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The Wingham Times, 1913-07-31, Page 7TIE W!Nf;r11AM T111ES, JULY 31 1913 RIEZEKI.AH PROLOGUE. Did you ever read a story in which humor of the finest and •most delicious sort played the leading part? Did you ever ,tackle a tale which made you gasp by the originality of its ,tideas? Did you ever meet some utterly impossible persons who 'never lived and never could have •lived and whom you might meet 'any day of your life? They're here, right here in this story. They have the most im- possible adventures and get into the most impossible situations, just as you or l might any day if the stage were set just right for us. Furthermore, they are very entertaining people, and .they hold the interest from' first .sword to finis. - j CHAPTER I. My Friend Wiggins Is Introduced. ' DINED with Hartley Wiggins at the HareT a w and Tortoise on n even- •I ing in October not very long ago. It may be well to explain that the Hare and Tortoise is the smallest and host select of clubs, whose windows Gifford a pleasant view of Gramercy tu2ark. The club is comparatively young, d it is our joke that we are so far all ortoises, creeping through our several (professions without aid from any hare. it hasten to explain that I am a ehim- `kiey doctor. Wiggins is a lawyer; at Mast 1 have seen his name in a list of graduates of the Harvard Law school, '-''1)d he has an office downtown, where ¶ have occasionally found bin sedately playing solitaire while he waited for some one to take him out to luncheon. He spends his summers on a South Dakota ranch, from which he derives a Considerable income. Wiggins is au athlete, and his sum - liners in the west and persistent train- ing during the winter keep him in fine condition. As 1 faced flim tonight in bur favorite corner of the Hare and Tortoise dining room the physical man Was fit enough, but 1 saw at once that be was glum and dispirited. He bad through- many years honored me with his confidence, and 1 felt that tonight lifter we got well started I should hear what was on his mind. 1 hoped to cheer him with the story of a visit 1 had by chance paid that afternoon to the Asolando tea room, for, though Wig- gins is a most practical person, 1 im- agined that he would be diverted by my description of a place which, 1 felt Sure. anteing mild tempt him to visit. 3 shalt never forget the look he gave lase when t remarked at about his third upeoi(1nI (t smite "By the way, 1 dropped into an odtt place tills afternoon--•Burne-Jones buns, 'Rossetti macaroons and all that sort of thing. They call it the Asolanda'-- II was enabling on, expecting to sharpen his curiosity gradually as I re - Cited the joys of the lea room, but at 'Asolando his spoon dropped, and he stared at me blankly. It should be known that Wiggins is not a man Gvho:ee composure is lightly r:3haken. "The Asolando," 1 repeated, to break Ilia spell of his blank Stale. "Know elie place?" Ile recovered in a moment, but he nttrveycd me quizzically before reply - 11111g. "Ot Bourse 1 have hears) et the Aso - lamb), but 1 thoreeht yen didn't go in br that ,cart et thine; it's a trifle girl 1.eh, you ktl(IW." I "That's hardly neeinst it; I found Cbr ,;irii:.hbIlaa ,tttog;01htr attractive." nem :12w)1g'4 WON, 1..)k.t cblg :,uscep. til)➢e. but 111741((1 hutte t flit. 01111 moth Gviur;'a' Fo11111) SPOlI(1 10 IIIV rather pale flied for a tout) In your eigoroue °health:' ";They Inust have di: eritttinnted in year ta' or. I saw no ;nett thinge, the•tee to be surf' 1 wag efreid to etlie. Blit „vr't the waitr).;S' wtl::::r:-tiohg. May 3,!,...!: num cot were limaec" "(1h," 1 tic ,1'I'eel in quite iteei,letatally c-,; tee. reef tiering. 1 eaw the sign steel 1't ilif•ale•rerl that e,i)(( fU(ly ball eye!;, n (1 iii, diets•, :WI 1 teas tired, till,) ut vete n lam; eery et tee earl). lits:iti.tee fee. Io .,,ae `IO sirs '1', Mt:. (:11no ai222ou.1 t•' :.1 iota. Iwo :'t lot ti3I(P:.. no Is L,' ts(et(,., tno to, :ft s -t' 11 attivar- ivnrcl of teertltp:a. It wa:0 t:do:at that ho stet/tuna pa[tosopner wno royotces In r••wvwr the melodious name of Dick." Jewett was playing me for all his S story was worth and enjoying himself The 1ege 1 Alamo✓ j\s• "For heaven's sake, go on!" "Nice girl, tbls Cecilia. You know the Hollisters—oodles of money In the family. The chevalier's father scored big in baby buggies—responsible for the modern sleep inducing perambu- lators; sold out to a trust. The fa- ther of Wiggins' inamorata had started in to be a marine painter. A founder of this club, come to think of it, but dropped out long ago. You have heard of him—Bassford Hollister. Funny thing his having to give up art. Great gifts for the marine, but never could overcome tendency to seasickness. Ilonestl Every time he painted a waive It upset hirn horribly. The doc- tors couldn't help him. Next tried his hand at the big gulches downtown. There was a chance there to hit off the metropolitan skyline and become immortal by doing it first, but a new trouble developed. Doing the high buildings tuade him dizzy! Honest! He was good, too, and would have made a place, but he had to cut it out. He was so torn up over his two failures that he blew in his share of the per- ambulator tnoney in riotous living. Lost his wife into the bargain and has settled down to a peaceful life up in Westchester county in one of these cute little bungalows the real estate operators build for you if you pay a dollar down for a picture of an acre lot." "And the daughter?" "Well, Bassford Hollister bas two daughters. It's the older one that has stolen Wiggins' heart away. She's Cecilia, you know. Very literary and that sort of thing, and pushed tea and cookies at the Asolando when that idiocy was opened. Wiggins saw her there last spring. Miss Hollister, the I aunt, whom I'm fond of calling the chevalier, picked up her nieces about that time and hauled them off to Eu- rope, and Wiggins scampered after them. 1 don't know what they did to Wiggy, but you see how be acts. I rather imagine that the chevalier didn't smile on his suit. She's a holy terror, that woman, with an international rep- utation for doing weird and most un- accountable things. She draws a sort of royalty on all the baby buggies in creation. It amounts to a birth tax, in contravention of the free guarantees of the constitution. The people will rise against it some day. "She's plausible enough, but She's the past mistress of ulterior motive. She got Fortner, the mural painter, up to a place she used to have at Newport a few years ago, ostensibly to do a frieze or something, and she made him teach her to fire a gun. You know Fortner, with his artistic ideals! And he didn't know any more about guns than a flea. It was droll, decidedly droll. But she kept him there a month—wouldn't let him oft the reservation; but she paid him his fee just the same, though he never painted a stroke. When he got back to town he was a wreck. It was just like being in jail. I warn yet to let her alone. If you should undertake to fix her flues she's likely to put you to work digging potatoes. She's no end of a case." "Well, Wiggins is a good fellow, one of the very best," I remarked, as I ab- sorbed these revelations, "and it isn't the girl's aunt he wants to marry." "There's no telling where this affair may lead Wiggins. There's something queer in the wind, all right. The chev- alier has brother Bassford where he can't whimper. I rather fancy he feeds from her hand. His girls haven't any prospects except through the chevalier. Nice girls, so I'm told. Miss Cecilia Hollister is living with her aunt." "And the other sister—where does she come' in?" "Not important, 1 fancy. )tumor is silent touching her. Iif fact I've nev- er heard anything of her. But this Cecilia is no end handsome and proud. Poor old Wiggy!" 1 was already ashamed of myself for having encouraged Jewett to dis- cuss Wiggins' affairs, and was about to leave Ilim, when he snorted in a disagreeable way he had at seine joke that had occurred to him. "1 knew there was something," he said, "about Miss Cecilia's younger sister, and I've just recalled it. The girl has a most extraordinary name, quite the most remarkable you ever heard. liepekiahl Bangl That's the little sister's name. Bassford Hollister had been saving that tame for a son, who never appealed, to do honor to old 1leaeltiah, the perambulator chap. So they named the girl for her grand- dad." I left hill] anti learned at the otlice that Wiggins had, within half an hour, lett the club hurriedly in a cab, taking a trunk with hied. Lie had mentioned no neat: address to the eletk, 011,1 title was very tail 1W Wig- gles. of the Seven Suitors By MEREbITN NICHOLSON Copyright. 1910. by Meredith Nicholson was withholding something, and 1 re- solved to get to the bottom of it "1 don't think the Asolando is a place that would attract either of us, and yet the viands are good as such stuff goes, and the gentle handmaidens are restful to the eye—Pippa, Francesca, Gloria and the rest ot 'em." Wiggins pried open bis artichoke with the care of a botanist. He had regained his composure, but I saw that the subject interested him. "You were there this afternoon?" he inquired. "Yes, my first and only appearance." "And this is Monday." "The calendar has said It" "So yon settled your bill with Pippa) I believe this was her day. Sbe makes the change on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Her eyelashes are a trifle too long for tbe world's peace." "1 dare say. 1 haven't your charming knack, Ames, of picking up acquaint anc,:, so you mustn't expect me to form lifelong friendships with young women at cash desks. I suppose it didn't occur to you that those young women who tend till and serve tbe tables in there are persons of educa- tion and taste. The Asolando is not a common leathery. There's not a girl In that place who hasn't a social position as good as yours or mine. The Aso- lando's a kind of fad. you know, Allies; It's not a tavern within the meaning of the inkeepers' act, where common swine are fed for profit. The servants serve for love of the cense; it's a sort of cult." Wiggins excused himself shortly, and I had a glimpse or hirn later, In the writing room, engaged upon let- ters, a fact In itself disquieting, for Wiggins never wrote letters, and It was be who had favored making the lure and Tortoise writing room into a den for pipe smokers. The epistolary habit, he maintained, was one that should be discouraged. I was moodily turrning over the (•vete ing newspaper whet) Jewett turned up. Jewett always knows everything. Ile dropped the ball Into the green of (my immediate interest with a neat ap- proach shot. "'l'oo bad about old Wiggy." he re- marked witb his preluding sigh. "What's the matter with Wiggins?" I demanded. "Ah! He hasn't told you? Thought be told you everything." This was meant for a stinger, and I felt the bite of it. "You do me too much honor. Wig- gins is not a man to throw around his confidences," "And I rather fancy that his love affairs in particular are locked in his bosom." Jewett was a master of the art of suggestion. He took an unnecessarily long time to light a cigar so that his words might sink deep into my con- sciousness. "Saw her once last spring. Got a sight draft from the Bank of Eros. Followed her across the multitudinous sea. Bang!" "But Wiggy hasn't been abroad. Wiggy was ou his Dakota ranch all summer. He's all tanned from the sun, just as he is every fall," 1 persisted. "Wrote you from out there, did he? Sent you picture postale showing him hording his cattle or whatever the tweets are? Kept In touch with you all the tine., (!ill 11e? I eel you ids tine euic•a is ,r:,• to S3 v1(.,:l,,lul, tat 1t:1- Btot.a \\ 1 . (t '1 :PM.? 4t Pitot nor t,:+ p.!,.11%.: e•... t. 1 C a+ I ..i:e a y(04: I,,, 1ti) C.1"r1 a . t'.r t' tii:4 c°. :'it r,_ ,„ , •1 t 112 11.:91 I,e ... ,!t . ., I3 �• al .Irl.. ti: 4. 2) 1. tt If ! 1+- a I' .. a .' il'ti;•t•ra. `1 - ,a .^ t .. ( t . , 1. t 1 11, , .1 • .. . . , .,9 i..'1 2 : , , -� •.:. ., ::211 a i.1;' t ' ^r. ...1i ..1' ,•. t : • 2 1.r,1 l,e .t 0, h! ... 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The Hceirnllang of My Adventure. 1+``�"( y i(su' (11Ns' :_tea.ic nal conduct a N2- \f ,i(2.1 11'5 )lark ['hate so die.` tui 0(l 7II1' haat the very V nest efternoun I again coretht Ilio eol;aalto tea rooms, teethe; that in at:i .(1eel- 1 tare 1 might i'e:01: weiedi tt,(• few Mete e i ; e ee eeed touch. ,the toe tt'i(ual'. ✓ave 'ata ,11'r,. 1 is, ee wile ' ate? f 2r do 102(0 in thi.ae. n:.:C,t , •2 Why' h,' 11.12.1-es22e2.➢ to ((n,3',G that Fie' As01:12'd1,t 1221 131('00241 away rilimim fol'(111 gimp, arid lat•itr2120 haher- iaeitete, it dotes throw trete Fifth weenie'. flat \ zeet:lt1 tee room 11 1:le rt .i tee 2),.. 011 t.f the fhite of Pan, ('eve'•. •1:.10 idlt,to; r:al2hl riS.' and ('0nhtient clt'.ae t ((r. 1:1 2221 )111']y revival of the .•-4'1ae ,1t:11)2,1 'Mere 10 :timid' the little rm .a Were ,.1(.11) of tranquillity, of lll.lrl((041: (!$ ,,t(0l•t'a71•e, with its arts 1 and cl;aft0 clsalr:, and talllco, Ito 100)(0 • of books, its portraits of Browning Rossetti, Burne -Jones and kindred spar its. I chose a table, sat down and sug• gested (one does not order at the Aso - ludo) a few articles from the card en attendant handed me. "We're out of the Paracelsus ginger cookies," she replied, "but I recom- mend a Ituskin sandwich with our own special chocolate. The whipped cream is unusually One today." She eyed me with a severity to which 1 was not accustomed, and I acquiesced without parley in her suggestion. Be- fore leas tier me she placed on my ta. ble the latest minor poet in green and gold. It was nearly 3 o'clock, and I was alone in the Asolanda. The attending deities in their snowy gowns had van- isbed behind tbe screen at the rear of the room. The food and drink with which 1 had been promptly served proved excellent. liven the minor poet iu green and gold had held my atten- tion, though imitations of Coventry Patmore's odes bore nue as a rule. Near the street, half concealed bebind a inosquelike grill, sat the cashier, reading. A bundle of joss sticks in a green jar beside this young woman sent a thin smoke into the air. Her head was bent above her book in quiet attention. The light from an electric lamp made a glow of her golden hair. Sbe was an incident of the general picture, a part of a scene that contain. ed no jarring note. A man whb could devise, in the heart of the great city, a place so instinct with repose so lull. Ing to all the senses was not Less than a public benefactor. 1 1 was at this moment that the ad' venture—for it shall have no meaner name—actually began. My eyes were "I beg your pardon, but this seems to be the seventh table." still enjoying the Rossettilike vision in the cashier's tiny booth when a figure suddenly darkened the street door just beyond her. The girl lifted her head. On the instant the lamp key clicked as she extinguished her light, and the aureoled head ceased to be. And com- ing toward me down the shop 1 beheld a lady, a lady of years, who passed the cashier's desk with her eyes in- tent upon the room's inner recesses. Her gown, of a new fashionable gray, was of the severest tailor cut. Her hat was a Modified fedora, gray like the gown, and adorned with a single gray feather, She was short, slight. erect, and moved with a quick bird- like Motion, pausing anti element; at the versus table's that lay between 1)e sold the door. She appeared to he engaged 111 s r:aleulatinn of son10. sort. :and she raised n 11''gnt'tte to assist hue an come hie the t2!eies. The ea5luer passed behind her 1.nee 11 :Ind vanish- ed. I hoard (111 O'\,'onler a1 1lit.:;: "(.Olio, Iwo, three, leer. live, sev- en eren " And 1)l 21' '3, titer (y 0.. 1•r,ted upon Int' tv(1la ;l k:nt, that u:21':,!ed shit' prise 110'1 :,Rutty ;1P.•(•. she took a sites) toward 11)0, :anti 1 '•t:cited 10 rte', but see said (wieldy: "1 lee; eeel(t ; �!••n, bei tae be the eese 1)t., , :, !e'." this: 2,1.1.15 "Nee. that 41111 1)04. alt e t ;on 10 Ve0 .' t , .a',:: I, (1.411, "1 .;•r (,t•ttn,1 t' ' ....e • :HO eefie. if B•y "."'-et .r tec fee ('0 tee'''I ' •, ,, t i ::1 S' '+ eveee( whet" 122)1 :r• ;n;) 'rite, 't ful'tiat e:elo she Or:, t1 1 1'•7:14,-)i- 3113 11,:13. 1r, 2 :hit e;111 e t ai a . . .0 '.:tle•ar.' a11i • WY, ,.:. • , _ .• f ti a.2 4'0'1 rte tsf 11 e 11.ry t a` i e •;11- wcee . . .2 1, r4 eh'1 t,l k21,1 .e with it a pot of tea. Yes, thank you; lemon with the tea." As the girl vanished with the Ugh tread that marked the service of tbb place 1 again made as to rise, but the old lady lifted her hand with a delay ing gesture. "Pray remain. it Is not unlikely that we have trlends arid Ideas to 00)0• mum, and as you were seated et the seventh tattle it is poesibie that some ordering of tate has brought ns to - genet." Sbt' took from me in the band which she (01(I now (ngloved the ropy of my ininor poet, glanced at it scorutully and tossed it upon the dour with every ; matt( of disditIn. "What spec'les or mental disorder does this pure represent?" she de- manded. "1t Is snored to the tine tarts tipper- ently; an endowed tea room where per. sous of at'tistie ideals may come to re- fresh hotly and soul. Suet) at least seems to be the program. Ills is only my second visit, but I have long heard it spoken of by artists, poets and nth• ers of my friends." "I am sixty-two years old, young elan, and 1 beg to Inform you that 1 consider the Asolando the most pre. posterous thing 1 have ever heard of • in this most preposterous city. And from a casual glimpse of you 1 feel' justified in saying that a man in your I apparent physical health might be in better business than Frequenting it midafternoon a sbop that seems to be a remarkably stupid expression of twentieth century anaemia." "Attendance here is not compulsory," I I remarked defensively, "If you imply that I must have sought the place voluntarily let me con : rect your false impression immediately. I dropped in here for the excellent rea• son that this shop is the seventh in nu. merieal progression from Fifth even. nue." "You were not guided by any feeling of interest, then, but rather by super- stition?" "That remark is unworthy of a man or your .apparent intelligence. I was born on the Tth of November, and all the great events of my life have oc- curred on the Tth of the month." I was relieved to find that she ac- cepted the tea and sandwiches the waitress had brought without parley. It is with shame I confess that in the first moments of my encounter I be- - lieved her capable of quarreling with a waitress, but she thanked the girl Pleasantly, lifting her bead with a smile that illumined her face attrac- tively. tier demand for a cocktail bad not been wholly convincing as to her sincerity, and 1 wondered whether she were not playing a part of some kind. She suggested pleasant and wholesome things. • In nay event the impression was wholly agreeable. i had to do with a lady and a lady of no mean degree. The marks of breeding ,were upon her, 01)21 she spoke with that quiet author. ity that is the despair of the vain and vulgar. Her features were small and deliente, her ringless hands were per- fectly formed and hots face and hands belied the age to which she had so frankly confessed. the was more than twice my age. and there was not tate slightest reason why she should not address me if it pleased her to do so, and her obsession as to the potency of the numeral 51.2011 was not In itself proof of an til balanced mind. Busing thus, I (-melted the eo00I(Isi0n that this eneonnter was very likely the sort of thing that happened to patrons ot the Asolando. 11y time has, however, a certain vaine, and I began to won- der jest how I should (seape. I was about to excuse myself when my com- panion suddenly put down her cup and addressed me with a directness that seemed habitual in her. "I have formed an exee1101(t opinion of your bringing 1)p from the manner in which you have suffered my ad- vances, if I may so rail thein. You net and speak like a gentleman of edu- cation. Will yon kindly tell me the nature of your occupation?" I produced one of my professional cards. AR.NOLD AMES, C,'.nsult;:nt 01 CL!In:0y'e, Suit v::, Landon Building. She read it alon,1 w!f!,'ta ;1:(552(5', and nee -eel 1 XUrin:ent. is very e•alf1..211," she remark - NI, placing lily card in a : fiver cast' . 8110 (Ircw from her teicli0t rails i21 very envi n, 1e.,1, 4➢. 1, 212, 2 t.,11y pe:; terd:1v th.,t : y br:( ➢ (;eeere9 ((ho- ,le'rahi: wae 1:10 ti+itl me that y.•:1 le (1 it hero.) Itim re' 0I -t 12(210) el ' ( ,!:2. Yl t :t a ,a e9(.AP 9rte°7a➢eel.:1120 yea, 2. 1y cote et. .:➢dat..r ,F 4P -' 1 7111 ',!ooi11 eP eel 1fa. o.u•l .»,D,aa. it r t 1121 tilt ee.:0,' 7,14 111); 61) r'' ('0"1i Rete ,11: y euee. eeetei L(, ,1 '.:1 •.. 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LI ,,t 4.,.-3 7e•..:2ittr \1,14 11' c,-,1 t.: of te' .• t.,e„r:'ti , 21:e12, 1 dere 5.;-a2 2;4 1., .. ier+n: 1 mot 12.2ti 11,0',. ❑a, t !.121' 124 1422 YI'.: •: 1 tr.0't12P1`r' 2.1' ,,111;21 911,1 1(r t..e bc' 4 t)1 I`, \".5a2,1 :1 1_illd fate 2201/01/ Haat e.,.! led ¢070 1 ;1)'t; to the Aro'a1':Ie2i, ai'all mii,evie. eel tee to the :suet of ‘1771,..-.3.3110' 11):itoortita. It ruay s 1 too !!eIievc 1 t t9:Iat 1 211200 inasmediatcly hhiteleStet1, at• Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 3() years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per.. sonal supervision since its infancy. CG6Clcl/I/. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and °(Just -as -good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotics substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural Sleep. The Children's Panacea—Tho Mother's Friend. 4 GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. tentire, absorbed. As she smoothed her gloves. Miss dollister ,'nntinued to *peak to a low musts) vIete that was devoid of any of the (plovers or age. "On the day 1 rearhod my sixtieth year, Mr. Ames, 1 decided that my humdrum lite must ('ease. The strict- est eonyentiots had gelded me from earliest ehiidhoud. 11y experience of life had been limited to Most things which women of education and means enjoy—or suffer, as you please to take it. J'wo years ago 1 ehnrter•ed.a yacht and 1rmsed among the 1.esser Antilles, enjoying many adventures. Later 1 classed the Andes. rand I have just re- turned front Swit'r.eriand, where 1 ac- complished some of the Most ditlicult a8('eo1s. I have a1 c'llpidng bureau en- gaged to intorn( me of all rumors of hidden treasure and sunken ships, and 1 hope that ot this something may come, as 1 retain at marine engineer and corps of divers and ran leave at an hour's notice tor any likely 11"ncan.; ground. 'Ibis may strike yon as (12(1 most whimsical self iuduagence. 'Tell me candidly whether my remarks so affect you." "it it were not that your benefac- tions of all kinds bare given you noble eminence among American philanthro- pists 1 might be less biased in favor of the sort of thing you describe, but your gifts to orphanages. colleges, bospi- tals"— "Ah!" she interrupted, "enough of that. Philanthropy in these times is only seltisb exploitation, the recreation of tbe c'onseieuce stricken. But you see no reason why," she pursud eager- ly, "if I wished to dig up the Caribbean sea in search of Spanish doubloons, A should not do so? Answer me frankly, without the slightest fear." "1 assure you, Miss Hollister, that such projects appeal to me strongly. 1 have often lamented that my own lot fell in these eventless tithes. Au an architect I proved something of a fail- ure; :as a1 c'hiruliey doetnr 1 lead a use- ful life. but the very 1121t'fnhress 01 a bores me1 besides 223 01111 re�lt, e'5 31011(32 pe.,; take me for a sweep." 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