merry Peasant'-and
at once I wanted To compose some
thing to match her dancing" said the
young composer.
Il was ia a box with Austin Fryers
the author. and told him what | want
ed To do. He said he would write the
book of n pantomime II | would write
the music
so went homo and did II. Then
brought the music To the manager oil
the Strand theater here. and told him
Miss Mary Glynne would make II very
real and goods And he smiled.
When he heard the music. how
ever. he agreed. and | am proud IL
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14

rather than to go to that boarding
school
II feel different now and | will go
back and be a good girl. Only they
will have to promise not to prosecute
Fred"
The girl and Cohen met In the Har-
rison street police station yesterday
for the first time since they were
taken into custody by the police. Tears
coursed down the girls cheeks as she
clasped Cohen's hands and renewed
her promises not TO let her father and
grandfather prosecute him.,
Did they make you admit anything
Roberta?" Cohen asked her.
mo indeed"
you did not admit anything"
mo. / did not. Fred"
We'll, do not say anything. girl; II
you do you may get me five years.
II won't, Fred; don't worry.
Roberta. ] read In the paper that
YOU loved 'Tootsie' (her dog more
than you do me-
That Is not true. Fred"
We'll, made you happy for a lit
tie while. anyway. didn't |. girl?"
Indeed you did"
Then the police took Cohen away
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
FR0HMAN TO BUILD
POOR MANS THEATRE
Plans East Side Playhouse. Where
Latest Broadway Plays viii BE
Given At Low Prices.

NEW YORK. Jan. 13.--Charles
Frohman is to build new rheater on
the east side. in Rivington-st., It Is
announced. where the working classes
will be able TO see all the latest
Broadway plays at low prices. the
highest-price seat TO be so cents. The
theater is expected TO be on the east
side what the New theater Is TO the
west side IL is expected to be in OPP
Grafton by next September. and 1t will
be conducted in every sense as poor
mans theater. Mr.. Frohman has an
ambitious plan OF having well-gnown
playwrights like j. NJ Barrie. Bernard
Shaw, and Henri Bernstein contribute
plays without royalty.
The name of the playhouse is to be
The East Side Theater, and II will be
unique In many ways. According TO
Mr. Frohman il is TO be a place where
the working classes can see the best
that is to be had in the modern drama,
acted by a capable company headed
by a succession of prominent stars.
Mr.. Frohman frankly states that his
plan is designed to- increase the num-
ber of people who want TO see good
plays.
IN many instances III Is expected
that prominent players will volunteer
their services In order to keep the
venture self-supporting. The theater
will be located OH or near Rivington-
St. where Mr.. Frohman now has I'M
der consideration structure which
can easily be converted into good
sized theater.
~ great many new theaters have
lately gone up" said Mr.. Frohman
last night. "and great many old ones
also. For the most part, | am inter
ested in building new plays. not new
theaters. There Is, however, one more
that | intend to build. namely, the
one on Rivlngton-st.. in which the best
stars and plays will be given on the
east side. The west side is well taken
care of by The New Theater. It's
splendid productions and its fine
actors have proved that some plays
need not have long runs. Now I want
TO give the east side the best stars
with plays that have had long runs.
It will add one more theater to the
list. but I think il will make thou
sands of new theatergoers.
MY plan is TO have plays contribut-
ed without royalty by playwrights OF
such prominence as J. NJ Barrie, Ber-
nard Shaw, and Henri Bernstein BY
prominent players volunteering their
services II Is expected that the ven
ture will be kept selfsupporting. AZ
least the plan is worth a trial.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-14
ASSURES AGED
LOVER OF LOYALTY
Roberta De Janon, Who Eloped With
Waiter, Will Fight for Him
Pair Meet in Police Station.

CHICAGO. Jan. l3-TheJ wealthy
father and grandfather OF Roberta dc
Janon. the l7-year-old heiress who
elopcd with Frederic Cohen. a waiter
VIII have to agree not TO prosecute
Cohen or the girl will make trouble
Roberta made this announcement
yesterday.
The little heiress is evidently de
termined TO stand by Cohen To the
last.
Il will not stand their putting Fred
In jail" she said THAT Is final. II
my grandfather wants to keep me
from publicity he must agree first no'
TO prosecute Fred. He did not abduci
me or induce me TO run away. He just
protected me. | am grateful TO him
and IL they insist on putting him In
jail. | tell you | will testify In his
favor.
II realize now that | did wrong In
running away from home and | am
glad | am going back. When | left
I would have committed suicide