The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-12-06

a personal paragraph aloud. Mrs.
Titus Williams leaves next week for
trip to Paris and the mansion will |
be closed for an indefinite period. |
This will be read with regret by so
ciety, as the Williams hospitality is
proverbial.' What do you suppose that |
means, Ole?
The words Of their mouths are
softer than butter, but war is in their
hearts," misquoted the paying teller |
from the Scriptures. But can beat
you a game Of billiards" The days
business was done and the two young
men drifted out Of the building.
Titus Williams was reading the
same paper as he rode home in his
carriage, and he perused that item
with a slight pain about his well sea
soned old heart. He continued to read
until he came to this: willie Du-
dabs, the we'll known clubman, goes
to New York next week to visit rela-
tives." He sprang to his feet, for
like to white hot steel is an old mans
ire." He had put two and two to-
gether and decided that the sum was
five.
Mrs. Williams was busy as bee
packing her trunks when her husband
entered the house, and greeted her
lord with scant affection.
''When do you leave me?" he asked.
"On Monday. Why do you ask?''
II think Mr. Dudabs will go about
the same time, and I thought he might
consent to take charge of you"
Mrs Williams had narrow escape
from falling into aslarge open trunk,
but righted herself Immediately. Her
voice was not quite natural as she
said: "Why do you say that? have
heard you denounce him as rake;
| but consider him gentleman"
Mr.. Williams never responded to
| this question and his wife hesitated
good deal over the preparation Of her
baggage for the next few days, but
she packed it nevertheless. She was
a guilty woman and knew it, but she
was puzzled at the source Of her hus-
bands information She knew him
we'll enough to know he would despise
the employment of private detective
to spy upon his wife, yet he had i'm
piled to- her fearful soul belief that
she was going away with another
man. She had married man twenty
five years her senior, and had now be-
come infatuated with a man ten years
her junior. This she regarded merely
as the working Of a mysterious law
of compensation. Being an old mans
darling had proved irksome, and be-
sides she wanted to see the big round
world from various points of view.
She was rich in her own right and be-
lieved Titus Williams was too proud
a man to pursue her as well as too
cold. Women often underestimate
men in just this way. :,
|
The remainder of my story may
best be told in a few clippings from
the news columns of the daily papers.
From the New York Evening Sensa-
ton: A good-looking young man
whose name appears to be William J.
Dudabs fell from a second-story win
|, dow of the Cavoort house on Fifth ave-
nue. this morning and was fatally in.
jured. He was taken to the hospital
where he gave his name, but was
singularly reticent as to the cause OF
the accident, if accident it was. Some
, of the servants of the hotel allege that
they heard sounds as Of an alterca
ton proceeding from Mr.. Dudab's
; room about the time the accident oc
, Cured. A lady from the same West
.. ern city where Mr.. Dudabs resides is
, at the Cayoort house. but is too ill tt
|
, mans antecedents. - ...
l Albany, N. Y, April 3O-Mr r. Will
l Jams, a we'll known Colorado capitalist
: committed suicide on the New Yorl
!, express this morning about 10 o'clock
- He was seen to take something from
- - a small vial which he carried in his
= vest pocket, and expired within fiv'
- minutes. It is known he had been IL
New York but few hours before
q having registered at the Cavoort house
!, where he took breakfast. He was ;
! man of great wealth, etc. ...
= From Paris letter to the Denve
!, Tid-Bit five years later: The dealt
- the other day of the we'll known Nine
. Ike was the occasion of several sur
<. prises. First, she was an American
:, and was once prominent in Denve
= society; second, instead of being a
. adventures of the ordinary type sh
- was enormously wealthy in her ow!
. right, and had for years expended vas
- sums in charity, and third, she had n
= lover upon whom to lavish her PROF
: erty, all of which things are amazin
in view of the reputation she bore
Fl, Her eccentricities are visible in he
- will She bequeaths nearly a millio
dollars to establish Magdalen HON
, in London, gives the rest to distar
- relatives and provides that her ow
- body shall be cremated and the ashe
:, scattered in mid-ocean. It is believe
= her kindred will contest her will 0
=. the ground of mental unsOundnes
:. with view to defeating the beques
. to the Magdalen institution.
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