Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-03-20
CHAPTER !.
N Which II 10 Shown That Marriage
Does Not End All!

what wild fury Of passion and tenn
pest, outward and inward, the young
people may have been plunged, their
author seems to think that he has
queted the raging seas of adventure
with the oil Of his pen-or of his
typewriter!-When he has led them
to the altar. In the minds Of the
creators Of the children of fancy prac-
Ideally nothing ever happens after the
forging Of the hymeneal bond. In
the world 1t is usually different
The circumstances preceding the
marriage Of Ellen slocum and Bernard
Darlington the protagonists OF this
.Veracious chronicle Of disturbance,
were sufficiently unusual in them.
selves to have given rise to a mum.
Der Of interesting and highly exciting
episodes, upon which with great reluc-
lance refrain from dilating, for Ellen
Slocum belonged to an old and very
respectable family domiciled in Phila-
delphia since the days Of William
Penn, while Bernard Darlington was
an English baron of ancient and hon.
orable lineage whose seat was a dilapi.
dated castle In Dorset.
Ellen was an orphan, her mother
having died in giving birth to her.
Her father, deceased shortly before
her marriage, had been a prosperous
merchant and shipowner. Demands
father, also eliminated from the story,
had been gambler and a spendthrift
who had broken his wife's heart and
dissipated his own fortune Conse-
quently, Ellen was blessed with a
superAuity Of this worlds goods which
more than matched Lord Carrington's
lack Of the same. Ellen was a staunch
patriot, a rebel and a revolutionist
therefore. Lord Darlington was a
promising lieutenant in the English
navy. In some qualities happily he
resembled his mother rather than his
father.
Without entering into the details Of
their previous acquaintance, suffice it
to say that they had met while Lord
Darlington was a prisoner of war at
Philadelphia, and married. The Amer
lean Revolution was over at the be-
ginning Of this romance and the scene
Is set at Darlington castle in England.
Ellen's money, or a considerable por-
ton Of It, had been cheerfully used
BY her to rehabilitate the ancient seat
OF the family Of which she was now
become the chatelaine.
There had been much business to
attend to in the two years that had
elapsed since their marriage; leave
Of absence had been obtained for Lord
Darlington, arrangements for the con-
Verting Of much Of Lady Ellen's prop
erty into available securities which
could readily be turned into cash, and
q deal Of planning and working with
the architects and builders and so on,
30 that the marriage had been a hap.
py one despite the fact that there had
existed, and still existed, an original
difference Of temperament and en-.
vironment between the two as great
% mad been that between their sta
ton in life and places OF birth.
The time had arrived, however
when all the preliminaries having
been gotten rid of, it was necessary
that she should step forth as one Of
the great ladies Of England into which
station her money and Carrington's
position easily indicted her. Hell
qualifications for filling that distin
guished role were strong and vigor
Gus young body, a proud and high
spirit, a pure and innocent mind, q
lovely face, manners simple and I'm
sophisticated, and an unbounded de
Votion to her handsome and distin
guished husband. There was in hel
blood some strain of the sea and sht
g had spent half her life on her father!
ships. She could handle small boat
or even a great ship, as we'll as sail
or for instance. And Lord Carringtol
had amused himself by teaching he
how to use pistol and small swort
almost as well as he.
She had the disabilities of her dual
Kies, too. She had never touched /,
card; she had never ridden a horse
she did not even know the steps o
the minuet or any other dance, and un
ul her marriage she cared little abou
that prime feminine pursuit callet
following the fashion" The two ha,
been SO busy in their first comrade
ship, there had been so much yoy
. aging between England and America
necessitated by their plans, that Their,
had been no time for these things a
yet
The two lovers had lived for eacl
other and much alone during the pei
iod preceding the opening of thi
story, but with his castle now CON
pletely repaired and his fortunes thol
oughly rehabilitated, Lord Carringto,
must needs exploit his good luck b
showing his beautiful wife with whor
he was very much in love and @
whom he was Unfortunately proud. an
exc his castle, to some particular an
Intimate friends of both sexes-me
and women Of fashion of earlier an
, less innocent days. The introductio
Of several varieties of Adam and
number of distinct species of Eve
this hitherto sarnantloss EAon ..,..