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Show h' a! u 8 H 1 i) 11' sister. Maria rjelga u we the women hd '" M -. ifJ'e winans '.' in Many heiress spent the Winter traveUin; 'ii ' x?", x k, ( : pparts of the w-otld. There were plentv of nice towns- ' ' , ", V - - ' The Maharanee of b wifl dirided the buIk j hiQf people who would have gladly wel- i V , ' Kapurthala, Whose De- Euu MfT mTllionTollars to corned her in the beginning. In fact, fc -'; ' J : ceased Sister Married j iv 3ateman. a very handsome and she could have made herself leader in . 1 -. y " vs Koss VVinans s Son, and tn.' girl of nineteen, as a reward for tne town society if she had never at- : " ,r Who Was Somewhat I Knd and gentle ministrations to him." tempted to enter the fashionable set. '' V " Perturbed by the Win- teSreohimveind" Her 000 yearly income would have " to Miss ' irons times when he had boarded with made her a very big frog in its small jk&liwHHtf t ' 1 ' oateman Because It : ptther nd his legacy was an evi- pool, but she lost her chance right at g " . Diminished the Estate - k c: his appreciation of her services the start, and there seemed to be no :V-:MIH I f . of Her Little Nephew l letter written to his oldest daush- . ,. , HHHBn j j t- s. Gaun Hutton. of Newport, he second opportunity. Heartbroken, the BSBSBSEHM f ' and Niece. : (into greater detail and urged her to heiress faced the situation and uecided t ''JL ' : $ f n . i Pt hts wishes were fulfilled without to break away from her old home She ShHHbHH ' - Aototnv. for her part, N or unpleasant discussion. The fould have -one t0 EHflSSSr - ? i lhA dctor 3 tragic J' Ms of this letter wre never made could ha e gone to B9h9 - story, and how she did wports ca- tt " I P money that? 'she errwmol m'' coXd "her fM f . , , , . . , ; jT ""' off the rocks for her usual F8. set out to realize her ideais. I- .- .-..' jtH: "In the days of hard work ' 's - A ' swim and headed for a p her fortune, so surpri,- - - 'at the boarding-house she . fj BP Mtg. puwr. buoy well out to sea. The Smad-'herVns6 toUblf ,veeks whe" sho t ' '' : dreamed of that circle of fi strong and on ' 1 member oMheolonv? Tn : ' " " ; - ' ' 1" . ' " ';v : luxury and gayety that was i -'f ' I f suddenly failed her. She l 'ed ;,sr ' townspeople jja.: .- : . a ' a so near and yet so far." f P knew she never could ; tekoolnS0?11 ashdebttenhdedUPthe thy took Ions, I' , . j Miss Dorothy Bateman, the Newport Boardinc-Housekeeper's inobback.he Tried gulf separates ,h f.rnanen- r,- day V4 .v. . j i I . and Has Now Married Dr. Horace P. Beck, the Favorite saw her brother hermit : g the town from the Summer she stopnc . " ttr M V ' "5 : r.ut ' r Physician of the Fashionable Summer Colony. cutting madh- throueh tha Financially, while Dor-othy's Dor-othy's fortune did not compare with the usual Newport wealth, it made V her attractive to these male vampires. They were always glad, when there was no one in sight, to hop into her expensive, long-bodied roadster, and go motoring on tne island roads. They were equally glad to drop in at "Bate-man's" "Bate-man's" for lunch or tea. but they never joined her. at Bailey's Beach, nor during the crowded hour at the Casino. As might have been expected, before the Summer ended the heiress was a very lonely young woman. She did not like any of the men who tagged her around, knowing them to be fortune-hunters, fortune-hunters, and even the women who had boarded with her mother would hardly bow to her. Bellevue avenue and the Cliffs ignored her cruelly. Then she turned desperately back to her girlhood friends and they would have nothing to do with her. Bereft of all friends, the unhappy heiress spent the Winter travelling; but back she- went to Newport in the Spring, determined to win out in her fight. Again she failed. By this time she was so disgusted with her experiences experi-ences that she gave up going to the fashionable resorts. There were plenty of nice townspeople towns-people who "would have gladly welcomed wel-comed her in the beginning. In fact, she could have made herself leader in the town society if she had never attempted at-tempted to enter the fashionable set. Her $30,000 yearly income would have made her a very big frog In its small pool, but she lost her chance right at the stan, and there seemed to be no second opportunity. Heartbroken, the heiress faced the situation and uecided to break away from her old home. She could have gone to The Maharanee of Kapurthala, Whose Deceased De-ceased Sister Married Ross Winans's Son, and Who Was Somewhat Perturbed by the Win-ans Win-ans Bequest to Miss Bateman Because It Diminished the Estate of Her Little Nephew and Niece. Dorothy, for her part. knew the doctor's tragic stftrv on1 Knn, ..v.. j:j "(HE fasc:sst:ns. Cinderella-like ro-sssce ro-sssce of Miss Dorothy Bateman. ; Newport, has now reached its g climax. This fortunate young Bi who was a Newport boarding- keeper's daughter, inherited unex-gib; unex-gib; a fortune of $500,000 and has raarried a distinguished member of Islionable colony. Dr. Horace P. Beck, miom she will enjoy a most enviable U in society's Summer capital E j: . v,3s left to ' ' '.'I'.-'es; lat eccentic multi-millionaire Ross . pi. wio inherited a vast fortune ' I mi on the construction of the first ttu railroads. Mr. Winans's son. Tom tz-. sarried Victoria Delgado. a lovely ish dancer. She derived additional : bet bom the fact that her equally iy sister, Maria Delgado, married that i t hiian prince, the M.-.'-arajah of j icthala. who possesses the world's tjredoos jewel collection. Victoria a fates dead and only recently the Ma-BKe Ma-BKe a! Kapurthala won a suit in Paris : UUkg her right to act as guardian of r&tttsed sister's ,-'r.:'. iren and of '---:-pnof tbe Winacs fortune. Many j pnen titled house? allied to the fc5 family. On of Ross Winans's " -T5. Ssa-.rice. married the Prince de r.-:'S.r.i. of faz r-. : bss Winans possessed a splendid man-", man-", I OB the Ocean Drive at Newport as 1 Its estates in Baltimore and various - s parts of the world. ' fe irill divided the bulk of his vast pe among various members of his iy. but left half a million dollars to j mi Bateman. a very handsome and fe; girl of ninetes-n. as a reward for ! kind and gentle ministrations to him." jWians explained in his will that Miss i ban had taken care of him very kindly ' pons times when he had boarded with other pnd his legacy was an evi-. evi-. hot his appreciation of her services. la 'e::er written to his o'd-s daush- ISrs. Gaan Hutton, of Newport, he : t-'o greater deca:! and urged her to . j pt Ms wishes were fulfilled without or unpleasant discussion. The ps of this letter w-re never made but Newport was certainly a hot-P hot-P discussion following the publication w:n. oldest daughter took her father's a insisted that lie had a perfect ' f to leave his money as he pleased, of the family wanted to fight tentest in the open, and for months 'ai a very pretty spli' between the Actions. The legacy was paid, how-fjnd how-fjnd then Dorothy Bateman. heiress R money than she ever dreamed of pfg. set out to realize her ideals. ; P her fortune, so surprisingly ac-was ac-was placed in her hand, the young y P ""finitely made her plans to be-member be-member of the colony. And in so f wraed her townspeople against her. .vs a very sad mistake, indeed, for ! p had been born and brought up in : r11 of Newport. She attended the schools and her friends were the wrs of the all-year-round residents. -lAae gulf separates the permanent J"" of the town from the Summer j. - The former are never permit- croach on the preserves of the etoept when service of some sort is s j'' nfi two sets of young peonle roeet or play together, just because - , r""er done." The dangers of inter- P6 are too great. - Bateman did not realize the im-"T im-"T of crossing the gulf, but in the of her soul assumed that her i ould make oeonle forget that her g'ept boarders. , jst step was to make her mother Jr business; then she did over the t, j;hm?1in8 a very attractive place L-,? 'ts wide tree-shaded grounds gMMd setting. Her second step was ,j ;--any 0f the sirls v.-;i0 hr.-ri hpp-i sln childhood. Of course. ; fcJhT1 hFr and called her a snob, j (,k"e )01ned the Casino and attempt-ijj attempt-ijj - Part in the tennis games The i 1 i,Ce polony froze her out time and 1 . 1 he pluckilv stuck to her guns fejt Summer. Finallv. some of )' aM US men in '-h colony took l led h" Was co secret that moT ,han i-t ,0 tuarry him. But none of y kt .coul'i have given her anv social F7'br ,hey 'vere onlv tolerated bv IMiHik they cnuM dance and play its idle women. , uu" OUC U1U hate that wretched flirt. Why. she hated her far worse than any of those horrid fortune hunters! All this time Fate was laughing in her sleeve. She had one trump card to play, and finally she played it. One morning In late August Dorothy slipped off the rocks for her usual swim and headed for a buoy well out to sea. The tide was strong, and on the way back her heart suddenly failed her. She knew she never could make shore, and there was no one to help. Turning Turn-ing on her back, she tried to float, but her terror was too great. Suddenly she saw her brother hermit cutting madly throueh tha "In the days of hard work at the boarding-house she dreamed of that circle of luxury and gayety that was so near and yet so far." a distant city and formed new friends but her spirit was cruelly wounded by her bitter experience, experi-ence, and she found herself hating all men and women. In her heart she hated the men the most, because they bad courted her only for her fortune. for-tune. During the weeks when she was planning to run away from every one and everything, Dorothy Doro-thy took long, lonely rides out in the country in her motor- One day she stopped for lunch on a rocky point near Little Compton. a quaint little hamlet many miles from Newport. New-port. The beauty of the sea and woods appealed to her troubled spirit and she suddenly AiAaA in hnrV "I reckop she didn't know about the doc." drawled an old fisherman, "and I bet he don't know nuthin' 'bout the gal. If he hears he won't be liable to like it." ' And so the man enters the story and threatens to disrupt dis-rupt this Garden of Eden with its lovely little Eve. No, the "gal" din1 not know about the "doc." She realized that some one must live in the Summer in the camp just from the hie- rni'k fessional way. Their engagement lasted .-ix months, but it was against her family's wishes, and in the end she broke his heart. This turned the doctor into a morose creature, who hated Newport in the Summer. Sum-mer. He could stand it during the Winter, ivhen his professional and public duties sept him from brooding. But in the Summer, Sum-mer, when the girl's friends returned, he led to the camp he had built years before other side. Tbey had the ocean to themselves, them-selves, but they never spoke. And. of course, one never knew the other was about. Later (wo people ate separate breakfast, still later one hermit went off to fish while the other sat on the rocks and watched the fisherman. She knew every time he had a bite and every time he made a killing. But the man did not know this. He soon realized, though, that K1 .oward her. He's doing .he crawl." she murmured. 1 wonder if he ever will get me?" Of course, the hermit got her He explained ex-plained later that she could have made it herself when she got her nerve back and so he did not save her life. But she knew he had. and told him so. After that thev took their morning swims toeether anil caught fish from the same boat and read from the same book. And a f,- !,,-. Dr. Horace P. Beck, the Fashionable Newport Physician, Phy-sician, Who Has Married Miss Bateman. herself there until her wounds were healed. And now we enter upon tiie third phase of her life, a phase that was to last more than two years and be the prelude to her great adventure. One day the fisherfolk and lobster men along the shore were surprised sur-prised to see smoke curling up from a charming rustic bungalow nestled among the rocks. A big police dog stalked sedately se-dately along the veranda and there were pi'es of luggage in the background. A slim young girl in a short skirt and gay sweater flitted in and about the place. The heiress had taken possession of her new home and was facing a new life. All Winter she stayed and her gay little figure was soon a familiar sight among the rocks. She made no friends and had no callers. Little Compton began to call her the hermit and left her severely alone, j but the Summer seemed far away and her thoughts were iillert with too much bitterness bitter-ness for her even to think of the Tuture. However, the Summer came and with it the "doc." who honestly swore when he found the neighboring rock occupied by the new bungalow. He, too. was a hei-mit, made so by an unhappy love affair, of which all the fisherfolk were aware. Dr. Horace Beck was a New-porter, one of the foremost physicians in the town and a prominent man of affairs. His practice was divided between the townspeople and the wealthy Summer residents. Two years before our romance begins he had beeu deeply in love with a girl, who jilted him the week before they were to have been married. She was a Summer girl who visited vis-ited among the families on the cliffs, and she had met the physician first in a pro- 3n tne rocks. For two Summers he lived by himself in his cabin, going back and forth to Newport when duty called, but lever having any company in his lonely hut by the sea. For him romance was deac. He hated girls and avoided even the country coun-try people about him. The heiress hated her neighbor because he was a man, and all men were fortune hunters just as all women were cats. She wouldn't run avay. either. The man could keep his distance and she had Fritz, her dog. That was final. Early morning swimming is delightful. The girl always rose with the dawn and swam under the rays of the rising sun. Well, the doctor did the same. Every morning a red-capped figure slipped into the water from ore side of the bz rocks and a dark-haired figure slipped off the ) he caught more fish when she was on the rocks, because he did not have to keep one eye on the bungalow to see why she did not appear. The leaven was working. They ignored each other, but as the weeks went by each was overwhelmingly conscious of the other. "Another fortune hunter!" was the girl's comment. "Another false flirt!" was the man's answer. Doctor Beck, being a Newporter, knew all about Dorothy and her legacy, but being a busy man he had not heard ali the details of her assault on society. He supposed she was grieving, like himself, over a heartbreaking heart-breaking sorrow. Gradually he found himself wishing that he knew the man aud might, kill" him. weeks ago they came to New York and we're married, aud are going to live happily hap-pily ever after. The doctor was no fortune hunter. The heiress's fortune made no difference to htm, for he is well off and can have all the wealthy patronage he wishes. The half- million left by Mr. Winans has been settled set-tled on the bride, and her husband will not even let her vy any share of the household expenses. He has a charming house in Newport, where, as his wife. Dorothy Dor-othy will assume an excellent social position, posi-tion, and next Summer there is every evidence evi-dence that she will be on cordial terms with the women of the colonv who snubbed her last year. They will forgive her for trving to become be-come a part of their set. It remains to be seen whether Mrs. Beck intends to icgiva litem.! |
