The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-26
CARRUTHERS' LUCK.

When WHEN Dawnay fitted young Car.
uthers, all his cynical friends declared
that it was o blessing, and even those
who were not cynics admitted that MISS
Dawnay's treachery might prove bless
Ing In disguise But the heart OF ~ 10
rirgin loan, so that the first furrow OF the
plowshare cuts deeply, though IL does not
scar forever Carruthers was neitner CON-
forted by consolation nor hardened by Gym
icism. He had loved earnestly, anu ms
wrctchedness was in proportion. Inc
sting of stings lay in the fact that Nivlen
Dawnav Lad thrown him over for mere
money. She was now Mrs. Jessup.
As regards Jessup, he had huge FAC
tory on Long Island, mansion up town
and a villa at Newport. He was not OF So
cietv. but he was gradually entering the
mystic circle that rings society around
To pass the boundary with due eclat he
deemed himself in need OF just such wife
as was Vivien Jessup. SO it came to pass
that there occurred a business transaction
between these two. For his money and his
potentialities Miss Dawnay bartered her
youth, her beauty and her undeniable de-
scent from Pocahontas. Accordingly they
were married, and young Carruthers tan
cied that this mere curtain raiser OF his
life was all his worlds drama.
Carruthers was in fair way TO 60 TO
the devil when Vivien Dawnay Tilted him.
He did not 90 thither, however, but to
war instead. 1t was the war of those days.
Some nervous courtier of the emperor OF
Mandalay had unwittingly trodden upon
the sacred pigtail of the ambassador from
Cambodia. Within moon and half ev-
cry pigtail in all Cambodia tingled respon-
sively; hence the war
I have spoken of Carruthers' cynical
friends. Most cynics are good natured, and
H2rkneas was the best natured of cynlcs.
Hardness was & war correspondent, the
stormy petrol Of newspaperdom. He said to
Carruthcrs: i sail for MaDdalay tomor-
row. You feel like making a war on So
ciety. Come with mo and make war on
the Cambodians instead" And Carruth-
ers went.
The investment which Mr.. Jessup made
did not turn out SO we'll after all. A merely
rich man who is also single stands q
chance of sneaking into society by way OF
club parlOrs and yacht lunches but mar
ried roturier, even if his wife belong to q
first family of Virginia" does not al
ways fad open the front doors of Fifth
avenue. Moreover, .Jessup had married at
an inconvenient epoch. There was a real
serene highness within the gates, and lie
meditated marriage with the daughter of
a certain society she general Through the
medium III society papers the Prince of
demonstration Punpernickel's intentions
were no secret Under the circumstances
ha is,.r of Mt.S L Trn-pf;
difficult You cannot ask an independent
high and mighty lord of the empire tic
dance the cotiIlon with the wife of Long
Island manufacturer At least the great
danes up town argued in this wise. Poor
Nivien was very lonely al Newport and
still more lonely in New York. Jessup
had q short temper, and he lost it alto
gether when he found that his coup had
failed. Society papers began to say nasty
tiings about the couple. Nasty things are
nastiest when true. and these paragraphs
were hidoously accurate.
In the midst of it II the war in the east
collapsed with a crash. To everybody S
intense surprise, the forces of Mandalay
made minCe meat Of the Cambodians.
Then young Carruthers suddenly appeared
In London and wrote a book. If the war
was the war, then Carrutliers' book was
the book. 4 year lad passed without a
new fad or a new lion. Carruther5 and
his book filled the gap. Had not the
young soldier author penetrated as far as
Bangkok and seen the peacock thrones
Were there not grand, romantic stories
which made him the Joseph of a mysteri,
Gus oriental Potiphar's sultana? The
Duchess of GatheTum fed him upon orta-
Ians and truffies in Lioncatch castle, and
his book went through FIVE editions as a
circus columbine goes through hoops.
When London bows down, New York
salaams. Carruthers found himself twice
the hero in America that he had been in
England. The great society she general
heretofore alluded to intrigued for an in
PRODUCTION and hailed him of to Lenox.
The Prince Of Hohenstauffen-P umper-
nickel planned with him ali excursion into
Burma.
One morning Mrs. Jessup, nee Daw-
nay. read in her most detested society pa
per the following interesting item:
Fortune fayors the brave. This week
we announce the approaching wedding OF
that modern Monte Christie, Mr.. George
CaIruthers, 90 Hiss Virginia Van Ruy-
ter. 1T Will be remembered that Miss
Van Ruyter and her 1900, coo dowry
were popularity supposed to be destined for
Il : H. the Prince OF Hohenstauffen-
Pumpernickel. This is not to be. Gossip
says that Miss Van RUyter fell in love
with 'Carruthers' Cambodianus' at first
sight. Her hero is no needy fortune hunt
er, for his recent work is coming money,
and another book may shortly be expected
from his pen
Mrs Jessup displayed considerable i'll
nature when her husband returned with
cut cards for the Van Astorbilt ball.
Poor Vivienl She had been thinking of
how differently matters might have fallen
out if only she had remained the fiancee OF