New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-13

by his valet who has been his constant AZ.
tendant for some years., by a host of scr.
wants at 64th-st. and in the Adirondacks. bv
the family lawyer, and by his bankers. II Z
no child's play to start breaking down a
body of evidence like that. And what have
we on the other side? A theory, a Bit n
melodrama, well fitted for the stage, but sell
dom heard of in real life. We must 90 Slow
my son, or the District Attorney will LAUGH
at us, and refuse to adopt the notion
"Ah. Leander, your nameSake would reye,
have swum the Hellespont if he had not DOS.
sessed a stout hearth snirked his colleague
Don't forget that he was drowned final.
w." growled Steingall, who had been goaded
by constant allusion into learning the true
story of the hapless priestess Of Aphrodite
and her lover; though, in prosaic fact he
had been Christened "Leander" because HE
mothers brother was skipper Of a Norfolk
schooner bearing that name.
"Not for daring to swim, but because a siIy
woman forgot to light lamp, said Clancy
"There are two silly women in this case
"They will nullify each other. ANYHOW
James,-I call you James to spare your feel.
ings,--you seem to forget that the first i'm.
preston left on every person who has seen
or spoken to this latest edition Of the Itch.
Ione claimant is one Of change. How he
has changed is the chorus. They all saw
it; yet, 50 Grass is human nature, the mo.
ment he says himself he is not the same man.
in nature, they begin to disbclieve him. His
only real difficulty was in the mattero hand.
writing; so he Coolly maintains the fiction
Of a permanently injured wrist, whereas his
right arm is perfectly sound ! noticed the
deception within a minute after ! saw him at
New Haven. He was 50 taken aback bv the
appearance of a bureau man that he forgot
the prctenSe Of the damaged wrist till |
asked him if he had ever lived in the Tropics.
That startled him. 7 hat stuck q pin deep
into his thick skin, and within q minute he
was handing me a cigar-box with his left
hand. He caught me grinning too, and
asked what was amusing me; so had to tell
him about my way Of enjoying q cigar.
Steingall snorted Even YOU, the essence
Of New York officialdom, had q g,immeriug
notion Of the truth when you travelled with
him from Nanagansctt Pier, went on
Clancy bitingly. For an instant YOU saw
light; but the spark of genius was promptly
doused by a bucketful Of the balderiash YOU
call commonscnsc.
"I1l not stay here 10 be insultcd bva whip
persnapper like your said Stcingal, rising
and locking his desk. "Run away, little boy.
I'm busy. While you are jaunting 20 Palm
Beach and mixing with the aristOcracy
have 10 keep this great city fairly free Of
anarchists, because We are entertaining a
real live Prince incognito this week, and the
federal Government has a fit Of the Jumps.
AT the Plaza" inquired CLANCY.
NO. His Serene HighneSS is the guest Of
an cx-AmbaSsador Now, one last word: 20
easy with Mrs. Waverton. She must feel
hurt after her trip to her old home
"Oh, by the way, was nearly forgetting.
Give me Waverton's letter
"Why?"
"She must be convinced he was lying
when he said he meant to marry Mrs Della
mar.
Dash it all! It's playing the game rather
low down
"What? To convince a loving and for.
giving wife that her husband isn't so bad as
he paints HIMSELF"
Steingall produced the letter rather TN,
Willingly. TWAS not marked Private, and
he was entitled to use all lawful means to
clucidatc a crime; but he was a scrupulousy
fair man. even in dealing with notorious
criminals. and he was sure that Claude Wa.
verton had never intended his candid com.
munication to he seen by the woman in
whose interests it was written. Still, the work