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one would have suspected could possibly
have boon tho sama orb of sight that only
a moment before bad beamed apologetic
ally. Ho continued:
"Now, sec here, MacFarren, you arc a
thief and you know that yon aro a thief.
Miss Mullaney has proof of It. You know
that you luive wasted and spent without
warrant a large sluire of tho trust fund
which was to ro to her according to tho
will of her motlier. You know that your
trusteeship has ended and that you must
make srood."
MacFarren, was overcome. It was plain
to see that this came to him as thunder
out of a clear sky, and terrifying thunder,
too.
"Are you prepared to furnish your ac
counting and turn Mrs. Parton's property
over to her at once?'
"Not here," said MacFarren, sulV.nly.
"You know nnnugh about the affair to
know that all this property and all tho
papers concerning it are in Knglnnd. You
cannot bring an action against mo here
for its recovery."
"No," said the small man, with an un
pleasant smile, "that It one sense is quite
true. It would be difficult to bring a civil
action, but, at tho refluent of Mrs. Purton,
I havo already had a warrant Issued for
that purpose, making tho complaint myself
as her attorney. 1 have it In my pocket
and can either serve It myself or send below
for tho man. whom you brought hero with
you for tha purpose of making trouble
for her huuband.
"I don't believe that he acted wlse'y In
coming orver here as lie did. I have no
notion that your claim on his property
would have held water in the British
courts; but It might have, at least, given
him a deal of bother. If ha had had com
petent legal advice, however, it is my opin
ion that he would have remained in Eng
land and would have fought you on your
own ground there, and not only beaten you
but held you up to the scorn and ridicule
of all who knew you.
"It was fortunate for you that iie did
exactly what ho did. It was unfortunate for
him, because in doing it he chose a means
which has resulted in tho loss of the prop
erty to him as well as to yourself.
'Now, I'll give you my advice free. That
Is because you are a lawyer. I am charg
ing Mrs. Parton for what I am doing for
her. Stop all further nonsense about mak
ing trouble for Parton. You can drag him
Into court, but lie can drag you out of
It. I merely give you that advice because
you, like me, are in the law.. That I feel
is ono of the disadvantages of the profess
ion. "Now, as to the other matter, we are,
for the sake of my client's peace of mind
and to avoid a scandal, willing to make
certain concessions. We don't know Just
how much you have stolen. We know that
it Is enough to impair the value of the
legacy which her mother left to her se
riously, but, as I say, we are willing to
avoid a scandal by making some conces
sions." McFarren struggled hard to get his self
control. He passed through the various
stages of Incoherency which seemed to be
necessary leaders to Intelligent statement
on his part that day, and Anally made a
fine pretense of defiance. The email law
yer waited only for a dozen foolish words
and then rang the bell Impressively. It
was answered almost immediately by a
grinning boy.
"Step down stairs," said Kammer, "and
ask Mr. Bryan of the central office, the
detective, to step up stairs."
The boy disappeared and the small man
drew from his pocket a folded document
MacFarren immediately weakened enough
to ask his small tormentor to delay the
entrance of the detective until he had
had a private talk with him.
"I don't care to discuss (his matter in the
presence of all these people," he siid with
a weak attempt at a show of contempt
for the man whom he had been so abjectly
fearful of a few moments before. 'I should
The Husband of Donna
Eugenia
(Continued from Page Seven.)
locked In by the Senhor Sebastlao?"
"Perhaps the Father Pedro may tell,"
said the Donna Eugenia.
The Father Pedro was called to testify.
"May it bo possible to explain," asked the
corregedor. "how the Degro could escape
from the closet after be had been locked
In?"
"That Is not possible," said the priest.
"Yet I have heard it said by those who
knew the marquis of Pombal that he had
told of how the Brazl Ian negroes are cun
ning, and know charms, and how they be
witch that with which they come in con
tact, so that even things which have no
life may be made to do their bidding"
"Should one think, then," continued the
Sffkcdor Areilio, "that in this case such
"The gn0
"It is not po -u'jjknows." siid the priest.
rther wltmsaes werJ to tell."
proor of ,uiu on lLo part'-Ji'ned. hut no
ftund. Th Mero w,nt free Trrr..""
tte house of , onaii KusenUi and
like to have a private conversation with
you."
The small lawyer looked Inquiringly at
Norah.
"1 sh;ill do quite as my client suggests
about that," ho said. "Are you willing
that I should grant this man a private
conference?" he asked.
Norah surprised them all by shaking her
head emphatically.
"No," sho said, "I'm not. I shall be glad
to see him where he said that he would
put my husband. Sure, it seems to me that
there could be no pleasure greater than to
go and watch him in a jail. J'd read to him
and take-him jelly just in order to keep
certain that he was still locked up."
"All right," said the small lawyer, with
an air of business as If he were talking
of the stall in which a horse was to be
placed: "I'll Jail him."
MacFarren was terrified. He who had
threatened, was beset by prophecies of evil.
Again he bogged of Kammer for a private
audience; begged with a cringing imitation
of humility.
At last tho little one granted his request
and they went to another room.
There FacFarren wilted and confessed.
A part of Norah's property had been
wasted in a foolish effort to get himself
Into Parliament. More of It had gone In
other ways.
"And part of it," said Kammer with
contempt, "you used In your attempt to
rob the man she loved. You dopoelted it
as security for the reward you offered for
I'nrtun's capture."
"I did," said MacFarren writhing, "but
I did not know she loved him."
He shuddered as he realized how com
pletely he had placed himself within the
power of thoee whom he had attempted to
defraud. As all his mental courage had
ebbed away when he saw Parton's eyes,
so now all his moral arrogance faded be
fore the plain presentment of his small ad
versary. He begged for mercy. His cring
.ing became abject and most unpleasant.
"They are determined to ruin me, be
tween them," he said.
"No," said Kammer, "I should not put It
that way. You seem determined to ruin
yourself. That, of course, I cannot help.
I can tell you, though, that any attempt at
further interference with the young peoplo
will probably put you beyond the possi
bility of any Intrlguo more Important than
a jail consjHracy for some time.
"You asked to see me here alone, and
you have seen me here alone. I am rnther
glad of it, for It enables me to tell you
that you are a miserable scoundrel, the
least brave that I have ever seen and
wholly unworthy of the respect that we
give, even to the clever criminal. I think
I shall havo to leave you now. I must
warn you, though, that any attempt to
leave this hotel will bo followed by imme
diate arrest. Good-day."
MacFarren stared at him with unhappy
eyes, while he rose and started toward the
door. Just as his hand was on the knob ho
called him back, half starting from his
chair In his anxiety. All his pomposity
had passed. He was very miserable.
"What can I do to prevent this this pro
ceeding?" he asked.
"I am agrald you can't prevent It," Kam
mer said. "You would have to be a man."
There was a flash of resentment In Mac
Farren's eyes for a moment, but It quickly
gave way to the look of cowardice.
"Isn't there some basis on which we may
avoid future trouble, Mr. Kammer?" he
asked. "I will admit that I have been, per
haps, a little hasty In regard toto Mr.
Parton. Perhaps I have. It may be.
Every one, you know, Is likely to make
mistakes at some time. . Perhaps I may
have been a little hasty."
Kammer smiled with that bland smile
which had so often disconcerted the coun
sel for the other side.
"I thought we were discussing the affairs
of Mrs. Parton," he said. "You know it
is in her interest, not Parton's, that I am
Carmen, the maid, went with his mistress
when she walked abroad.
nr.
A year later the Corregedor Amlllo and
the Donna Eugenia were married, and there
was a great ceremony on the church of
Ia Conccleao. Jao Vlocente, lh boatman
of the fortress, docked his boat gaily, and
sailed with Amllio and his wife across the
Fayal roads that wonderful channel which
divides Fayal from the mount of Pico.
I'p the mountain side the Henhor Amillo
had a great vineyard and there the honey
moon was spent.
And upon a day when there was no cloud
on the mountain and when the orang-s
trees bloomed, and when the loquots were
sweet In the mouth, Amlllo took his wife
tight In his arms as they looked off over
the sea.
"But the slave was let out from the
clofet," he said.
"Yes," said the Donna Eugenia.
"Put who should let him out? I who love
thee, would have done it, if only for the
punishment of one who should strike thee
across the cheek with a lash. Who ahouM
It be that let Mm out, and who was it
who locked him in his closet afterward?"
"i Ud," said the Donna Eugenia.
engaged. Ail that 1 have to say, I have
said. You have misappropriated money and
you will have to iiy the penalty. I am
sorry for you. I am always sorry for a
thief, but I cannot always help him."
So compute was the humility of the
erstwhile militant MacFarren that ho
showed no resentment of this plain talk,
but merely cringed the more.
"If I have used any of the trust funds,"
said he, "it has been as much fur her as
fur myself. I certainly intended to make
good all that I had borrowed when the
time for the accounting came. I can I can
arrange part of it now. I can"
Kammer interrupted him.
"You are talking to no purpose," lie
wild. "1 have lieen instructed to proceed
against you. That settles that."
"Hut suppose I drop all preeeeillngs
against Purton," said MacFarren.
"It does not Interest me," said Kammer
"I am not his attorney. I will tell you
frankly that your claim on the diamonds,
even If they had not been lost, would not
hold water here and 1 don't believe that It
would have over here. You have made
trouble enough and you ought to bo put
away somewhere where you can't make
any more."
MacFarren writhed.
"I will do anything you say." he whined.
"We will call Mrs. Parton and seo what
Bhe has to say," said Kammer. "I don't
believe that she Is willing to accept any
compromise whatever."
When Norah came -Into the room Mac
Farren was silling disconsolately at the
table. He looked up at her eagerly.
"Well." she said, with no signs of
yielding In her face, "well, what Is the
bold MacFarren after now? Suro perhaps
he means to have me arrested for stealing
a march on him. Faith, I'll confess to It.
Is It grand larceny?"
"Norah!" said MacFarren reproachfully,
"how can you treat me in tills way?"
"Why." said she. smiling brightly, "it's
Just as easy! Hut wait. Watch for nil
tho goodies that I'll send to you In Jail!
Faith, I'll never let you starve, I'd like
to watch you ent In Jail!"
"You know that you'll get every cent
of that money, don't you, Norah dear?" ho
pleaded.
"Sure, if there's a law to give it to me,"
she said pleasantly.
"Hut you don't have to go to law,
Norah." he said pitifully.
"It's no hardship It's a pleasure." said
the unresponsive Norah. "I like it. Per
haps I caught the tendency from you.
Faith, you seemed to be well pleased when
you were raving against Henry and prepar
ing to make him suffer for trying to suvo
his own from you."
"Is there nothing which I can do to
change your determination?" asked Mac
Farren. "Thero was one thing that you could
have done," said Norah.
"What?" said MacFarren with some
eagerness.
"Been honest," suid Norah quickly.
He sank back in his chair dljctedly.
Norah settled graceful Into another, nnd
Kammer stood by the window. There wer
signs of amusement about his mouth, but
he took care to keep his face turned away
from the disconsolate Irishman.
MacFarren looked resentfully at Ms back.
He would have relished a drink of Kara
niers blood, but be was careful not to
reveal the thirst by word of mouth. Finally
he appealed to him.
"Can't you help me to make my step
daughter act reasonably?" he asked, with
humble voice.
"So far as I can see," said Kammer
drily, "she needs no help. She seems too
be doing nicely by herself."
Suddenly MacFarren rose from his chair
and went to Norah.
"What If I withdraw nil charges against
your husband?" he asked, unhappily.
"It might save some bother," she said.
Indifferently. "But they'll only trouble
you. Faith, I have no thought that any
Jury would take your word for anything
"My most beloved!" said tho Corregedor
Amillo.
Then together they went Into their house,
as the light grew dim on the tip of Pico.
His Consolation
Weary of tho search for the fountain of
perpetual youth, Ponce Ue Leon at last
gave it up.
"What's the use, anyhow?" he exclaimed,
wiping his forehead with a trembling hand
kerchief. "Even if I should lind the right
fountain it wouldn't be ten days till John
D. Rockefeller would own It and be piping
tho fluid all over the country !" Chicago
Tribune.
Patent Leathers
The edict has been promulgated In New
York that patent leather shoes will hence
forth occupy a place only in the vul
garian's wardrobe. The divers grades of
low-priced goods of the material have
resulted In the dandy banishing "pats."
In their stead inters varnished footwear.
By special process calfskin is so treated
that the enameled vamp does not present
a garish effect, but, on the contrary,
affords pleading appearance. The varnished
hoe In retail stocks ranges as high as $10
after you hare been convicted of embezzle
ment."
Ho gasped.
"Norah!" he said, as If her words had
hit him like a lash.
"I wonder will you go to Portland prison,
or will they put you out st Wormwood
Scrubs with smaller thieves," she specu
lated. MucFuiTen was almost liesldo himself.
He appealed to Kammer.
"1 can do nothing with her." he said
to him. "Wont you talk to her for me?
It seems Impossible that she should mean
to do such a thing."
"I mean It all right enough," said Norah.
"Hut 1 hate to slay here n ml watch you
wl"(ile. you're so distressed. I'd rather
read about it In the ncw.-ip-Miel. tloodby!"
And she sailed happily from the room.
"Mr. Kammer," said MacKarren after
she had gone, "can't you arrange this fur
me In some way?"
"Mow much did you steal?" asked Kam
mer coldly. The small man knew how to
be as scathing as he could be suave.
"Perhaps AJl'.Wio." said MacFarren miser
ably. "Hut I didn't steal 11."
"What did you steal It for?" nsked Kam
mer, paying no attention to the denial.
"Election expenses," said MacFarren.
"Can you pay any of it back?" asked
Kammer.
"I can sell what I have," said MacKar
ren, "and do the best 1 cim."
Kammer brought a pen, ink and paper.
"Write a confession and a promise to
restore what you have taken," said the
small man. "Don't mince words. Admit
that yon hHve misappropriated the money
and state In detail what means you can
employ to restore It."
MacFarren looked at him with dumb
pleading in . his eyes, but there was no
sign of relenting In the face of Kammer.
MacFarren wrote. He handed the paper
to Kammer, who glanced at It calmly.
"That seems to be nil right," lie said,
"but If you will take my advice you will
add something to it."
"What?" asked MacFarren with the
eugerness of cownrriice.
"Write as I dictate," saiil Kammer,
"Afdr you have done that I will submit
the matter to my client and perhaps she
will consider the matter of dropping Ihe
prosecution. I don't know."
"What shall I write'.'" asked MucFurrcn.
"And furthermore," dictated Kammer,
"by my own desire and without duress, I
make statement that 1 hereby alu-olve
Henry Parton of nil charms which I may
have made against him, completely and
forever relinquishing all right mid tltlo
to and In (lie diamonds or other property
which I have wrongfully charged him
with having misappropriated, agree to re
imburse him, so far as lies within my
power, for all cxpentcs which he may
have Incurred In leaving London because
of the false accusation which I lodged
against him ami to make public a state
ment in liomdon, England, declaring him
to have been wholly guiltless of wrong
doing." MacFarren wrote. His band trembled a
little mid his face was very pale. When '
he had finished, Kammer looked at him
and said:
"Aren't you pretty thoroughly ashamed?"
.VYos," said MacFarren.
"You ought to be," mild Kammer. "Sign
it."
And MacFarren signed.
"Hold on," said Kammer. "I think we'd
better have that witnessed."
Ho rang for a boy and told him to bring
up a notary. The clerk at the hotel came
up, In a moment or two, with his seal
under his arm, and the statement was
sworn to anil attested.
"Now," said Kammer, "how long do you
suppose that it will take you to get out
of this hotel?"
"I can go ut once," paid MacFarren,
humbly.
"All right then," said Kammer. "Do it."
And he did.
(To be Continued.)
per pair, either laced or buttoned. Russet
Shoes, which have been sidetracked for
several seasons, are again considered In good
form. Heavy advance orders on tan Ox
fords have been booked for spring delivery.
Pointed Paragraphs
A woman Is never too good to be true.
If you would get up with the lark go to
bed without one.
Worry is as useless as it is to tell peo
ple not to worry.
Sometimes a little learning saves a man
from Jury duty.
A swallow of brandy often turns out to
be a bird of 111 omen.
It's a case of quick consumption with tho
man who bolts his food.
If a man Is satisfied with one meal a day
he can afford to write poetry.
A woman uses a glass to color her face
and a man uses one to color his nose.
A few spinsters have been disappointed
In love also a great many married woman.
When a man Is unahre to make a living
at anything else he is eligible for a gov
ernment Job.
A woman's fclea of mutual pleasure Is to'
spend the money her husband earns by tho)'
rweut of his brow