The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-03

remove in the past were panied at
something in ner which they could not
describe.
Months later Johnny and Lucy re-
turned to Los Angeles. There was an
other change in Lucy, or rather that
first change had been accented, and
then the observant interpreted it and
gave it a name-Lucy was whirling.
She a seen the world, and the world,
as Johnny presented it to her, was
pleasant. Once back in their handsome
home they began to entertain, always
giving the whirlwind kind. Johnny
used to give bachelor dinners. Lucy
was not only willing, but helped him.
On one occasion, when he entertained
a a party of sports at his home
table, She designed the menu cover
bent woman holding aloft a goblet Of
wine. Lucy was learning much.
Down at Santa Monica by the sea,
lived old Don Juan Bandini, one of the
relics Of the olden days of Spanish
occupancy. He had a beautiful daugh-
ter, who was a talented, travelled wo-
man at the time Johnny and Lucy
were married. Miss Bandini was on a
o ~ In Europe when she met a man
named Ward. II. Russell Ward, son OF
u good English family and a gentle
man in appearance. Miss Bandini and
Ward loved each other and were mar
ried. She had money, at least her
father had, and when he died Mr.. and
Mrs. Ward journeyed from London to
Los Angeles to look after the Bandini
properties. They took a handsome
home at Santa Monica and entertained.
About the time of their coming
Johnny had grown tired of whirling.
The Indian slept again, and Johnny,
with an avowal to leave the old trail,
moved his encourage down to the little
away from Los Angeles. There the
B~radburys lived in quiet domesticity
for the first time in their married life.
1t might have been SO still, but there
was Ward. The two families met, had
many %congenial tastes, and an init
macy sprung up between them. Mrs.
Ward and Mrs. Bradbury became fast
friends and confidantes. 1t was an idyl-
lie life down there where the Pacific is
always smiling and the town sleeps so
quietly under it's pepper trees. The two
women were inseparable.
When and where no one but the two
participants know, Ward awoke to Mrs.
II ,oJ1,,p, o-l ,L@ l~1o~, ao--..
Of Ward as other than a neighbor.
How long ago is not told, but some
time Ward said the things to Mrs.
Bradbury which a lover says to his
sweetheart, and a new and the last
personality was obtruded into the tale.
stances love is not the word. With all
her life in the gay world, Lucy Brad
bury had some of the Lucy Banning
left in her, and she did n o forget. Eut
Ward fascinated, and she bowed a
queenly head to him and became a
slave. -
Nothing was known of the new heart
1t was a startling figure of a recum-
story until a week ago.. Mrs. Ward was
going to England. She packed her
trunks, took her child and kissed her
English husband good-by. She left
him in the care of her friends. the
Bradburys, and started across the con-
tinent. Then plans began to take
shape. Mrs. Ward reached New York.
stayed a day or two and sailed. On the
day of her sailing Lucy Bradbury left
Los Angeles. On the same train was
Ward, the fascinating Ward. When
she left Mrs. Bradbury took her Jewels
worth about $4,000. After hawking
them from place to place, she sold them
for ST. 500. That was all the pair had
When the train reached San Francis
&C Lucy Bradbury and Ward were to-
gether and that night they registered
at Marchand's. At Chicago they were
overtaken by Bradbury and a recon
cilliation followed. Husband and VITA
returned to the coast.
Young HeIress Missing.
Miss Grace Stevenson, prepossessine.