Show THAT ELOPEMENT CASE THE RUXAAVAYS HAVE lOT YET DEE INTERCEPTED Something About the Pretty Mela DOBSC The Abandoned Wife in a Calmer Frame of Mind There was no new developments In the KoenenDogge elopement yesterday unless it was developed further down the line and beyond reach of the wires which have done their utmost to Intercept them Mrs Koenen partially recovered from the anguish an-guish to which she had finally succumbed the night before was upon the street her features heavily veiled during the morn ing while the avenging father of the girl who lad after mature deliberation retraced re-traced his journey was at his offices receiving re-ceiving patients and expressions of sympathy sym-pathy The warrant charging her betrayer with adultery and the girl with fornication fornica-tion was languishing in the sheriffs office pending the arrival of the news that the pnding arrva fugitives had been captured and so tha I day was made one Qf painful anxiety for those at home The tongue of the gossip had been a busy a at any time since the scandal arose but there Is little news in that As to Miss Mela those who know her best are more inclined to pity than to censure Her friends offer as an excuse that she was a constant object of flattery The gallants who paid her court said her eye were pretty and the mirrors mir-rors told her her lips were warm and red aim wine Her mind was upset said an intimate friend of the family commenting on her reckless course and the inconsistency of her running away with a lover who might have been more in keeping with conditions condi-tions as a guardian You are joking piped a listener No F1o not Insisted the speaker I am sincere I candidly believe that tat Melas mind was upset and I have had as her fathers guest an opportunity of fn J weighing DfPe closely as any one And for a girl she sh had enough to tax her mind heavens knows SI ith this the recital became an intensely intense-ly thrilling one She had not sought the city with her father The cruel edicts of a divorce court at Helena Montana had left her In custody of a mother who had led her father a life not entirely pleasant and It was months after his arrival here that Iela like some frightened thing came knocking at his door and pleading for protection She found shelter and good counsel was among the fairest maids upon the block and more happiness than that a pretty girl never needs I Long months before her father and mother had been separated At one time the doctor had been in possession of an ample fortune upon which to retire He had not upn studies as he desired however and havIng his wife and baby Mela at Helena went back to Germany where an uncle Is physician in the royal family t complete them Upon his return re-turn to Helena his ears were stormed with reports of orgies In which his wife had been a conspicuous figure He satis 1 r etfc sr fled himself as to their foundations and hastening to an attorney began proceed ings for divorce She replied to this with a counter proceeding and a separation was finally granted the girl going with her mother who was soon the matron of one of Helenas temples of shame while the daughter was sent to a boarding school Horrified the doctor abandoned a lucrative practice In that city and going from place to place finally arrived in Salt Lake where he decided t make his home He had often thought of his daughter and the dangers to which she was exposed ex-posed but she had expressed a preference SOY VeT TnotViaT FVnwWv cvno fev nAriK VY tho doctor was seated In Ms home a timid rap caitte 61 the door tnd at the sound of his voice Mela bounded Into the room and Into his embrace What had driven her to him the doctor could only conjec ture when one night seated at his knees he was horrified at the confession that the mother was about to dispose of her dispse under the auctioneers hammer lust that Ma the highest to Nl tl banquet at her ruin Applied she had stolen from her mothers reach and soon foi jd herself the Idol of o a home where learnings were pure and where had she obeyed them she might ereaa1n31n have remained In pride s i This is the story of her life as it was recited by the heart broken father to a sympathizing friend who can account for her madness in no way save that her mind was unbalanced |