Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-02

ASIA Questions these that have ~E come down through the O years-questions that have given themes to writers of romsnces and Of plays and that have been the basis for discussions that have en- thralled though they have not solved. No need there is to go to Dickens for the pathetic. nor to Balzac for the imaginative, nor to Dumas for the dramatic. nor to Hugo for the sensa- tionally sordid
 There are stories of our own day and fin our own courts told only in tabloid that mere than match. There are men paying in prison cells the toll that their disordered sense of hon or demands: there are women to whom a realization of justice has come only after the conviction of their former friends and accomplices.
 Within the last few months three remarkable cases have been disclosed. In two of them men to shield the honor of a woman have gone to prison In both instances the women have voluntarily come forward within a week and have confessed that they could have cleared the accused, but the men. knowing 1t would be at the cost of the women's good name, would not permit them to testify.
 sordid Romance Here.
 But the third case. and now for the first time told. is as strange as any that ever was conjured by any master of romance A mans peculiar and sordid plan for securing himself against want in his old age, a wcm- ans beauty, a wife's duplicity. divorce. Imprisonment for one of the parties penury for the other and a scandal that 1t has taken all the influence of a family of great wealth and much distinction to keep from the public are involved iE the tale.
 In one of the exclusive families Of the staid old arisrocratic city of Bal timore was a man of fine presence and education. but with no moral sense. He had To conception os the difference between mine and thine He would do the smallest of things and the meanest Trusts were be- 
 family influence and the family money chest that kept him from being brand ed as criminal
 There was no reforming him, and decent men and women summed him as they would a leper Like most criminals, he considered himself a much wronged person, and he was particularly bitter because society out lawed him.
 One thing that the man viewed with alarm was the future. He was a coward at heart loved the good things of life. and as old age approached and his opportunities for thieving mar. rowed year by year he became more and more uneasy. He gambIed and he drank-gambIed in the vain hope of winning a fortune; drank to for get for a time what his remnant Of q conscience constantly brought up ac cussngiy before him. And each year he sank a little lower than before Thea came the Erst act in as queer q romance as playwright ever has giver to the stage.
 ScoundrePs Scheme.
 One morning as he was idly saunt eriug up Charles street he saw ar Italian organ grinder and a girl O. perhaps eleven or thirteen years whC was playing the tambourine. The thing that attracted the attention o the man was the gypsy beauty of th' girl. She had all the grace of form that 20 peculiarly adorns the womeI of the southern countries. She wal vivacicus. graceful, fascinating. Al the nAsi gazed al her he could see il his minds eye what she would be ol what she might become in a few year if polished, developed, veneered An, as he gazed an idea seized him. Wh' not make the child the medium through which he might work ou comfort for his declining days? Sh' could be made most alluTing in tn eyes of men. He could train her to hi osn ends and make of her an asse that would be worth all the troubi and expense. He spoke to the Italiai and gave him . generous tip. He me him frequently, and after lot O clever lying and ma1e1vering. tellinl 
 inc man he meant to adopt the giF and equip her as befittec her beauty he actually purchased her for Sieo.
 He gave his name as Vaunce. and a vapnca he shall remain He took tn girl and patiently. earnestly. care S,fiv he went to work to equip he for the fife he had determined sh ~ho.,,a lead. She was hot tempered xllfns. fiery. He was kind and ger shs swa4ns he theHght tf1a4 trsatmen and be beat 3ner. whep hf COT xdeTes that method neeesssry. H Vas generous in the extreme to hel going to the length at times of d priving himself in order to aed her comfort. a thing he never nA
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