Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-08-23
The C0rrector of Destinies
Being Tales of Randolph Mason as Related by
His Private Secretary, CORTLAND Parks
The Burgoyne- Hayes Dinner
By Melville Davisson Posi-
Copyright BY Edward J. clode

HAYES to Prince EDWARD or HeSSe
Nacbel-Schweren will be always re-
rnembersI by New York. The proud
,oId dowager cut society like a butch
or The list was streak of blood.
No massacre of King Philips war
over left more savagery skulking in
sbe bushes. The terrible old woman
openly declared that she intended to
give New York the bayonet, as her
. great relative did in 1777.
shall always remember this din
0er for another reason. It was the
first appearance in America of Beatrix
Waldo after her marriage with Capt.
| Gordon Smith of his majesty's lines in
South Africa. There were lot of
floating, disconnected rumors about
4bis marriage. Beatrix certainly posed
as an heiress before the Englishman
went under the yoke, and we got
the impression, doubtless directly, that
he had large estate somewhere on
Loeb Codan, $4,000, at any rate, over
his pay. Then we heard later on,
through Jimmie Dale, l think-he al
ways knew the foreign gossip-that the
Englishman did not have brass far
thing over his pay, and was rath-
er worse off than that by fat budget
of debts. We knew that Beatrix had
no income to speak Other aunt kept
me gown-makers going for her. There
were wild lands, back inland some
where, that Beatrix used to turn into
oil, coal and spruce lumber when she
got to dreaming, but the over-drained
old aunt used to pay taxes on them,
and 1 think that was about the only
reminder of the fortune that ever
came along to New York.
had Sarah Lamar on my right at
this dinner, and, fortunately, an i'm
possible German person on her right,
who kept his nose well in his wines
and pates. WANTED to ask Sarah Lee
MARI about Beatrix, and was glad of
the Teuton's exclusive interest in his
stomach. l shared a rather general
curiosity. The Englishman was here
with Beatrix, putting in his leave of
absence. If they mooned for van
ished Eldorados, one saw no tear-stains
In it. I thought the pair of them at
the far end of the table looked happy
enough, pretty comfortable for disillu-
STONED fortune hunters. Presently I
got Sarah Lemarr to myself, and was
about to inquire into the mystery when
she took the very subject from the tip
of my tongue.
81 have been hoping for word with
you, Courtlandt," she said; 'it's about
BeatriX Smith. She needs your as
sstance."
Il am not divorce lawyer" I
said.
Nonsense, Courtlandt," she answer
ed; they love each other. They are
lovers. Can you gather the signif-
cance of such an undreamed of ending
to the effort each of them made to
marry fortune?"
Then" said, ''Beatrix cannot need
assistance. Poets tell us that lovers
do not dwell in this land of trolley
cars and spindles, but somewhere on
blessed islands they are happy"
But, my dear boy" said Sarah Lee
MARI zone might take stone bruise
or thorn in the thumb even on a
blessed island"
Not So" 1 answered; ''the Well at
the Worlds End is there, and whose
ever tasteth thereof shall be perfect
as his dreams are perfect, and around
and all about this land Lethe, the River
OF Oblivion, rolls its watery labyrinth.
Nay, do not interrupt me; the human
neart longs with longing that cannot
pc uttered for this enchanted country
Where, you tell me, Beatrix walks with
her Englishman."
Well" said Sarah Lemarr. "Who
IS the girl, Courtlandt?'
There you co." I said, demonstrate
ing the greatest unwritten truth about
woman; namely, that every reflec-
ion arises from personal experience.
one deplores sin, he has robbed his
employer in his youth; If one apostro-
pulzeS love, he is about to marry Miss
zones OF Forty-eighth street. The girl
u my case, dear Madame Won Hubert,
Ihat mysterious fairy-woman, daugh-
'er OF Abu Jaffer, surnamed the Vic
orIous, second Caliph of Bagdad under
ne dynasty of the Abbasides, asleep
~ ner silk carpet in Arabia"
mere the impossible German person
Interrupted to inquire if thought the
luIles were canned. 1 did not think
ney were canned, and he was content;
Ut the moment gave Sarah Lemarr a
eau and she seized it with the practi-
ID dlEEstness Of a New Bedford skip
NOW, Courtlandt," she said, "be
e !lSl Beatrix needs $4,000"
how original of Beatrix," l replied.
Most OF us need only couple of hun
II you are going to be nasty about
:, Cou1tlandt," she said, ST will never
peak to you again. You must help
ae@'fiz to find this $4,000. The poor
~ Is dreadfully worried about it.
VI see, Courtlandt, when the two of
lem awoke after the honeymoon to
uu their estate all Castilian haze, in
se"u OF conventional separation
ASl IeIi in love x1,S&l. <&I,1,. lslyn