The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08

which ! danced every Wednesday night
at the Theater Francais in the great bal
let oil the Fata Morgana. | needed warm
clothes good cd food fire They said IT.
starved thin. An exquisite paIlor. I had
that, too. but it came from sour bread:
chocolate made with water and sweetened
with sugar picked off with my nails from
the bon-bons, ] did not love the man.
nor any man. l vas Il child. In the
! place of n mother. had the warnings OF
| an instinct | feared the touch OF Il
mans fingers as the beast Of the field
| does: but the old concierge who had kept
| life in me with hot soup every night after
! the ballet. took the thing In hand She
discovered ] know not how, that the
young mans father was rich American.
So she bundled me off 10 Passc and
handed me over 10 him. but under Il cere-
muny of marriage set out fully on the
! records OF Iasse. She was the only
friend I ever had this old, crooked. evil
featured Madame Duroaue She could
more easily have sold me to him at the
door Of her lodge for a hundred louis.
After this. | was, at least, not hungry.
Ny husband was little more than a boy
We lived over The Seine by the LuXcm-
bourg. | did not dance any more at the
Thealer r'rancais. hut l went every Mou-
day morning to Madame Duroque To tell
her everything and 10 divide With her my
handful OF francs Ms husband studied
art under the usual masters, but il was
every morning thrown away. He was
indolent. utterly worthless, wholly given
over To u ille OI IltdSuIfs
Zone noon in MAY. his father arrived.
handed mo twenty-five napoieons and
told mo 10 go down into the street
went with the money In my hand 10
over her head and hurried out l did
not see her again for five days. Then
she came with the great American and
took me TO the Hotel Continental and To
my husband. Madame Duroque kissed
me AT The door. put my certificate o.
marriage and the wedding. ring in silk
bag and fastened ii around my neck With
little gold chain Then shf took me
10 one side, and hade me remain with my
husband and demand hundred thousand
francs before | would set foot out or
Paris, after which she went back 10 her
lodge.
The father prepared Then To return
with us 10 America. l refused to go,
and my husband. who was now aroused.
him. ] got finally tho ono hundred thou
sand francs and VIC arrived In New York
My iather-in Jaw. who owned railroads
in western state. took us there and
installed my husband as tho clerk of
court in Il little town built along The
side OF n mountain above the fork of
river where three railroads joined. He
Was trying TO make Il man out OF my
husband. he said, At his urging | invested
The money which | had received In the
bonds of a railroad which he was build
ing through the county.
smoke, the mud, the unutterable dreari-
ness Of this frontier village. one day
my husband fell and broke his wrist
He went to a hospital In ncighboring
town 10 have the bone set. and died un-
der the Influence of ether on the operat-
Ing table. found In his pocket this let
ter. which he had written TO me before
the operation"
She took one of her hands down from
her face. unlocked the bosom OF her
dress took out letter and read 1t. 1t
was a meager note. a sort OF mamoran-
dunn to her. in the event of any serious
consequences attending the operation. 1t
told her briefly that the money which she
had invested vast lost, thar his father
had wrecked the railroad. reorRanizod II
and absorbed It's assets: hut that there
were SOS. 600 dollars in a tin box in the
bottom OF his trunk in her room. She
should gay nothing 10 any one and keen
that money for her own, II was all the
provision he could make for her,
She laid the paper before Randolph
Mason, then she took n newspaper clap.
ping out OF her purge and held Il in her
and.
Il found the money packed in big bills
in the tin box. In u few days ! knew
where my husband had got this money