The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
TIE wHlRLIeIe OF lime

Margaret Drury is perhaps the richest
woman in all the broad land. She is the
| true Ny Lady Disdain. MetaphoricalIy
| speaking. she walks with her high-heeled
| French shoes on the necks of people She
would make STEPPING stones of them liter
ally If she could. She is rich and beauti-
| full and proud.
| Ia Margaret Drury's residence. said 10
| be finer than all others. there are draw
ing rooms and boudoirs and broad-reach-
/ ing halls. The fortunate one who enters
sinks ankle-deep in Oriental rugs. He
1 brushes a servant at every turn When
he dimes. If the fair Margaret will ask
| him 10 dine. he eats of every known deli
| cacy. short, perhaps. of nightingale's
| tongues.
No one ever enters the grounds Of Miss
| Margaret Drury unchallenged. The gate
| ways are picketed. and i'll come ia him
! who unlimited presumes TO enter to look
| upon the beauties OF the great mansion 5
park. Margaret Drury spends enough
money upon single entertainment TO
feed the poor Of a great city for a week.
altar of roses TO the value OF a score Of
| golden dollars perfumes her daily bath.
She is a dainty Miss. and is everlastingly
looking for what, from her standpoint, is
| the eternal fitness of things.
| a sing le thread of a rug that does not
| harmonic with the tint of q wall means
the RELOCATING of the rug 10 the garrett
| The very CONNECTIONS which she PRETTY
picks with her slender fingers from a sill
yer box must harmonic in color with
| the gown which she wears
There is a portrait gallery in Margaret
Drury's residence. and from its walls
look down colonial danes and revolution
airy soldiers. Gne portrait occupies the
place of honor 1t is that OF Margaret
Erury's great-grandfather. The painting
shows him dressed as a nofficer of the
cOntinentals. An officer he was Marga-
ret Drury is proud. These" she says TO
her visitors, with a sweep of her hand.
are my ancestors. collateral and direct.
This" and she points TO the portrait in
the place of honor. is my great-grand-
father, George Drury, a colonel in Wash
ingtons army from White Plains 10
Yorktown" Yes. Margaret Drlry is rich
and proud; but she has somewhere the
fragment OF a heart. She found It out
not long ago, when there came to her
residence James Shannon, who was just
the kind of a poor young man to be flied
for a romance. Shannon went TO Marsa-
ret Drury's with relatives whom he was
visiting and who had been invited TO one
oc My Lady Disdain's entertainments.
James Shannon was teller in a bank at
1880 a year. He was big. strong and
handsome. and. as the salary shows, not
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the first. As for Shannon, there was
sort of bewilderment that came TO him
from the beauty of this woman and from
the richness of her surroundings 1t is
best 10 make it brief He fell in love.
overwhelmingly in love. re told himself
over and over that he was fool. But
Shannon was that kind of a fool, If fool
one may call it. who will rush in. He
went one night to Margaret Drury and
+1r1 !, - f.a1x bn
not as cold as he thought she would be.
For one brief. ieeting moment she was
nc longer My Lady Disdain. She kept
him at arms length, however, but finally
said: Mr.. Shannon, come tomorrow
morning at IL
Margaret Drury passed a night of con-
fiict. In the morning there was look IN
her face that showed her resolution, and
pride that amounted to haughtiness.
At II O'Clock James Shannon called. She
turned TO him and said 1T matters
not, Mr.. Shannon. whether there be pain
back of I or not; IL cannot be. l have
pride Of wealth and ancestry and cannot
marry a man without position, money
and family. These are my ancestors.
and her hand pointed to the walls Of the
gallery in which they were standing.
Right or wrong. 1 am proud TO vanity
OF them. They were ladies and gentlemen
in revolutionary days. Forgive me II
pain you. for perhaps the pain is not al
together yours, but 1 cannot marry you.
1t was in the year 1871, three days fol-
lowing the surrender Of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown. TWO young soldiers were
standing in front of tattered tent.
They were both in the uniform of the
continental army, but one wore the in
sigma that showed his rank was that
IA colonel; the other was in the garb
of a private. The hand Of the colonel
was on the shoulder of the private. Jim
we have been friends all our lives he
said The war is practically over. jim,
I am frightfuly in debt. You know
what some of these debts are for
know you have come money. for you have
told me so. jim, you know what VIII
happen to me II l don't have money. Is
your friendship strong enough to stand
this test?'
Yes. George, this test and any other
for the friend of my boyhood."
Well let me have 81 900 to save my
honor. and, jim. know letters that came
through from New York Of a commercial
venture that will net pound for pound.
If you will confide the rest of your money
to me it shall be doubled.
is it an honest deal. George?' asked
he private.
Yes, was the enswer
Well. I'll give you al order for the
money on Boston No. I don't care for
receipt. I know you, George.
Ten years went by. Colonel George
Drury for II was he. used Private James
Shannon's money and made a fortune.
Drury had left the country. but in later
years returned. OF the money loaned.
Shannon nor his descendants never saw
= cent Shannon left nothing but the hon
ored name of a revolutionary soldier.
Drury left thousands and a dishonored
name. but as time went on and the for
tune Arew. people forgot all about the
faint OF dishonor and the Drury fortune
and the Drury name was held in equal
esteem
Margaret Drury. because Of her fortune
and pride Of ancestry. rejected James
Shannon. namesake and great grand sor
Of Private James Shannon OF tie revolt ]
tionsry army.
The old saying that truth Is stranger
than fiction is as true as truth itself.
This story OF Margaret DTury is fact. |
EDWARD 3. CLARK
Why She Liked Shop.
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