Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-04

house, then out on the road to the rear and
up the steep side Of the coolee wall to the
summit There she stood silhouetted
against the evening sky, mark for any one
OF those men, all of them like fash and
stroke Of fate with a gun. She did not even
look around, but waved a tiny Handkerchief
to someone beyond their view and stood
waiting.
The cowboys looked at each other like a
lot Of schoolboys caught in mischief. Re-
v0vers were slipped back into hip pockets,
and after a few words of grumbliug admira-
ton the cowboys quickly wheeled about
aud rode of to their camp, which was just
across a small river from the De Mores
ranch, but some distance from the house.
It was dark when De Mores reached
home. His wife was still waiting on the
hill overlooking the camp. Dismouuting he
kissed her and as they walked to the little
Western home with its three gables and its
pretty furnishings from the Fifth avenue
shops she told him Of his escape.
II must 60 to them at once, he said
this time without any show of vanity.
She tried to dissuade him. It was certain
death, she said
Il will have it out with those fellows
once for all, " he answered aud swinging
himself into the saddle again he galloped
to the river. Dismounting below the camp
he tied his horse, forded the river and crept
up quietly to the camp where the twenty or
more men were grouped around the camp
hre, still swearing eternal vengeance on the
Young dude"
At an auspicious moment he stepped from
his hiding place full into the blaze of the
camp 6re quite uuarmed save for his cattle
whip
We'll, here am, men. Now. if any of
you want anything with me this is your
time. I'm ready to have it out"
And they had called him eoward For
a whole minute they we're silent, overcome
with astouishment. Then a voice was
heard.
He'll Boys, he's brick"
The love Of reckless daring inherent in
those wild Western fellows had made its
appeal and a wild cheer went up for De
Mores. The young dandy had to shake
hands all around aud then the party started
for the town.
The marquis did the houors and he did
not stint It was a night of tackless dissi-
patton such as Medora had never seen be-
fore and probably never will see again.
Those rough, childlike cattlemen never
forgot it, and if the good will of the cow
punchers had been all that was required the
marquis enterprise would have been
brilliant success indeed.
AS for the marquise, she was the idol Of
every man within ninety miles the acknowl-
edged queen of the cattle COW country, albe.
it an unwilling one.
For the marquise, who had lived three
years in the lonesome settlement was
hOmesick. Even the cOmradeship of her
husband could not reconcile her to that
desolate country. There was not a woman
in the place with whom she could associate.
The few women who were there were either
the regular hangers-on Of a western camp
or the uncouth wives of the rough cattlemen.
Her only companion, save her husband,
was the priest at the little chapel, where
she spent much time. Even he, excellent
man that he was was not a substitute for
the womauly counsel and companionship
THAI as a girl she had always had in such
generous need and that as a young wife she
needed even more keenly.
AS the months went by she pined and
whitened. The desolate baroness Of that
straight colee wall, the depressing glimpse
Of the black, changeless hills just showing
above the wall, the squalor Of the little
town and the feeling Of utter isolation grew
on the young wifes nerves until no sacrifice
seemed too great to enable her to return to
the life to which she was accustomed. She
tried to be patient for her husbands sake,
but could not hide her suffering. II was
very apparent that she could not live long
if she stayed in Medora.
The young man was at his wits end. For
other troubles also we're heaping upon him.
Disease and depredatious we're carrying off
| large numbers of his cattle. 1t was an early
| spring and an unusually severe winter had
killed thousands For some reason the
cattle were not multiplying and the pros
/ pect was dark. Still De Mores was not
/ ready to give up and he worked necessarily.
/ The packing was never brought iHto full
| operation, the other problems of operation
taking all his time He was not ready for
that yet
Finally thoroughly discouraged and
| wholly anxious about the condition of his
wife, whose wants seem to have dominated
all other factors in his life, he paid his
debts threw up the whole enterprise and
left for the east.
He had spent upward of 100000 in the
west.
The subsequent important events in the
life of the Marquis and Marquise De Mores
are familiar The pair returned to New
York aud then went to Paris where the
| marquis became prominent among the anti
| Semites. At one time he was arrested for
| completely in an Orleauist plot for the over
throw of the republic.
In 1891 he was challenged to a duel by
| Captain Mayer. who resented the marquis
insults to his race. At the second lunge the
marquis ran his sword through the gallant
young captains body below the armpit in
| dieting a mortal wound The dying man
gave De MOres his hand.
In the spring Of 1896 De Mores was com
missioned by the French government TO
lead an expedition into the SOudan in Africa
to enlist Arab cheltains in an effort to stop
the eucroachments Of the British, Saying
an affectionate farewell to his pretty Amer
lean wife he started on his commission with
a promise that he would be back within a
few months With a party Of eight he hur-
ried into Africa. He left Eloutia, a Tripod
itan village, on Juue 3 for Ghadamas with
an escort Of Tuaregs and Sol;ambas who
were armed with carbiues. In lonely spot
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