PAGE SIX
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 19, igi2.
Both Sides
OF:
The Shield
By Major
ARCHIBALD W. BUTT,
One of (lie Heroes of (ho Ti
tanic mill President Tuft's ,
Military Aid.
Copyright 1905, by J. D. Llp
poncott company. All rights
reserved.
SYNOPSIS
Palmer, a Boston newspaper mnn, Is
ent to Gcorsta to report social and Indus
trial conditions In a series of letters to his
paptr. Colonel Turpln, a southerner,
thinks Palmer Is a lawyer nnd has como
to foreclose tho Turpln plantation's mort
gage. Palmer undeceives him, and the colonel,
thinking thnt Palmer Is a kinsman. In
vites him to be his guest at tho Pines.
Palmer meets Ellen nnd Bud Turpln and
la hospitably received.
lie becomes Interested In Ellen and
learns that tho Turpln home Is In grave
peril through lack of funds. Ho wants to
confess that ho Is not really a kinsman,
but falls to
Squire Hawkins, an elderly man,
Is courting Ellen. A party Is plan
ned In honor of Palmer, who writes
his Impressions of the place for his
paper.
Ellen wears an old brocade gown
at the party, and Palmer falls In
love with her. Ellen and her
friends take take him to the wish
ing stone.
"You are my queen tonight," Pal
mer tells her, but she will not per
mit him to avow his love. He fears
he Intends marrying the squire to
save the old home.
She swept past inc. nna 1 cais into
n chnlr, overcome with grief nnd mor
tification. How long I sat there I do
not know. Every time I heard a foot-
"Don't touch mol"
fall 1 would start up, expecting her to
come back, thinking in my foolish
heart that Bhe had relented. Hud came
in and found me sitting In tho dark,
lie told me diuuer was ready, and we
entered the dining room together.
Miss Ellen came In late, for it would
have been unlike her to have stayed
away. In a iwrfoetly natural voice
she told thein I had boon called away.
Bud begged me to stay, and tho colo
nel and lira. Turpln made me promise
to come again. That night was a dis
mal one. Miss Ellen would not play
and soon went to her room. I left the
nest morning, Pud remaining from his
work to drive me to the station. Miss
Ellen bade me farewell In the hall,
but avoided taking my hand. As the
wagon turned Into tho cedars I looked
back, and only tlve colonel nnd Mrs.
Turpln were standing on the porch to
wave roe a farewell. I hardly spoke
to Pud on tho way, but 1 made him
promise that If any one should get ill
nt tho Pines he would write to mo at
onoe. At the station I found a letter
from the managing editor telling me
that iny last contribution was tho clev
erest bit of writing I had ever done
and that the paier had advertised an
other one for Uio following Sunday.
I tore his letter into fragments and.
going to tho telegraph ofliee, wrote out
tho following telegram and scut it:
Accept my resignation. I will loavo for
the west tonight on ijertwnul business. t
I grasped Pud's hand, but was un
able to speak a word. I boarded tho
train and eat for hours, my head rest
ing on my hands, with my face turned
toward tho Pines, my soul full of sad
ness, with not a ray of sunlight in my
beart.
CHAPTER VII.
A Lieutenant of Volunteers.
mDID not go west immediately
after leaving tho Pines, as I
had Intended doing, but re
mained vlthin tho Btate, liop
Ins vainly to tret sorao word nf for.
1
grVCheafr f rom "Miss Ellen. Iff liiy
calmer moments I reviewed my visit
to tho Turplns, nnd tho letter which
sho so condemned seemed to me to be
my least offense. Though I under
stood her resentment nnd appreciated
the jmsltiou she hml taken, I felt, how
ever, that I had made a mistake in
obeying her nnd now wished thnt I
had remained nt the Pines nnd con
fessed everything to Pud. I lelloved
then, as I do now, thnt ho would have
understood mo better than Miss Ellen
had done nnd would have pleaded my
cause for me, though 1 doubt whether
ho or any one else nt that time could
have shaken her determination not to
admit 1110 to her friendship again.
I would wake up each morning re
solved to quit tho state that day, but
lwfore noon I would chnnge my mind,
ns I seemed utterly Incnpable of tear
ing myself from the neighborhood of
the Pines. I ever looked nnd longed
for some change of feeling which
might blunt the edge of my grief, but
none enme, and my love seemed to
grow stronger each succeeding dny.
it was maddening to think that I had
lost her, and. what gave this sorrow a
keener edge was the knowledge that I
had forever put It out of my power to
be of any service to her or to lend as
sistance to those she loved. I would
become a prey at times to the keenest
pangs of Jealousy. I had no doubt
thnt the squire would renew his suit,
and I feared that she might be led in
her bitter resentment toward me to
accept hl9 hnnd In marrlnge. I wrote
her several letters begging for her for
giveness nnd If she could not grnnt
ne that to try at least to understand
tho feelings which had prompted me
to write the letters which had been the
menns of separating us. I told her of
the hopeless state of mind Into which
I had fallen and that I believed that
my life would be aimless unless she
would touch the magic spring which
would set my blood aglow once more
and nrouso the dormant ambition with
in me to accomplish something in the
world.
I wrote on nnd on. I exhausted my
logic and mental powers to mnke her
understand. I reviewed my visit to
the Pines at length, from the moment
I had met Colonel Turpln to the last
interview 1 had had with her. My first
mistake, I told her, had been In letting
my Introduction to her nnd her mother
ns a relative of the Kentucky Palmers
go unchallenged. I explained how I
believed myself to have been merely a
boarder and the almost fatal mistake
I had made in speaking to tho colonel
on tho subject.
Such hospitality I was unaccustom
ed to, nor do I now fully understand
the promptings of that kind old heart
when ho invited me to tho Pines. I
told her of my life and of my work;
how I had come Into her section with
the bitterest feelings against it. My
one nmbltlon, I told her, was to arouse
a hostile sentiment In New England
against the political party then In pow
er in nearly all tho southern states. I
did not conceal from her tho satisfac
tion I had felt when this assignment
had Ix-en given me nor my disappoint
ment when I learned afterward that
I was not to touch on iolitIcs in my
letters. I told her of my resolution to
leave the Pines on the day after I had
arrived there, but how thnt resolve
melted as snow before tlio sun when I
had seen her nnd looked Into her eyes;
bow step by step she had led mo to
look upon life with a broader and a
kindlier view and had brought me
finally to a full understanding of her
section and her people, and how sho
had made me know for the first time
what my father meant when ho was
wont to say that all tho two great sec
tions of the country needed was to get
acquainted.
The letter which had so offended her,
I said, would be the means of bringing
thousands of persons to a proper ap
preciation of her homo land and the
southern character, Just as the facts
embodied In it had caused me to
chnngo the opinions I had held once.
I did not believe my offense wns past
forgiveness, nnd I begged her that in
a spirit of fairness she would try to
appreciate the impulses of one whose
instincts seemed to be to write of
things as they uro and whose training
had led him nlwnys to seek out those
things to describe which were novel
and of Interest I followed this letter
with another, but wlthno better result.
I wearied the postal olllclals with ques
tions nnd got them to go through the
general delivery a half dozen times a
day.
I do not know how it would have
ended had the thought not come to me,
as if by Inspiration, that I could at
least be of some small service to her.
yet keep my identity In tho back
ground. After waiting In Augusta -one
more week in anxious hope thnt each
day might bring n letter from her 1
took the train for Atlanta nnd there
began a search for the holders of the
mortgage on tho Pines. With good
references I presented myself nt the
oilloo of 0110 of the large trust compa
nies nnd authorized Its agents to trace
tlto mortgage and to secure It nt any
x6t. After weeks of lnc"4sant work
wo traced the holders somewhere in
tho .southern part of tlio state, and nn
agent of tho company was dispatched
Uieru to tako up tho 'mortgage. Tho
utmost caution was necessary to bo
cure U consent of iPikI without excit
ing his suspicion. Tluj holders of tlio
pajwr were Instructed to say thnt they
had to soil and that they had found a
comiwny whoso business it was to
lend money willing to nccept it. Noth
ing wns said about reducing tho inter
est. ,It was not until tlio transfer had
boon accomplished thnt It was made
known to Pud Uiat tlio company had
rcduood Uio Interest from 0 to 4 per
cent
I had followed tlio transaction with
Uiionsfc interest, and tho olllolals,
They Understood the Necessity of So
crocy. who were in my confidence, lecauie as
Interested almost ns I. I told them
that under no circumstances were the
Turpins to know any tiling about me;
that everything must be done through
them. They understood the necessity
of secrecy, as I told them that the ben
eficiaries of tills act would reject It
and force n foreclosure had they any
reason to suspect thnt tho Interest had
been reduced through any desire to
assist them In any way. Satisfied that
I had done something for Miss Ellen,
I determined to leave for tho west
It was while goiug to take my train
thnt a circumstance occurred that de
layed my departure for several days
more. I was late and was hurrying
through the depot when I ran fairly In
Uio arms of Bud. I did not recognize
him nt first aud It was only when I
stepped back with a conventional apol
ogy that I saw the strong outlines of
his face nnd knew it to be that of Miss
Ellen's brother. It was only a momen
tary glimpse I had of him, but be look
ed older and more careworn, it seemed
to me. lie seemed preoccupied nnd
did not recognize me, for, lowering my
face, I hurried past him and reached
the waiting room. I nbandoned nil in
tention of taking tho train that day,
for I nt once suspected that my secret
had became known nnd that Bud bad
come to Atlanta with the determina
tion of either having tho transfer re
voked or else forcing me to accept the
former Interest 011 the mortgage. By a
circuitous route I reached my hotel
aud, sending for a messenger, dispatch
ed a note at once to tho company In
forming the olDclnls of the arrival of
Mr. Turpln.
The next day I learned that Bud,
thinking the transaction somewhat
queer, had come to Atlanta to see
about it himself, and I strongly be
lieved thnt Miss Ellen had urged him
to it to satisfy herself that I was in no
wny connected with the benefit which
those at tho Pines would derive from
tho reduction of the interest. Bud de
manded to know to whom his family
was Indebted for this unlooked for
piece of generosity. My agent told him
that these mortgages had become very
valuable and that his company had
been authorized to secure ns many of
them as possible and to reduce tho in
terest on them to 4 per cent. Satis
fied that the matter was a business
transaction, Bud Teft for the Pines
ngaln and, I had reason to believe,
with a lighter heart.
Lost in the background and congrat
ulating myself on tho success of my
scheme, I wandered into the west The
face of Ellen was ever before me.
Night and day tho picture of her, clad
In a simple gingham frock, her sleeves
rolled up and her hand pointing In the
direction of the old memorial bridge,
was ever in my mind. Several times I
tried to resume ray writing, but my
pen seemed to drop from my lingers or
else my mind refused to respond to
my will. In dejection of spirit my
head would fall over on my arms, nnd
I would sit for hours dreaming of tho
Pines nnd Miss Ellen. In my niwthy
I Journeyed to Japan, and for awhile
life soemed brighter In thnt mosaic
looking country; but, go where I would,
there was ever recurring to my
thoughts tho picture of Miss Ellen, nnd
my heart would swell nnd tears rush
unbidden to my eyes ns I remembered
our parting. There was talk of war
between my country and Spain, but
this Interested me liitle. I seemed to
havo lost my sense nf the proportion
of things. Hesolved nt last to tako up
tho thread of my life again and begin
anew, I started for the States. Almost
tho first thing I learned on reaching
tho Pacific slojK) was tho fact that war
had boon declared. The will of an In
dignant people hnd swept aside politics
and diplomacy and had surged with
such jforeo about the nation's rulers
that no one dared stand In Its path.
TIhj martial spirit of my ancestors
had never burned within me, for iiy
mind had always been set In other di
rections, nnd my pursuits were tliose
of peace. Never hesitating for n mo
ment, liowever, I started across the
continent By telegraph and letters I
collected my scnttered Influences and,
backed, by my delegation In congress,
naked x tho governor of my state for a
commission. It was secured without
much trouble, and I was mustered in
rho ficrclco ns a first lieutenant of vol
unteers in ono of tlw regiments from
Massachusetts. t
(Continued la ext Friday's paper.)
GAMORRA TRIAL
RAN 1 6 MONTHS
., .. .. ...... ,
Minutes Covered 12,000 Pages
of Typewritten Matter.
700 WITNESSES TESTIFIED.
Cost to Italy Was $500,000 Fifty
Thousand Documents In Evidoncs.
Soldiers Constantly on Guard Sub
stitute Officials Attended Hearings.
In tho remarkably long trial of tho
Camorrlfts at Vlterbo, Italy, which
stretched out for almost a year and a
half and came to a close recently, tho
examination of witnesses began Mnrch
11, 1011, and was preceded by a pre
liminary Investigation of five yenrs.
The cnuso of the trial was the murder
of Gennaro Cuocolo, a Camorrlst, at
Torre del Greco, and of his wife, Ma
ria Cutlnelll, in Nnples. Their killing
was a Camorrlst execution.
During the long trial tho following
prisoners died: CIro Alfnno, who was
nrrestcd on the dny of his marriage
and Is said to hnve died of a broken
heart; Pasqualo Gnrglulo and Matteo
Valcarcel, who died last June, and Ciro
Vitelli, who wns present nt tho murder,
but evaded arrest and died of cholera
last year.
Altogether over TOO witnesses were
heard during tho trial; but, notwith
standing this, tho prosecution's ense
rested almost entirely on tho testimo
ny of Abbatemnggio, a former Camor
rlst and nn Informer.
Among the defendants was Ciro VI
tozzl, a Roman Catholic priest, concern
ing whoso alleged double life many
sensational revelations were made. An
other defendant wns Erricono Alfano,
who was arrested in New York. This
man wns tho leader of tho Camorrlsts
nnd was also said to bo the guiding
spirit of the Black nand gangs in the
United States.
A Peculiar Circumstance.
Owing to lack of evidence aud the
practical impossibility of compelling
witnesses to denounce tho Camorrlsts
the king's procurator had to withdraw
the charge of murder against some of
the defendants, of whom there were
sixty, and to admit that tlio proof of
tho guilt of some of tho others was In
sufficient The churges of criminal as
sociation1 which were made ngnlnst a
number of men and women among the
defendants were also withdrawn. Out
of tho twenty-two Camorrlsts who were
charged with such criminal associa
tion, a crime which cannot be punish
ed with more than five years' impris
onment, seventeen prisoners arrested
five years ago served out their terms
before the trial and were released au
tomatically. Only two of the Cnmorrists who were
Implicated In the murder of Cuocolo
and his wife or mistress succeeded In
evading arrest They were Giuseppe
Esposito and Andrea Attanaslo, who
fled and nre supposed to bo hiding in
America now. Erricono Alfano nlso
fled to this country, but lie was ar
rested In Now York by Detectlvo Te
trosino, whoso murder in Italy was the
Camorrlst answer. Giovanni Itupl, who
lied to Paris, returned to Italy and will
ingly surrendered himself to tlio po
llco in order to prove his Innocence.
Tho first ten months of the trial were
taken up with formalities connected
with tlio impaneling, swearing and
challenging of the Jurors and with the
hearing of evidence. In order to In
duce men to servo on this Jury a spe
cial law was passed by tho Italian par
liament fixing their pay on this one
trial at $1.40 a day. Tho last six
months of the trial were taken up with
speeches for tho prosecution and the
defense.
Originally over fifty lawyers npiear
ed for tho defense, but gradually, ei
ther becauso tho Camorrlsts had not
Uio money to pay their fees or because
they pretended to bo poor in order to
excite tho pity of the Jury, the numler
of lawyers was reduced to eighteen.
Tho two Camorrlsts Do Angells nnd
Amodoo, who wero conceded to havo
been falsely accusod'of tho murder by
tlio society In order to throw tho po
IIco off tlio track, wero present at the
trial and were represented by lawyers
In order to claim damages In civil ac
tions after Uio trial concluded.
Infantry Guarded the Court.
Besides the sia-eclies of tho lawyers,
there were others by exierts nnd alien
ists nppolnted both by .the court nnd
Uio prisoners to nscertnln whether tho
Informer, Abbatemnggio, was Insane.
During tlio trial two companies of In
fantry. ISO carabineers nnd fifty detec
tives wero constantly on duty. The
Camorra trial cost tlio state more than
$500,000. This sum Includes tho ex
penditure for prellmlnnry investigation,
Uio maintenance of the prisoners, tho
cost of their removal from Nuples to
Vlterbo nnd innumerable oUier Items,
Tlw minutes kept by tlw clerk of fho
court havo covered 12,000 pages of
typewritten matter, and tho reports of
Uio Investigating Judges' filled sixty vol
umes. More than 50,000 documents
Wero produced and read during the
trial.
In order to provide against Uio risk
of, intcrniptkm a eubsUtuto 'judge, n
substitute prosecutor nnd n milsUtnte
clerk wero nppainted, nnd they hnd
to attend all tho liearlngs and bo ready
to replace their colleagues at n ino
tncnt'p notice. No other trial in Italy
has ovoc lasted sixteen months. Tho
Camorra trial bents nil records.
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