The San Francisco call., 1899-07-16
Is his bride on their arrival there.

as his bride on their arrival there.
She had discovered on her trip, how
ever, that seasckness was a decidedly
unpleasing experience, and she was not
by nature calculated to make name for
herself in the annals of martyrdom For
the moment she was pleased with the cli-
mate and people of Eureka and elected
to make her home there while the bold
captain plowed the main back to his
home port.
The captain should have known better
than to leave her to her own devices, but
he didn't. He went off trustfully, think
ing himself one of the luckieSt of men to
have won so fair a flower for his own and
planning for the pretty little home he
would build her as soon as he had made
a voyage or two more. When he came
back to the northern city his ungrateful
bird had flown and with her had gone
Charles Emery, a jeweler of polished
manners and ready tongue. Being q
philosopher in his own way, as seafaring
men are apt to be, the captain hid his
chagrin under a mask of Indifference and
bade the fugitives godspeed
Disaster followed them, however, and
for the first time luxury loving Clemente
experienced the inconveniences of lack Of
money. A. S. Krump, a San Francisco
drummer, sympathized with her in her
miSfortuneS and won a small bit of what
she was pleased to call her heart. She
quarreed with Emery, forced him to
leave her and rewarded the drummer for
his friendliness in her time of trouble by
becoming Mrs. Krump.
For three or four months the heroine Of
eleven matrimonial ventures rested quiet
ly under this far from euphonious appel
lation and then her soul rebelled. Her
husband was at home very little anyway,
and during his absence she had plenty Of
time to think over matters in general and
ha,. in artiO nd ha
came very quietly and seriously to the
conclusion that she-unfortunate that she
was had made another mistake.
Mr.. Krump agreed with her cheerfully
when she presented this view of the case
to him and agreed to release her from
all obligations to him whenever she
wished him to do so.
She wished Immediately. he found and
so back again she went to Santa Barbara.
Her adventures and unsettled life and her
illness had dimmed her beauty not a lit
tie and she found to her chagrin that
she was not the idol that she had been
only so short a time ago. She was still
handsome enough to be unusually at
tractive, however, but her record was a
trifle against her in the estimation of
even the most enthusiastic of beauty wor-
shippers.
Charles Klett, a barber, at last sum-
moned up courage enough 20 be ''ne>-.'
himself, and all went well until a man of
Mrs. Klett's own nationality began to
make love to her in true Spanish style.
which was welcome novelty to her even
after her many varied experiences in the
gentle art of cCurtship. Klett being an
unobtrusive and mild-mannered man, did
not argue the matter. Clemente was no
help in the barber shop any way, and she
was inclined to fiirt with the customers.
If Charles Coto wanted to marry her
he was quite welcome, so far as he was
concerned, provided there was no unpleas-
ant notoriety about the matter and the
gentle current of his business was not in
terrupted by their proceedings.
So it is that the little Spanish girl who
stole aged Count Tolfskows heart under
the great rosebush three short years ago
is now living with her thirteenth husband
on a little ranch outside Santa Barbara.
He is the poorest man in this worlds
goods that ever made love to Clemente
Ruiz She has neither jewels nor pretty
clothes, and her creamy hands have
learned to work as they never did before
in all her short life, but with true femin-
inc Inconsistency she seems better con-
tented than she has ever done before. But
will this content endure?
He is her thirteenth husband, and he
has brought her to poverty.
VIII there be a fourteanfhS