Show 1 a SHE LOVED A Bi StAL I 1 LEFT HER MILLIONS FOR AN ENGLISH SWELL AL A san 8 francisco story of love lore and ad deceit in fifth atre the mad ka 1 career of the bradbury Drad burys and its if somewhat mixed termination i RS BS john bradbury wife of one of the rich richest a 6 t young men in A merica america left her husband and his multi millions and ran away from his I 1 palace in los angeles amgeles with a penni BURY I 1 e s s middle aged J OR englishman she gloried in her own daring declared scandal was romance proclaimed her love for her englishman and enjoyed the shock she had given california she was beautA beautiful ful and in her was blended the good blood of old virginia an and d that of the spanish american she was a california aristocrat her husband dark almost as though his blood was all instead of only quarter indian was in love with life and had gone the pace from his boyhood he had figured in international women scrapes had bet and drunk and gambled and been as spectacular as a young millionaire could be when he married beautiful amy bantling banning everybody thought he would come back to the reservation er of conventionality and respectability but he he remained out ghost dancing in the bad lands and he took his bride with him into this treacherous wilderness the e exhilaration X hil of her flight from her h husband u s died out when she found hers herself e af in jail at the instance of the san francisco society for the suppression of vice aone was the glamour and the cheer the champagne chan had staled she has turned her back on her er englishman and accepts her husbands terms I 1 1 1 aw ill N I 1 tsa A I 1 aft Z k t t N I 1 1 lr I 1 1 A A 1 I 1 N I 1 I 1 N 2 I 1 S r e 1 I 1 ya I 1 i 1 I I 1 Z I 1 A t 1 I 1 I 1 A Z k 41 I 1 I 1 I 1 M 7 4 I 1 14 i I 1 i I 1 I 1 1 I 1 ai 1 I I 1 7 I 1 7 1 1 I 1 N I 1 I 1 1 V 44 I 1 1 k L I 1 41 I 1 1 k X I 1 0 1 ill t I 1 1 11 1 I 1 ill 7 11 V I 1 1 7 I 1 11 N 1 1 I 1 1 i N I 1 I 1 1 Z I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 nr I 1 1 mits BRADBURY bradbury says he will never live with her he again but offers her such a home and sh an income as will maintain her in her accustomed luxury lucy banning is well born her father came out of a good fighting virginia family of long pedigree and much aristocratic kinship her mother was a type of the ravishingly beautiful spanish american woman who dominated the society of the city of angels thirty years ago the bannings were always wealthy in land and stocks and the coming of the southern california boom shoved them up toward the millionaire notch lucy was a young girl just in her teens when the 14 i 1 I 1 r i ML I 1 I 1 71 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 0 1 N ya 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 1 7 ie I 1 I 1 1 I 1 ft I 1 0 L I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 31 RUSS I 1 I 1 W aca u I 1 tid leiwe jia sales put ner where the beat AC lk 3 th th I 1 I 1 19 ri 2 A 9 t 4 34 la in I 1 in e I 1 0 I 1 I 1 e rb s 4 im 4 abs W Z dinv inv ii I 1 4 j dar 6 1 U 4 I 1 i w worth worm void somei e blag I 1 re vr a 1 an t o agn za b ia IN i UZ t t A a C I 1 gs A az abic 1 ailt W 11 1 1 61 I 1 1 tie way from mrs bradbury sr the i j linerud line run plump into indian johnny johnn Y the brodbury bradbury of this story shows that indian in his physical characteristics bradbury the elder got much land when land was worth about 25 ca cents cants an acre out oot there then came the boom and bradbury sr sold the sheep and some laud bought some mines started the bradbury bank built the bradbury block and became altogether a top in town bradbury was put down at something like johnny bad ad just begun to notice things about the time of the desertion of the sheep ranch and the elder gave him every chance he took some of the chances studied a little played more and watched how older men of means spent their money when the death of the mother left him of age and the owner of some three millions in land mi mines nes and that sort of stuff johnny began to whirl a bit there Is something in the nature of an indian which absolutely compels him to get off the reservation now and then that something sleeps for foi months to wake up one day like a lusty stag and then your indian goes off to kill somebody the indian in johnny bradbury got to waking up and doing things to him ha began to whirl faster he found it pleasant and he whirled a great deal california began to talk about him his indian was awake most of the time going into all circles as he did he be one night saw lucy banning she was not yet seventeen but developed like the women of the spanish race she was a perfect picture of blond beauty with the soft eyes of her mother half los angeles was in love with her bradbury stopped his long enough to get a good look at her and his fate was fixed for a time at least los angeles was not quite large enough for his operations and he extended them to san francisco living at that time at the palace hotel was dora hastings also known as countess vera the countess had cut something of a swath in the high life of san francisco a few years before and had polished off a career with several seasons in europe doing some international capers in paris she was looking tor for johnnys kind and he fell an easy prey there was a scandal ot of course and johnny got gracefully down and out of it just in time lucy banning did not know and slipping out of the caresses of the countess he went back to los angeles and began his wooing I 1 one day there was an announcement in the california papers that johnny bradbury and his young wife were to make a record breaking trip around the he world starting from san francisco the indian had turned in his bis sleep to san franeisco francisco they cime came and were interviewed there was a change in lucy not a great change but a change and those who had kno known her in those other days but a short remove in the past pait were pained at something in her which they could not describe months later johnny and lucy returned to los angeles there ther ewas was another change in lucy or rather that first change had been accented and then the observant interpreted it and gave it a name lucy was waa whirling rUng she had seen the world aud and the world as jobray presented it to her was V pleasant pleaman t once back in their handsome home homb they began to entertain always i giving the whirlwind kind johnny j used to give bachelor dinners lucy V was not t only oily willing hut but helped m OU on one occasion when hen he entertained IL a gay party af tat 1 at his home tab table leshe she aist designed 4 ened the mena cover hent bent woman h I 1 ill ott i gobiet ot of wind I 1 wa 9 learning jjack I 1 boim P au santa j heathe k sea eq lived old don juan tu mandin Bandi nl 1 I one 9 A I 1 e 1 relies re fus jot 0 f the old olden days ot of 14 spanish V dav a b cy I 1 TR eh 1 i ast Z beau j 1 I t i 1 I 1 I 1 S tag i u 1 d W ath 7 V iania k dr f ani 1 L cy jbf a I 1 A ow al 91 7 4 1 1 V j W I 1 7 m ai en wl a t I 1 a good english family siad md a gentleman rn an in appearance miss misa bandill ba adint and ward loved each other and were married she had money at least her father had and when he be died mr and mrs ward journeyed from london to los angeles to look after the properties they took a handlo handsome me home at santa monica and entert entertained about the time of their coming johnny had bad grown tired of whirling the indian slept again and johnny john ny with an avowal to leave the old trail moved his entourage down to the little city that sits by the sea fifteen miles 1 away from los angeles there the bradburys Brad burys lived in quiet domesticity for the first time in their married life it might have been so still but there was ward the two families met had many congenial tastes and an anti inti macy cpru sprung ng up between them mrs ward and mrs bradbury became fast friends and confidants confidantes es it was W as an idyllic life down there where the pacific la is always smiling and the town sleeps so quietly under its pepper trees the two women were inseparable when and where no one but the two participants know ward awoke to mrs bradbury and she became conscious conscio us of ward as other than a neighbor how long ago is not told but some time ward said the things to mrs bradbury which a lover says to his hi ls sweetheart and a new and the last personality was obtruded into the tale ward fascinated under the circumstances love is not the word with all her life in the gay world lucy bradbury had some ot of the lucy banning left in her and she did not forget but ward and she bowed a queenly head to him and became a slave lave nothing was known of the new heart it was a startling starting aure of a mecum story until a week ago mrs ward was going to england Eng lind she packed her trunks took her child and kissed her english husband goodby good by she him in the care of her friends tho the bradburys Brad Bad burys and started across the continent then plans began t to 0 tako shape mrs ward reached reache d new york stayed a day or two and sailed on the th day of her sailing lucy bradbury left los angeles on the same train was ward the fascinating ward when she left mrs bradbury took her jewels worth about after hawking hawking them from place to place she sold them for 1500 that was all the pair had when the train reached san francis franci cd lucy bradbury and ward were together and that night they registered at marchands at chicago they were overtaken by bradbury and a recon c cillia illia tion followed husband and wife returned to the coast |