The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-26

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 well 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 a 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?'
81 think Mr.. Dudabs will go about
the same time, and 1 thought he might
consent to take charge of you"
Mrs. Williams had a narrow escape
from falling into a large open trunk,
but righted herself Immediately. Her
voice was not quite natural as she
said: "Why do you say that? 1 have
heard you denounce him as a rake;
but l consider him a gentleman"
Mr.. Williams lever responded to
this question and his wife hesitated d
good deal owe the preparation of her
baggage for the next few days, but
she packed it nevertheless. She was
a guilty woman and knew 1t, but she
was puzzled at the source of her hus-
bands information. She knew him
well enough to know he would despise
the employment of a private detective
to spy upon his wife, yet he had i'm
piled to her fearful soul a belief that
she was going away with another
man. She had married a 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-
u this morning and was fatally in
jured. He was taken to the hospital,
where he CAV 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 Cavoort house. but is too ill to
be interviewed as to the young gentle
mans antecedents.
Albany, N. Y, April 3O.-Mr. T. Will
Jams, a well known Colorado capitalist,
committed suicide on the New York
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 five
minutes. 1t is known he had been in
New York but a few hours before,
having registered at the Cavoort house,
where he took breakfast. He was a
man of great wealth, etc.
From a Paris letter to the Denver
Tid-Bit five years later: The death
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 Denver
society; second, instead of being an
adventures of the ordinary type she
was enormously wealthy in her own
right, and had for years expended vast
sums in charity, and third, she had no
lover uDOn whom to lavish her DrOD-
erty, all of which things are amazing
in view of the reputation she bore.
Her eccentricities are visible in her
will. She bequeaths nearly a million
dollars to establish a Magdalen home
in London, gives the rest to distant
relatives and provides that her own
body shall be cremated and the ashes
scattered in mid-ocean. 1t is believed
her kindred will contest her will on
the ground of mental unsoundness
with a view to defeating the bequest
to the Magdalen institution.