The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-31
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Church. proud family, too, with plenty
of money and enough dignity to carry it;
q family that had sent soldiers to the Revo-
luton and statesmen to Congress and about
whose hospitable board the best of the land
assembled on great occasions; yet withal a
family that had instincts and training,
courtIy, noble race, that seldom descended
10 mean things, the natural leaders Of the
old country aristocracy.
II was twenty-five years ego that We
played together, the boys of the old Huy-
gencamp private school, and Lord John,
with his proud, slender form, his brilliant
eyes, his curly hair of DARK auburn, was six
teen that year. His birthday came in term
time, and old Colonel Lord and his wife
visited him With their daughter, Lord Johns
sister, a belle of Newport and Washington
siI &c but then only fair.haired child OF
twelve. The old Colon ell brought out great
hsmper OF cakes and chicken, and jellies
and homemade confectionery, and gave ii
smiling TO Lord John 'for you aud your
school mates, my son." II the Colonel had
been able to look fifteen years along the cur
TENT OF years he was the man to have felt
like giving his ton a pistol bullet or ten
grains of strychnine, Just to keep him from
Ten years passed; Lord John was the
weeltbiest and handeomest young man in
the region, and might have had his pick of
girs from New England or from the Sunny
South-of Senators or of millionRires'
daughters. For there was that about him
which made him attractive to every one.
The rest OF the boys had scattered, some in
business, some plain farmers. some had be.
Con regular globe-iTotters; Lord John was
alo ost the only one who stald by the Bel
al est IN he art nf " Morv
land.
Whatever possessed Lord John to fly in the
face of his training and 20 ever to Rsllsville,
the homely little factory village, and fall in
glove with Mary Beeton, don't know. She
wss certainly pretty thing appealing eyes
and modest wayF, the daughter of farmer
somewhere along the Susquehanna, and had
only been At work q few months in the fac
tory where, indeed, the Lord family owned
NEST OF the stock. They say she was uned-
ncattd. but q girl OF unusual powers of
mind; you go there to-day and people will
tell you or Mary's resolve to make some
thing OF herself. Nobody knows what passed
between them or what promises he made
her but brought up as she had been, to feel
thai there was great gulf fixed between the
''hIeher and lower" classes of society. there
could at lest be only enc res1lt-the poor
girl yielded.
They cav that Lord John took her to Bslti-
more and kept her there awhile, but he COW
tired of poor Mary, and courted and won
famous New Orleans heiress and beauty, the
story about the Boston girl was long time
In reaching the of interested parties.
AT lest just the day before the wedding, the
proud young Creole. in whose veins the best
of French, Spanish and American blood
flowed, was in the summer house on the hill
overlooking the broad Chesapeake. She was
troubled and unhappy; her feelings toward
Lord John had slowly changed, for there was
l0@ h r.F IL - Al
for the future She admired his brilliancy,
and that was all.
Into the arbor stepped a worn and faded
beauty and confronted the proud Creole.
Are you going marry Lord John?" she
cried. Then ask him at the altar who
Mary Beeton Is, and she turned to leave
the place.
Angevine Dutot babe her pause aud asked
her with cold sereuity the reason for her
words. Satisfied herself OF the truth of tn
story from letters In her betrothed hand
writing. dismissed tho wropged woman and
returned TO the bouse-that of her relatives
where she had been spending the summer
She wrote g letter to Lord John, only few
JiEes advising him to marry Mary Beeton.
She told the servant to pack her trunks and
send them after her; and within two hours
she was on her way to New Orlians with her
faithful maid and small hand valise for
iuf That was the way she cut the igor
dian snot-a heroine call her, and what is
more to the point thoroughly practical
woman. When she got back to New Orleans
she sent for her lawyer and told him to put
. trustworthy detective on the track OF Mary
Beeton and find out all about her
Wnyr asked the lawyer, an old and
tried friend
Because one sin should not wreck a wo-
mans life any more than it does a mans. If
she - repentsnt. If elements OF good vet re-
MAN, shall take care of her, even though
ne refuses TO marry her. She has been cast
like sea waif across my track. and can not
ignore my plain duty: At any rate
she sball have some sort ef q chance again,
but my identity must, of course, remain con-
cealed forever"
Lord John was awfully cut ND by the af-
lar, which proved more than nine days
Talk The story assumed protean shapes,
and was told in every clab room saloon and
public place. It furnished the basis for
columns of spicy comment in most of the
local and city journals of the State aud the
main facts were autographed far and wide
The old Colonel tried 10 seize HIM by the
tnrost when they frst met after the excose
and bis feebler mother rushed between and
soon after tainted on the floor, while his sis
1er sin ply ignored his existence. They all
OF them went too far. 1t was the public dis
grace and the being talked
ABOUT FAR more than the treatment
Oh the roor little factory girl that the old
Colonel grew wild over. And Lord John,
after sw caring at his relatives and the CON-
munity at large, went West without more
1hsn $40 in his pocket. And he went alone.
Mary Beeten moved to little villags on
The eastern slope of the Alleghanies over
looking the blue and broad susquehanna,
ana here Tor nearly q year she gained
xeanty subsistence by her needle, steadily
living down reproaeh. but still in many
ways q social outcast, for the story had fol-
lowed her footsteps with its accustomed am
piincations- Though she guessed ii not her
footsteps were watched by friends who were
NeIi sstisned with what they saw. and so re-
ported to the young Creole heiress
linen there came to her q letter saving:
tl6o Lane "a unn MARI paa4o-. -~-s.-.--o.