Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-14
A FOOLISH FROLIC.
BY Author Geese" "a Democratic Duchess TT,

Montresor acquiesced, and as they
maze their way to the house kept a
sharp lookout with eyes and ears for a
slght OF Denzilia; but there was no sign
OF her, which, as he had nothing to go
by except the glimpse of face momen-
tarlly seen by the flare of match, was
not very surprising.
"Denzilia!" The name. even more
than the face, haunted Aubrey as he
drove home with his friend.
The band has taken away your wits"
remarked Kenneth Matthieson as he
babe him Goodbye" at the door of his
chambers. "If you have recovered to-
morrow will you come and dine with the
mater and Agnes2"
Montresor accepted the invitation.
And you" he added-"you are off
really to Norway tomorrow, in spite of
| the attractions of the season."
I'm spite of them all!'' laughed the
boy. Good bye!"
Montresor slowly mounted the stairs
to his modest rooms on the topmost
story. Here he was supposed to study
the law while he waited for briefs. But.
to say the truth, there were few sub
| Jects he studied less than the law. He
| had the misfortune to possess a private
| income just sufficient to keep him in
! food, lodging, clean linen. and tobacco.
Yet he was steady young man who
would work well when the work was to
his liking, but he was not fitted for the
profession an obstinate and short sight
ed father had forced him into.
"DenZiliai" There was the name star
ing at him in the evening paper as it
had done from every sheet of newspa-
| per for the last six months and which,
| in common with the rest of the world
| he had long since ceased to notice.
| The mysterious disappearance of Miss
Denzilia Lavenham, the great New York
heiress, had been six months ago a nine
! days wonder; but the utmost efforts of
the English and American detectives
/ failed to find her. and the interest of
English society in Denzilia dwindled
away to nothing, though the police con-
tlnued to look for her and no doubt in
New York people continued to talk
about her.
I Aubrey Montresor read with renewed
/ interest the advertisement which had
! appeared for months, but had not hith-
erto interested him
FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD.
"The above reward will be given to
any person who brings verifable infor-
nation as to the whereabouts of Denzilia
/ Lavenham, who arrived in London on
the goth of November, 1890, and has
never been seen or heard of since. Miss
Lavenham is about 5 feet z inches in
height, of slender build, with blue gray
eyes, golden brown hair dressed in curls
on the forehead, straight nose, fair COM
| plexion, and well-shaped mouth. She was
wearing the day she was last seen a
/ Lincoln green cloth dress and Jacket of
| the same color and material trimmed
with sable fur, a green felt hat with
sable tail and a sable muff, a gold watch
with the initials d. l. worked in pearls
and turquoises on the back, and one
plain gold bangle. 1t is conjectured that
she had, concealed on her person, dia-
monds and other Jewels to the value of
thirty thousand pounds
! Then followed a detailed description of
the ornaments, and the advertisement
wound up with, "All communications TO
/ be addressed to Messrs. Futree and
/ Fletcher. Charing Cross, or Denzil Cater
house, Esq, Graham street, S. w"
Aubrey laid the paper down and began
I
! forgotten details of the story. BIT by
bit they returned to him.
DenziIia Layenham was an American
heiress of almost fabulous wealth and
great beauty. Owing to some flaw in
her fathers will she was absolutely in
/ dependent, even of trustees. from her
/ twenty first birthday She had no rela-
! tons in America, but it was understood
I / Il, LrJ al L L
/ side in England. Up to the time of her
attaining her majority she had lived
( with a lady appointed by her two
/ guardians, but she had no sooner reached
! her twenty first birthday than she bade
/ farewell to guardians and chaperon
alike. with the intimation that she con-
templated an immediate trip to Europe,
and that she considered herself quite as
capable of taking care OF herself as a
young man would be in similar circum-
stances.
She condescended to take a maid with
/ her on her travels, because she could
not do her own hair but the idea of
chaperOn or companion she utterly
secuted Just before leaving New York
she made her viii, leaving the whole of
her fortune and property of every de-
{ SCrptlOn 10 neF EngilSn uncle, DenzlI
/ Caterhouse, She took all her Jewels
from the bank, but no one knew how
she carried them, or whether indeed she
had taken them across the sea with her
at all. It was assumd that she had
done so, as she had been heard to boast
that she meant to show the English
| duchesses what diamonds were.
She had written to engage rooms at a
private hotel in Albermarle street, but
She never turned up there Instead of
her appeared her maid. distracted with
the extraordinary intelligence that her
mistress was lost.
Miss Iavenham and her maid, after
arriving at the London terminus from
! Southampton. had sent the luggage on
to the hotel in the railway omnibus or
dered for the purpose, and had then
taken a hanson, and the young lady had
desired the driver TO take her first to
hairdresser's. She had broken one of the
tortoiseshell combs belonging to her
travelling bag and wished to provide her
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