Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-23

ish met him one winters night in an
inn at Plattsburg, n. Y, while Parish
was on a sleighing trip, Prince John
should be perfectly willing to play a
game of cards for anything one could
mention-not even excepting a lady's
favor. And under the circumstances,
with a waning of affection in the case
of Prince John, what more natural was
it than that Parish should have won
the game and the stake?
On the morning after the momen
tous game Van Buren, went his Jour-
ney alone. Parish returned to his
Ogdensburg home, but in the cutter
beside him and behind the spirited
team of trotters that his large stable
was famous for sat the n
was to preside over his establishment
for more than ten years to come.
The home Parish took her to was a
grand one, as homes went in the
America of that era. 1t was a low,
square structure that stood on Wash
ington street, facing the broad st.
Lawrence, and with its grounds occu-
pied a whole block. The house was
surrounded by a high stone wall, with
only two entrances cut through it, one
with stately wide gates opening on
Washington street n the other for
the servants use in the rear. The wall
was so high that only the trees around
the mansion within could be seen
above it, which gave to its inmates
the privacy that is so dear to the av-
erage Briton's heart In his home.
Happiness Lasted Long.
The social world of the aristocrat1c
old place knew Nine. Vespucci only
through the daily spectacle she pre-
scented as she drove out alone and in
considerable state in her open car
riage behind the blooded Parish
horses. Of all the houses in Ogdens-
burg there was only one she ever en-
tered. That was a home On the OPP
posite side of Washington street,
where a gentle old lady received her
out of sheer pity for the solitary state
of the foreign woman who had elected
to cut herself off from the companion
ship of her sex for the sake of the
man she loved.
That she loved Parish and that he
returned this affection in kind there
is no question. Happiness dwelt IN
that home for a decade, and b only
thing that married the perfection OF
her life was the ostracism of her sex
| and this seemed to fret her not at all
She was young, beautiful and hac
everything that went with great wealth
and came from a generous mans great
love.
t The men who were familiars In the
house had the greatest respect for hel
e and treated her as if her position was
socially ~unassailable. Possibly thi:
r conduct had something to do with he
tragic end, for she gradually grew In
I perious toward the members OF ne
t masculine court, and more particular!
so toward the master of the place ant
. of her fortunes. This attitude hnall.
. resulted one day, out of her assurance
Il of the power she welded over Parish
q in her giving some orders concerning
the management Of the estate ina
u were directly opposite to Parish
, ideals on the subject.
u With all the dignity and suav1ty o
, manner for which he was famous III
! told her the time had come when sh'
y must leave him and his house. IL
y suggested that Paris would be an eH
S cellent place for her to take up resi-
dence in, and that he would, naturally
provide for her so that she might Nv
e in the style to which she had bee
h accustomed. OF the effect of this UT
If matum had or her subsequent event
n showed. But at the time she was a
II dignified as a woman OF her tralnlhi
c only could be.
IS Then Nine. Vespucci went AVA
IS Paris became her home, but it was
L. solitary and heart-breaking n 70
1t her. The letters she wrote to one c
e. her old men friends in the Maple cit
n told of this solitude and this hear
er break. She wrote to him at interval
n of two years; and then word reache
o her friends that she was dead. c
how great was her love for Paris
Of this brief record of absence from hi
side bears witness. Beyond the ston
O. that marks her grave, in PEREZ;
IS Chaise. there exist no tangible re
In ords of her in this country today, e,
n cept a silver box marked with tn
ID yespucci coat Of arms and a pack'
e., of letters she wrote in Paris.
is AS for Parish, his life had a MOI
of glorious ending, so far as the eXte
I'd nails were concerned. A short tin
of after Nine. Vespucci disappeare
from Ogdensburg Parish receive
RS word that he had inherited throue
his mothers family the title and II
SIS lands of Baron Won Steftenburg
40 Germany. Before he left New Yol
for Germany he destroyed the trad