The San Francisco call., 1899-09-10
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COR GFs EYE.

"And turning TO the Prince he saids
tzir Congreve would prove to YOU
what lust e1uSe America. mas 10 De tbs
most enVted Of nations.
"Ah, bat they were as beautiful
women as one could find the world
over. No wonder the Prince said to me
as I conversed with him for few mo-
n1ents later in the evening that he had
never seen such charm and loVeIiness-
and I doubt II he has seen greater
gince, with all mis- breadth OF travel,
and the ghost OF a smile lifted 9crosA
Mr.. Congreve's face
Mack Emmett, son Of Judge En-
uoett-ycI have card Of htm2-and
led q german OF q hundred couples az
the Jcean House, Newport, when ger
mans frat came IN vogue.
MANY a german led for Mrs. Van
dsrbiIt-but she as a good friend-shs
always called me by nv Christian
name, Walter, and came and Wan9
freely at her homo.
"It was ct Mrs. Vanderbilt's I first
met and admired Elizabeth Clark.
tdbbie Clark as she was more familiar
" known. She was beautiful, be2uu-
full Manv and many gay times Miss
Clark and I had together-germans
balls, dinners. became an intimate
st her home and We-sWeethearts. But
her mother grew III and finally died.
Afterward noticed her gadness, that
seemed something more than her moth
srs death. Finally I questioned her
and asked that I might end her
troubles by sharing theu1-thaS we
should marry
'tShe threw herself into my arms sob
6iug-how well I remember that day
every detail, the room, she so beautiful
and IovabIe-Walt she said,
promised mother on her deathbed
would marry Mr.. Bradford and l can
rof break my prouatse'-and Bha di1
not!"
The pause that followed was IN
brokenZit was like standing by grave
where words are useless, uncalled for,
for whatever Mr.. Congreve's life may
have had OF wrong, there at LEASE IA
worshiped as at shrine.
"Mr Bradford? he was also great
friend OF tha famiIy-Old enough to be
her father. She was unhappy, poor
girl Either MIR. Bradford knew Of her
promise to her mother and realized the
real cause OF her unhappiness, or he
comprehended nothing, for many times
after their marriage I was Libble's es-
cort to balls until once he himself
asked me to escort his wife to a ger
man.
german with your wife, viii dance with
her. but don't you think you had better
take her yourself now?
HE took the hint, I cared enough to
but that is en- passant.
Long Branch was gay, Newport de-
UghtfuI. but 1t was at Staten Island
that perhaps we had the most truly
rIeasant time. You have heard Of Nine.
Eonntag, the famous singer - the
C0untesse dI Rosi? She was a charming
friend. And sing! ah, but she could
sing! She had a cottage at Staten
Island. 1t was a colony Of talent-Ma-
reslkf, the leader Of grand opera, ana
others had cottages there only snort
distance from Commodore VandernlItS .
place."
The father and son often met and
were reconciIed and the fathers love
and advice often kept him from 1oIIy,
but as he himself worded 1t: neeoeo
q mothers lOve-a mother BehIe m
iuence-if I had had that j might not
have been the Bohemian and Wanderer
I have been"
at last. IL
gether with Lester Wallack, the actor
you know the nsme,-Lord r ana oth-
ers when q message came to me TO
come at once to England, my father
was diving. boarded the first steamer
and reached home Just in time. Ny
father was paralyzed, unable to speak,
but he seemed struggling to say some
thing to me-but he never dld.
The father dead. the older son IN
power. the annuity cut OF, California
beckoned invitingly ss & new and IN
tried held-but little by little com
rnanced the beginning Of the end. WITH
loss OF hope, loss of ambition and self
respect the curtain viii ring Down Sozzs8
cay eEsA sIis Gttls play os over.
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