The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03

ic phrase of Virgil, the unfortunate MT. Dupont comes in contact with an Amer ican citizen, friend of his gull who would not have his name disclosed for all the world. The unfortunate American confined in the Spanish bastile is moved to sympathy for Mons. Dupoint, and cast ing about in the niches of his memory for the image of some friend of his in Amer ica who is possessed of the altogether in dispensable, almighty dollar in sufficient quantity to redeem the equpages of Mons. Dupont which have been seized (and incidentally Is possessed likewise of that other altogether indispensable. sym pathetic heart requisite to the occasion), and at the suggestion of his fellow pris- oner in Spain, Mons. Dupont writes to the American in America, whose name has been thus given to him. He re- quests most insstent that the gentleman In America shall not write to him, but that he shall send to an address in Mad rid. which Is given in the letter, mes sage by cable in the form, the words and the figures given in this initial letter of Mons. Dupont
 The sympathetic gentleman in America bites" he hastens to the nearest tele- graph office, and lays down current coin of the realm to the tune of S7 or SS, signing the message Alexis" as re-
 quested, and thereupon in due course of the service of the International pos tai service, a second letter is delivered to the American gull who has invested his $7 or $S in which second letter a degree of confidence is reposed in him which dlsarms all suspicion, the details of which have been narrated above. The patient industry of the imposter is refreshing, the above details in extensi being in man uscript, and as two of these communi- cations have been submitted to me for consideration within the past month, both of which are identical in detail. this pa tience becomes impressive. Castles in Spain.
 What a structure to erect upon such a solid foundation, well bedded and bonded in good probiematical mortar all point ed and dressed off ad unquem. The writer does not doubt that the clipping from the Spanish paper is authentic; that the copy of the judgment entry in the cause against MT. Dupont for the killing of his countryman, MT. Paul Bernier, Is authentic; that the receipt of the deposi- ton of the effects of MT. Dupont which had been sequestered according to the thorough methods of procedure inherited by Spain from the Roman law, is authen- tlc The basis of the imposture is fact.
 In the name of heaven, why does not this ingenious imposter devote himself to the writing of romance. He could dis tance Dumas himself Having very pa tiently waded through the imposture. l selected just one of the conditions of the proposition as being best calculated to open the eyes of theaAmerican gull who brought the matter to me. Mons. Dupont, out of his great .solicitude for his young and we may suppose. beautiful daughter. proposes that the American gull shall bring her to America. As the scripture says: AS flies do cause the sweet oint- ment of the apothecary to give forth T stinking odour, so doth a little folly, him who is in reputation for wisdom and honorv Here was the fly in the oint- ment This daughter of Mons Dupont. What was the American gull to do with a young French woman on his hands who could not speak a word of English. no doubt This fly in the ointment reminded me of the little passage at wit between two darkies. One of them had dog that had the, habit of chasing the rail- way trains as they passed his residence, barking ferooiously, as though he would