Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-10-01

of Ornonde" 1s87), though "Editha'
Burglar" and "Sara Crewe" 1SSs]
have achieved a wide reputation.
The book and the play Of "Little Lor'
Fauntleroy" probably spread Mrs. Bur
nett's name the broadcast. 1t had
prodigious runJ the pretty pathos o
the story appealed TO grownups. though
1t seemed silly twaddIe to the innumer
able kids who were dragged by fOn'
parents to see II, and was said TO b.
q great nuisance to that one of TIN
authors own children from whom 1
was drawn. The play of "Esmeralda.
done with w. III. Gillette from one o
her short stories, ran three years II
America. "a Lady of Quality" dram
affixed with Stephen Townsend las wer.
other piays), had a considerable run.
w ETTINA vANDERPOEL was
~ ten years old when her sister
Rosalie married Sir Nigel An
struthers, an English baronet. Betty
hated Nigel with childs instructive
hatred for bully, but in spite of his
coarseness there was certain fasei-
nation about him which blinded Ros-
allie to his real character. They were
married In tie whirl of gayety which
befitted the daughter of a multi-mil-
lionaire, and left New York for Eng
land. Long before the honeymoon
ended Rosy discovered that Nigel cared
only for her money, and nothing what
ever for her pretty, rather shallow
self, and by the time Stornham court
was reached Rosy was desperately
homesick and frightened. Her life
In the little English village, even while
she was the lady of the manor, was
made O. nightmare by Nigel and his
mother: and when, bewildered and
terrified, Rosy sought spiritual con-
ISOLATION and comfort from Mr.. Ffol-
lott, the vicar, Nigel accused her of
having lover. He intercepted her let
tiers, lied to her about her parents, and
at last, furious at her refusal to ask
her father for money, he struck her
so that she fell in a heap against a
chair, and cried out, with crazy, aw-
full little laugh:
"Nigel, be careful You don't know
how valuable I am! l might might
have-a sonw
Fifteen years passed, and the Shut
tie Of Life, weaving back and forth
between the two countries, weaving
eeaseless web over the ocean, twisted
A thread in the life Of Betty Wander
poel that stirred her with the spirit
Of adventure that had been born in
her Dutch forefathers, and always
voice cried out to her to go to Rosy,
to see why the letters from England
had been So few and so unsatisfying.
Betty was lovely woman of twenty
FIVE, very different from the gawky,
long-legged little schoolgirl who had
angrily defed Nigel Anstruthers, but
she kept her determination and her
will-power, and booked her passage on
the Mauretania with a party Of
friends. AT sea storm came up that
threatened to send the ship to the bot
tom Of the ocean, and, rallying the
frightened people who were with her,
Betty had the unexpected assistance
f Ole OF the second-class passengers,
siledt. gentlemanly Englishman, who
helped her to keep order among the
passengers, and then as suddenly as
he came, disappeared into the second
abin. The storm abated at last, and
England was reached In safety, but
Betty did not see the man again.
When Betty reached Stornham
court, her worst fears were confirmed.
Rosy was changed from a dainty,
pretty, lovable girl into faded wreck,
timid and dowdy before her time. Her
son Ughtred, was a hunchback, and
with the cringing nature of his kind,
tried to hide himself from, the world.
Nigel was on a trip to the Riviera, and
his mother had died, which left Ros.
allie alone in the Court, shich was
tumhling down for lack Of repair.
With plenty of D ney at her call, and
with plenty Of courage, Betty set about
her work of Transforming Rosalie, and
building up the house, which soon
changed from q dingy, gloomy pile to
The stately English country house 1t
lhould have neen. She superintend-
60 the repairing of several of Che
houses In tie village, and one day,
during her regular drive about Storm
ham, she went farther and visited the
grounds of tho Mount Dunstan estate.
Mount Dunstan was almost as badly
IN need Of help as Stornham. There
vas superstition which had come
Town through the years that the earls
Il Mount Duns an were eui sed, and
he last earl, James Hubert Saltyre.