Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-10-07
UNDER A CLOUD.
1bs Beautiful Heir to the House
in the Woods.

in the Woods.
"She's beautiful, lovable and true
girl"
Yes" sighed the matron, ..Du
she'll never find husband"
''She certainly receives plenty of at
tention,' | suggested, uncertain of the
speakers meaning.
'For time, yes" was the reply.
Fortune hunters pursue her keenI,
until they learn the family story. And
well they may, for if she lives a year
lonscr''-
(which is entirely probable" ]
eenturcd to interjcct, gazing upon the
healthy glow that mantled the cheeks
OF the pretty girl who sat on the oppo.
site side of the parlor.
Nothing is unexpected in that hause-
hold, commented the matrOn before
she resumed the thread of her narrative.
I'll she lives another year, as | re-
marked, or til legal age, she will in
merit S250, 0O0-her mothers estate.
w HSh iiCi ltbucT ules
but. my dear madame, he's a hale
and jolly old topper, who loves life and
hangs on for all there's in it, l felt
~eA enough acquainted to remark,
parenthetically.
True enough; but if she outlives
him he'll leave her at least million.
Shc's the onl Y child that is, the only
one that survives. An elder brother, a
charming fellow. cut his throat last
1all In moment of suicidal impulse.
Awful as was this misfortune in itself,
1T had more sinister import to the
ttther and daughter. Though YOU
think him jolly, reckless old man,
tell you he was not himself again for
months. The young woman was
crushed. Since That day she has lived
rs in dream. She throws herself
madly into society, but there's no for
:rctfuinesS for her. She wants to marry,
naturally, but does not. A signal was
given by her poor brother, and a horror
always dreaded now confronts her.
She, only waiting"
waiting? Waiting for what?'
1.-The development of the family
taint-madnessr'
With curiosity at fever-heat / then
learned the whole sad story. 1t is
pltiable tale, and it seems hardly fit
that we, who have chattcd and laughed
so much together since the season
began, should listen to 1.-The True
STORY OF the Beautiful Girl Who Can
Not Marry" An ethical interest is
added to the narrative by the insight
which IS afforded of the womanly in
stlnets of the gentle matron who barred
this family skeleton. She has daugh-
ter of her own who does not shine when
contrasted with the tail, fair, blonde
girl. Several times had she observed
me chatting with the Baltimore belle,
and that may explain why she got me
apart from the crowd in the great par
Tors 10 relate the woes of a most I'M
fortunate family. At first the malice
OF the act was thinly vcneered with a
makc-believe sympathy, but before she
had finished, the hideOus character of
the curse that hung over the Young
creature was eXpatiated on to the mi
nutest of its terrifying details To rem
der impossible any escape from loy-
ical conclusion that death in mad |
house or more merciful Suicide awaited |
this pretty woman. my chronicler |
went back three generations. / wish |
1t were possible, without causing pain,
to give the family name. Nv in /
formant, for the purpose of her recital,
spared nobody. But am not woman.
and can not understand II. strenet tn of
her impulses to destroy person who
never knowingly crossed her path. If
were to whisper few words to am
bilious young girls they would be:
Fear most the mothers of your riv-
walls. Well, here's the story, rs near
y reproduced as memory permits:
1.-The barbaric strain descends
the female side of the house."
began the matron, as she sent her
laughter away on young mans arm.
The reason for this is that the sons,
With the single exception of her ma
'ernal grandfather, never lived to a
age. In four genera
ions. according to the statements of
n family, there have been eleven sui
,ides in the direct and collateral lines.
The maternal grandfather of yon pref
y girl was an Englishman who came
o Baltimore soon after the close of the
var OF 1928. He was possessed of
money and soon attained an enyiable
social position, but he was careless of
10Th to 4 dangerous extent A grand
'nclc Of mine, who lived i'm Philadel-
'hia, knew the man we'll. and has often
old me how he was constantly seeking
o divert his mind by excitement He
vas bold and reckless player. Finally
he married, and the couple lived to-
either for eight or ten years. Three
hildrcn. one boy and two girls, were
'orn of the union. One day he disap-
'eared, and nothing was heard of him
or several weeks. At the end of that
lme letter came to the sorrowing
fife couched in the most agonizins |!
'nguagc. Its purport was that the inn
ulse of the writer to take his !
wn life had grown DO upon him that
then overmastered him. BY the
me the letter reached its dcstinationl
G would be a dead man. And with a
aoughtsulness that was worthy Of :
ettcr purpose he declared that he
'ould cake his life in friends .
resencc, so that proof of his death !
ould- be readily established. He
Irthcr said that he was the only one Q
his family that survived, and that
lie property he owned in Baltimore
nd Philadelphia would descend to his S