The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1912-01-06
CHAPTER I.

fHS Young Lazy from FniiAueipnia.
Miss Enid Maitland was highly
specialized product of the far east. !
say far, viewing Colorado as point
Of departure, not as identifying her
with the orient. The classic shades
OF Bryn Mawr had been the Groves
OF Academus where with old Plato
she had walked" Incidentally during
her completion of the exhaustive cur
riculum Of that justly famous institu-
ton she had acquired at least a bow
ing acquaintance with other masters
Of the mind
Nor had the physical In her educa-
tlon been sacrificed to the mental. In
her at least the mems sana and the
corpore sanO were alike in evidence.
She had ridden to hounds many times
on the anise-scented trail of the West
Chester Hunt! Exciting tennis and
leisurely golf had engaged her atten-
ton on the courts and green's OF the
Merton Cricket club. She had buffeted
"Old Oceans gray and melancholy
waste" on the beach at Cape May and
at Atlantic City.
Spiritually she was a devoted mem
Der Of the Episcopal church, Of the
variety that abhors the word "Protes-
ant" in connection Herewith Alto
gether she reflected great credit upon
her pastors and masters spiritual and
temporal and her up-bringing in the
three departments of life left little to
be desired.
Upon her graduation she had been
at once received and acclaimed by the
Assembly Set" of Philadelphia, to
which indeed she belonged unQues-
toned by right of birth and position
and there was no other power under
heaven by which she could have ef-
fected entrance therein, at least
that is what the outs thought
OF that most exclusive circle. The
old home of the Maitlands over
looking Rittenhouse Square had
been the scene Of her debut. In
all the refined and decorous gaities OF
Pnlladelphia's ultra-fastidious society
she had participated. She had even
looked upon money standardized New
York in its delirium of extravaganoe,
at least in so far as a sedate and we'll.
born Philadelphia family could coun-
tenance such golden madness. During
the year she had ranged like a con.
Querer-pardon the masculine appella-
tion-DetWeen Palm Beach in the
south and Bar Harbor in the north.
Philadelphia was proud OF her, and
she was not unknown in those un.
fortunate parts of the United States
which lay without.
IN all this she had remained q frank.
Tree, unspoiled young woman. Life
was full Of zest for her, and she en-
joyed it with the most un-Pennsylva-
nian enthusiasm.
The second summer after her COM
ing out found her in Colorado. Robert
Maitland was one of the big men OF
the west. He had departed from Phil
adelphia at an early age and had set
lied in Colorado while it was stNl In
the formative period. There he had
grown up with the state. The Phil
adelphia Maitlands could never under
stand 1t or explain 1t. Bob idaitland
must have been, they argued, a rever-
sion to an ancient type, a thtrowback
% some robber baron long alntecedent
% William Penn. And the speculation
vas true. The blood Of sonic lawless
ldyenturer of the past, discEeetly for
got by the conservative sec ton of the
amily, bubbled in his veins unchecked
'y the repressive atmosphere of his
lone and immediate envil onment.
He had thoroughly ide ntified him
.eit with his new surro undings and