amasKasBsaasssBiBaHxsia PITTSBURG DIS SECOND PART. PAGES 9 TO 16. THE PATCR SKOLLSJIT GRII Look Down on a Jolly Party of Chicago Bohemians OBGAKIZED INTO A CLUB Itemed After the Favorite flaunt of Jack the Kipper. GREWS0ME EELICS 01 THE WALLS icortsxsroxcExcx or ini disfxtch.1 HICAGO, April 19. It was during the time of the mysterious and maniacal tnur (,derer, vaguely known 1 as "Jack, the Hip per," was spattering rhe cobble stones of I the wretched district j of London with the ' blood of his victims that a club composed of Bohemians was or ganized in this city. There was a promsnent newspaper man at one end of the table and facing him was a famous lawyer. Between these two men were two other men. One was a doctor; the other an artist A miserable woman had been slaughtered An Arkansaw Blory by Opie Read. in London by the Kipper. Bagged news boys who ran through the alley which stretches like a black aisle through the heart of the city and which is dark and dreary beside the windows where the four Bohemians sat, bawled abont the White chapel murder. The roar was deafening. The tragedy was sensational news, from the cry came the name of the most remark able club in the United States. The organ ization which had been formed while the newspaper presses were printing the frag mentary news of the latest butchery was christened the Whitechapel Club. EASLY DATS OF THE CLUB. The four professional men who had organ ized the club met nearly every night in a little room in the resort. The artist made rough crayon pictures and hung them upon the wall. The lawyer sang o'nights as the doctor and the newspaper man told stories over their beer until the night grew old. Thus the club, now scarcely knowu beyond its own den, lived until other professional men Bought membership. A charter was received lrom the Secretary ot State A President, a Secretary and a board of eight directors were elected. There was no Treas urer for the xeason that there was no work for such an officer. There were no written rules and no constitution for the reason that it was tbe determination of the founders to made the club so exclusive ana so small in membership that all wno belonged to it would understand the obligations it im posed without reference to books or pam phlets. There was at this time no initiation fee. The club's membership was liniit'd to 25. To become a member of the organization one had to be a man who had won his spurs in his profession and who was a Bohemian The Anarchist Panel. by birth, a gentleman by instinct and a good fellow at all times and in all places. The rigid observance of this rule made many enemies for the club, because scores of ap plicants for membership were rejected for the reason that they were lacking in one or in all of the essential points. But the de termination of the members to uphold this rule has doubtless proved the salvation of the club, for if a bar had been let down it would have been a matter ot a short time when the club would have foundered. BALLOTING ON APPLICANTS. The method of election is novel. The candidate's name is posted for three weeks. If, in that time, no objection is filed with the directory against the applicant his name comes to a ballot. The lights in the skull chandeliers are turned low. The members who are known by numbers sit in long lines at the club's table. A single black ball re jects the applicant for all time. The ballots are matches. As each member votes favor able for the candidate the head of the match is broken off and the white stick cast into an urn. If a black ball is used the per cussion bead ot the match is cast. The steady growth of the Whitechapel Club in the lace of tremendous, and at times malignant opposition, soon became the talk of all Chicago. Its applicants for member ship included Congressmen, jurists and men of all professions. The little club room, with its rude decorations, was aban doned and a largeroom secured. Observing the true spirit ot Bohemianism, the members began to hang tbe walls with tbe most grewsome relics. They wanted no carpets; no portiers. Good oak flooring, with blinds upon which the dust of a dozen years had settled, were good enongh for them. Sknlls of train robbers, of suicides and of persons who died suddenly were nailed upon the walls. Then csine theashv bonc oi Mound Builders and of Indians, with dead men's shoes here and there, some of them bespat tered with blood, to relieve the stare of so many vacant eyes. EMBLEMS OP -WAR AND BIOT. A cavalryman's shoe filled with the foot ?r kstiLS k Sop!') i "ny bones of a gallant-trooper in General Cus ter's command was i laced in a niche beside a fl ittencd rifle bnllet that had also been picked up on that famous battlefield. Bombs, guns and daggers, some of them wrenched from anarchists during the riots of 1886 and others used to kill and maim, hang like a glittering fan upon one wall. The Ban Francisco Panel. L Chinese water pipe. 2. Oninm pipes. S. HiRlibinders' knives. 4. Blood-stained slipper f ound on Pune Garp. a Chinese merchant, mur dered by the Highbinders. Some of the knives are still stained with the blood of their victims. Bits of rope that choked conspirators and murderers from August Spies, the nnarchist, to the Chinaman who perished six weeks ago on the gallows in San Francisco are nailed upon another panel. Bludgeons and all the terrible contrivances of safe blowers and highwaymen are clustered in one cor ner. When the room had been thus decorated new rules were made. One of these was adopted to accentuate the delusiveness of the club. It prevents introduction of any stranger into the club rooms on any day except Satur day unless perchance the visi tor is from out of town. If he is a stranger in the city he is welcome at all times. An ini tiation fee ol 510 was also adopted. This fee has since been raised to 525. When thenewrooin had been heavily dec orated with its hundreds of historic and grewsonie relics, and the club had begun to climb rapidly to the first phalanx of Bohe mian clubs of the world, the members began to give weekly entertainments to their guests. These symposiums were held for three months every Saturday night. Many of the most famous professional men in the country have sipped their beer, smoked their church warden's pipe and participated in the whirlwind of wit, song and oratory which has so often swept over the somber board on these meeting nights. A card was never turned nor a dice thrown in the club room, and a woman has never been permit ted to step inside the ghostly portals of the den. THE EXILING IDEA. It has been a subject of comment why a club composed of so many brilliant minds Indian Relics. L Ancient and valuable war implement. 2. Red Wing's pipe. 3. Shoe with enclosed skel eton of foot round on Custer battlefield. 4. Tobacco pouch. should cluster about itself remembrances of the grave, of social strife and of horrid crimes. This is easilv explained. The old adage that "in the midst of life we are in death" is exemplified in the skulls and skeletons hanging upon the walls. The relics ot tragedies and social upheavals are merely the result of the whims oi Chaplers to gather tangible evidences of tbe workings of vicious or mis guided minds. The club itself is generous, honorable and loyal to all good people. It is not tbe blatant or silent champion of any vice or crime. Advancing upon rules already ontlined the club was finally compelled to secure another room which in its decoration is the antithesis of the chamber where the gray light from the alley streams upon glistening bones and crimson-dyed knives. The new room is draped in fluted red cloth with paintings and etchings nestling in the crimson folds. Beautifully decorated In dian relics from the reservations of the Sioux and Cheyennes form one panel while tbe mantelpieces are filled with bric-a-brac from the Zuni villages to the graves of Aztecs. There is a billiard table in the center of the room and a massive piano stands in a corner close beside a grate where a log crackles merrilly these cold, raw nights. A CHAIR FOB MB. DErEW. Chauncey M. Depew's chair stands in another corner. There is a hnman bone or .Brfc-0-.Brae. L Hat and leather bucket from Long John's fire brigade of 1813. 2. Irish bagpipes 300 vears old. 8. A pickax with a record, i. A "Nor wegian shipbuilder's adz. 5. Part of safeblow er's tool. two in the upholstering but the chair is soft and easy for all that. When Mr. Depew, tflio has spoken many kind words for the club, comes to town he will sit upon this seat. There are other valuable chairs in the room. All are easy and not CB easily filled. The light from Whitechapel court streams throueh the stained windows. Everything is mellow and soft as old wine. Here the Chaplers lounge and discuss the questions of the day. There are files of all the morning paper's and bookcases filled with classic literature. The dissimilarity ot the two rooms is so great that one pass ing fiom the gray and the black of the ban quet hall into the blazing fiery chamber, where even the faces of the members re flect and glow, is lor an instant blinded by the change. The Whitechapel Club, although but seven months old, is known all over the country. It gained its popularity and reputation by the wise exercise of judgment, by cutting away lrom the conventionalities of other clubs and by the unique hospitality it has extended to ail of its guests. There are at the present time 30 active members with an inert or honorable list of five. On September 1 the club will give its first pub lic entertainment at the Auditorium. C. S. P. A. TWO MILLION ON DEUCES. One of the Heaviest Gamei of Poker on Record, With Confederate Bills. Sew York Herald. "We were in winter quarters in 1862 at White Oak Church," said an old veteran sitting in a game of draw the other evening, "when my corps captured a paymaster's wagon containing I cannot say many millions in bills and bonds. It gave my company the opportunity for playing the heaviest game of poker ever heard of. The ante was 5100 and there was no limit. "In the foray something like 55.000,000 of the stufi came into the possession of myself and my three tent mates, and as soon as we got back to camp we started the game. I had tairly good luck at the start, bnt after a while the pasteboards went back on me, and I rarely got a pair bigger than deuces. "This went on until my pile had been brought down to about 52,000,000. There was a 51,000 "jackpot," and when I picked up my hand I found the invariable deuces. The man next to me opened the pot for 51,000, the next man and myself saw him, and then we drew. Each of the others took three cards, bnt I contented myself with one. When it came to my turn there was 2,000 to put up, aud without lifting my hand, I raised the last better 52,000,000. This drove the man next to me out aud left the field clear for myself and one opponent. He deliberated for a long time, counted over his pile which contained just a little more than the amount of the bet aud then threw up his hand. "When I looked at my cards I found that I had not bettered my two deuces. My op ponent threw down a pair of kings. I as certained later that at that very time certain Southern sympathizers in Baltimore were paying 5 cents on the 51 for Confederate money, and I wanted to kick myself for not having known it sooner." GUAED1NG THEIR JEWELS. A System of Slenoli In Vogue in Bloat of the Large Jewelry (stores. New York Press. Jewelers have a sort of cipher they use for protection. A lady was examining some jewels in a down-town store yesterday when the salesman was called to the safe. "Examine them at your leisure," he said, addressing the lady. Then to an assistant: "James, did Jones get his watch this morn ing?" James bobs up from some other part of the store and replies: f "Not yet, Birj but I am expecting him in soon." The jewelry salesman goes to the safe to secure a new tray of pearls for the inspection of his well dressed female patron, and James apparently busies himself with various duties at another counter. But his keen eyes never leave the woman who toys with the costly trinkets before her, and every movement of her diamond ringed hands is noted with close and trained scrutiny. The salesman comes back and remarks: "I think, James, you had better send those unset stones over to Mr. Williams, at the Hoffman. It is not policy to wait any longer, for he may go out this afternoon. Now, madam, here are some very choice specimens that I think will suit you." She doesn't know it, but the woman has been under surveillance, and the order was given right before her face by the polite and smiling attendant, who so obsequiously re ceived her commands. When the salesman asked, "Did Mr. Jones call for his watch?" the word "watch" was the only one in the sentence of value or meaning to James. When the salesman returned and said, "It is not policy to wait any longer," he inti mated to his companion that he conld pro ceed with his other duties. COULDN'T RESIST NATURE. Three Yonng Sqnlrrel Abandon a Good Home for the Woodlands. In March a year ago, Farmer Wat, of Brighton township, Beaver county, found three young squirrels in the top of a tree he had cut. The youngsters were taken home and the little Wats soon found them agreea ble playmates. They were fed with a spoon and the house cat took kindly to there caring for them as she would for her young. The squirrels found a hole in an old pear tree in the yard, and fixed themselves a nice nest in it As regularly as meal time arrived the trio came hopping into the house, placed themselves in a row and took their rations in a spoon. They soon knew every nook and corner of the house and barn. One day the squirrels were nowhere to be found. Weeks passed and they were al most forgotten when all three suddenly ap peared at the door. Of course they took the house by storm and had a jolly romp with the children, the dog and their old lriend, tabby. After a good dinner they slipped off never to return. Several months later Farmer Wat saw a squirrel looking rather lonesome on the branch of a big tree in the woods. He called to it as he used to when they were at his home and to his surprise it came scampering down. It shyly held out its nose as if to beg for a square meal, but would not allow itself to be caught. This was the last known of the these popular pets. DEPEW ON SUPERSTITION. lie Great Orator Will Not Sit at a Table With Twelve Other People. .ev YorkFre6S.l "I am not superstitions," said Chauncey M. Depew yesterday. "I do not believe in witches, sprites, elves, vampires, ghouls or ghosts. Nor do I believe in an evil genius, the evil eye, a bottomless pit, or a devil with horns and a cloven foot I would not pass a night in a church or graveyard with a corpse, because that would be an unpleas ant and unprofitable way to spend a night I would wear nothing in the natnre ot a tal isman or mascot and never carried a lucky coiu. "As to sitting down with 13 at table, that is one thing I wonld not do. But I respect the superstition, not because I am supersti tious, but because I do not want to ieel un comfortable. A good dinner consists in something more than things to eat and drink. Its pleasure depends more on tbe subtler elements of good company, minds at ease and attuned to harmony with the spirit ot the occasion. If your dinner is to be made uncomfortable" by a mournful or un pleasant feature of this kind you might better stop at a restaurant and swallow a dozen oysters. You could at least then have a pleasant chat with the man behind the counter frhile he opens your oysters." HTTSBtTRa, SUNDAY, APBIL 20, 1890. PEEPS AT BOUDOIRS. Bowers of Beauty in the Fashionable Homes of Washington. MISS LEITER'S LOVE FOE OLD GOLD, A Pretty Little Bedroom That Was Planned by Mrs. John A. Logan. GRUESOME TRAPPINGS IN A GARRET rCOEHESFONDENCE or TIIE DISPATCH.! Washington, April 19. "A BOWEE of beau ty!" "A bedroom for a Princess!!" "A home ?' for a goddesslll" So spoke one of the ladies of the diplomatic circle as she stood in the boudoir of the daughter of a wealthy Western Senator last night. There is no truth in the sneer ing fling of the English writer that Americans put all their money on their persons and their parlors; that everything is for show and nothing for comfort. The upper -- stories of the noted homes of Washington are as well furnished as their dining rooms, and the bedrooms of many of our belles have ail the luxuries of modern invention shaped into curious forms by the in dividuality of the tastes "of their owners. The room above spoken of is a sample. It is an irregular room with a deep fireplace and two or three al coves. At the right, on entering, is the couch, and instead ot being tucked and hud dled into a corner, as in former days, it stands well ont in the room with almost an equal space on either side. The frame is formed of slender white poles, tipped with gold, and from them hangs pendent the fleeciest of blue Canton crepe, the part against the wall being onilted. The cover let is of white lace over blue crepr. aud the long roll, which is used instead of pillows, is stuffed with softest down. The sheets have the maiden's name embroidered in the right corner, and have woven hems, each Bheet being a complete web. There are no blankets on the bed, but two downy blue comforters, which'pile up as weightless as snow. TIIE OTHEE FURNISHINGS. On one side of the bed is a door leading into the bathroom and on the other side is one connecting with the room where the girl's pretty gowns are hung. Across the room from the bed is a wide divan covered with French cretonne of white and bine. It stands diagonally in the room and is piled up with cushions. The bureau is of white and gold, the handles being entirely gilded. It is a low affair with swinging egg-shaped mirror. On it are perfume and jewel cases of solid silver and in the low dresser, which is just opposite, the rage for silver articles is further illustrated, for there are dozens of pieces, brushes, combs, nail files, powder boxes, bntton hooks and hand mirrors, all finished in solid silver. The dresser has a deep valance of blue chintz. Beyond it is a writing desk of white and gold.'with silver candle-stick, ink tankard and boxes of tiny note paper with the owner's monogram, which shows her to be just up to the fad, for the lettering is an inch long and leaves hardly space lor two lines of a letter. The rug is all in one color, a deep violet, and the wall dado has the same. color," the ceiling being blue-wlih silver cob-webs wrought in it. A buhl table in the center of the room has prettily ln..iil .in., as Mf TTt.ni.iA Pn.n.l.. "DI ! 1 UMUUU ivjJica v vuu.utr, .Ltuaocias, ficciuia and otber harmless volumes. There are not more than six pictures in the room, of which two arc Madonnas and the others water color landscapes. They are all framed in white and gold, MISS LEITEE'S BOTDOIR IN OLD GOLD. The heiress, Marie Ijeiter, has a dove cote worthy of her loveliness. It is on the sec ond floor of the red brick mansion which James G. Blaine built ten years ago, and in which he liyed but a short time, preferring modest quarters and tbe 510,000 rental which the Chicago merchant pays for it. Every window and the plate glass doors have the initials "J. G. B." cut into them, and lead ing up to the boudoir of the daughter of tbe house is a stairway which Blaine him self designed and above it the rarest bit of stained glass in any house in Washington. The fair maid Evangeline is the device, and though passing it a dozen times a day one would still involuntarily bow the knee be fore the lovely thing. The room is just beyond the broad land ing in the rear of the house and from its windows old Georgetown, with its college, its quaint churches and narrow, Holland like houses can be seen. There is an effect of depth and size to the room which is in creased by the almost tintless graining of the walls and the deep alcove opening upon a Juliet-like balcony. Miss Loiter is a belle brune and instead of mawkish blue her surroundings are daring yellow, not pale as primrose, but deep as daffodil. The polished floor has a perfect riot of rugs in which the wonderful tone ot yellow pre dominates. Tbe couch is in a white and gold frame nncanopied and with a coverlet of white lace which fits above the soft roll and almost touches the floor on either side. The posts are high and slender and on each halfway up is a gigantic yellow bow. 5IIEE0ES FOE AN HEIEES3. A Mexican onyx table of the kind which the Germans call "little night table," stands at the right, bearing upon the marble slab, which is barely a foot and a half from the ground, a silver lamp; the standard slim and graceful, and the shade of pale yellow. Mirrors on dressers and bureaus are no longer a la mode. They are still there, but are made wholly for ornament, most of them being odd affairs, shaped like an egg, and so high up that little Miss Mnffet couldn't see the tip of her nose in them. Instead, the fashionable woman uses a long cbeval, swung in a frame, and in which she can see everything from the butterfly in her hair to the buckle on her slim foot. Miss Leiter's cheval glass must be eight feet high and three feet broad. It is swung in a gold frame, and is so adjusted that it mirrors nearly all of the lovely room. On either side of it, hung by gold chains, are small lamps, such as one sees in Roman Catholic churches on the Continent, and which are called "eternal lamps." The dresser is richly fitted with silver ap pointments, and is canopied in white lace caught back by yellow bows as big as a child's sash bow. A white and gold chair stands before it, where the young girl sits to have her hair dressed in the chaste Ophelia fashion which she has adopted. One of the daintiest things in the room is the secre taire, at which are written all the pretty notes of invitation and acceptance. Near it is a small table, where bowls of flowers and low dishes of bonbons are kept, and where at night after ball or dinner the mistress of tbe room always finds a glass of rich milk which she drinks to refresh her before sleep ing. A PIANO IN THE ALCOVE. Miss Leiter is a music lover, and she has an upright piano in the alcove of her room which is always littered with favorite opera scores, for she practices singing as indefa tigably as if she meant one day to make her (ortuue by her voice. There is a private bath room for the apartment, and in it are two or three affairs which look like hat racks but which are really for hanging ball dress es, so that they will neither be crushed against the wall or crumpled by packing in boxes. They are all Bhrouded in cases made for the purpose. A little ante-chamber con vm is y m 'ims v9A 3 HriSi XLr ll 1 tains the bed of the French maid Lotta, who is expected to serve her young mistress at any hour she may come in from ball or party. Another boudoir that is all in yellow is Miss Wanamaker's, the Postmaster Gen eral's oldest daughter. The color here is almost as pale as primrose and consequently much more of it can be used in decoration. All the furnishings were made especially for the room and the mountings are all of brass. The rarest bit of furniture in the room is a Henri Quatre desk which was pur chased in Paris ior Miss Wanamaker. It is of the slenderest proportions and every thing about it suits the present demand for dwarfish appointments in all aopertaining to letter writing. Beyond the boudoir are dressing and bathrooms and further away, but within call, the little room of Therese, the French maid. That dressing room has seen a sight that perhaps no other in the country has seen, for before the season began it contained six long narrow boxes bearing the mark of a famous Parisian dressmaker, which remained unopened for two weeks. Fancy a girl having six lovely new gowns and not looking at them for a fortnight. PLANNED BY MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN. Mrs. John A. Logan is noted for her in terest in young girls, and her love for them goes beyond superficial conrtesies. There is one little lass here who proudly an nounces that her dainty bedroom was de signed especially for her by Mrs. Logan. She is Elsie McEIroy, the daughter of Colonel John McEIroy, of the National Tribune, and the room was furnished for her under Mrs Logan's supervision two years ago, when Miss Elsie was 14. It is all in baby blue, and is simple and sweet as a Puritan maiden's. It was Mrs. Logan's idea to have the room suggest spring and to typify the hallowed time of maidenhood. To carry out the idea the rug, w hich nearly covers the floor, has a moss-green ground with tbe pink trailing arbutus and iragile bluets interwoven. The walls are so tly tinted in blue, and the broad dado shows the same design as the carpet, the ceiling re peating the design of the rugs and wall in deeper tones. The bed is all of white, blue and gold, the bine chintz canopy having a deep valance of silk wrought in shades of blue. The low washstand has a set ot oddly-shaped china bearing band-painted designs of arbu tus and bluets, while about it reaching to the floor is the Quaintest valance of blue chintz in the style of Mrs. Logan's girl hood days. Hear it is a blue aud gold dresser as simple as the one before which Faust watched Marcuerite. Two or three slender chairs, a tall dresser covered with silver-backed brushes and manicure imple ments, a secretary littered with invitations, schoolgirl essays and the appliances of ana teaur photography completed the furnishing of the room which all will pronounce the ideal one for a girl of 16. To show the young girl that even that which no one could see should be beautiful, Mrs. Logan had the bureau drawers taken out and tbe pine painted a soft blue with border of gold. SHE SLEEPS IN THE OARRET. People like individuality in a room, and an unending vista of blue'and white rooms shrouding lily-white girls grow monoto nous. It is the proper thing, but I know I was giaa wnen i came across a girt who had the nerve to depart from it. Her name I dare not tell, for her courage does not go that far. She said that she got bo tired of tame people and tame amusements that she was bound to have something startling about her. She got her father's consent to have the garret of his big mansion, and she Cited it up in a way that would make a tiger shiver. It is an uneven room, dark even at noonday, for the window panes are hardly bigger than the palm of the hand. The floor is covered with leopard skins from which the round, beady eyes stare in an un comfortably fierce way. A big gray owl perches in a dark corner, and below it is a dusky black couch with drapery above it that looks for all the world like a glowering biz bat The doors into the alcoves are -hungcwith the skins of thellocky Mountain lion, ana lrom the sides of the room above the couches are meshes of coiled snakes, from the mouths of which dart lights in a fashion entirely too realistic for comfort Instead ot a stately samovar there is a regular witch's cauldron in one corner, in which the mistress of the room concocts harmless tea lor those of her friends who are bold enongh to visit her there. By every chair are low tables covered with books, and the very titles of them would make a proper miss swoon away. There i3 Frankenstein, Poe's Black Cat, Zola's "L'Assomoir," Mile, de Maupin, dozens of Maupassant's, and the lighter and wickeder French novels. A COFFIN AND A SKELETON. The girl has at once courted and defied superstition, for while her toilet appoint ments, paper knives, etc., are all in horse shoe shape or have for handles the left hind feet of rabbits, she has a weird, moon shaped clock from which the ill-omened cuckoo announces the hours. The most horrible corner of the room she rarely shows, for it represents an uniulfilled purpose. A year ago when she furnished tbe room she decided to have a coffin in it a la Bern hardt. She went to an undertaker's, was measured, selected the style of casket and then told the undertaker to have it sent to her boxed so that no one would know its contents. The poor mad was as scared as Tarn O'Shanter when he saw the witches at Alloway Kirk. His fair patroness belonged to a large family, and he knew he would lose all the chance of future patronage if the father got wind of it, so he went to him and told him of his daughter's strange freak. There was a breeze in the house that night when the father gave his daueh ter the choice ot his money or her coffin. That is the reason one corner of her room has no tenant save a skeleton and a black draped dais which was to have held the coffin. The girl who designed this horror breeding room has been a belle for two sea sons, and people seeing her child-like face would take her ior an artless debutante. Fresh, breezy rooms are the boudoirs of the two Missses Patten, who are the best horsewomen and greatest dog-lovers in the Capital. Their distinctive features are the riding whips stacked in the corners, and the pictures of favorite horses and dogs, of which there are so many that one can easily guess the tastes ot the sisters. MADAM ROMERO'S MEXICAN BEDROOM. A boudoir equally distinct, but in a differ ent fashion, is that of Madam Boniero, the wife of the Mexican Minister. The prettiest American rooms would hardly equal it in richness, for the wealthy Mexicans lavishly furnish the private rooms of their wives and daughters. Madam Bomero's room is mod eled exactly after the one in her home in the City of Mexico, and most of the furni ture was brought from there. The bedstead is so delicately wrought that it makes the finest of ours seem clumsy. Almost as regal in its appointments is the boudoir of Mrs. Hammond, the wife of Dr. William Hammond. It is the gem of all the handsome apartments in Belcourt, their new home on Columbia Heights, and was designed by Mrs. Hammond herself, to rep resent a section of the Alhambra. The floor is perfectly bare. Another matron who has a boudoir fit for a princess is Mrs. John B. Henderson, the wife of the American delegate to the Pan American Congress. An especially rich effect is given to it by the silk web on tbe walls, not paper, but genuine silk, which wealthy people to-day use to cover the square yards of wall space. It scares one to think of the cost, but I venture that the covering for walls in this day costs more than the finest Wilton carpets. The design of Mrs. Henderson's silk paper is in blue bands with tiny nosegays of pink roses, the striped effect giving height to the room. Mrs. Harrison has the little room at the southwest corner of the White House for her boudoir, and she has it charmingly fitted up. She lives in it more than in any otber room and has in it her desk. Hear her is a small table containing pictures of her children and grandchildren, and down the length of one side are tall wardrobes containing the dresses of the mistress of the White House. Miss Grundy, Jr. -W t 1 A I M rigs' iwHvw MLfm SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Tho story opens in 8 1 Petersburg with an interview between Colonel Palkin, aid-de-camp of the head of the gendarmes, and Mr. Onophri Schelm. head of tbe division of political affairs under tho Minister of the Interior, Count Perowski. Both are ambitions and cordially hate each other. Palkin announces a conspiracy that Schelm knows nothing of. Count Lanin, aid-decamp of the Emperor, enters announcing the order of St Vladimir for Palkin. in reward for his skill, and a censure upon Schelm for his ignorance of the conspiracy. Janais the daughter of wealthy Alexander Wernin. Count Vladimir Lanin is in love with her and she accept! him. Previously Schelm has asked Wernin for Jana's hand. She, thinking to humble Hehelm, has Count Lanm send to him an invitation to their wedding, as her answer to his request for her hand. Wernin learns of the insult just too late, tries to intercept tbe invitation.bat fails. Schelm receives it, and his anger knows no bounds. Wernin trembles, for Schelm's power is al most absolnto. An old schoolmate of Schelm's, Miller, of Millertown, evidently in abject poverty, calls on him and asks a loan to pnt him in sb3pa to attend a law banquet Schelm abruptly dis misses him. Miller goes to Vladimir, who accommodates him and goes with him to the bann.net. Thore tbey meet Schelm, who hides his bitter anger successfully and alludes to the wedding in vitation. Because Nicholas Fopoil was not at hand just as he wanted him, 8chelm discharges bim On Popoff are dependant his aged mother and her child, living in one of tho poorest dis tricts of the city. Popoff returns t them desperate. His sweetheart Helen, and Miller drop in and Miller leaves all that is left of theTnoney Vladimir gave him. Nicholas vowirevenge on Schelm. Miller 'calls on Schelm, again penniless and hungry. Schelm giTes him 10,000 rubles for which Miller binds himself to bis service absolutely. CHAPTEB T. As soon as Schelm was alone he rooked at the door to make sure that it was locked, then be drew curtains and portieres closer together, onened a drawer and began to ex amine Miller's acknowledgement of debt most carefully. "One agent I have," he said to himself, "but that is not enough. He shall serve my personal revenge. He is right when he says it will be easy for him to play the part of a friend. Then a closer intimacy must, and no doubt will, spring up. So, that is settled! But it has cost dear. In order to attain my ends I want more; I must have a regular or ganization. But how? It must be done for the Minister was very cool last night." While thus thinking aloud Schelm pressed a spring in the portrait of Alex ander; it tnrned ihelf half round and re vealed a secret compartment in the wall. In the same moment Nicholas Popoff had opened the door without making the small- est noise and had entered the room on tip toe. Schelm had neard nothing. He drew a small package of writings from the niche and added Miller's paper. Then he touched the spring once more the portrait moved back to its place. Deeply absorbed in thoughts, Schelm sat down on a chair near by and said to himself: "I must have money. This rascal has cost me already 10,000 rubles; if I were to sell all I possess and to deny myself every thing I could hardly scrape together twice as much. And what could I do with that? I must absolutely have 100,000 rublesto carry out such a gigantic intrigue as this. Where can I get it? Nicholas, who was standing close to the wall, purposely made a noise. Schelm jumped up and fell upon him like a tiger. "Who are you? How dare you enter here?" he cried, beside himself. "Answer! I must know you. What is your name?" "My name is Nicholas Popoff and till yesterday I had an office in the Ministry of the Interior," said Nicholas quietly. "Popoff!" cried Schelm, furious. "Did I not have you turned off? How dare you reappear here? This is open rebellion! You shall pav for thatl" A sudden thought flashed through his mind. "How long have you been standing here?" "One moment and I heard your Excel lency's words." "Heard them? You confess that, you in solent rascal." While uttering these words Schelm tnrned to his table to seize tbe bell that was stand ing there near at hand. Popoff did not let him do it he placed himself betweenhis former chief and the table. Schelm tnrned pale with fury. "Insolent fellow I" he cried aeain. "Do you want to die under the knout?" "More calmly, Your Excellency," replied Popoff, not without a slight admixture of scorn. "I came to fender Your Excellency a great service." "A great service? You to me? Hallo! Is anybody there?" His voice, however, hardly penetrated the heavy portiere, and besides, there was no body in the adjoining room. Tbe man on duty had left Popoff in his place and had gone away. "I can furnish Your Excellency the money you want" The firm voice of his former subordinate calmed Schelm and let him re cover his senses. "Speak! What do you want of me?" "Your Excellency has sent me out of the Ministry, when I was supporting my mother and a younger brother out of my modest pay. I want to recover the lost place, be cause I need it absolutely. I propose, there fore, to Your. Excellency this: If I suggest means to secure the sum of money you want, "jF - S ROMANCE OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA, WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, Author of'Safar-Hadji, a Story of Turkistan," etc. mav I then hope that you will restore me to my former position?" "Is that what you want?" asked Schelm, very much pacified. "We'll see, we'll seel What else have you to say?" "Your Excellency, I have long been em ployed in tbe Finance Department I know, tnerefore, that the Treasurer has secret iunds which are at tbe disposal of the Ministry of the Interior. The present Treasurer knows me very well." "I know all that and very accurately," said Schelm. "But how can I get the Min ister to authorize my using such a large sum from the secret fund?" "Your Excellency has only to permit me to continue. The Treasurer pays out these funds upon the signature of the head of the bureau, even if the Minister consents only by a marginal note. How does he express his consent? He writes on the margin noth ing but his name, as evidence that he has read the paper and grants the demand. Now, it is not difficult to imitate such a sig nature." "Wretch 1" cried Schelm; "how can you dare?" The silence of Schelm up to this point had JANA, DO YOU KNOW WHAT JEALOTTST 13 ? made Popoff think he would listen still fur ther. Hence, the affected indignation made no impression npon him, and he went coollr on: "Yonr Excellency will write the receipt and I will forge the signature of the Minis ter. I can prove to Your Excellency's satis faction that I am able to do it We amuse ourselves in onr leisure hours in the offices by imitating various signatures. And, later, Your Excellency will have no difficulty in proving that you did not forge the writing." "But what are you really aiming at?" asked Schelm cautiously. "Your offers are very far reaching." "I beg leave, therefore, to propose to Your Excellency the following compact: You ap point me your private secretary and send me apparently to the Minister to obtain his visa." "Goon!" "Suppose your Excellency should want 100,000 rubles, I bring you the money; but the story goes that I have only gotten 80,000 rubles because the Minister thought that would suffice for the purpose in ques tion. In tbe receipt this purpose has to be mentioned, I believe." "Cetainly but go on." "Your Excellency knows, moreover, that the secret fund is only examined once in three years. The last time this was done was in November. We have consequently, more than two years before us. If we succeed no qnestion will ever arise as to the means by which that purpose was accomplished and the Ministers will be glad enough to make matters easy. Should we tail you could, in the worst case, accuse me of having kept back 20,000 rnblcs and of having forged the signature. Appoint me, therefore, your private secretary and pay me a handsome salary, so that I can spend a good deal of money. Such a change in my mode of life will coincide with the date of the whole affair, besides the experts will easily recog nize my handwriting. Then comes the ac cusation. I am tried and sentenced in con tumaciam, for your Excellency is kind enough to give me timely warning and let me escape abroad with some little means of living." Schelm had attentively listened to this ex position and patted his former subordinate on the shoulder. "You are a cunning man and I am sorry I did not know you as I do now. I cannot conceive, however, what your personal ad vantage can be in this matter." Popoff looked at him firmly and fixedly. "I do not want my mother to suffer any longer from hunger and misery. I sacrifice myself for her, and I oiler your Excellency my services because I know you are wise aud cunning, and I believe in the success of all your enterprises and intrigues. I pro pose an immoral thing, because such things alone pay, for a moral and good thing a nod of the head is thought to be ample reward." Schelm made no reply, but went to his table, this time unhindered by Nicholas. He promptly wrote this certificate: Upon this voucher the Treasurer will pay to Mr. Popoff, my private secretary, the sum of 100,000 rallies, from tbe secret fund. I need this amount in order to ascertain tho charac ter, etc, of the consoiracy. Ifl . The Head of the Division for PoL Affairs, Schelm, Privy Councilor. "Is that satisfactory?" "Truly, your Excellency." "Then you do not go to the Minister; you forge his signature, keep back 20,000 rubles and bring me the remainder!" "Very well, your Excellency." Popoff wrote the usual exequatur, with signature of the Minister, and then handed Mr. Schelm the paper. "Excellent! Now go to the Treasury! Our compact is concluded!" Popoff"seemed to be unwilling to go. "Your Excellency will have the kindness to appoint me your private secretary." "Well," said Schelm. and rang the bell. The old invalid appeared on the thres hold. "Call the head of Bureau No. 7." The soldier appeared instantly. "But will the thing succeed. Your former chief is perhaps no longer at tbe Treasury at this hour." t "We need not fear. The Treasurer lives in the Ministry, and even when he goes out he always leaves word where he may be found; such are the regulations. The man knows me personally and will make no dif ficulties." The Head of Bureau No. 7 entered the room. At the sight of Popoff he was greatly surprised, but his astonishment grew when he heard Schelm's words: "I did Mr. Popoff wrong, and to make amends I appoint him my private secretary. He will, however, belong as heretofore to Bureau No. 7, and only draw a large salary. And now, my friend, go to the Minister and attend to my commission there!" "I thank your Excellency!" said Popoff, bowing. Schelm dismissed him with a friendly gesture, but retained the Head of the Bu reau No. 7, who was also about to withdraw. After he wa3 sure that Popoff had reached the end of the passage he quickly locked the door and turned to the other man: "Ton will receive a letter from me, which you will have to send instantly to the po lice." Then sitting down at his table he hastily wrote these words: The Head of Division of his Excellency Count Perowski directs the attention of tbe police to the official Popoff. He is a danger ous man; he cherishes revolutionary Ideas and is dishonest. He has Inst stolen 20,000 rubles in the Ministry. As the matter is secret the Head of Division requests His Excellency, tbe Chief of the Police, to have Popoff arrested to-morrow and quietly to be put aside. Alter signing these lines Schelm ordered the official to jump into a cab and drive at full gallop to the police. Popoff, in the meantime, had become thoughtful. "It is, at all events, better for me to ba private secretary of the Head than to seek a place at the hands of an utterly nuknown Count. But one cannot be too cautious iu having to deal with a man like Schelm." With these words he stepped into the per fectly empty bureau, lit the lamp and got the copying press; then he pat Schelm's receipt under the press, copied it into the book and tore out the sheet which he had taken from the blank part of the book and carefully put it in his pocket "Thus," he said, "I shall secure a feeble but still very weighty weapon for my de fense." Then he went to the Treasury, received the money and returned in order to fulfill this part also of his compact with Schelm. As he, however, passed the invalid who slept on his bench, he looked almost uncon sciously at the staircase, and noticed how the head of his bureau, with a letter in his hand, was hurrying away. "My chief at this hour running down a staircise that is not his! What can that meaVi? Evidently he has but just left Schelm'3 bureau aud the two must have dis cussed met" A sad foreboding overpowered him. In stinctively he felt a great danger hauging over him." His first step was to rush down stairs and to follow his chief. He saw him race down the street and take a cab. Popoff, hiding behind the other hacks, beard him say. "To the police! At full gallop!" That wa3 enough for Nicholas. JETe hur ried back to the Ministry, approached a table in the passage on which paper and envelopes were always kept lying for those who came to ask for an audience. He se lected five large envelopes, put one-fifth of the sum oi money he held in his hand into each one and "directed a sixth to "Mr. Schelm, private and confidential." Then he hastened to Schelm's ante-chamber, where there were always two officials and a servant on duty. Popoff said to himself: "Evidently Schelm has asked the police to have me arrested at once. But he will not have it done here I shall, therefore, have time to await the return of my chiel." He sat down on a bench aud waited. Half an hour later the official appeared. Popoff fitenTied nn in him. handpri him iliA iv -n fvelopes and said: "Here is the money which I was to hand to His Excellency; also a confidential letter. His Excellency ordered me to wait for yoa here and to hand you the money. You were to be so kind a3 to carry it to him at once in his private room. The amount is 100,000 rubles; His Excellency will have the kind ness to count it over in your presence. I myself have important business to attend and 'must leave." 'Very well, Mr. Secretary, I'll fulfill your commission at once!" Popoff Wt the building slowly, but as soon as he reached the first corner he began to run as fast as his feet would carrv him. In the meantime Schelm was impatiently walking up and down in his room, when chieTot bureau was announced. "Your Excellency's demand will be car ried ont to-morrow," was the report, "and here are 100,000 rubles which Your Excel lency's private secretary has just handed m to give to you, together with this letter." r.- - xj mi
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