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“DON CAESAR DE BAZAN.” The big French ball, that annual revel at the metropolis, brings together a motley assemblage of the devotees of folly. The scene at the entrance to Madison Square Garden to-ni…
A FAIRY TALE THAT CAME TRUE. Toward 10 o’clock Louise Hathaway decides that she has witnessed enough of the brilliant panorama to warrant her in returning to the hotel, and as Cyrus Felton is plainly…
A REPRISAL OF TREACHERY. “Don’t be absurd, Don Manada.” “Absurd? Dios! I was never more thoroughly in earnest in my life.” “Nevertheless, you are absurd,” Isabel Harding smiles tantalizingly over her…
FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. “You proposed to a lady to-night.” “What is that to you, sir?” Don Manada turns fiercely upon the gentleman who has tapped him upon the shoulder and requested the pleasure o…
TWO KINDS OF BLOCKADE. About 9:30 of the morning following the French ball Phillip Van Zandt drops into his favorite seat in the dining-room of the St. James hotel and picks up the morning paper. Sca…
THE PENALTY OF PROCRASTINATION. A pencil of sunlight has struggled through the heavy draperies at the windows and laid a tiny straight line across the carpet in the comfortable apartments of Jack Ash…
THE CRUISER AMERICA. “Jack, Mr. Ricker wants to see you,” is the information extended to Ashley when he reaches the office. He reports at the room of the city editor, and that gentleman informs him t…
GREAT RACE TO THE OCEAN. “By Jove! I had no idea the captain had so much sporting blood in his veins,” murmurs Jack Ashley to himself, as he watches alternately the challenging craft and the America.…
ASHLEY LAGS SUPERFLUOUS. “If she is the property of the revolutionists, gentlemen, with her phenomenal speed she can run the strictest blockade the Spaniards can institute, can land arms, ammunition …
ON TO FAIR CUBA. “There are only two bits of evidence needed to complete my moral conviction that I am the only person connected with the Raymond tragedy who is not in Cuba or on his way thither,” re…
