Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-05

tility with his sister was a deterrent,
since his marriage with so young a
woman and one of alien faith, would
arouse added antagonisms. Eventually
he suggested the alternative. He
would marry her if she would consent
to keep the wedding secret until he
could take the necessary steps to pro-
tect himself. 1t was under this agree
ment that the ceremony was performed.
So says the widow of today. One court
accepted the story.
They went to New York on the we'd
ding trip. Hortense ostensibly going to
visit relatives in the city Later she
returned to Troy and the home Of her
father, Tracy went on about his af-
fairs as before, living with his maiden
sisters, and keeping UP a clandestine
relationship with his wife. In April,
only a few months after the marriage,
Carpenter Pine was injured in an ac-
cident, and died, leaving a widow and
two daughters, the younger Hortense.
Not many months later a son was born
to the young wife. and she was forced
to reveal her marriage to her mother
and sister, the latter palming off the
child as her own. So the secret of the
marriage remained in the family. This
son is still alive a man past forty.
Steadily Put OF Marriage.
Tracy, says the woman of the ro-
nance, provided for her. kept up her
household and continued to see her
ever and again, but steadfastly put off
the recognition of the marriage, plead
ing one excuse and another. Years
passed; nearly ten in all. Hortense
Pine had not achieved the power and
position for which she had married.
She remained obscure. unrecognized,
living under a gable of denial and dis
guising, At last she grew impatient,
demanding recognition.
Traey's answer was characteristic.
The marriage was not a valid one, he
said. The minister had been un-
frocked long before he offciated. She
was not, in law, his wife. and had no
valid claim upon him. He pointed out
that he had money and power to con-
duct legal fight, that she had none
But he would compromise IL she proved
amenable. II she would go west to
some distant part of the country and
not return or intrude herself again he
would make cash settlement upon
The disillusioned wife took the set
Element and went to Idaho. Troy. N.
Y, neither missed nor long remem-
bered her. To Edward Tracy and his
life she became distant episode. That
part Of. the book was written and
blotted. He went on with his life. She
took up hers in the new country.
II any of this was romance Hortense
Pine did not recognize it. She had
dreamed of romance. perhaps. when
she had married this rich and elderly
man. and fancied herself exalted above
the women of her town. IL she had
visions Of 1t now they lay ahead. in
the prospects of this wild. strange land.
1t was still unreal; ever in prospect.
Invested Cautiously.
She settled down in Boise and set to
work making up new world for her
habitation. Mining booms came along;
she invested cautiously and judicleusly,
increasing her capital. She was not
without a sense of the practical. and
having had something To start on. she
got along until she was accounted
woman well-to-d do. The new life got
to be accustomed and commonplace.
New faces grew old: old ones dim.
Troy and Edward Tracy were crowded
out by the fresh tides Of lifes unrest
ing sea.
In 1887, when she was 81 and had
been four or five years in Idaho. Hor
tense Pine married. This time her
husband was q mining man. one George
w. Adams. Two months after the
marriage she received. she SAYS, let
ter from Edward Tracy. In this letter
he .recanted his earlier statements. de-
elared that the marriage of Is years
earlier had been legal, and requested
his wife to return to Troy. This. sne
says, she did
They met and discussed their affairs.
hut he was still unwilling TO meet her
terms completely. Finally they dis
agreed and she returned to the west.
where she acquainted Aoams with the
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