The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-05-04
CHAPTER l.
TIM DHQuEsT or THE COUNTESS,

VOuHS tbab tbot bfbk tbfth fthp bfth y
small dance the night before UneI,
dnrdDM had been unpleasant enongl
oyer TINT jio always mado IL n p0inl
w espntjnte on the estrayaganee ol
Mrs, Rodney or the girls, Ds the ems,
might be, when be WIS drawn Oh foI
money, Mr. Josiah lnrdner bad made
n fortune and bad ,niDed bin temper
doing ~ liz had bal 10 pnt bis nose ~
the gIiD1stODo for yAnrA, and o TINT
ba WINS relieved Of that bnniliniiDp
combination be tried 10 even uptbiDss
by snbjooting others 10 a like harrow
iDR conjunction
They were MI thoroughly tired Of H.
no one morn 80, however, shan floreDeo
Rodney, She VIE Il 1.-The, pretty girl IT
~, d graduate of NDsanr and thorough
~ np 10 date IN athletics II wHs u
comfort 10 her 10 reflect that she lived
In mn age whom women rode, SWIM,
fenced, wheeled, and could mako u fnir
showing with mnD nj tennis, golf md
other physical diversions
Miss Rodney WE Nh admirable on
poDeDt of Tho benefit Of mir, exercise
and freedom for her sps, Her walk wDs
springy nnd graceful and sba eDrled
herself ~ slraight AZ a soldier II was
a source of immoDhn a0lDao ~ her IN al
tho phases NJ her physical well being 10
fool her every muscle ifm md atrODR
md w know TINT her flesh, her boNrl
and Der lppgs wore IN IIlo boAl possible
condition
Mr., Rodney WINS y widow with littlo
money, two daughters 10 mnrry of md
a mind given 70 Tho things of This
world, Whom bor husband bnd left Der
impoverished, Tho sense III blood Ties
and fpmily duty hHd Induced bop broth
er, Josinb inrunpr, 30 tnko ehDrRe 0f
hor md bpr daughters ljpt bo bad tbls
unpleasant fDshion Of complaining
abpnt money matters Mrs ROdnay'a
ono Drgnnpnt IN dofonse W their OK
panses WINS Tho need Of getting lbo girls
well mnrriod This mpanl marrying
them ~ men NJ mems and good eoeiDl
posi- tion-~rioh men, anyhow, for Mrs
Rodney wNs convinced That money wne
enough NJ M n0pnn aaaDn0' for Now
York society NJ nn events man
hnd not the blood op mAnners of u thor
opgh Hnnllpmnn u sklllfnl wife who
wnp \ Indy pould pilot him through The
ahonls MI right. Most American hng
bands, except The fpw who ur0 y0nng
eocioty mon, ~ not hgprp very promI
naDtB IN thn social phnHaB III thnir fnm'
HES They generally have tho air of
holpE nnpnnl and bored assistants At
functions of this Kind, and mol mneh IL
expected ~ them except 10 pny tho bills
Miss Rodney WIS rnihW h faallyo Hlly
and gnyn her worthy mother many an
oonnplop lpr trplfnl diesntiAfnetipn shn
Ind \ VIII VI hW own, md hpr tpstas,
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tlmnn md mol f0p b0nlnls, th0pgh Ghn
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gowns, hhp ail not ahpw TINT keen do
STD 10Y lNHRins some eligible mAn
which hpr mother w0nld hnyn liked
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