Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-18

done for any one in his selfish life be.
fore, and he taught her not only Eng
lishs but French. One thing Vaunce
was determined upon, and that was
that the girl should be absolutely
obedient. He was master, she the
slave.
Finished at Fashionable School.
When she was fourteen he was able
to send her to a fashionable school
for girls. She looked seventeen and
seemed already a woman. In that
school she acquired the polish he
deemed necessary. When she left 1t
even Vaunce was satisfied. She was
radiant, If she was charming before,
she was fascinating now. Vaunce
posed as her father, and she obedi-
emily called him Daddy" She was
brilliant in conversation, sang with a
spirit that stirred the blood, and was
so pretty that men and women stopped
in the street to look at her. She
was a bit capricious, perhaps. Some
of the men thought her so.
Vaunce had no tolerance for the
young ambitious men who sought the
girl. He had made 1t clear to her
she was to accept the attentions only
of the men he approved. He ex-
planned SO much of his plans to her
DC ha 4boyoht uaoaccorv owl che
dominated by his will, was content.
He had fitted her, he said, to be the
wife Of a rich man. After she had
riches she could think of love.
All of her suitors found her capri
cious, but capriciousness is not a fault
a man may not forgive in the woman
to whom he is paying court. With her
beauty and wit, added to the ~vivacity
of her race, she was irresistible.
Vaunce, watching closely, finally Sc
lected q husband for her-a wealthy
easy-going man of more than middle
age. The girl, who knew Vaunce's
money was exhausted and that their
situation was desperate, a%cquiesced,
and her silly old admirer was fooled
into a hurried marriage.
Husbands Troubles Begin.
The husband, infatuated with the
beautiful girl, was extravagant in his
attentions to her. Like most south
erners, she was a bit barbaric in her
taste, SO he lavished jewels on her.
When she tired of this and longed for
gayety, he tried his hand at entertain
ing. She did not care for society as
society, and exhibited more capricious-
ness than he had bargained for. The
husband, in this extremity, sought
counsel Of Vaunce, who now was in
clover. Before the marriage Vaunce
had adroitly drawn the foolish old
bridegroom-elect into an agreement
by which Vaunce was provided for for
life. The world at last was treating
Vaunce well.
Vaunce counseled the troubled hus-
band to be patient. The girl, probably
at Vaunce's order, cajoled him into
thinking she was sorry he was dis
tressed, and then the deluded husband
was delighted for a few days. Then
something would happen that would
make him wonder whether he had
married a woman or a devil.
Then came another n younger
one-on the scene. He was a million
aire many times over. When he dis
covered the woman's love of jewels he
showered them on her. He drove and
he rode with her and was her escort
to opera and theater. The husband
protested. He also objected to the
presents. But, for some time, she APP
peased him with caresses, declaring
the jewels meant nothing more to her
than the pleasure their beauty gave to
her.
Vaunce was not DISTURBED In the
slightest. In fact he saw a brilliant
opportunity for personal profit in the
intrigue the woman had gotten into.
If there was divorce or separation 1t
would not affect him adversely. His
pension was secure Then there was
the prospect of a new deal with the
millionaire. This appealed to the
criminal mind of yaunce as something
delightful.
Real Love Spells Game.
Vaunce watched the progress Of the
affair with the millionaire with com
placency until one day he discovered
absolutely new element had en-.
tered into the tangled drama. The
woman, who had no more affection for
the millionaire than she had for her
husband, had fallen in ~loye-badly,
violently, insanely, as only a Eicilian
woman can. The person she had
fallen In love with was a fireman, a
clean-cut, %blue-eyed, handsome young
man, whom she had met in the street,
and who had winked at her and firted
with her as II she were a shop girl.
Clandestine meetings followed and