The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-01

milliner all her own-even a little sur.
geon hitherto unknown, who honored
a little hospital and made II fashion.
able. by taking there this distinguished
patient for a little operation?
Rawn himself expanded In all this
social success He saw doors hitherto
closed, opening before him, saw his
future unrolliDg before him also like a
scroll. A hundred times a week he.
walked TO his young wife, caught her
in his arms, ENORMOUSLY infatuated
with her youth, her beauty, her
aplomb. her fitness for this life which.
he had chosen. For once he almost
forgot to regard himself as a collector
Of beautiful objects, although the
truth was that his wife, Virginia, be-
came more beautiful each day, more
superb OF line, more calmly easy In
air, more nearly faultless OF garb and
demeanor. She took her place easily
and surely among the young matrons
of the Weather circles of the western
city. Whereas thousands of ~auto-cars
had passed by Graystone Hall and
only a dozen stopped, scores now, OF
the largest, drove up it's winding walks
n halted at its doors. The dearest
dream OF both seemed realized. The
hunt in couple had won't They had
gained what they desired; that is to
say. self-indulgence, ease, idleness. adj
ulation, freedom from care. What
more is there to seek? And is not
this America?
Gradually John Rawn had been los
ing the rusticity which had accompa-
MED him well up TO middle age. The
city o began to leave its imprint.
The waiatcoat of Mr.. Rawn gradually
attained a curve unknown to il in ear
lier years so that his watch fob nov
hung in free air when be stood erect.
His face was perhaps more florid, his
hair certainly more gray. His skin
remained fresh and clean. and always
he was Well-groomed, having the able
assistance of his wife now in the Sc
lection OK his tailoring, as we'll as her
coaching In social usage. They always
looked their part. At morning, at
noon, or at dewy eve, In any assem-
blage or any chance situation, they
both played the role assigned to
them In their own ambitions. Born OF
an environment wholly un~convention-
al, they now took on that OF conyen-
tionality as though born to that in
stead. You could not have found a
more perfect type Of respectability
than job n Rawn, a more absolutely
valid x emplar Of good social form
than his wife. Virginia. All things
prospered under their magic touch,
the genii Of the lamp seemed theirs.
No problems remained for them TO
solve. They had in their own belief
attained what may be attained In
American life. and they were happy.
Or, that IN to say, they should at least
have been happy, if their theory OF
life and success, and Of those like to
theirs. be correct. At least they were
what they were-products of a won
derful country which makes million
aires overnight and produces of
bakeries women of n generation At
TO be the wives of princes born of
forty king 8.
We are, some OF us at least, accus-
toned 10 worship such as these as
they ride by upon the high car OF sue
cess. accu stoned TO envy and 70 emu
late them. II that vehicle be the car
Of Juggetnaut, crushing under it's
wheels multitudes of those who wor-
ship, II Is no concern of those who sit
aloft. For a long time Mr.. Rawn and
his wife remained ignorant of the fact
that one victim Of the wheels OF their
success was none other than Rawn's
daughter, Grace.
Alas. for that young lady. She un
fortunately had been now for almost a
year an aspirant in her own right TO
a seat upon the car of ease and lux
ury; yet here she saw herself swiftly
supplanted, and worse than that, swift
iy forgotten, Her year of q~uasi-place
and power had left her unwilling TO
return TO her own humble home. She
remained on at Graystone Hall, now
rarely visited by her husband. She
found herself calmly accepted, yet
calmly neglected as well. Very natu-
rally she hated the new Mrs. Rawn
with all her soul; a hatred which that
lady repaid with nothing better than
a straight look into Grace's eye a
look innocent. calm, and wholly fear
less. Grace must now see the very
Jewels her own mother should have
worn. blazing at the neck and hands of
her stepmother; must see that lady
taking assuredly and as of right, what
Grace could now never ask or expect
for herself. With an unapproachable
and wholly hateful air of distinction
and good breeding which ranked most
OF all In crude Mrs. Halsey's heart,
Virginia Rawn sat high on the car of
Juggernaut; and the a OF Juggernaut
passed o. In pride and delight over
his young wife. John Rawn really for
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