The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-06

of the sea loosened and detached, rises
( slowly. stayed by one eddy, again by an
other. before achieving its gradual yet
/ sure ascent, so the revelation rose from
the depths of their being and suddenly
! sureed before them. But love you"
he cried There IS a magic in those words.
And I TOO, love you" she answered.
Nothing could have been prettier. It
was like a page from a fairy tale-the
hsher-rnald woed by the prince. AS
matter Of fact it was TOO pretty TO last,
/ and. as a matter Of course. there was
/ gossip. There was hunlor as well. Dor
! othy became known as the Norman Con-
quest.
| So fine was that jest that to some 1t had
! to be explained. among others TO Doro-
I t4ny's father. Even then II fell fat. He
/ saw no hunlor in It. What he dtd see
was his duty. AS he looked at the latter
It grew very red But he did not look
/ long. In no time. in phrase which ne
! had caught somewhere, he was asking
/ young man his intentions.
/ In similar ctrcunst anceS young men
/ have replied that their intentions were TO
leave. The sincerity Of Norman's sudden
love was manifest in the readiness of his
honest answer AS he spoke the father
/ beheld not a scoundrel, but sutton. II
dazzled him not little.
The dazzling Of the neighbOrhood was
another matter. It is a part OF New
England shrewdnees to take nothing for
granted. It is New England custom
70 distrust the untried Even otherwise,
it was with entire pertinence that the
father was asked: "Since when has a
, fsherman's daughter married million
aires SOM"
In Newport there was the same query
with a different accent The Norman's
we're as much tndisposed to Innovations
as rural and primitive folk. In addition
they were sure that however fresh the
girl might be. her manners would be
fresler. If mistakes there were It was
there that they made It.
There are girls who divine everything
without having learned a thing There
are others who are taught everything.
and who understand nothing Dorothy
was one of the former. Precisely as
maidens have passed from the wigwams
Of Manhattan to semi-royal halls abroad.
and in the passing have so quickly assfm-
Hated the impressions of a new existence
thar no one over there could suspect that
they once had a twang and dressed in
feathers and beads-so on her honeymoon
did this little fsher-Firl leave behind her
the prtnidveness of her home and emerge
at Newport, q, bride, fresh, and & may
be befreckled still. but high-bred. low
voiced unabashed and serene enhancing
as an angel and far better CARRIED. She
won all along the line. The Norman con-
quest was complete
Not at once Of course. On Bellevue ave
nue. and in that precinct of Boston which
is known as eBacon street. there were
strongholds that resisted castles quite
Spanish in their defiance and as quickly
subdued. one by one she invested them
| One by one they fell
II was from Belair-the family fortress
on the Old Beach Road at Newport-that
I she deployed for action. Built before the
food, at least a quarter of a century ago.
spacious and ugly as edi1ces were in those
days, Il possessed what many of the more
ornate dOnjons leakage, or the appear
ance of it, which amounts to the same
, thing. That. together with the affiliated
interests behind it. was her strength. For
reserve she had her charm In face of
both, what could the enemy do but surren-
der? They may not have put down their
arms. but they received her in them. At
once the fshermans daughter was on the
top of the wave. She bid and was hidden.
She drove. she dined and she danced. Her
name appeared in the papers every day of
her life There is social SUGGEST
There, too was the dream, and with it
romance realtzed-the beggar maid raised
to a throne-a little girl who had run
barefoot on the Gloucester sands lifted
suddenly into what the writer thinks ne
has seen described as high life, and not
/ through wealth merely, but by love as
well. In the stories which lady novelists
used TO spawn ON the public parallel in
stances were common. In society as il
exists they are rare, It is that fact which
makes. too. the beauty of the dream.
But dreams don't last This one was not
an exception. Yet through just what
processes the awakening occurred one
may surmise and never know. There are
curtains best left unraised.
Il is part of love and it's poetry TO be
unstayable. Chateaubriand, who Under
stood both, noted that there are appari-
tons which sometimes visit the heart and
home of man. eSek for them. ne Hdded
and they have vanished. So It is with the
affections. One morning this lady looked
for them They had gone. II was IN that
way the weakening came about.
/ Newport. meanwhile, had grown rather
small Boston seemed provincial, local
conquest trtte. But, though Imperialism
was then unfornuated, in the social
/ realm there are always etrongholds 10 be
attacked. castles to be stormed, terrific
ries that women pine TO annex. In the
chronicles of our day Boadiceas there are
in plenty. At the assaults of some OF
them London has capitulated BY others
Paris has been won There are those
who have besIeged Rome. sacked It, and
returning in triumph have been defeated
only in New York. Whether Mrs. Nor
. mans views were in accordance with the
present policy OF expansion is uncertain
I In the story of this dream and awaken
ing there are details SIN obscure Never
theless. IL is a matter OF record that, ao-
companied by her husband. she sailed
for England wandered from there
/ through the ghosts and treasures Of Italy,
and al last in Cairo. sat down 10 rest.
To the tourist life there is easier and
can be more complex and az the same
time more vicious than in any other cap
ital OF the globe. Cairo provides relaxa-
,ions which invite. tables that entce, and
a1mees more tempting than either. Set in
a climate which is a caress, il is the sewer
OF every sin. Men have gone mad there
and women worse.
Just what occurred then IS another de-
tan unelcidate3 Yet. Il is recited merely
r4la, Ny. Nornan--who anteriorly had be
come an ensign in the navy. and who is
r--r N lie -L-h saas-n-a H. -.ha.,.