The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-10
Our Daily Sport Story

woman of excellent advantages, con- sidering her environment. She was an orphan, her father dying some time before, leaving her with a snug for tune and the benefits of a seminary education. She married Tarbell be- cause she believed she loved him, per- haps the glamour of his name had something to do with it. He married her because for the first time in his life he had found the woman who kindled in his breast the etherical fire.
 It was now four years since Irene had come to her city home Her hus- band was the same Harlow TarbeIl honest, forceful. sincere, having been born in the conditions that surround ed him, but for Irene. the impetuous, unsophisticated country girl, the four years had made many changes. The pomp, the simmer, the effervescence of the gay world had intoxicated her. Brought up with rigid idea of inor-
 als, the dissipation and the lax1ty everywhere about her in this new lite, scared the whiteness of her pris- tine glory until she had reached the stage where she adopted as good form the idea of having an unmarried man for a devoted admirer.
 Her husband, immersed in his busi- ness affairs, paid little attention to his wife's social career after she was once established, and her position made secure. He loved her intensely in his way. which. though undemon- strative, was profound. He had ab-
 solute confidence in her mate purity and truth, and felt no misgivings that
 she would be tarnished by her sur
 roundings Like many another good
 husband. he failed to take into con-
 sideration the temperament of the wo-
 man. It is not always the weak who fall, or the instinctively bad.
 The man in the foregoing dialogue was Jack Harper, debonnair, clever, fascinating. Where he had come from, no one seemed to know, but one day
 he flashed upon the fashionable world
 like a meteor. A successful opera
 tion on the street, and he was sud- denly hailed as young Napoleon of
 finance. With reckless daring he dag Zled the older spectators, society ca
 gerly seized him for it's own and he
 became the carpet knight of a score of | madams, ever on the watch for a new gallant. Of late 1t was rumored h1 had suffered several hard blows in as
 many market Hunks, but he continued to spend money lavishly, and was seen everywhere.
 For some months his attentions to Harlow Tarbells wife bad been most | pronounced. The other women had about renounced him as Irene's partic- | ular property, and she elated with her apparent victory over the more expe- rienced anglers, had cast discretion to | the winds. Irene and her Jack were seen much together. Their relations | soon became so public that she was | talked about. It came to her ears, but she was needless. At first the fun in the game was taking him from | the others. now 1t was the fascination of the man that had taken possession of her. What started as a silly flirta- ton was now in the stage of catas- | trophe. She was on the eve of an | elopement with her admirer. She would respond to the dictates of her | heart. How could she now live longer | with steady. unpoetical Harlow, when | the dashing, sentimental hero of heI | dreams--her Jack-offered to fly with her to the ends of the earth to forever be hers. And her little fortune-what was that to happiness of lifetime