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Show MRS. SICKLES TALKS & t& GENERAL IS SILENT "If There. Is a Reconciliation Now, He Must Come' a-Courtin' " She Says. By International No-svs Service. N-12W YORK, Sept. 17. In a quaint old-world manner and a voice su-pornally su-pornally soft, desplto a catch that occasionally crept Into it. Mrs. Daniel ID. Sickles unsealed her lips today to toll for tho flrat time the story of th-j trouble between herself and General Sickles. Mrs. Sickles declared quietly that only upon two conditions would ho become reconciled to the. picturesque old wrtrrlor with whoso life her's has been linked for forty-one of Its Ilfty-nlno years. These conditions are: First Tho goncraJ musL come a-courtln just as he-did In the old days back in Madrid when ho was American embassador embassa-dor to the court of Spain and she was a dark-eyed, ravcn-halred 6ltp of a girl. Second Thc general musit asrec inline dlatcly to dismiss his housekeeper, Miss Eleanor Earl WUmerdlng, at whose door Mrs, Sickles and her son, Stntou, place a large part of the blame for tho present unfortunate condition of affalra. Up to General to Act. Mrs. Slcldcs strovo to make It plain that tho xeueral hlintielf must make tho first overtures. Although sho did not directly-say directly-say so, she allowed It to bo clearly understood under-stood that uhe does not intend to participate partici-pate In another such reoono as that which took place Thursday afternoon last In tho foyer of tho general's ancient, inniiGO-llko home at No. 211 Fifth avenue, On that occasion Mrs. Sickles and hor son wero repulsed when they wont to thc house to Inform the general that sho hud pawned her Jewels In order to satisfy an $8000 Judgment against him, thus prevontlng desecrating hands from bolng forcibly laid upon his presentation swords, medals and curios collected from all corners of tho globo. "There Is little to say," bIio began. "It Is not true that the breach botwoen Sickles and myself la Impassable. At this moment, certain conditions granted. I am ready to stiip ouc more Into his homo as Mrs. Sickles in fact as well as In name. TVHbs Wilmerding Must Go. "But Miss Wlhnordlng must go first. Then, too. tho proposition must come from my husband and It must bo inado In such a mannor as it would bo in Spain, my native country. I am not seeking a reconciliation no, It must not bo construed so. But the general in getting get-ting very old. Ho Is feoblo, too, and his life Is narrow, Ho needs " Hero tho gentle old lady's emotion overpoworod her and sho could speak no more. She npent the rest of the day in seclusion. The rest of the stoiy was. told by Stanton Stan-ton Sickles, who believes that his father Is holding In trust for him soma JBO.000 (Continued on Pag Nine.) X aft SICKLES TALKS; IfgEML IS SILEIT jnS Ij" From Page Oao.) t.n'dg1 .t0 nlni by his granfather atatod emphatically that his "as givn the general in Iho last '"ore than J IS.000. nother pawned lICr jewcln to 7 "nRoln Trust company judg-na judg-na saved ihR nnroVa collection. not tin. nrst time she had come Uncial aeslHtance," said the hou. i years ngo he gav him 5JO.0OO ,Jne01ahtest Becurily." f" added that, according CCulnHUn?,n- tnc Konai-al had tod wUn? ,n Wnl1 J"-,,et of latc n -,i1JB1,n8e have been heavy, of thl, iho had ,U!lccd President hi S ,nc.0,n Tn,Bt for w,,at I'ur- vlinKral,lla1 borrowed the SSOOO. Sfy A Lm W 11,0 Seneral wished ' adfi Ji .1 clalm or another oorn- ,BeScovred that thfj money had d to vI'i,"not,,f5r not one caU if nenil ,lecl(1n to sue juid foro-BW foro-BW Hiiry' 10 nrloct hlmKclf " No CB rnialned adamant to- him n?nl ,was "btainablo from "jm or his housekeeper. |