Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-24

tie In-ia5..cc. .,ofne small houses on the side of the road leading to Corbeil, an inn,f called the Auberge du Don jon, which offered passing hospitality to wagoners-these were about all to represent civilization in this out of the way part of the country, but q few leagues from tie capital.
 But this deserted condition of the place had been the determining reason for the choice made by M. Stangerson and his daughter. NJ. Stangerson was already celebrated. He had returned from America, where his works had made great stir. The book which he had published at Philadelphia, on the l"Dissociation of Matter by Electric Action" had aroused opposition throughout the whole scientific world. M. Stangerson was Frenchman. but of American origin. Important mat ters relating to a legacy had kept him for several years in the United States, where he had continued the work be- gun by him in France, whither he had returned in possession of large for 
 tune.
 Mile. Stangerson was at the time when her father returned from Amer ica and bought the Chandler estate twenty years of age. She was ex- ceedingly pretty. having at once the Parisian grace of her mother, who had died in giving her birth, and all the splendor, all the riches of the young American blood of her parental grand father, William Stangerson. A citizen of Philadelphia, William Stangerson had been obliged to become natural ized fin obedience to family exigencies at the time of his marriage with a French lady.
 Twenty years of age, charming blond, with blue eyes. milk white complexion and radiant with divine health, Mathilde Stangerson was one of the most beautiful marriageable girls in either the old or the new world. It was her fathers duty, in spite of the inevitable pain which separation from her would cause him, to think of her marriage. and he was fully pre-
 pared for it. Nevertheless he buried himself and his child at the Chandler at the moment when his friends were expecting him to bring her out into so- ciety.
 Questioned by her friends, the young girl replied calmly, Where could we work better than in this solitudeT For Mile. Stangerson had already be- gun to collaborate with her father in his work. It could not at the time be imagined that her passion for science would lead her so far as to refuse all the suitors who presented themselves to Her for over fifteen years. The young girls extreme reserve did not at | first discourage suitors. but at the end of few years they tired of their quest.
 One alone persisted with tender te- nacity and deserved the name of ''eter-
 nal fance," name he accepted with
 melancholy resignation; that was NJ.
 Robert DarZac. Mile. Stangerson was
 now no longer young, and it seemed that, having found no reason for mar rying at five and thirty, she would nev CT find one.
 Suddenly some weeks before the events with which we are occupied
 report--to which nobody attached any importance, so incredible did it sound was spread about Paris that Mile. i Stangerson had at last consented to crown" the inextinguishable flame of
 M Robert Darzac! It needed that NJ. | Robert Darzac himself should not deny | this matrimonial rumor to give 1t an appearance of truth. so unlikely did it seem to be well founded. One day,
 however, Nj. Stangerson, as he was 1 leaving the Academy of Science. an
 nounced that the marriage of his daughter and M. Robert Darzac would ] be celebrated in the privacy of the Chateau du Chandler as soon as he and
 his daughter had put the finishing | touches to their report summing up
 their labors on the 'Dissociation of
 Matter" The new household would in- stall itself in the Chandler. and the son.
 in-law would lend his assistance in the
 work to which the father and daughter
 had dedicated their lives.
 The scientific world had barely had | time to recover from the effect of this ! news when 1t learned of the attempted , oS~o m fior of n, darnnical1a