The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-01
THE FATAL
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BY CHARLES GARVICE.
Copyright, 1909, by George n. Ooran
Company
CHAPTER XXI.
The Earthly Paradise

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The Earthly Paradise.
/ Three weeks later than the day on
which Harry Vane and Evelyn Des-
! borough had met in Thorden Spinney,
/ the Hawk, with all her white wings
spread. was making for the tiny port
! o. Monaco. Ronald stood on the deck,
| leaning against a mast, his arms fold
! ed, his eyes resting on perhaps the
| fairest scene ever imagined by mortal
mind-a scene beautiful enough one
would think, to stir the blood in the
coolest of men: for the Hawk was
rising and dipping in the blue waters
Of the Mediterranean, and before her
stretched the famous coast-line of the
! Riviera
II was winter; but the sun shonn
with the brightness, the warmth, we'll
nigh the ferceness of summer, in
tcnsifying the brilliant colors of the
ore spo, in Europe in which color is
supreme. Nowhere does green so
closely resemble the emerald is blue
so like the sapphire, nowhere is white
so pure. so startling. as il is in the
Riviera
1t is a land OF enchantment, of al
most unreal beauty; indeed, when, in
despair. one seeks for comparison
| by which to estimate IT, one is driven
to turn to the theater and to recall
some cunnm. scheme Of tairyland
painted by master hand; and, gazing
from a vessel approaching the shore,
one is inclined TO fear that the eX-
, qussite vision Of earthly loveliness
will suddenly fade before ones eyes,
as do the dreamlands which it resem-
bles
But. though it was the first time
Ronald had seen the marvellous view.
shimmcring and glitter.ng in the sun
light which bathed land and sea with
gold it aroused no enthusiasm in his
breast and set no pulse tingling He
regarded it with a gloomy eye, with
countenance unchanged in its
moody and broodinE expression.
year ago he would have sighted that
lairylaud with keen an,iCipations OF
pleasure: for there, within sight, was
Monte Carlo, the charming the mystic
the wicked er.garden and play
-round of the fashionable world to
which he had belonged
But a great change had come over
Ronald-a change which had really
commenced. though he was uncon-
scious Of the fact, the night he had
seen Cara at the mill on the moor;
the influence which she had all IN
Willingly put forth then had become
intensified on the little Sicilian island
and the loss of her, his failure to
recover her, had transformed him in
to a man possessed by one idea, one
stern, overmastering resolution.
As men seek wealth with feverad
eaGeIutSS, lOll III pulSui vi 'H ''''
bftion strain after knowledge, sc
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this afternoon with Mrs. W. b. Frame.
T.
Mrs. Mary r. Nesbit leaves tomor-
row afternoon for Rockville, Texas,
where she begins school work. Mrs.
Nesbit is the principal OF the gram
mar grades in the Rockwall public
schools
Miss Aline SugGs has returned to
Berwyn after a pleasant visit with
her aunt. Mrs Sidney Suggs.
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Mrs atherine Peoples arrives today
to visit Mrs. Henry Sutherland for
owor three days before going to Ok
lahoma City to begin her music class.
Mrs. Peoples has a great many friends
| in Ardmore eager TO welcome her and
| impatient to hear her recitaly on to-
morrow evening al the annex to the
! PRESBYTERIAN church.
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