The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-03-04
CARRUTHERS' LUcK

consolation nor hardened by cynicism.
He had loved earnestly, and his
Indebtedness was in proportion. The
sting of stings lay in the fact that Wv
len Dawnay had thrown him over for
mere money. She was now Mrs. Jes-
sup.
AS regards Jessup, he had huge
factory on Long Island, mansion up
town and villa at Newport. He was
not of society, but he was gradually
entering the mystic circle that rings
society around. To pass the boundary
with due eclat he deemed himself in
need of just such wife as was Vivien
Jessup. SO it came to pass that there
occurred business transaction be-
tween these two. For his money and
his potentialities Miss Dawnay bar
tered her youth, her beauty and her I'M
deniable descent from Pocahontas. Ac-
cordingly they were married, and
young Carruthers fancied that this
mere curtain raiser Of his life was
all his worlds drama.
Carruther8 was in a fair way to go
to the devil when Vivien Dawnay jilt-
ed him. He did not go thither, how
ever, but to war instead. 1t was the
war of those days. Some nervous
courtier Of the emperor of MandalAy
had unwittingly trodden upon the sa-
cred pigtail of the ambassador from
Cambodia. Within moon and half
every pigtail in all Cambodia tingled
responsibility; hence the war.
l have spoken of Carruthers' cynic-
al friends. Most cynics are good ma
tured, and Hardness was the best ma
tured of cynics. Hardness was war
correspondent, the stormy petrol Of
newspaperdom. He said to Carruthers:
II sail for Mandalay tomorrow. You
feel like making war on society.
Come with me and make war on the
Cambodians instead" And Carruthers
went.
The investment which Mr.. Jessup
made did not turn out so well after
all. 4 merely rich man who is also
single stands chance of sneaking into
society by way of club parlors and
yacht lunches, but married roturier
even if his wife belong to a first fam
lily of Virginia" does not always find
open the front doors Of Fifth avenue.
Moreover, Jessup had married at an
inconvenient epoch. There was a real
serene highness within the gates, and
he meditated marriage with the daugh-
ter Of certain society she general.
Through the medium of society papers
the Prince of HohenstauffenP umper-
nickeps intentions We're no secret. I'm
der the circumstances the introduction
of Mrs. Jessup proved difficult. You
cannot ask an independent high and
mighty lord Of the empire to dance a
cotillon with the wife of a Long Is
land manufacturer. AT least the great
danes uptown argued In this wise.
Poor Vivien was very lonely at New
port and still more lonely in New York.
Jessup had short temper, and he lost
1t altogether when he found that his
coup had failed. Society papers began
to say nasty things about the couple.
Nasty things are nastiest when true,
and these paragraphs were hideously
accurate
In the midst of it all the war in the
east collapsed with crash. To every
body's intense surprise the forces of
Mandalay made mlncemeat of the
Cambodians. Then young Carruthers
suddenly appeared in London and
wrote book. If the war was the war,
then Carruthers' book was the book.
A year had passed without new fad
or new lion. CaIruthers and his
book filed the gap. Had not the young
soldier-author penetrated as far as
Bangkok and seen the peacock throne?
Were there not grand, romantic sto-
ries which made him the Joseph of a
mysterious oriental Potiphar's sultana?
The Duchess of Gatherum fed him
upon ortolans and truffies in Lioncatch
castle, and his book went through five
editions as q circus Columbine goes
through hoops.
When London bows down New York
salaams. Carruthers found himself
twice the hero In America that he had
been in England. The great society
she general heretofore alluded to in
trigued for an Introduction and hailed
him or to Lenox. The Prince of Ho-
henstauffen- Pumpernickelp planned with
him an excursion into Burma.
One morning Mrs. Jessup, nee Daw-
nay, read in her most detested society
paper tie following interesting item:
Fortune favors the brave. This
week we announce the approaching
wedding of that modern Monte Chris
to, Mr.. George Carruthers, to Miss
Virginia Van Ruyter. 1t will be re-
membered that Miss Van Ruyter and
her $1b00,O00 dowry were popularity
supposed to be destined for H. s. II.
the Prince of Hohenstauffen-P umper-
nickel. This is not to be. Gossip says
that Miss Van Ruyter fell In love with
Carruthe1s' Cambodianus' at first
sight. Her hero is no needy fortune
hunter. for his recent work Is coming
money, and another book may shortly
be expected from his pen"
Mrs. Jessup displayed considerable
Ill nature when her husband returned
without cards for the Van Astorbilt
ball. Poor Vivien! She had been think
ing OF how differently matters might