Arizona republican., 1899-01-17

makes possible But while she vas yc Q young woman her father met witt financial ruin, soon aftcrv-2rtl dying
 AIarCaretta lad been q kauGhty belle
 somewhat heavier in type than Kath leen and not half so beautiful, bat y7itii
 the same graceful bearing and the sarnc
 sculpturesque GrIcs and nccl-. She held
 her head higher than ever did hcl
 daughter, and moved about with Q state
 Her ai1. She was always thinking Of Q
 great marriage (cven as q little girl she
 had dressed mp her dolls in bridal robes
 for their weddings to imaginary princes
 CT dul1es) and when the family lad gone
 and she was obliged to live with her
 mother in a Ninth street boarCli1G-housc.
 her matrimonial ambitions burned still
 more fevcrishly.
 The Van Le7iu3 kindred (uncles and
 aunts and cousins) could call upon hel
 in these new and hated surrounding:
 and go away shocked by her worldliness
 and pride.
 Isn't it dreadful?'' her mother would
 wail to them, whenever Margaretto was
 out of hearing. "Advcrsity hasn't hum.
 bled her bit. She's inst as grand ir
 her ideas as ever ske was.'' Now had
 begun for. Margarctta those drastic or
 deals of economy from which nearly all
 her future life was to suffer. She per
 sisted in going out for to stay in was
 torture. Her gowns Cften made voc
 ful showing, but she always wore
 them with a feminine sovereignty of
 tnien that was quite her own. Poverty
 had by no means crushed her; she
 espired in q way still to lead her world, and the stress of her extreme energy and self-belicf saved her from failure. Caste was then moro thought of in New
 York than now. To be a Van LeTius meant more than it now signifies, even
 though an empty PIrsc went with the name. Plutocracy had not yet begun in Guch strong earnest it's Glittering usurp- 2tions, though it's rules were already potent. A1crgarctta was too intense an aristocra1 to be called Q mere snob. This word did and yet did not fit her, and perhaps for the very rcason that she was q sno5 On too imperial a scale. If she had been lucbicr in life she would have shonc cs 2 great social leader, though her s1LoB would have won re- novn tilroug,l the rcnlz, not the bril- liancy, of it's guests. As it was, she had weary and even toilScme career to cz1- ploit. Social leadership was prize that she could never clutch, eagerly stretched toward it as were the view less haHd5 of her desire and will. The cnviron1lc2t of that Ninth street board inr-houSo became a horror to her, and she literally in5ultc& her fcllOw-lodCers by the ropulsicn of her dcTHeanor. And yet, strange to say, it was here that she met 4iait1cnd Kcnnaird, the man whom sho I--a1-ricd. He vv25 handsome and of marked personal clla1Tn5. An English ma G2d 2 atrslrC-, he threw himself on her merry, and told her q tale which was, in the main. perfectly true. He was the only brother of Sir Franlzland Kclrairll. a rich English barOnet. But tho fratcrral temper was terrible, and they had lotcly quarrclcd. lie, Malt land Montague I[clnaird, had come to this country with small legacy inhcr- itcd from his mother. and in tho hope Of temporarily gaining livelihood as clerk in the firm cf 2 large wholesale That word temporarily an explanation which was soon af5crvard given. The elder brother. Sir F1,c-2lzlanG, cn i,c.11iblc iIl- valid, hcpolc sly dercr1acd from his J the best European physi-ians to an carly death. IL was not possible that he could live five years Io-2Ccr, and his vTcs wholly out Of the qucs- ton. The title and c5tatcs would de- sccnd, on his dccth. to 34aitland These -idings vvcrc of the lzco2c35 interest to Nj >iarg2rctttc,. She 5ool- means of having -hczl vc@ifiol, and after ol>o lad 1catie lorsolf in a manner certain Of their ruth, she secured for hcr new ceQuaint- ,nce carlS cf invitation among the nest exclusive New York circles. A .cv rnozt22.3 latcr ion the death of her mother, who had aiwayG rao,,,cr mis- trusted and avoided him. Kcnnaird to 3Iargarc1ta and vas accept q. Shc liked him exceedingly, but would nevcr hGrc married hin if 1t had lot been for the fascinating prospect of 0on becoming ''L21y Kcl1Gir,l." " That Iignity. however. she was doomed not o reach. Whether Maitland Kcnnaird lad exaggerated or TO the physical tate of his brother. news of that gen leInan's marriage 1OGtcI across the 1 Atlantic in fcs1 TnCnths. Meanwhile i@itl2nd had boon adjudgcd indolcnt nd unbUsilc3slilic by lis New York .aploycr5- Receiving the o1Fcr of cereantile engagement in London, he ailcd tllithcr with his wife They had ot much money between them, and a crtain slice cf Margarctta's modest I. ortunc was ''borroUcd'' from her to l mt into an investment which aftervyarll l urned out worse than pro1tless. But !. Iargaretta had employed polite arts l oward a reconciliation between the i aronet and his brother, and succeeded 1 n having herself and her husband civ i fly received at tho family seat in War | 7i-l-sl1irc. After all. though Sir | 'ranlzland had married 8 healthy and | rctty girl of good lineage. there was till TO prospect of an heir, and the | hanccs of his life were still pronounced | lender. Sir Franl1land was not of q disposition, but he now helped ! is kindred in the maintenance of Q mall London home not far from May |