The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-01-29

NyWIWLM more money than 4OOOO
y0 Of American women ever
pM2x1xI dream OF In their hopes,
or hope for In their dreams. To con-
tinue. her social position was impreg-
nable. II had an edge Of gilt aud a
full morocco binding; II was Is carat;
the real thing: a very Kohinoor among
social positions. Mistress Marguerite
Antoinette Carroll was not only n
Daughter OF the American Revolution
but Colonial Dame as well, not only
had ancestors OF hers Haunted their
curls through the Carolinas at the
heels Of the hard-riding Swamp Fox
and helped 60 pen the unlucky Corn
wallis into the bear trap at Yorktown.
but other ancestors more remote had
braved red warrions from Virginia
stockadas and pursued them into the
rank tahgles back Of the Chesapeake,
for the greater glory Of the king. and
the greater safety OF the suckling colo
niles. long before ever a Washington
had tr0dden cIsetlantic shore Now
these things be but vanity, II may be,
but Marguerite Carroll hugged them
not the less to her heart, and held high
her head because Of them. But let us
proceed with this schedule OF possess
siOns.
Item: An education which embrac-
cd familiar knowledge with half the
capitals and courts OF Europe.
Item: A face and figure that artists
raved over: a crown of shining hair
that seemed thicket to entangle even
Cupid himself.
Itsm: Miss Carroll was her own mis-
tress. having neither parent nor guar
dian nor trustee. TO coerce her humors
or advise her vagaries.
She resided. when she felt like Il.
with her Uncle Henshaw and her aunt.
In Washington. Sometimes she paid to
New York and her grandmother a win
ter visit long enough to make her an
admired spectator at the horse show or
the opera. Then she would flee to CAL
ifornia or the Riviera: to the City Of
Mexico or up the Nile; anywhere her
fancy pleased, dragging along by a
gilded chain her cousin. Julia Henshaw.
and some conventional chaperon OF eni-
inent respectability and impartial
blindness.
Nevertheless. however much one
might think to the contrary, Margue-
with existence ~ could be q woman
WIZ YObbCr5Su uSitnCI WCnitu
health, birth nor beauty. She did ex-
actly - she wished. yet would have
preferred In be one mans loving slave.
She loved the world, yet would rather
haze been shut within some cage Of
home. subject to the beck and call Of
lord and master. Her soul was
starved for love. She sighed for the
heart ties of an adorer whom she could
herself adore--and found II not. The
enrui OF q safety which has drunk up
the wine Of pleasure until one loohs
upon the very bottom Of the glass DOS
sersed her restless spirit and rendered
petulent her strenuous nature. hungry
for love. Under the blue Ice Of her
habitual demeanor smouldered sapphire
passions reeding only vent to rise to
devouring volcanic flames.
WoOers. yes. I'm scores. she had had,
and toyed with archly. but not ore had
come beneath whose mnsl of words
and conventional protestatlons she had
not read. or fancied she could read, the
ins!ncerity of the hunter of fortunes,
the perfunctory auln'ion OF her un-
deniable but marble beauty. She had
no soul. all her suitors said. as one by
one they relinquished the seemingly
impossible task Of kindling a FIRE upon
the frigid altar Of her heart.
therefore, at last. from the crucible
of her discontent. OF her increasing
yea1Y Of the unrequited cravings Of n
ilAtii4e ardent at the core. had emerged
o woman who sought to revenge her
self upon mankind bv artfully awaken
ing passions she did not return. by
arousing hopes she nurtured only that
she might uproot. She declared a Sc
cret war against the rote Of what Nine.
Sarah Grand had dubbed mere men,"
and pursued her campaigns vindictive-
ly. Since II was denied to her, alone
among women. To 6nd the soul mate
she would select, she would M least be
happy in the making Of mankind mis-
ernblt. 81 t's
Thus, " vas. az the season waned
that Miss Carroll, her cousin Julia the
discreet Mrs. Sylvester Beaumont. their
travelling sacrihce'to the properties
hurrying eastward from a summer voy-
age 10 the great Muir glacier. Sitka and
Alaskan. waters, stopped at Minneapo-
lis to catch their breath, and that Mar
guerite decided TO rest for n week amid
the enchanting autumn restfulness OF
the Minnetonka shores. They found n,
the great Hotel st. Louis n half emp
thu house and the uuIet the imperious
mistress of the little company had so
suddenly and capriciously sought
II was glorious there. The ozonic
airs sweeping the hill-pinnacled cara
vansery were farest medicines for
wearines. The vagrant shore lines
spread about the broadening vista N
she queen of lakes fed the eye with
VARYING keauties to which the. wooded
margin. touched by autumn's master
brush, lent the chromatic splendoru oi
thd kaleiAoscope. Marguerite and heI
roA boonms familiars Of the rising son
AlOig the winding dirt roads Of old
Honhepin she enjoyed many an after
Mon Gal]0p between the radiant walls
~ ~ oguing leaves. A the day fell
vlnd-6rlSon (geursions TO the tree
ofoWuel 44M6 Of Big Island. haunted
~ loo9u6. of through the iiarrows II
tho Fougher Watcrs Of the expanded
1ahe, Lent o cloeing rest TO days with
patpre, when the copper shleld OF the
hnsYo0l NOON rUse . hamins disc In the
~ NJ the many -stringed 0rchestra
tl66Gi - tbe palms Of the great veran-
~ W6oo1 concord, they eat IN peace tin-
.dor ne ee(t innuencss Of moon and
~, - mn content. y. ~ z
4 ~ Et(Gusrils. the dssolate. found
ooso1(ok Ne was student q ths
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