The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-01-09
Accused
Fortunately Vindi-
cation Was at
Hand
BY OSCAR COX


shall suffer. You have handed me over
TO be dealt with by the law. Il will be the
law to you. will not remain long behind
bars. No prison walls have yet been
built strong enough to hold me- When
am free, as tile carrier pigeon looks about
him for the fight he will take, viii To-
cate you. And wherever you are there
will / go, 1t may be when the earth Is
awakening after a nocturnal slumber, It
may be-Ehen the sun is pouring flood 81
light on hill and vale, Il may be wffeE. You
think yourself concealed in the shadows
Of evening, that l will come, but come
will, and when you feel my blade cutting
into your heart your eyes shall serve You
for the last time, and they will behold me
bending over you gloating in my revenge.
paused in my writing and read over
what L had written. | was dissatisfied
with it. There was not sufficient
strength, rancor. bitterness diabolism,
In 1t to suit me. wrote it over, vivify-
ing the picturesque points and intensi-
flying the hate. Then put it with my
manuscript in its place at the close of
chapter and made my preparations to
leave my room,
Two reasons influenced my going. In
the first place, l suffered the impover-
ishment usual to authors who have not
attained recognition as geniuses, and
was expecting to be turned out for non
payment of rent. In~the second place,
! was in love and had promised to
spend the week end with my betrothed.
As to my poverty, was expecting bet
ter things when my novel, The Ban
dts Revenge" should be published; as
to my ladylove l hoped to conceal
from her the pitiable condition Of my
finances till began to receive my roy
alties.
My apartment was on the top floor of
a building in which there were many
rooms. | possessed an old satchel, but
no wardrobe except what wore.
There were number of unsold manu-
scripts in the closet and in order to fill
out the bag put them in 1t and, going
with 1t out into the hall, descended. A
man ON the floor below, seeing me,
started toward me. Thinking he might
be intending to stop me for my unpaid
rent, l hurried on and succeeded in
eluding him. Emerging from the build
ing. felt satisfaction in knowing that
I had all my worldly possessions with
me and had left nothing in my room
that the landlord could hold as secu-
rity for my debt Alas, / had left one
little article that would bring Inc more
trouble than If had left abundant Sc
curity, but ! did not know 1t.
/ had in my pocket the wherewithal
to pay my way to the suburban town
where lived my beloved / expended
80 cents for ticket and, having So
more, spent 1t for some roses to
take with me as gift for her. leaving
me cent for newspaper. Then
entered the train, laid my satchel on
the seat beside me, unfolded my paper
and, assuming carelessness l did not
feel, began to read the news. My pow
erty did not trouble me. ! was used to
that But l dreaded lest my betrothed
should find it out
Nina, who was aware Of my coming,
was at the station to meet me and
took me to her home in little auto
her father had recently given her.
tossed my satchel, containing no toilet
articles except a toothbrush. on the
floor of the vehicle and took my seat
beside my adored chauffeur. Instead
of driving me directly home, she made
a long detour into the country. 1t was
evident from her manner that she had
something of Importance to say to me
and was making an opportunity to say
It AS soon as we were on a country
road she slowed down and said
my dear Luigi, hope that what l
am going to say to you will not lead
you to think that do not trust you
implicitly. 1t is papa who is uncertain
about you. He would prefer that
should marry man born in America.
whose family and antecedents we
might learn about You know that
you have no relatives in America. and
In order to learn of your ancestry and
status In Italy one must go there to
make an investigation have told
papa what you have told me-that you
are descendant of the historical Co
ionnas; that your father is member
of the Italian parliament and has been
a cabinet minister. Papa says, What
proof have you Of thisr and can only
reply that ! have your word for it.
And when papa asks me why believe
you and say it is because love you
he laughs at me-"
my dear Nina" l replied. "have pa
ience. | have written for such proofs
of who and what am as shall con-
vince any doubter. Meanwhile, though
/ do not expect your father to feel sat
isfied concerning me, it'seems to me
that If you really love me you will
trust me-"
Had not romance in my nature
would not be novelist. Romance led
me to take the ground that there Is
something in true love to induce
woman to trust the man she loves
without calling on him for his creden-
halls. went into n rhapsody about this
beautiful faith In loved one and sue
ceeded in infusing the sentiment into
Nina. / was all / pretended to be and
was only concealing from my betroth-
ID my poverty. which my hopeful dis
position led me to think would soon be
ended But there was not a single rea-
A. II IL.