Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-09

it. Usually one of the lovers is tn
, villain of the plot. the other the hero
, At first the villain has the advantage
but in the end virtue triumphs owe
vice. This is a tale of one girl will
two lovers, both of whom are noble
young men. one of them possessing al
extraordinary nerve.
1t is now more than half a century
since n family of Americans named
Wentworth made a tour abroad. Wv
fen Wentworth was then a girl Of
nineteen and considered by all who
knew her a lovely girl. She had been
brought up in seclusion and had there
fore not received much attention from
young men, The visiting of new and
to her strange countries al time when
few Americans went to Europe natu-
rally produced upon her marked i'm
preston. Being of an artistic tenn
permanent. she enjoyed especially the
works of art to be found in Europe
and while in Rome had a special adj
! vantage in being shown through the
marvellous collection of art treasures
in the Vatican by young French art
/ list named Armand Trudeau.
/ This young man was especially fitted
J by nature to captiyate a young girl of
| an ideal makeup. He was very hand
some. with large. dreamy eyes. high
! forehead and an olive complexion. He
| gave great promise as an artist and
! wrote very clever verses. He soon
won his way into Vivien's affections.
! though he was opposed by her parents,
who did not wish her to marry a for
eigner.
So the matter stood when Egbert
Kenworthy. an American of an entire
| Iy different type from Trudeau. ap-
peared in Rome and made the ac-
quaintance of the Wentworths. While
Trudeau's face might have served for
n model of st. Sebastian, Kenworthy's
would have made an admirable David
He was the son of a New York bank
er and was taking an outing previous
to entering his fathers counting room.
These two men became rivals for
the hand CT Miss Wentworth. Ken
worthy upon entering the list did not
know that On attachment had already
sprung up between her and Trudeau.
The latter. being opposed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wentworth, after devoting him.
self to Vivien for a few weeks daw-
ding through the galleries, ceased his
attentions.
1t was at this time that Kenworthy
appeared on the scene. He was given |
every encoura cement by the parents /
of the girl he wished to win and not I
long after his meeting with Vivien pro-
posed to her. She accepted him, but /
with Il frank avowal that she preferred /
Trudeau.
Kenworthy, though he had met the
disappointment of his life, declined to
ask her father for her, contrary to her
wishes. He at once withdrew his at
tentions and left Rome. Then Vivien's
parents, being convinced that her heart
was fixed upon the artist, consented to
the match, and the couple became en-
gagged.
The warm season in Italy was now
and it was decided by the
Wentworths to go to Paris and accept
an invitation to visit Trudeau's family
at their chateau not far distant from
the capital. Trudeau was to accom-
pany them. They found his relatives
TO be eminently refined and We're great
" pleased with the intended connec-
ton.
But the marriage was destined not to
take place.
At that time there was in Paris Jules
Charter, one of those duelists of the
earlier part of the nineteenth century
each of whom tried to make longer
list of victims according to the code
luello than any of his predecessors.
These persons have disappeared, and
lueling is now only practiced in
France by those who consider that
hey have Il cause, and even these ex-
)ect only little bloodletting.
4 painting of Trudeau's was hung in
he salon. One day when the artist
vas present chatting with friends who
we're admiring his work Charter STOP
BED before it and began to ridicule
t. Trudeau flushed and made a re-
mark ironical to the critics knowledge
Il art. Charter lightly slapped the
rtiSt on the cheek.
1t seems strange that a system
Which justified murder should ever
lave prevailed. The insult, which was
,iven publicly. forced Trudeau to chal-
enge the man who had slapped him
r be forever tabOoed by his associates.
lie had no skill whatever with any
Weapon, and the affair must result in
is being vanquished and probably kill
Il. He knew that he must suffer
cath and wished to bid a last fare
veil to his fiancee. But this was not
ermitted. She might take measures I
0 prevent his; fighting and thus dis :
race him. ;
The morning after the insult Tru- .
eau and Charter met in the Bots de ,
'oulogne, and the latter added one !
lore name TO the list of men he had I
He'd. Trudeau's death was Il great !
hook to Vivien Wentworth. Her par s
nts took her away from Paris at ,
nee to Switzerland. for the hot sea G
On was on, and the mountain air was (
Onsidered best for the stricken girl. 4
In September Kenworthy reached