The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-17

deserted me-left me without dollar in
strange city, with never word OF eXpiana-
ton or farewell. We had been staying at
the Hotel Cecil. and he simply walked out
"A few days later-and this Is where that
woman in the Tombs comes in-I met him
in company with a woman When l read
the description the other day of the wo-
man in the badger game l knew At was
she. He did not wish 10 recognize me.
When l went up to him ne pushed me
aside as If had been a crossing sweeper.
81 had a terribly hard time until my
mother cabled me money to bring me oach
home, and I've never since lald eyes oh
that man. 1 don't know what shau 40
about it: but for the present I'm avoiding
all connection with such nasty aHaH uii-
till consult lawyer"
Fayne Strahan Moore's history since
her marriage has not been told qulte SO
frankly as that of her rival, because she
is in a situation that renders taking I'M
desira bic. But from various sources mas
been gathered a narrative of her career
from childhood TO marriage Which makes
highly interesting reading in the lght OF
the crime with which she is charged.
Soon after the close of the civil war
Reuben Strahan went to Oregon from Mis-
souri,. and in the course of a quarter OF
century's residence in Portland became
chief justice of the Supreme Court. tie
and his wife, a highly accomplished wo-
man, were not happy together, and when
their two daughters were at an age to
go to school she took them away from Or
egon and settled in Atlanta, Ga.
There it was that Fayne Strahan, the
Younger of the daughters-her sister died
grew 10 womanhood. Hers was merry
girlhood. She was of a nature TO be loved
by everybody When she was still child
somebody called her pet" The name
chung to her. AS pet she became wo-
man. Even strangers adopted the familiar
form of address.
pet Strahan associated with the very
best people in a town noted for its social
charm and discrimination She was the
idol and leader of the younger set. Her
accomplishments were many. She could
dance and sing and say witty things. And
while she set some of the conventionahues
at defiance, no one would have dreamed of
breathing a word against the fair-haired
daughter of the Oregon chief justice.
Chief Justice, Strahan died in 1894, and
his beautiful daughter paid visit TO Ore
gon to attend the funeral. A year or two
afterward she and her mother went
abroad. They spent months in London
and in Paris. This period must be under
stood to correspond with the period In
the parallel narrative when Mrs. Moore
No. l returned from johannesburg to Lon
don.
1t was in Paris, according to the best
accounts, that Pet Strahan encountered
William A. F. Moore. She amused her
friends in Atlanta afterward by telling
them how persistent d wooer he had been.
II is certain that she thought him a sin
gle man. Her mother was with her. They
had no reason to suspect that there was
anything wrong about the man whom
President Mckinley had appointed to a
consular agency.
Fayne Strahan was not married to Moore
when Mrs. Moore No. / encountered them
together in London, after Moore had de-
serted her. He was then simply her adj
mirer, so persevering in his attentions that
she at first laughed at them and after
ward yielded to them.
1t was after she and her mother had re-
turned to New York, the love-smitten
Moore in their wake, that she accompan-
led him to a church uptown and was mar
ried to him, with never a thought of
woman left in dire extremity at London
hotel
BY what process the light-hearted Fayne
Strahan developed into the adventures de-
scribed by Martin Mahon in his narrative
of the affair at the Hotel Grenoble there is
no means OF telling, for on that part of
the history of the chief Justices daughter
nothing has been told