The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-19

7 listen 10 what I am saving? Do YOU
/ mink am taking for pleasure This IS
/ BUSINESS As / was saying. do you hap
! pen 10 know young rnan2 1 want a
[ young fellow for my future plans who
! VIII be worthy Of my kindness and for
I whom you might make an enViabIe
! career by adopting hiTu and giving him
YOUR name. Can Won think OF anyone
JUST at this moment, DOuglasSg'
/ was amazed at such a proposition,
/ Whal could be The mOtiveE I turned
slowly around in nv chair and looked
with something akin 70 d!smay at my
Dehelactor' This last whirn Of nis
seemed TO surpass all others.
| irriJably:
You don't know anyone? That IS
annoying. o. could find man easy
! enough IN New York but I should have
/ preferred a Frenchman out OF consider
etion for you and cut OF consideration
for the other"
The Other2'' I said. vonderinely.
You get on my nerves with your
QuesJ0ns' they have neither head nor
/ tai Briefly you have five days before
you 10 hunt up the man Notice that
leave you at liberty 10 choose. You
can choose a scamp II you Ike. II does
not matter 70 me who il Is. Take him
| from prison, II you like; take him
from Williams menagerfe, or any other
place as bad. II is all the same TO me-
Tor the purpose I want him for"
last words. got up from my seat and
stood opposite 10 him and repeated In
a dazed fashion:
From a prison! from this asyIurnl
you want me 70 adopt a young man,
70 make stranger my son, and give
him the name Of Douglass. I am TO
make him my heir and take him 10
American"
That's it exactly Now. Friday even
ing, on board the Touraine. without fail
sails from HavTe at 4.39 exactl The
lranS-AtlanticS don't wait for Dc Ssengers
Ike your French omnibuses- Charles,
don't look at me like that You seem
Qazed! II you could only SEE what
fool you loOkl You look as though you
We're asleep with your eyes open!''
Ihere will be some fOrmalities to
arrange ] said, IN a voice that ibid
not recognize as my own and I should
ding"
"Eveiyne can get married without
your help. And as 20 the formalities
with your absurd French law, we viii
man on board We will arrange the rest
( IN the United States. We do things bet
ter and more quickly over there.
And now you have been instructed
CHARLES, and man instructed is worth
two not instructed. Good-by, old friend.
! old partneri HAPPY mani Au revoirr'
This extraordinary Yankee had been
gone a quarter Of an hour. and I was
I
/ the library, turning over in my mind the
most eNtravagant hypothesis, but forced
! to recognize once more that this man
, represented Providence, and that It was
impossible for me 10 push away the
/ hand that he held out 10 me.
And only few days before had said
to him: I an master Of tee situation
now! am capable now of showing you
that 1 can &C alone"
And how I had boosted that I would
not follow him TO America: I had said
that would do anything, anything.
rather than thati I was nothing but an
hand, and every move that I thought I
myself could make, was directed by
him; and always, SC II seemed. and as
he had told me, in my own interests
POlydorei POlydOre! my unfortunate
son, / shall be able to save YOU now.
II was not worth while suspending over
your miserable head the terrible per-
SpeCtiVe Of a lifelong Imprisonment II
a madhOuse. 1t was hardly worth while
swearing to Evelyne and Marcadian:
He will never leave the asylum
| l laughed nervously as I Knocked
myself.
Ali the provisions. the useless calcu-
I latiOns that we make IN our life, always
manifests itself by incessant miracles.
And dizzy with a newborn hope I
made my way across 10 the asylum,
where I found Polydore In his CELL toss
| ing about in a restless sleep, his fists
clenched. and muttering incoherently.
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