The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-11-26
Cy N8eJpiIIe DAVIDSON Posi-
Co?yrlghs by howard j. clode

@'%"~AN -. CAeNO
had come up from tho obscurest. rcek-
ing tarns OF it: sbe knew with hide
Gus certainty what fate awaited poy-
erty and the loss OF youth In THAI
unSeied kingdom. Like every woman
OF her class, arrived at a certain sta
ton. she determined to secure at any
cost 4 permanent fortune and foot.
Ing In the world Of respectability
above her. The coming OF this rich
western licentiate was 4 direct answer
to Satanic inyocations.
After this fatal meeting, the Ameri-
can travelled through the south OF Eu-
rope Ike the Fifteenth Louis, the divi-
dends of the second greatest business
In the world skipping through the cig-
arette-stained fingers OF Viennesa
danssuse playing desperately for an
established marital relation.
The end was not far to seek. Re-
called to America by his business. as
sociates, Charles Porter repaired 10
New Haven, established there q con-
structive residence, alleged the deser-
ton OF his first wife and secured q
divorce by an order or public2 ton. Ir,-
mediately upon tho entering OF the de-
cree he married Suzanne Kinsky and.
later, returning to New York, took y
country house on Long Island.
During all of this tine His former
wife had remained quietly with her
father in New York city. Unfort-l-
nately, she could not accompany Por-
ter on his disastrous European tour
because of the birth of the little bcy.
For time she was absolutely loyal to
the dissolute husband, in the face OF
convincing private advices and the
lurid public reports brought g!aring-
ly to her attention. Even the mans
divorce and subsequent marriage IN
duced no word OF comment or consura
from the lips Of this remarkable
woman.
Tho spoke in the wheel OF fortune to
which Suzanne Kinsky had so despel-
ately chung, having carried her unbe-
hevably to the first realization OF Ter
hopes, went on swiftly upward. The
physical machinery OF Charles Porter.
unused to dissipation and driven at a
pace thus killing, went suddenly to
pieces. Two months after his second
marriage, his brain softened Ike q
dish OF porriGSe. lie got up one aftcr-
noon from his desk In his Office. drag
Ing his feet, his mouth drcoling. his
speech simian jGbber. The danseusa
acted with the most daring resolution.
She isolated him instantly In his coun-
try house on Long Island, gave out
that he would conduct his affairs from
his residence and caused all his pri-
vate papers, including the tin boxes ia
which his very securities woro packed,
to be removed TO it. His deposits in
banks were, likewise, immediately
drawn out. His yacht, motor-cars and
racing stables were sold hurrieGly at
auction. Suzanne I[insky thereby got
at least one, seventh of the mans es-
tate safely into her hands while he
was yet alive. The great bulk Of his
fortune she could not lay hands on;
it was in iron and steel stocks, &c,
posted with q trust company under an
order permitting their withdrawal only
upon the written direction OF a syndi-
cate committee Of which Charles Por-
ter was member, and encountered
by further agreene nt requiring them
70 be first offered to the members OF
the syndicate before being exhibited
otherwise for sale. This estate was
valued at, perhaps, seven millions OF
dollars.
The far-sighted, practical second
wife was not greatly alarmed over tho
status of these seven millions. Every
othor scrap of the estate was IN her
possession-cash and negotiable as
sets aggregating, perhaps, a million
dollars. One-half Of these remaining
six millions the law would give her at
the husbands death. Porter had made
no will and he was now forever IN
capable Of executing one. These iron
and steel stocks were personal prop
erty, and one-half would 20 to tho
wife should the husband die, as he
was doing. without issue by tho sec
ond marriage the child of the first
marriage having been provided for in
the decree Of divorce by a meager an
nuity I'm leu OF future property rights.
Then. when every detail was suugly
arranged, sho carried Charles Porter
TO the medical experts. They pro.
nounced him utterly incurable, VITA
perhaps six months to live
The danseuBe now saw the last gate
barring her widest fancies swing in
ward on its hinges-a great chateau
in the Bavarian mountains, a palace
10 Vienna, a glittering court Hitting
through continental capitals like q
fairy pageant. all rising from that six
feet Of earth into which this slobbcr-
ing creature who had eaten OF Circe'a
flowers, was presently 20 be hidden
Then. on tho Instant, as wder Gods
nrycr, that srclo in the wheel of for.
tune, arriving nc the summit, snapped.
suzanne Kinsky. looking over 2 New
York paper at dinner one evening.
read that tho Supreme Court Of tho
United States had on that Gag pro-
nouncod an opinion declaring invalid
divorces granted upon an order o.
publication.
In another quarter events now be-
gan TO move The catastrophe be-
falling Charles Porter startled the first
wife into activity. Sao had not cared
particularly for horseH. end She had en-
along believed that Criy Porter
wor'd socura the baIE OF bis osta.e
so bis son. Now. stricken into seail-
ity DC could not Tho scarlet woman
must pc met with fire. There SIS no
courage. no endurance. no tenacity
comparable 70 that Of She Just. rising,
ot last TO action This deserted wo-