El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-29

1.-THE next morning the landlord
brought him the papers. In them
were many pictures of himself as
a master Of foxhounds, as polo play
er, as a gentleman jockey. The land
lord looked at him curiously- Five
minutes later, on a trivial excuse, he
returned and again studied Jimmie as
closely as though he were about to
paint his portrait. Then two Of the
other boarders, chums of the landlord,
Knocked at the door, to borrow
match, to beg the loan of the morning
paper. Each was obviously eXclted,
each stared accusingly. Jimmie TEL
into a panic He 1eIu IhaL II aireauS
his identity was questioned, than ma
ing in his room and growing Deard
nothing could be more suspicious Al
noon, for West Indian ports, German
boat was listed to sail from the z4tn
street wharf Jimmie decided at once
TO sail with her and. until ms Dearu
was grown. not TO return. II was
necessary first to escape the suspicious
landlord, and to that end he noiselessly
packed his trunk and suitcase In
'front.' Of the house, in an unendlns pro-
cessiOn, taXicabs returning empty
from the 23d street ferry, passed the
door, and from the street Jimmie
hailed one Before the landlord could
voice his doubts, Jimmie was on the
sidewalk. his bill had been paid, ana
giving the address Of hotel on 14th
street, he was away
At the 14th street hotel Jimmie ulS-
missed the taxicab and asked for a
room adjoining an imaginary senator
Gates When the clerk told him sena- 4
tor Gates was not at that hotel Jimmie
excftedly demanded to be led TO the
telephone. He telephOned the office /
of the steamship line and, in the name |
Of Henry Hull. secured a cabin Then |
he explained to the clerk that over
the telephone he had learned that his 4
friend, senator Gates, was at another /
hotel He regretted that he must fol- /
low him Another taxi was called, /
and Jimmie drove to an incOnspicuOus /
and old-fashiOned hotel on the lower /
East Side, patronized exclusively by I
gunner. There, in not finding senator /
Gates. he was again disappointed ana 4
now having broken the link that con-
nected him with the suspicious land
lord. he drove back to within a block
of his original starting point and went
on board the ship Not until she was
off Sandy Hook did he leave his cabin 1,
It was July, and passengers to the
tropics were few, and when Jimmie
ventured on deck he found most OF
them gathered at the port rail Think
ing a pilot might be leaving, Jimmie
ing cap was pointing north and speak
ing in the voice OF a conductor OF
seeing New York" car.
Just between that lighthouse and
the bow Of this ship" he exclaimed,
is where yesterday James Blagwin Z
jumped overheard. At any moment
We may see MS DOQy.
An excitable passenger cried aloud
and pointed at some floating seaWeed.
III bet that's il now" he shouted
Jimmie exclaimed Indignantly
I'll bet you SO it isn't" he said
In time the ship touched at Santiago,
Kingston and Colon. but, fearing rec
ignition, Jimmie saw these places only
from the deck He Travelled too fasg
for newspapers to overtake him. and
those that on the return passage met
the ship, Of his death gave no details
So, except that his suicide had been
accepted, Jimmie knew nothing.
Least Of all did he know, or even
guess, that his act Of renunciatiOn, in
tended TO bring to Jeanne happiness /
had nearly brought about her own end !
She believed Jimmie was dead, but not
for a moment did She believe it was for /
fear Of blindness he had killed him
self She and Maddox had killed tim.
Between them they had murdered the
man who, now that he was gone, she
found she loved devOtedly- To :
shocked and frightened letter of con-
1Olence from MADDOX she wrote one
that forever ordered him out of her
life Then she set about making q
saint Of Jimmie, and counting the days !
when in another world they would
meet. and her years Of remorse. peni- :
-ence and devotion would cause him to )
forgive her. In their home she shut :
herself off from every one She made
IF it a shrine TO Jimmie. She kept his
gloves on the hall table; on her writ Z
ng desk she placed flowers before his :
picture Preston, the butler. and the =
lther SerVOnts who had been long with =
hem, feared for her sanity, but, low
ng Mr. James as they did. sympa-
-hized with her mOrbidness- So, in the /
I'D farmhouse. il was as though Jim
ME still stamped through the halls, or
rom his room. as he dressed, Whistled {
nerTily. In the kennels the hounds [
lowled dismally, in the stables at each
OOtstep the ponies stamped with i'm z
on the terrace his house dog, c
duang Su, lay with his eyes fixed q
lpOn the road waiting for the return
Il the master, and in the gardens a
sirl in black wasted and White-faced,
walked alone and rebelled that she was a
till alive. g
After six weeks, when the ship reen-
cred New York harbOr. Jimmie his
card having grown, and wearing a
spectacles, walked boldly
own the gangplank- His confidence o
vas not misplaced. The polo player. 4
lean faced, lean and fit, had disap-