The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-07-21

romance and tragedy. Her friends say
that her life was as pure as that of the
children and the flowers she loved so
well.
Mabel Burke came into this world
with the misfortune of having a sister
but eleven months older than herself
and mother who had no love for chill
dren. The mothers love was never
aroused by the prattling Mabel and
while yet too young to understand it's
import the baby was given away. The
child's grandmother took her finally,
and 1t was Mt her home that Mabel
spent her girlhood. The elderly woman
was poor, and when It became time for
her charge to start to school the little
girl was compelled to work and earn
the money with which to buy her books
and pay other expenses. Thus she
passed through the various grades of
the country school, and having finally
finished its course she went to college
town and found employment. There
her musical talents were developed
and, gaining the sympathy of one of
her professors, she was assisted to COM
plete a course. She had also by per
sonal application learned stenOgraphy
and bookkeeping.
About seven years ago the family
with whom she had boarded during her
struggles in the college went to Chicago
and she accompanied it. The young
woman was now talented and ambl-
tious. Her applications for employment
were of n higher order than those Of
most stenographers and she was sue
cessful. The Worlds Fair was then in
existence and she went there for posi-
ton, and n few weeks later she was
accepted as n secretary to the Board
of Lady Managers and was provided
with apartments at the Windemere
Hotel. When the fair ended she still
found lucrative work. Then the Presi-
dental campaign came on and Miss
Burke became stenographer for Mark
Hanna, work in which she was regard
ed an expert.
Her acquaintance began to broaden,
her wages were high and it looked at
last as if sunshine were to come into
her life Her beauty made her n favor
lite in the small social circle in which
she moved. Then came illness. The
bloom left her cheeks, her frame vast
ed. The doctors told her that tumor-
GUS growth made an operation neces-
sary. For nine months Miss Burke Law
in the hospital, and when she finally
did return to her home. with sunken
cheeks and pale face, she was not en-
tirely recovered. This fact saddened
her whole life. though she gradually
regained her former good looks ana
went about quietly I'm the society In
which she had been accustomed To
move before her Illness. She was bright
and clever, good musician and strix-
ingly pretty girl, ana therefore was
much sought after, and had half doz-
en- admirers. But to intimate friends
she confided upon her return from the
hospital that she would never marry.
Finally she met David J. Vile. the
attorney whose life she ATTEMPTED to
end. Their manner of meeting was
clearly in the relationship of attorney
and client The young woman had be-
come imbued with the idea that she had
cause for a suit against physician for
malpractice. 1t bore upon the opera
ton she had undergone. Vile allowed
her to believe that there were some
hopes for her to recover. They were
frequently in each others company re-
gardlng the matter. Their acquaint-
anceship ripened into friendship. and
when finally Vile had persuaded her
that she had no case he continued TO
call upon her.
He had found a bond Of sympathy
between them. They were both lovers
Of music, and thus in this DIatonic sort