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THE LAPSE OF
ENOCH WENTWORTH
By ISABBL UIORDON CURTIS,
A t thor of "The Woman from Wolvertons"
CHAPTER XVII.---tCon.'d).
,ley granny once worked fo' a wick-
ed lady ---was back in slave clays. I
'member hearin' her tell 'bout it when
1 was a little gal. Her Misses wns
an army lady, rich en beautiful ez
could be, but she done hated heir hus-
vend en der was another man she
was sho' sot arter, Her husband, de
fine of army man, he died sudden one
night. She had er necklace on, de
bluest tuqquoises yo' ebber see, en de
next day they turned green. Den dey
feund out she'd poisoned him. Dey
would have hung her, but she drowned
herself. De tugquaises was on her,
neck when dey pulled her out oh de
ribber—dey was green as gra: s."
Dorcas shivered, "Emiline, what
hes this to do with Miss Paget?" 4
The girl's eyes grew round with ter.
ror.
"She had er necklace ob de swellest
tuggoises gib her a month ago by a
gunman. She's always gittin' pres-
ents fr'm gemmen. Dey was ez pale
blue ez de sky when she got dem. She
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Bourne, en where dey lived en where TYhouse. From a wrangle of voices in
dey come fr'm, I didn't know nuffln- the hall rose the clear banes of a
but where dey lived. I went up once woman. He jumped to his feet with
to Harlem wid Mrs. Bourne to help her consternation in his eyes and flung
bring some stuff ab Mis Julie's to er." the door open. While he stood mo -
"Where did she get the letter?" tionless listening his forehead wrink-
asked Dorcas. .. - led in perplexity. A cabman was ear -
"Yo' kin. search me," answered Erni-
line briskly. "Dat 'omen 'ould steal
er murder er any of t'ing."
There was a long silence. Emiline
rose to go. "Yo' ain't got no right to tote dat
"Mis' Wentworth," she asked hest -
worth's
up dar without Morse Went-
tatinply, "ef yo` bear ob er good place, worth's say so," cried the old negro.
would yo' send fo' me? Jason, he "I'n g�vine tell him 'bout hit."
knows where to fin' me anytime." She When a woman's voice from the
paused irresolutely. "You don' want lower hall answered, Enoch's face
a nurse fo' de little blind boy, I reek- went pallid white.
on. Pse er born nurse, I like ill" "Your dippy old black fool, I know
"I don', know yet, Emiline, what my business. Cabby, take up that
plans I can make, or what will be trunk as 1 telcoul
ld hear Jason 'expos -
done with Robin; but I'll try to find
some work for you."
rying a trunk upstairs. It was so
large that it blocked the stairway. A.
few steps below Jason tried in vain to
pass,
CHAPTER XVIII.
entworth locked himself in the li- I lssy orcas. ' ts repeat e NS 0111 -
one Seturday morning. Oswald,q an with a contemptuous laugh. "Get I
with quiet insistence, had continued this out of your noddle straight away;
the demand that he break away, go I'm not company Miss Dorcas is ex- full of scowling perplexity. He rapped
home, and begin work on another play. ? peeting. And here's a bit of advice, the door shut and turned the key in
"Business can be carried along with —lose your doddering old jaw, then the lock.
tulate again, "Marse Enoch don' know
you're comin'. Missy Dorcas am out
en she ain't gib me no orders 'bout:;
company'_"
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In 'rom School,.
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out you," eras his daily assurance, announce me to your master.,, (To be continued).
' •• 'The House of Esterbrook' is good ( Enoch, with a few quick steps,
for another season, perhaps for more : reached the top of the stair and leaned ; PRISON READY FOR KAISER.
than one, and we ought to look ahead.: over the balusters. The cabman:
I am asked every day if you are writ-! glanced at his stern face, then drop-; He Will Be Incarcerated on Island of
ing another play. You ought to ped the trunk from his shoulder and St. Helena.
strike while the iron is hot. The luck steadied it on the edge of a step. 1According to French papers the
we are having should be an inspiration" "Stay right where you are," ordered allies are as firmly determined as
to you." Wentworth abruptly, I ever to capture the German Emperor
The Waverly Place house was per_ on He turned
t the
woe 1 newface stoodho ` and. to incarcerate him for life on the
feetly still. Enoch seated himeelf beIsland of St. Helena where Napoleon
fore the desk, cleared ot"r` the blotter greeted him with a derisive laugh. ended his career as a prisoner. The
laid out a heap of copy paper, filled ."NS ill you be good enough, Miss "Petit Provencal" says:
You see was . the ink -well, and adjusted a new pen. ; Paget, to tell me what this intrusion! "The plan to capture the Kaiser
actin"?" i Ile leaned his head upon his hand' means?" a r m , has never been given up by England
Dorcas nodded. for a few minutes, and his listless! The Englishwoman laughed again., and Trance, although this aim of the
wa'n't
"She nebber takes dem off. One eyes fell upon a calendar. He dis- ; It was a peculiar laugh, a sweet, , war has not been mentioned by the
day 1 tot her dey
near ez blue, covered that it bore the dates of shrill ripple, without a ghost of merri-, press during the last twelve or fifteen
ea, dey used to be, She took dem to Marek instead of April. He tore off molt in it. It had a thrill as-af some=' months. The fate of the unspeakable .
a jeweler man en hed dem cleaned. Hit the record of weeks which had passed thing demoniac, She did not answer chief of the Huns, this heastiy modern
didn't do dem a mite ob good. Dis ' and dropped it into the waste basket. i his question, but turned to the cabman, I Attila, will probably be decided before
morziin'," Emiline paused as in terror
�
The pen rested listlessly between his' Take that trunk up and set it on the end of the present war. If he
of repeating it, "dis mornin', :His', fingers, When he tried to write with the landing. I can't pass while you cannot be caught in the field when
Wentworth, ez sho' ez Gawd made me,' it the ink had dried. He did not dip' block the stair. Then go down and the remnants of his shatteied armies
dem tuppuoises was turned green!" it in the bottle again. A trail of sleep- wait until I call you.". are exterminated by the great Offen-
Dorcas sat staring at her. less days and nights lay behind him : The man obeyed. The actress sive of the allies, his surrender by
"I sereamed when I t • c —he felt as if his brain hail drowsed passed on the top step and looked ;
dem on her when she
�s rThe girl'sen so my eye on at its ost i down at Jason. As for you," she
dem, The teeth chattered. p
"She asked what was de matter en I Ile picked up a rubber band, twisted looked at him with a sneering smile,
tor' her de story ala de of Colonel's it about his fingers, then pulled it "mind your own business now. I
Misses. Dot's when she whaled me thin till h suddenly snapped in two, : have announced myself to your mas-
'cross de motif.:, , He shook himself as if a strenuous ter,.
"But," queried Dorcas with a puz-
zled been evolving what seemed like a ; on the railing of the stair. His face
frown, "what does it all mean?" virile plot for a play. He tramped; was stern and there were hard lines
"Lawdy, dem tuqquoises would have,the streets to do his thinking and; about his mouth. He held the door
stayed sky-blue an ye', Mis' Wentplanned the scenario from beginning ; of the library open,
worth, er on any lady dat wa'n't loin' to end. The night before he had lock- i "`Come in here," he said, There was
all dem kind ob wicked t'ings " 1 ed himself in his office at the Gotham ' no cordiality in his welcome.
"Rubbish!" ; and in a frenzy of haste shaped out! The aetress brushed past him with
"I sway to de Laval hit's true," cried each scene on his typewriter. ! a short,'unpleasant laugh, Her maxi-
m ma us i it '
granny tell hit many a time." Re read it through. Suddenly he re-' worth realized that he had never seen
Dorcas laughed. Although the; alized that the stuff fell short, of her look more beautiful; still his
story was absurd, her skin had grown' what he could not decide. It lacked pulses did not quicken by a beat. She
chilly while Emiline talked. , reality. He compared it with. Mer -1 wore a grown of strangely lurid blue
"I'll tell yo'." The girl's voice' ry's drama. The story in that rosea which few women would have dared
grew intense. "Don't yo' 'member up out of the paper, each character a' to affect. The harmony between the
she had dem tuqqoises on las' night, living breathing man or woman. This dead gold of her hair and a willowy
when yo' come in wid de little blind story was dead, absolutely dead. He blue plume that swept down from her
boy? Lawd, I could er choked her, lifted the sheets and deliberately tore hat was almost startling. Her atti-
dead wid my own han's! She was de them across, gritting his teeth while I tude was aggresive and a certain
of debil hisself, en der's judgment the paper zipped, as a man does when sense of power lay behind her the-
a-comin' on her. When yo' was gone, he is in pain, atrical entrance. Enoch's face settled
de t'ings she done say was curdlin' to , He picked up a letter which lay be- into a frown, although his eyes were
de blood!" 1 side him on the desk. It was ad -
"Miss Paget is not a good woman I dressed in Merry's irregular writing
know, but—" There was nothing inside the envelope
"Good]" interrupted Emiline, "She , but a check for an amount in five
didn't murder nobody den, en I reek- . figures,. Wentworth glanced at it,
on she ain't since, but dar was murder then tore it across. He had sent
in her heart! En den, dis mornin'—' the check to the actor without a word;
'fore she woun' out 'bout de tuqquoises it represented the entire royalties on
—somet'ing queer happened, some- the "House of Esterbrook." The mail
t'ing terrible queer!" brought it back to him as it had gone.
"What?" T small clock ticked out the time on
"She come upstairs wid er bunch ob top of the desk. He remembered it
letters in her hind, right arter lunch was a Christmas gift from Merry. The
time. She laid dem down; but befo' ceaseless round of its second-hand fas-
sh done took off her t'ings she took cheated him.
anodder one out er her muff. '14 o' she' "It would be great if one could work
took her hat off she opened it en as that ridiculous needle does," he
read it. She dropped de envelope on thought "It is much a lifelike thing.
de floor. I saw it. Hit ra'n't ad- It goes on with a regularity that
dressed to her, hit was somebody feazes a man, never pausing day or
else's Ietter.' The negro girl paused night, never dropping out or balking
irresolutely for a moment. as we humans do when the brain goes
"Well?" queried Dorcas. numb. I wonder," Enoch loafed back
"Hit was fo' 'Mrs. Alice V. Boerne, in his chair, "I wonder if it is too late
Gotham Theatre.' " , to come back. It does not seem pos-
" `Alice V. Bourne'!" Dorcas jumped sible that a man could undergo a phy-
to her feet. ; sical change in a few months while he
"Yessum," Emiline's tongue ran on is still hale and hearty. They say
excitedly. "Miss Paget, she was took such a thing does come, though—
wid de queerest fit yo' ebber see arter quick as scat, when your arteries
she done read it. She lay back en harden, or something of that sort hap -
screeched en laughed, She got clear ,`pens. I'm forty-two, A man isn't
hystericky. Den, all of er sudden,' old at forty-two, and yet—I feel old
she started to fire questions at me to -day. I suppose," he stared stead -
'bout little Julie Bourne en Mrs. I ily at the face of the little clock as if
` it were a human countenance, "I` sup
-
effort to wake up. For days he had; Wentworth stood with his hand up-
Emiline appealingly. I ve heard my Themanuscript l y at his elbow,; ner was full of self-confidence. Went -
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pose this is part of the scheme they
call retribution."
He uttered the last word in an un-
dertone as if some one were within
hearing. There had been moments—
especially in the dead of night—when
he had longed today bare his soul to
a father confessor. The conscience
which had slept for 'months awoke,
and was .raging at him Iike a demon.
He sat silent, going over his life step.
by step from the day when he was
confronted by temptation and fell.
Dorcas had branded him as a thief.
Still she had kept her word and never
again questioned the authorship of the
play,. Her accusation left a welt in
his soul like a stroke from the thin
end of a whip. It was a welt which
had not healed He knew she had
spoken the truth.. He dropped his
head upon his arms. It was years
since he had said a prayer. He had -
forgotten the form that prayer takes,
"God," he inarmured;, `If thereis
any way for me to come back -and
begin again—show me that way."
He dFd . not raise his head; in an
apathy he was listening curiously to
a commotion in the lower part of. the.
his people will be the first peace con-
dition. The prison in which he will
have to spend the rest of his miser-
able life has long been prepared by
the British Government on St. Helena.
His quarters there will be far less
comfortable than those of Napoleon
were. His oldest son and heir, the
Crown Prince, will be executed with
Admiral von Tirpitz, and a number of
the other beasts who are commanding
the Bodies."
Canine Rudders.
"The dog," said the scientific gen-
tleman, "sometimes steers himself
with his tail."
"Uses it bo guide his wandering
bark, does he?" asked the irrespons-
idle humorist.
Worthless.
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Miss Ethel -Oh, I assure you, Mr.
Sapleigh, that the gime I spend with
you is of no value whatever.
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