| Show A WOMAN IN THE OO 00 mr bywaters theory of a recent mystery as founded on some observations of uis his own 00 written tor for tux TB STANDARD Accordi according Dg to appointment with mr bywater I 1 called again last ak night expecting that after our CUB cus tomary saturday nights chess he would take up the thread of the narrative of hl adventure ad venture with the aril ya to 0 o abruptly broken offa off a forto fortnight igat ago by the unwelcome advent of hia his bedtime bed lime but upon entering hi his apartments promptly at 8 91 1 perceived at once that he was considerably perL tub ed for inato instead ad of advancing to greet roe me with his usual impresa ment be simply indicated a welcome by an agreeable smile and ilent eilent ly motioned me we to a it seat now I 1 have come some times been told that one of my best beat qualities ea cardl aadi Cau dl am sure you will pardon iff appear somei hat conceited is my ready ability to fallAn wilh a friend a particular hum bomor bat beli gay guy and sprightly or solemn und con contemplative tive changing my own 0 mood as n chai chameleon might its colors and suiting it bously to the fitness of things and so go now instead of bidger badger badgering dg ng BY by water with inopportune questions and thus rumpling what serenity I 1 was left to him I 1 lighted a knickerbocker er and sat quietly down biding such time as my friend himself might conveniently convenient i Y choose to talk fl 1 and having eat sat for some time gazing silently into the coals while pulling at his moist havana mr bywater at last emerged from his absorption and invited me to tak take e some punch having paid our devotions to the jocund god and disposed ourselves comfortably in our chairs I 1 ventured finally to suggest to my friend that ho he had left me at ft a point in his adnew turea tures wi with iab the therril aril ya correspond ing with the crisis in the chamber iraids maids peril where the villain still pursued her no slid stid bywater 1 I am not in the humor and besides there remaina remains but little more to tell of those people but isyou if you are really inclined to bear me talk I 1 will tell you of what I 1 was thinking when you entered like hack rack dillardd Dil larda discovery it is a sort a patching together of some detached facts and refers back to a period some six months ago when I 1 was visiting relations in cleveland my bly kith uth back there are more orthodox than 1 I and will no diversions whatever except a decorous atten attendance dan ce at the methodist church and the thrilling ex excitements excite tite ments of hebdomadal prayer meetings which h to an unregenerate heart will wil I 1 sometimes esso grow a little monotonous one wednesday nig 1 I cheo for the fifth or sixth time I 1 wai was invited to accompany them to the tabernacle I 1 made my excuses saying I 1 would call on a friend at the arlington a mr smith just passing through en route from ogden to cincinnati but lince clear of the house and out of eight I 1 made ray my way to the theatre where arriving in due duo time I 1 bought go me a ticket and after my usual custom took up my seat beat in the parquet for whether a bloody tragedy or a spectacular ballet billet be on the boards one seems to seo aeo more there well the elwood gra grand 0 d on L euclid avenue waa was a blaza blaze of glory tonight to night with all tho the beauty of cleveland clevelan d there to do honor to a cleveland belle ML Sims diana bid sid dons dotis suddenly Bud denly became fia famous as a highly ealo emotional dional actress to night she was to ap appear pear in the new powerful drama A jealous wo ilo mans is derenge Ke Re renge which had bad juu just had a run of nights in iu the ath avenue theatre new york tho the pay itself was surpassingly strong and faithfully held the mirror up to nature but nature ju a her blackest ard most repulsive mood revealing tho the gloomy abysses and tin dark plutonian shadows of a mor badly jealous heart idill penetrated at whiles whites by a lingering ray of love or suddenly illumed by a lurid glare of passion and miss bid dons was an ideal adrienne tor or having completed her studies in the most realistic school of the comedic Frai Fran false aue of which 6 sara 1 I ra bernhardt is the most illustrious long exe exemplar malar sho she was batides betides be tides eldes most superbly and singularly beautiful her lustrous eyes were those of sappho that burning apphy l w who ho loved and atil sung and the no noble ble tour aure of her majestic form waa was as regal as that of juno who moved movel at once the sister and queen of jove khile her lofty brow as smooth as alaba alabaster ster her dimpling cheeks where cupid lay in in ambush her swelling bosom twin vol vole canoa ancia and her arching lips quivering for kisses while wrea wreathed thed in languorous smile all reminded you of aspasia and presented that ara rara union of intel elect lect act and d passion passioni ifie he min eling 0 of f and of devotee and x caglis which characterized the sweet in of great pericles and as the play progressed revealing Adri Adrien ennes nea dual dust nature with its equal capacity for loving and hating its gentleness and ferocity its tender trustfulness and bud jealous suspicion and its well in fine its womans comans nature and he be who would essay to describe that might as well try to catch a comet b by its tg tail and make it quietly sit fy for or it its picture the audience grew drunk with enthusiasm over the marvelous matve loua acting of miss bliss siddons and her be still more marvelous beauty and delirious with joy called her again and jand again before the curtain and yet in all that vast assemblage be sem there was perhaps but a tingle single person besides myself who felt that misi bliss siddons presentation of adrienne Adri enno was far more real than fictitious and that the angry gry storms which swept over her face and the gleaming that blazed from her eyes were the vivid expressions of too genuine emo emotions tiona stirred up from the great deeps of her own passionate hea heart rt being cosed with a tern tem peat in a private box on a level with the sage and ani just above where I 1 was sitting eit ling sata bat a gentleman and lady half curtained from curious carious gaze both apparently absorbed in the incidents of the play though for vastly dissimilar reasons she from the exquisite joy of an unsophisticated girl present for the first time in a theatre and transported t ran sported with delight at seeing endued ensued with life some vaguely conceived fancies of her own romantic draenos dra eros while he be blase from the burnt out emo lions of a score of aj faires damour d amar and whose heart was but the ashes of a long extinct volcano could have laughed in cynical derision of the pathos of the acting y were it not that he lie knew and ba had adored the actress tho the girl at his side was sweeter than a flower all fresh wilh with boiu morning dew her eyes moist violet her cheeks deepening rosea roses and her neck still fairer than the lily while her ingenuous i counte countenance natica naturally u ral v placid as a limpid lake ae was now troubled with the stormy emotions of the play ing b behind hind the curtains as half bat f in fear and yet too fascinated to entirely withdraw sat sit with a mocking smile upon his handsome face such as might have h ave worn when secretly sneering at marguerite and now the curtain rises ri ica on the list im act of the drama as the deep toned murmuring of the expectant octant audience recedes in waves like ike reverberant thunder and the tho house houed is hushed to stillness adrienne is discovered seated pensively alone in a sequestered bower of a ga garden r d en a stripping t ripp i log a faded rose of its abri shriveled meled leaves while regarding them tenderly as they fall alas sweet rose cruel in deed first to have deprived thee of thy life and then when thy fragrance was all spent to wt cast thee in the dust at my feet bat but why waste sad thoughts upon thee gentle flower thou faded and lees lets thing when my own heart is all withered with it its blighting sor row and I 1 could weep bitter lean for myself thy life poetic cm blem of mine was wag full and com elete and even in dying thou but ut fulfil fulfill thy mission to have bloomed and exhaled thy sweet perau perfume me while I 1 ob ohl god what wat grief r ie if is there so bitter as self pity and d covering her face with her tre trembling b 1 ig hands she burst into a tempest of soba sobs after a little while leahe she was tranquil again her coun countenance ingin ing in io serenity and her starry eyes were radiantly beaming with iha the light of some newborn new born hone hope and only the rhythmical swell of her beavin heaving bosom like deep sea ea billows when en the storm has palsied told of the hurricane that had swept over her heart and stirred it to its profoundest eat depth depths may Mayl hap lap I 1 have done thee wrong sweetheart and doubted thee all too 00 soon ft a tender smile quivering dg upon her lips like the dancing rad radiance i ance of a twinkling star and again i she began leaf by leaf to pluck tho the faded flower muri murmuring buring the while softly to herself like gretchen Grel chen keeping her tryst kr rr ifert mich er ilent mich er ifert mich lieba in alch left MICA in in happy ex i tant taut tones as she pressed the lait leaf to her alwi glowing pressed lips aps in in vehement I 1 impassioned impassion mp assion e atif k kisses liades yes yea a again I 1 ain to herself in tones in infinitely finitely tend tender er softer than eolian strains whispering lovo love to the zephyr yes I 1 will trust thee dear one and adore thee lite of my heart and oh ohl god I 1 thank thee for my happiness Buthus but hush hl be what voices are these thesel and she sprang to her fe feet et among th the e clustering vines as might a startled roe from its deep forest lair her first impulse seemed one of flight and then she as suddenly paused her great orbed eyes df dilating lating with excitement her head turned slightly to one side one dainty foot half for a bound and her everet muscle drawn the perfect statue status of eager listening yet fearful j of what might be heard Butin aither anther instant she was vitalia vitali bcd again like sea sculptured stured dream and quiver quivering ing with emotion she atoo stood d a moment then glided into the shadow of the vines noise lessly stealthily like a chedah stalking its prey crouching there her gleaming eyes now scintillated in angry fury and then grew fixed in a basilisk gazi gaze intent upon the entrance to the bower where in a minute more appears first her rival and then her recreant lover teste mon ami she hears her say 1 I think you protest too much would you indeed have me believe that you now lovo love me having but yesterday adored adri i 1 enne pah rah with a petulant thru of her shoulder th a hat hot housa house dahlia and mayday slay may day rose all in a single breath and sir air with an an angry ry kindling of other her violet eyes 1 I ig scorn acorn to stoop to the contest elise elisa in passionate ton tones ea while seizing her unwilling hand thee I 1 love and not adrienne and why couple thyself with her linking a Bacch bacchantes antee drunk wit IT passion ti to 0 a vestal virgin at her shrine virginia with phryne lucrece with cleopatra saint cecelia with tha the cyprian queen adrienne i Adri ennel with acon laugh hal ha hal why adrienne is but a splendid animal a voluptuous leopard in a gunny sunny glade whilst thou oh elise thou art a budding flower a pure while white rose and I 1 adore thea thee with all my soul nay nay I 1 believe you not she lightly laughed you aro are far too eloquent to ba be but half sincere and yet I 1 would not be unkind dear carl if I 1 could only believe what you say but I 1 will wilt leave you now and tomorrow to morrow why tomorrow perhaps you may meet ma here and she hast quickly aroi from the bower then arose a dark figure from the deep shadows of the vines a threatening avenging nemesis her baleful eyes agleam with haired hatred and now lurid with the delirium oi of CRIME A flash of steel seel a mamaril laugh a sudden trem tremulous alous groan and find the ba bleeding form of her bar mccra ant lover lay quivering upon the ground at her f et and the curtain now fell upon the last act of the drama thia this fictitious tragedy upon tha the stage but I 1 intuitively felt thai that it had not jet yet arisen upon tha the last act of a tragedy in real life for a adrienne in the play stood exulting for a moment over the man she had both piar dered and adored I 1 could siddons siddon s dart a glance ance toward the box full ofa of a ivd threat while the macking fice jbf of the gentleman there blanched blanch e d to a deathly pallor and then too toa lu as he arose to depart a crumpled paper I 1 fell from hia his band hand which float ing to my feet I 1 quickly quick picked up and as quickly would woul have re I 1 turned but that in an instant more mar a he hi had ad turned and gone with the fair young girl upon his arm and now continued bywater going to his secre taire a and a d returning p with a large portfolio here is that identical paper perhaps you will say I 1 ought never to have read it and possibly you may be right but I 1 must confess that the strength of my curiosity conquered the nicety of my honor and I 1 rea read d it er ere e I 1 bad had left the theatre here it is if you vou will read it yourself and bywater handed me the paper 11 falge rl and perjured vili sim it rn ran an and d iio 0 o en th r larn ri and d f csake 0 mo lor for this vo rl t your aid aide bobe bo b I 1 it t but bat 1 for V I 1 bath BO fury ary li alte ke a woman scorned orned tc D S B I 1 having read it I 1 returned it I 1 without comment to bywater who I 1 replacing it in I 1 it receptacle resumed h hii is chair and b began egan pulling a at t afresh a fresh cigar and now ho be said emerging from a ix cloud of smoke ive we come to a closer view of thu the case tapping the portfolio with his dexter finger while looking ai a judicial as although aa as you lee eo I 1 preserved this paper through an idle whim and filed caper led it away among amon my curios curios it was not until somo some five months later and long after ray my return to ogden that it was again ro re callei to my mind about aix weeks ago I 1 called at the central to see our mutual friend alt alf elliott who as you will doubtless doubt leA re member waa was then passing through en route routs to bis his mine in tin de well judge of my y a surprise wh abilo ilo sitting in the oges office awaiting g alt alf at seeing enter and register wy my quondam friend of the private box in the ellwood G grand at cleve clove land and then of m my increasing sing astonishment a some 0 me ta thirty tr minutes later at beholding miss she the was descend descending the stairs to supper however r IN I 1 soon dismissed it from my mind as simply I 1 a queer coincidence and with alf in in tow low visited some of our friend friends and at a timely hour went to my bed two days later I 1 read in the papers something Bom ething of a strange disappearance i but gave it at first balya only a passing attention and it wai nok until still a 8 few days later that mhd mystery began to h haunt t ma me like one of those troublesome trouble ioma dreamt that hang iu in your memory and refuse to depart at your bidding and the affair constantly worried me not so much the fact of a mysterious disappearance as the per sistena nagging hall a ling matangi ble ghostly sort of something thai that was constantly wh per 11 gi az OU t play foul play ia foal play dodl play like the dismal rh croak of a rave raven D but it were idle to describe how howl from on one a phase to another this ti whisper a at t last b became became a conviction convict 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