The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-05
sSHE MARRIED BOTH.

AEIu O1 AuukSusbeAu GO 1IOhM was tHo
of prosperity and contentment,
In his office In the most lux
uriantIy appointed Office building in
town. His private Office, where we find
him, was q poem in hard wood and
stuoco. but its spick and span ~cleanli-
denoted it's newness. In fact, Mr..
Trott had not always occupied quarters
like these. Indeed a. he sat In his rotary
chair, putting the smoke from q Colorado
maduro with a sultanio air of limitless
wealth, Mr.. Trott's elegant Surround
ings bore the gloss OF a weeks existence
and not a day more. Not that he wore
the new conditions with any the less
grace on that account. Showever. ANY
one to have observed him critically
would have acknowledged the aristo-
cratic repose of his regular features and
the exquisite taste of his fashionable APP
parel. But the fact remains that Mr..
Trott a week before had been o strug-
Cling young attorney with an inchoate
practice and an unreliable sequence as
to meals.
As there are no such things as fairy
wands to change hungry lawyers into
we'll fed barristers, the truth may as
we'll be admitted-Mr. Trott had hit
the races. The $40, 900 retainer from a
delightfully."- mysterious corporation in
the west, which he assured bis friends
was the basis of his new m~agnifcence,
was i'm reality a winning Of thatsamount
on cluster horses upon whose combined
speed he had made a bet after the a
ner current among the poOlrooms. For
all this MIR. Trott vas by no means .
sport" He was unquestionably .
young man of talent who would be
heard from one of these days and who
knew what it meant TO toll terribly"
The reason that we do not find him
at work with his books directly concerns
our interest in this lucky youth, for Mr..
Trott's thoughts were floating back yer
Ave long years of professional vicissi-
tudes. as dreamily as the smoke that
curled aloft over his blond head, until
they rested upon a face of dark, healthy
beauty, surmounted by curling locks as
black as the tender eyes whose depths
he had once celebrated in afeeble quat.
rain, with the opinion that they riyaled
the glories of q starlit night He had
truly been desperately In love with
Alice Monroe, a fact that had been full
" appreciated by that dainty little des-
pot, who not only accepted All his at
tentions in the way of theater tickets,
balls and bouquets, but pOuted for more.
IN - 4Loro %Lsnro he'd hanx. 49, saoSun;w
of poor, young Mr.. Trott, who won
dered how he was ever to marry q girl
whose trivial expenses per week exceed
ed his income at the bar per month. To
render the situation even more poignant
she repeatedly declared that the man
she married vould have to have money.
In her heartless opinion love in q cot
tage was unqualified bosh. Often he had
exclaimed to the four walls Of his dingy
room:
tsShe is vain, Haunting, extrayagant
and unworthy an honest fellows toll. Z
On every fine Sunday afternoon. for
her sweet sake, he had hired a yellow
cart and q large black horse with q
stride like the course Of empire, whose
tan colored harness was the SWEETEST
thing that graced the Clifton drives ON
that day. The SWEETEST? Alas, mol There
was one rig that excelled that OF Mr..
Trott, even AZ the white glory CT the
diamond excels the dull gray OF the to.
paz. And in that rig sat the betB noiI
Of MIR. Trott-the oae being on earth
whom he hated with the cheerful cor
dial hate of a lover for q rival.
The name of this party was Messef'
schmidt, a cool, imperturbable gentle'
man, the unrufied impudence OF whoss
small, steady eyes had taken Mr.. Trott'l
measure on the night THAT they had frs
met i'm Miss Monroe's parlor and wers
ever since noting the details OF Mr..
Trott's suit with a stolid Teutcni'
amusement that betokened their owner
! confidence in his own supremacy. A. |;
rival Mr.. Messerschmidt was indeed pc
culiarly dangerous In the possession o
q gigantic soap factory, inherited iron
o simple minded parent who woult
have turned in his grave with astonish
ment had he seen what his son had don'
for the old nce since it's founder
| death, for the plant had undergone tn
mysterious process known only 70 th1
subtle promoter who ~capitalizes q smal
enterprise into o colossal one BY th
| hocus pocus OF the s'street."
Never in his life had Mr.. Trot
claimed the society of the capriCiOu
Miss Monroe ON one of those bright Aft
ernoons but what Mr.. Messerschmid
could be seen I'M his gorgeous turnont
riding insolently alongside O else tax
ing the roadsin d manner even more in
solent Just in front. This gentleman
presence was not only obtruded upo
them at these times, but he seemed :
divine by q diabolical instinct just wine
and where TO find them together. IT MI
Trott took Miss Monroe to the theatei
the other party invariably had . sea
nearby which he would change for on
Immediately next 20 the couple and or
gage them III conversation with q milo
insinuating assurance that used TO irrl
tate the young lawyer TO the point /
insanity. When he took Miss MonrOe !
the Art museum-a favorite ruse OF hl
to get her away from possible intrrde1