Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-08-20
"The Maid OF the Mtstrdl."

Edgar Julian arrived at Savannah ana
was installed rs a member of the Roose-
welt household day or two before the
time Of Mrs, Roosevelt's party He i'm
mediately began searching examina-
ton of the situation of his employers
affairs, and found it grave. Ellis had
done his work well. and precisely in such
a way as to close up the very doorway OF
their success Julian could not see any
immediate escape Of course the plans
of Messrs. Roosevelt and Largely had
been kept profoundly secret. so that Ellis
and his New York coadjutors could have
had no counterplan in view, but their
operations had effected quite the same
thing ~ if directed to that end. The fact
was that Florida had suddenly attracted
the eyes of capitalists and land specu-
iators in both Europe and America. Ger
tain vast draining schemes were begin
ming to take shape, and their features
and probable results to be bruited about.
| The orange fever. the Jute fever, the
early vegetable fever, the Lee Conte pear
fever and the pine and cedar lumber
fever had started rush of emigration.
this advanced the price of land enor-
mously, the consequence was that the
state authorities offered large grants of
the public domain rs subsidies to induce
the building of canals and railways
Many schemes had been projected. some
of them had failed. others had fallen
into litigation, and the franchises of
nearly all of them were of doubtful va
lidity Out of this sort of chaos Edgar
Julian was expected to bring order For
two days he buried himself in Mr. Roose-
velt's office amid heap of books, pam
phlets and documents, plodding slowly.
step by step, through the history of pre-
vious schemes and litigations
In the meantime he scarcely more than
spoke to Rosalle. who was longing to
hear all he could tell her about Provence
and le Chateau Chenier
The evening for the party at the
Roosevelt mansion arrived; charming
weather with cloudess sky, and the
moon at its full. breeze from the ocean
Just cool enough to make open windows
luxury
The company was not large. between
hfty and one hundred guests, but it was
an exceptionally brilliant one Julian
passed from room to room in the course
OF the evening, finding himself once in
the conservatory where wilderness of
tropical plants and trees were kept in
state OF luxuriant confusion Here he
came upon Ellis and Rosalie Chenier
standing under palm spray by noisy
little fountain They were engaged in
earnest conversation He turned away
and left them, but not before a swift
pang had cut through his heart How
divlnely sweet she looked standing there
before the dark fellow. her rare face nm
turned to hist She wore dress of some
rich, clinging blue stuff that followed
the outlines of her form, there was old
lace about her throat and she wore
pearls in her pale gold hair "a single
great ruby, the gift of Aunt Marguerite,
shone like big drop of red wine on the
fair space at her throat.
Mrs. Roosevelt was acharming hostess,
easy, affable, not seeking homage, as
busy among her guests. and quite as un.
assuming, as bee among flowers She
TOOK great pains to introduce Julian,
ana always with some politely elusive
suggestion of his distinguished character
Few married women were present,
and most OF them were of the younger
class stately and reserved, as became
"uthern matrons but bright and inter
lsting on occasion
Toward the close of the evening Ed
gar Julian found Rosalie disengaged and
offered her his arm.
Won't you take turn with mep" he
said in low tone; "all your guests seem
happily fixed Just now. and ! may not