Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-28
There was also the marked opposition
of the de Mumm family.

There was also the marked opposition
of the de Mumm family.
In America With de Mumm.
In October, 1911, she appeared on
the passenger list of an ocean liner as
Mile. Marie Van Rcinseimer. De
Mumm took passage on the same ship.
In New York they were much seen
together. They took balloon flight
together from Pittsfield, Mass. They
were up in the air for seven hours,
landing at West Hawley At one time
the balloon scared at $500 feet alti-
tude. Leo Stevens, the veteran aero
maui. who was the Pilot, says he never
met a nervier little woman.
Meanwhile, the objections of de
Mumm's family became very strong
1t was finally impressed upon him
that he must tear himself away from
the influence of the charming Amer
lean. He tried. He told her one
morning that he had to attend tt
pressing business down in Wall street
and dashed off in & cab to steam
ship bound for Cherbourg- got up
the gangplank in the nick of time.
Not long afterward Nine. Barnes
Creel closed her apartment in New
York She shipped all her belongings
to Paris. If she made this move in
pursuit Of de Mumm it must be un-
derstood that there was no mercenary
fly in the ointment of the romance.
The young woman had wealth. She
reappeared In Paris and de Mumm
shrugged wilful shoulders in the face
of his family. He sought Nine.
Barnes-Creel. Reconciliation bloomed
like hyacinth at dawn.
Several times afterward they quar-
relied and parted, de Mumm every lit.
tie while becoming conscience-strick-
en- regarding his failure to comply
with duties of scion of his house.
as his family saw them. He laid be-
fore the hopelessnes Of their situa'
tion-her Catholic marriage; the
young son of her marriage to Creel
now at an English school, a lad eight
years old They must really separate
1t was necessary in support of family
requirements that he marry in the
conventional manner of wealthy Euro
peans-a bride selected in the regular
old-fashioned manner-for family
tradition, wealth, social desira bility.
Pistol Shots Mark Displeasure.
Nine. Barnes-Creel had heard thai
sort of talk before. When de Mumm
proposed a farewell dinner at Max
inns she indulgently smiled. After the
dinner he Pvt off saying the farewell
and accor- panied her to her home
There he told her goodbye. This wal
really final, he said.
Then it was shown that the Paris
ian boulevardier who had first nance
her the Midget Carmen" knew wei
his psychology. From her escritoir
she took out a small gold-mounte
pistol and shot de Mumm; once
twice!
He was carried from the Rue de
Bellies Geuilles and into an ambr
lance. He did not die. He SCOTS nov
! at the idea that she could possibl
have meant to kill One wound wa
in his shoulder; the other in hi
thigh
Lastly, he is pleading with her TO
forgiveness. She is Indignantly deny
ing that when she was shooting at hin
he $50 far forgot himself as to strik'
her roughly. fiercely, as the report a
first went out.
What will the end be?
The Easton waitress. a dazzlingl,
beautiful matron as Nine. de Mumm
reigning in Paris or conspicuous a
the court of Berlin?
Or the other-that usual end whicl
so frequently has befallen wome
whose beauty and destinations, who's
daring and love of adventure, hav
lifted them from obscurity to luxury
to surprising positions of influenc,
and sometimes to despotic power
careers which have so frequently emf
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