Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20

are aware, spent at Mount Desert. One par
tcularly charming man / met there. You
know how one comes across people at a water
ing place without knowing much about them
Thess man 1 speak of was from Texas and
enormously rich. He was good looking his
manners we're delightful and he was most ac-
complished. That he wns q person of large
means no one was at first aware. He was in
troduced to our set by some swell New Workers.
who knew hum intimately and who left for
Newport the day after. Every one liked him
offhand, and interest in him was heightened
by the fact that no one knew anything
In particular concerning him. His introduc-
tfbn was such as to render him most accep table
and all Of the girls we're as Disguised as could
be when they learned that he was married
How the fact was ascertained did not know.
Certainly / should not have imagined ii from
his ways and appearance. II you are an OBJ
server my dear, you must have noticed that
a married man almost always has something
indefinable about him that outwardly distin-
cuisines him from the bachelor, just as 1 have
heard men say that the youngest married
woman had always a different expression from
the maiden. However, you are aware that
men find 1t amusing to go OF to watering
places and to assume the virtue Of bachelor
hood though they have it not, and the i'm
position Is too often not discovered admit
that had set him down as being as yet unfet-
tered matrimonaily when FIRST saw him, and
1t was disappointment to me to learn that
young men are scarce at summer resorts, and
they are always desirable. even il one 10 very
Tar from wishing to marry them. Married
men are all very well in their place. but, to q
certain extent. from the point Of view of us
girls they are persons neither of one sex nor
the other. The only really interesting mar
ried man is the wicked one, who is unre-
strained by his own domestic attachments from
paying attentions to the young women he
meets. Some girls don't mind that sort of
thing. but have always thought it was a great
mistake to permit 1t, If only for the reason
that it is likely to compromise one."
But what has ali this TO do with the we'd
ding invitation"
You shall see presently. This very charm
ing man Of whom speak began paying me
attentions, and rather enjoyed them up to a
certain point. But l soon perceived that he
wished TO carry them too far In other words
he made love to me. Had known him to be
single IL would have been different matter
could not well have regarded him otherwise
than favorably, because he had every personal
advantage, and il was by this time pretty we'll
understood that he was rich. But. under the
circumstances, rather felt that the assiduity
with which he pursued me was insulting. He
proceeded a: length TO unmistakable love-
making. One morning when we were sitting
on the rocks together he said. tenderly:
Miss Millefeurs, you are a lawyers daugh-
ter. Permit me to ask you when your father
has established claim against piece Of
property what is his usual course of proce-
dure, if he thinks that the claim may possibly
not be secured?'
He gets out an attachment replied
promptly. had served my father somewhat
as his secretary.
so supposed he responded. Now, I
have formed an a:tachment-one OF a very
earnest nature. You NAV, perhaps have
heard OF shyster lawyers, as they are called
who, having a claim of very dubious nature
upon piece Of property, get out an attach
ment upon it. hoping to effect a compromise
profitable to them. Now. such is my position.
My attachment to yourself L. as real as posi-
BILE. though my claim is, alas! only too dubious
81 should think it was, very much So
said. dryly, moving away from him about
foot
81 am too we'll aware OF that Miss Mile
feurs,' he rejoined But had hoped that Won
would make allowance for certain disqualified
tions which render my appeal to your interest
only too unworthy
''My dear, l thought Of the mans wife and
his presumptive children, and il was with some
indignation that exclaimed:
do think your appeal most unworthy, sir, >
] said. Permit me to bid you good morning."
"well, dearest" interrupted tho confdant
.'allow me to ask once more what all this has TO
do with the wedding cards?"
''Simply this, replied Miss Millefeurs "The
wedding invitation was for the marriage Of this
very man to Lulu Knickerbocker, with whom
! quarreled DO irrevocably last spring. The
nasty thing was altogether responsible, as I
have since learned, for the transformation that
the man WAS married, and her object IN cir
culating 1t was TO keep the other girls OF and
secure him for herself, as she did after had
refused him without realizing il. There's one
CONCENTRATING quarreled with Lulu, shan't