Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-05-28
CHAPTER xXVI.
Gideon's Story.

ramento and San Francisco AmaheI
fitted, gathering the honeydew she
fed upon When Esther met her she /
was as gay with one cavalier as with /
another, until Alfred appeared He
was never her escort; yet if he came /
to party or theater she claimed him at \
once Esther became convinced that |
the barrier that had once separated !
herself from Alfred row existed be- /
tween him and Amabel; that for ANA |
bells sake he insisted ON her perfect
freedom in the eyes of society This !
conviction did not bring tranquility;
and Esther asked herself bitterly, why,
in all the throng that followed her,
there was not some brave and honest
soul that could dislodge Alfred from
her heart. As the winter waned she
found herself very weary of the mo-
notonous round. of the days and nights
that doomed before her, stretching to
blank, gray years And when the
warm sunshine adorned the hills with
rloting bloom, more and more she
spent solitary hours On the road with
her smart team, her most conspicuous
e1travagance-
valentines day" she mused this
morning, as she leaned out OF the open
window to the brilliant, close-bending
sun Of California Fuchsia and nastur-
tium WED with perfumed heliotrope
and jasmine in the long climb up the
houseside; but purple and white won
fhroroh Shafp and Che
gathered a feathery cluster for her
belt
She met her housekeeper In the
dining room, and looked over the at
tractive heap brought by mail and
messenger: valentines of the old lace
paper sort, hiding tiny mirrors and ar
dent poetical requests to look on my
fair; flowers, books, gems which she
would never accept-aH the what-not
of sentimental Valentines day 40
years ago. One offering charmed her.
1t was golden arrow of delicate Mex
lean fligree, light, graceful wonder
fully brilliant, brilliance Esther did
not at first discover as coming from
many tiny diamonds each hardly
larger tUdu q plupOiul- SET scIy CtOsC
1y together
How exquisite," exclaimed Mrs
Brockett. who was friend as well AZ
housekeeper. I never saw anything
like it. For your hair, isn't it," She
took it from Esther and shot it through
her big brown coil, the feathered end
standing high, the pointed shaft shin
ing Just back Of her ear It's the most
beautiful ornament you have. Won't
you keep it22'
Il see no way to return it," Esther
said, searching wrappers and box for
a cIew to the sender. There isn't
a word. Ietter-not even the merch-
ants name on the box How did it
Gomez"
The Chinaman said z small boy
brought it this morning before seven
o'clock" Mrs Brockett replied, as she
left the ROOM
The trinkets did not interest Esther.
She took up her paper instead At
the first glance she cried out.
Gideon Ingram Anthony-His Ro-
mance." were the first words she saw.
She stared uncomprehendingIy for
moment, then read On feverishly. It
was a strange tale, pIeced together
from many sources, and confirmed by
appended interviews with several "old-
est settlers"
The story of Gideon Ingram OF the
weII-known freighters, Ingram, Finn &
Gould. reads like one of Mrs South,
wcrth's novels; yet it is only one OF
the many dramas resulting from the
clash of Latin and Anglo-Saxon IN
California
in the early '40s young New Eng
land teacher, William Anthony by
name. sea-voyaging for his health
.drouued into Monterey out of cur1osi
ty. and remained entranced by the
climate and bewitched by a pair OF
beautiful Spanish eyes. Influential
letters opened the best doors OF the
capitaI to him; and his own fine per
ssonality SOON won him popularity
Lolita. the spoiled and only child Of
senior fernando Guerrero. heiress te
half county and the toast OF the
-town- fell in love with the young Puri
tam love he returned as ardently az
any swain of her OWN people Those
who know the Monterey OF that day
saw that the blood OF a prairie princess
mingled with the blue Andalusian O
the rGuerreros in Lolita's veins
Whether true or not, she had the i'm
nervousness of a dozen royal mafdens
and overriding all objections. she Sc
wedding day less than two months
after the pair first met
Meantime the groom's brother,
lively young onicer OF . Boston
.nerchantman, hove into port . Weel
before the nuptials, with bulge
AZ news and an appetite for diversion
with characteristic reserve the eide
brother did not ct once conflde ~
secret. and thereof came the mischief
The Young man was caught N IN
ruiuklfng of two eyes Lolita's eyes
8s ,r-.,r M trafine On the caUIt3