Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08


M of London the boulevards of
A Paris than the island of Man
w haitian. Apart from this, Mrs. Roby's
. ball of Importance, comprising,
as understood, the magnificenCeo of
those which had preceded it and expected, tran
scendng all in spendor what ways the world had
found absorbing interest wondering and expecting
That evening three sat after dinner in the long,
diny lighted of the club where the noises of the
outside city sounded duly through the opened window,
and talked slow, argumentatve afterdinner talk, as
will at such times and in such places Z
NO." said Dalton, people in dramatic moments, IN
times of real stress, dramatic.
Il suppose you ght to know, murmured Wellesley.
you've been about the world enough"
"Ive always rdculed the exaggerations OF the stage
unused Southby, thinking the actors always have to
urge the points too much to get them across"
Don't you believe it, contended Dalton with
pected vigor. when mans earnest, he's got to be
careful not let what's in his mind be known That
always shows and when he is dead in earnest-wel he
forgets and can't; at least he doesn't hold onto HIM
self"
a believe you've a case in mind, said Southby
slowly.
Eyes, have.-severa in fact but in particular.
I'm not going to tell you story,-dont think you re in
for more than few words, l happened to
chap once just before he committed a murder
"A murder' repeated Wellesley with something of
start.
"If shooting the young woman with whom is in
love and who has accepted another man is murder Any
how, jury of his fellow countrymen without leaving
their seats, decided to hang him for it."
THAT seems corroborative admitted Southby as he
lit another cigar
TT the West, the last of the old days. when
there the edge of the old wdness left, when there
land still open and the towns wide open too
Headstone was its name-near enough to the mountain
with the mines to bring them in from those and the
ranches too You fancy the mixture. 1t
human Seidtz powder that began to izz as it
mixed There saloons all along Garfeld-ave;
but Saneys the chief was sitting there night
might be sitting here"
"Bet you weren't going to Mrs. Roby's dance.
chuckled Southby.
NO. but there a dance just the street
and you needn't think that any less of event
Anyhow there sat- just like this with another man,
who waiting exactly waiting tonight The
crowd and the noise different big difference
There mob at the bar, and throng at the faro
table, and another table with lot at stud poker The
smoke like London fog, and the voices loud and
mixed about the boOkles before starts. Still
there was an empty table or two and we noticed
come in.
"Woudn't have paid any attention to him unless he'd
been rather motto Fable of late because of the he'd
lost his head completely about girl at distant
ranch. Catesby was his name, and he'd been sweet on
the girl for long time till another fellow cut him
cut him out good and clean that there wasn't any
question OF lingering suspense She'd Just let it be
known that she was going to marry the other fellow and
the citizens keeping their eyes open the way
Catesby took it. They too, that he took it
hard and that if he wasn't down and out and ready to
that night he into the room like who didn't
see anything; at least what he far away
that he couldn't notice what under his Walked
right into Charley Clayton if he'd been ghost and
could walk through him.
That caught attention, and after that it seemed
as if we couldn't take eyes off him. Didn't know
then why we watched him. Just seemed if We had to-
though for fact there enough small keep
watching. He smolling but every minute the
cgard go out and he'd light it again. dozen matches
he used in fifteen minutes and he lit his cigar again
although 1t was already going His teeth set and
his brow seemed too, just it clenched like
his teeth-if know what | mean. He ordered