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
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The Hceirnllang of My Adventure.
1+``�"( y i(su'
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conduct a
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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'."
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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'
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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.
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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
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take me for a sweep."
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more vulgar 'Salt''"
"A capital idea, of t't .oh i heartily
approve, but new meat 1 eon n waiting
auditor, eager"—
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