Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02
~ II IS name was Duncan L. Duncan,
and he was undoubtedly the very
richest young man in the coun-
try. He had SO much money that


try. He had so much money that
he couldn't even count the num-
Der Of lawyers and bookkeepers and agents and
managers 1t required to keep his business
straight. His father had been fabulously
wealthy and his mother even more so. Both
Of them had died and left him all their money
From time to time distant cousins and uncles
and aunts died and left him still more money
He was 26, and quite handsome in a dark
browed dashing way. He had done everything
in the world and bought everything his fancy
chose. One thing only had Duncan L. Duncan
never done. He had never been in love; in
fact he had long since decided that love was
q lie.
Oh, he had been married and unmarried
twice, the first time to sweet little gold dig
ger who married him for his money The mar
riage was annulled and she had gone her way
with several of his millions which hadn't made
any appreciate difference. He had rather
fancied his second wife, colorful tennis star
OF international fame, but she was too tempera-
mental and ne was too spoiled. His lawyers
had arranged everything and made her Q
handsome settlement Again Duncan L. Dun
can was free
On the night of his twenty sixth birthday a
woman by the name Of Ards de la o gave q
dinner party. 1t was not in Duncan's honor,
for Ards did not know that people had BIRTH
days any more. She was giving the dinner be-
cause she couldn't think of anything to do, and
her husband said:
do anything you want to, but for Heavens
sake don't have q dinner. They bore me stiff"
So Ards called up q score of her friends and
invited them out to dinner.
Nov de la o sounds as though it were
disguised name, like Madame x or Mr..
XYz, but 1t wasn't The de la Os were very,
very proud Of their name and their family.
which was early Californian, and purest Cas-
titan In origin De Ia Os had been governor
generals and viceroys and what-not in the early
days of California, and the current descendants
could not forget it, Ards had achieved the
family by marriage only, and was prone 10
apologize for those numerous members Of her
husbands family who had no money. But TO
money could not enhance their Importance
Which accounts for the fact that on the night
OF his twenty-sixth birthday Duncan L. Duncan
met Forget de la o at the dinner party which
Ards gave to annoy her husband.
Forget de La o had no money at all, but she
was the daughter Of the de la o who inherited
the old family hacienda, and as such was en-
titled to consideration. She and her father
managed to live in comparative comfort by
selling of bits of the rancho from time to time
husband Roman de la o, was Forget's second
or third cousin
When Forget had called at his Office that day
to say that she was spending the night in town
seeing about selling of another parcel of
ground, Roman had at once brought her home
with him. Ards was futilely angry She loaned
Forget dinner dress that had somehow been
left out of the last bundle Of old clothes she
had had her maid make up for the Salvation
Army. Ards had managed to get all the dead
lest enemies seated next to each other and
Forget upset all arrangements. Work it as she
would, Ards saw that she would have to seat
Forget by Duncan L. Duncan
Forget was an unusual name, and she had
acquired it in an unusual manner. Her mother
had been very beautiful and very naughty.
When Forget was born the mother had died
Her agonized young husband hung over her
bed and asked his dying wife what she wanted
to name it. She murmured something that
might have been, Forgive me and forget me-"
but all the husband could hear was forget"
So he named the baby Forget.
Ards apologized for seating Duncan next to
Forget. Duncan did not mind That H. he