The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-16

Aurora was used to being stared DuI
she was modest and unassuming-
| She neither blushed nor smiled.
| She knocked the soles of her bathing
slippers together and made as if she We're
humming a tune TO herself and beating
time to it with the soles of those alb
| surdiy small affairs in white canvas.
| When Aurora was dressed, Captain De
Ia Mar made ne compliments of the sea
son to Aurora's mother. and begged the
| honor of an introduction to Aurora He
had it,
Before any one quite realized what was
! happening Captain De la Mars devotion
had driven away the host of admirers who
were accustomed to swarm about Nellie
| Sands as a vigorous sea breeze sweeps
away cloud of mosquitoes. Mrs. Sands
| investigated Cap ain De Ia. Mar awaited
with such show of patience as he could
| muster.
One fine day Nellie Sands told her
| friends that she was going TO marry Cap
tain De Ia Mar and go and be fairy prin-
! cess in an enchanted castle. And she did.
Captain De la Mar settled a neat little
! trife of $500 600 on her on his wedding day,
and gave her for a bridal presen a dia-
mord trinket which cost just exactly S4O,-
! coo.
| Captain De la Mar took his wife West
to see his gold mines for a wedding trip.
She lost the diamond trinket before she
reached Denver. Captain De la Mar said:
Never mindi' and bought her rope of
pearls which cost twice as much as the
diamond trinke.
When Captain De Ia Mar and his bride
came East again they lived for awhile in
a brownstone jewel casket uptown. They
drove and rode and went everywhere.
Every one gazed at Mrs De Ia Mar, but
no one knew them.
New York was lonely. So the De Ia
Mars went abroad
The first thing Captain De Ia Mar
bought in Paris was an original Boug-
uereau. 1t was called Aurora" and it
was the pic ure of beautiful red-haired
girl slipping the dew out of a cup of a
morning glory.
He bought a gallery to hang the "Au-
rora'' in.
There was house which went with the
gallery.
1t was in the Bots, and all Paris went
there to see the splendor and magniicence
of it.
All Paris went mad about Nine. De la
Mar
She is a vision" said the Boulevar-
dters
She is and Aurora" said the ar
lists
She is a grande dame" said the world
of elegance.
1t was not lonely in Paris.
The De la Mars were feted in Paris as
very few foreigners are feted anywhere.
Captain De la Mar hung his Aurora"
in the best light in the gallery. and he
had the best artists paint Nine. De la
Mar, but he kept the little adver Using
card of aurora" always in the inside
pocket of his coat.
When their little girl was three years
old he had sculptored at great expense
marble group of Cupid and Psyche, with
Nine De la Mar as Psyche and the lit
tie child as Cupid.
Nine. De Ia Mar went Egypt for the
Winter.
Carlo captivated her The instant that
she looked at the binding white of the
fiat-roofed houses, and the brilliant blue
of the sky. she said:
Il wish l had a palace here"'
You shall have one" said Captain De
la Mar, and ne went out and bought he
ground and hired an architect.
The palace was to be the most splendid
house in all Egypt.
Nine. De la Mar was like happy child
over il.
Captain De Ia Mar was called to Paris
on urgent business.
to move, and the Captain could not wal
for his wife to get ready for his wife to go
with him.
Follow me as quickly as you can" he
said to her
The foreign colony in Egypt was dunn
founded
Captain De la Mar was going to trust
his wife away from him. He had never
left her alone for an hour before.
Was he not accustomed to sit in the re-
cep ion room in New York and watch
every one who went up and down the
steps of his house?
Nine. De la Mar smiled and behaved as
she always behaved, discreetly. She and
her mother started for Paris, via. Nice
In the meantime, Captain De la Mar
was lonely in Paris. He wandered dis
consolately about his gorgeous house in
the Bots. One evening he sat down at
his wife's little bijou of a desk. 1t was
locked
He shook it with his powerful hands
the lock was firm and would not give.
A thousand furies. 1t should give. He
smashed it. and found in the desk a lit
ter OF bills, accounts, notes. invitations
and in one corner a package of letters
with New York pOstmark.
He read the letters. They were from a
man whom he had befriended. They said
sweet things to Nine. De la Mar and
limited sighting things about her hus-
band.
The spaniard awoke in Captain De la
Mar
Afeter night of hideous torment he
took the letters 10 his attorney and began
suit for divorce.
Then he went to Nice. He met his wife
and her mother and his daughter there.
He greeted his wife afectionately. sent
her out for drive, suatched the child and
was on his way to Paris before the TWO
unsuspecting women were back from their
drive.
Poor. pretty. loving, gentle little Mrs.
De Ia Mar was bewildered. She went 10
Paris. but her husband would not see her.
She wrote 10 him. but her letters were
returned unopened.
Her friends went 70 see him. He would
not listen 70 one word of explanation
Mrs. De Ia Mar was completely crushed.
Captain De IA Mar secured mis- divorce
and kept the child. He made a mUnih-
cent allowance to his divorced wife. She
should feel no difference N her worldly
affairs. he declared. and he kept his word
with fine generosity.
Now. said PARIS the beautiful Au-
ro~a Is nd of her jealous dragon. He was
twice her. eye. She could never have
loved him. Now. she Will begin % be
happy
All Paris was mistaken.
Poor Itt}e Aurora shut herself up and
lived Ike q nun
She grew frail and delicate-her sorrow
made her more beautiful than ever.
one day she drove IN the Bois.
Caotsin DE-. IA Mars carriage met hers
60 f,,1ya.7 1f-,, S+-a ielf in the evsS nd