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Show A Story 'of, Bonanxa; Day la l" r . tfESALDETB EOmjxa. ,lfTada 'and i San Francisco. ; j (Copyright "by Bobbs-Merrlll Co.) ' tray of' plates and glasses, moved from-group from-group to group. . 6-on several of the black ' coats had fathered round ttie chairs of June and oeamund.- The Colonel had to give up his sat, and June could see him talking to men In ths doorways or dropping Into vacant places . beside older . women. He kept his eye on them, however. Jt flighted flight-ed him to see that, their charm was so quickly recognized. Round about hJm their name-bursed from a knot' In a corner, cor-ner, a, group on a sot. Many of those present had known Beauregard Allen in his short heyday. .Almost everybody In the room had heard of his strike Dear Folcys .and sudden translation from poverty pov-erty to riches. . r ' . '' - When at length the Colonel .saw the chair beside June vacant he crossed the room and dropped. Into it. - He was anxious anx-ious to hear from her how she waa enjoying enjoy-ing herself. -.- ' Well', he said, "the old . man been frosenxout for nearly an hour.- Didn't it make you feel conscience-stricken to see me hanging round the doorway: looking hungrily at this chair?" - : ", "I was dying for that man to go, she answered.'. VI . did . everything - but ask - "Oh. you sinner!" he said,' looking Into her dancing eyes. "Where will, you go to wen you die?" - ' ' - -"..' "Where do you think i you will T - she ssked, grave, but with her dimple faintly suggested. "I'd like to know, because then I can arrange to. have Just about the same eort of record, and we could go to- Hecould not restrain hia laughter, and she added in her mopt- caressing tone: "It would be so dreary fer-you to go to one place and me to be. In another.". Before be -could answer, she bad raised her eyes,, glanced at the door, and then suddenly flushed, hed face disclosing a sort or sudden quick snap into focused attention.. . . .' '.-, -Mr. Barclav."'she-sald-ln a low voice. 'I didn't expect to see him tonight. '" The Colonel turned bis. head and saw Jerry Barclay.' entering the room In tht Company of a lady and gentleman. Many other people looked at there .as. they moved to where -Mrs. Davenport stood, for. they were unquestionably' a-notlcea-ahlt trio. - . - - - - - "Down la the City. ; ' In the' darkness of the early-November lht Colonel Parrlsh rattled across town In a hired carriage. It, was half-past eight when he left hie rooms (they were f ulte on a sunny' corner of Kearny !;!!?e:Va-d now he turned Into Folsom Sif Jl clcJtd that If the-girls were' ready they could be en route by 8 o'clock, in the autumn of 1S70 the hours for even-Jk? even-Jk? ntrt'ninenta were still early, and J5SJpafHC!ilar ntTtalnment to which the . ,intende taking .June and Rosamund Rosa-mund Allen was one of the regular recep-c recep-c n.wnlcn "Jo'ted the aristocracy of Davenpor'u00 " 'th?' tooue tf Mrs. Ira- inli".rfatudetcnd 'Iks 'of the -bulld-iDui i. ?! the-carriage : passed . gleamed KI?J,Atf,-,lr Folsom street was still the IIISS.-' ihf. .lect- -om the arch of lofty porcbea hall lamps cast a faint gleam to. to the outer derknt-s of jhrubU.rli. and lawns. Through the scrollwork of high iron gates the Imbedded flags ef the marble mar-ble paths shone white between darkly grassed borders.- Here and there a black ;.a?.d wm cut Into by rows of long, lighted windows, uncurtained and unshut-1 unshut-1 rd T"" street . suggested seclusion, wealth and dignity. ',Tbe fortunes, which were later to. erect huge-piles on San Francisco s wlnd-awept liUlcrests, had not yer arisen- to blight -the pieturesquenesa of tna-gray, sea-girdled city. His own. house waa one of the largest in the atreet. Now. In the darkness, it ; i . onfr?m nlln' . h looked ;a stalwart., personable per-sonable man m whom .ne joy of life was stiu buoyantly and coarsely alive. t -CoIone'' "leaning against - the ' door rrame, waa about to launch Into the desul- Ih-y..C0r,Veraatl,of ttlat nll when the rustle of slilrts on tha stairs caught .AlhS"1"-, f"!6 -a,nd, Ra"-und were de-?,vJheir de-?,vJheir cloak P their-arms that they might show themselves In their new rfiPlv T,helr- woui-nlng for their mother Took the form of transparent black gauze.' through' which th delicate - whiteness--of their youthful arms and shoulders gleamed. They-laughed as they met the Colonels eye. both slightly abashed : by the unwonted splendor .of. their attire. Their -sudden' rise from -poverty, - their translation to the city, and thelr-short stay in its sophisticated atmosphere, had already worked a marked change in them. Tbetr air of naively blushing rostlcity wss gone. They looked finer, more moii-dalne, moii-dalne, than they had only six weeks before. be-fore. Rosamund, who -was of an amle gracious build, had already. -by the "aid of the admirable dressmaker who. had fashioned .-her- gown, achieved - a . figure of smaU-walated. full-busted elegance, which, combined with her naturally fine carriage, gave her an appearance of metropolitan met-ropolitan poise snd distinction. She had that bnljnteons- and- blooming -type of-looks of-looks which Is peculiar-to the women of California, and which (as is the case with the character that .accompanies .it) Is curiously lacking In feminine subtility aSid romantic suggestion. -By far the handsomer hand-somer of the two sisters she was not destined des-tined to cast the spell over the hearts of uumca u irreguia lack mass, cut into with aquarea and slts of light. -Just a month before the lease of his tenants had expired, and he was able to see one. at least, of- his dreama -realised Alice's daughters quartered under his roof. The revolution of Fortune's wheel had been, where the Aliens were- concerned, sudden and dissying. The ledge, that man ye?r". had fruitlessly sought, in one night had been laid bare. Even for the time and the country It was a startling reversal re-versal of conditions.. In the spring Beau-recmrd Beau-recmrd Atin k. - t .- I The woman was in the. middle, and Between Be-tween the proud and distinguished figure of Barclay and -the small. . insignificant one of her other escort, she presented a striking appearance. 8he was of a large, full build, : verging on-: embonpoint,, but still .showing a restrained luxuriance or outline. A dress of white lace clothed her tightly and swept 1n creamy billows over the carpet behind her. It was-cut In a square at her neck. - and the sleeves ended -at her elbow, revealing a throat and forearms of milky whiteness. This Ivory purity of skin waa noticeable lit her face, which was firmly modeled, - rather heavy - In. feature, and crowned with a coronet of lustrless black hair. She -was hardly -handsome,-but 'there, was something some-thing sensational, arresting, slightly repelling, re-pelling, in-the sleepy and vet vivid vitality vitali-ty that seemed to manante from her. "Who is it?" said June in a low voice. "What a curious looking woman!" -- The Colonel, who had been aurveylng the newcomer, looked at hie companion with eyes in which there was a alight veiled coldness. ' The same quality .waa noticeable In his voice r . ' "Her name'a Newbury. " Mrs. William Newbury. Her husband's a banker here." . "Is that her husband with her. that little lit-tle man??.-. . 4 - . , . , "Yes." . -. (To Be Continued.) - - -. wv. vci. m. ucbb Al' lUQ summer he saw himself a man of wealth. Experts pronounced the discovery ene of moment. The mine.' called the Barranca, waa regarded as richer in promise than the Buckeye Belle. Distant portions of the tract, which had come Info his possession pos-session In so un looked for a .manner, were eold for large sums. The whole, region was shaken into astonished animation and Foleye waa more effectually wakened rrom the dead than It would have been by the Colonel's original- scheme. . Allen's sloth -and despondency fell from him like a garment. . With the readx monev from the land sales he at. once began be-gan the development of the prospect hole. In July a square tunnel mouth and a board shed' Intruded on the.svlvan landscape land-scape near the landslide. In September a fair-aised hoisting works housed the throb of engines and the roll of cars. The noise of Beauregard Allen's-strlke went abroad through foothill California1 and - Its echo rolled to San Francisco, where men who had known htm in the early. days suddenly sudden-ly remembered him as "Beau'1 AUen, the handsome Southerner, "whOi had' come to grief and dropped out of sight In the fifties. . In September he . came down to San Franolsoe and saw-the Colonel Tha meeting meet-ing at first -was constrained., but- as Allen Al-len spoke of his daughters and the plans nr.. wmtii wa9 iue I'rrrugnive or June. She;-too. had - Improved.- but - neither skillful, dressmakers nor . luxurious surroundings sur-roundings would ever make her a radiantly, radi-antly, good-looking or particularly noticeable notice-able person. Her hair, which had been so unsightly six-months before, was now' her one beauty; - It hung round her head in a drooping mass of brown curls, the longest-one Just .brushing the nape of het" neck. Through them waa wound a ribbon rib-bon of black-velvet In the-manner of adornment enmetlmes seen -in eighteenth century .miniatures., . . The girls, grumbled . ar little at - their father's defection, but the truth was that they - were --so -xcited--bv' the evening' a prospect that their regreta had a perfunctory perfunc-tory tone. In th carriage they plied the Colonel -with questions ss to 'the nature of the entertainment and the people they wei -likely to meet. It amused and somewhat some-what pussled him to see that the "anticipation "antici-pation of' what he' had supposed would be' a beguiling and cheerful amusement waa throwing them Into nervoua tremors. As the large outline Of-the Davenport house rose before them, all attempft .conversation .conver-sation died, and they sat, stiff and speech-Ifss, speech-Ifss, on the seat opposite him.' The Davenport house, as all old Catlfor-nlana Catlfor-nlana know, was at that time and had been for ten years, the focus of the city's social, life. Mrs. Davenport waa a Southerner South-erner and had been a beauty, facta which bad weighed with the San Franciscans since the days when "the water came up to Montgomery atreet." The ' Southern tradition' still- retained much of Its original orig-inal power. .The war had not broken It, and the overwhelming eruption -of money, which the Comstock waa to disgorge, had not yet- submerged - the once dominant "set. .' At its head IJrs. Davenport ruled with tact - and determination. She appeared ap-peared to the Aliens as a graciously cordial cor-dial lady of more -than middle- age, whoee sweeping robe of gray aatln matched the hair she wore parted on. her forehead and drawn primly down over the tips of her ears. i To the alsters It was .the entrance Into a new world, the world- their parents had strayed from and often described to them. Seated In .armchairs of- yellow brocade they surveyed the length of the parlor, a spacious.' hlgh-ceilinged apartment, of a prevailing paleness of tint and overhung by crystal chandeliers. The" black shoulders shoul-ders of men were thrown out against the white walls delicately touched with a design de-sign In gilding. Long mirrors reproduced the figures of; women -rising from the curving sweeo of bright-colored, beruffled trslnw. A Chinaman, carrying a wide tor tneir nappineas ana welfare. that be had In view the constraint wore away and the two men talked as beings .united by a mutual Interest. ' The Colonel had. recognised recog-nised the fact that the -breach-, must be healed. He had had to straggle against hut old repugnance, but -there was nothing else for It. No wrong, " however deep, should stand between him and -Allce s daughters, and he could ' not know the daughtera without accepting " the father. And how he-did want - to know them! They had already brought brightness and purpose Into his life. In an effort to treat the matter lightly he told himself that the harboring of - old resentments, when they blocked the" way to the forming of new ties, was too much like cutting oft your nose to- spite your face. Deep In hie heart lay the feeling that, apart from hla affection for them, they might need him. He knew Allen of old, and Alice was dead. It was their' father's intention to have them make San Francisco their home. In the larger city they would have the advantages ad-vantages of society and chances to marr well. One of the objects of his visit wss to look about for a house whence they could be launched Into the little world In which he once had played his part. It was thus that the Colonel, the lease of his old tenant having Just expired, waa able to offer them -is own house for as long a period of years aa they might wish. But Allen, swollen with the pride of his new fortunes, would rent no house. He would buy one, a fitting home for two such girls as his. When It came to that, the Colonel waa as willing to sell as to rent. The price of thirty thousand dollars wss put upon the folsom street mansion, and Allen, being much impressed by Its slse. and old-fashioned splendor, purchased It, paying down the sum of ten thousand dollars, while the Colonel held a mortgage maturing In three -years -for the other twenty -thousand. AUen, despite his sudden sud-den accession to wealth, claimed. that. his expenses Just now were of the hesvlest. In October he contemplated the building of a twenty-stamp mill at the mine, and the shafthouse was to be enlarged. The winter out flu for his daughtera would be rostlv. It waa his Intention that June and Rossmiind should be as -richly and mo-dishly mo-dishly clad aa any of the young women who cast a glamor over the society of the city. T Tonight they were to make their entrance en-trance Into that society." Mrs. Davenport -wss an old friend of the Colonel's and he had asked for the Invitations, assuring her that she would find his proteges. two of the prettiest and sweetest girls In the , world. Now aa he sprang from the car- 1 riage and pushed 'open the tall gate of scrolled Ironwork. he smiled to himself, cheerfully confident that he had not overstated over-stated the charms of the Misses Allen. His ring brought ene of the new Chinese servants lO Tnn ooor. m auiri man. rnr- a footed as a cat; and "clothed lrf freshly- laundered white.' Standing. In the ball under the llrht he- watched this, spectral figure flit noiselessly up the stairway. The hall, papered In a. deep reddish purple on which here and there the arleam of gold arabesques was faintly visible, waa wide and dim. It would . require a, galaxy of lamps thoroughly to dispel the gloom that lurked In Its dusky - comers. A stately staircase, .thlcklv carpeted and with a darkly-polished handrail, ran up' In front of him. There-waa. a light again at tha j top of thla throwing faint glimmerings on receding stretches of wall, also somberly papered.' Through the wide arch on his right' he could look Into a half -lighted parlor, where a globe or two In the chandelier ahone a translucent vellow.- To his left the doors into-the-reception-room were . open, and here by a table. -a reading lamp I at bis elbow, sat Beauregard Allen smoking smok-ing a cigar. He was in -eveninir dress. i but fe button or two of unloosened waistcoat, waist-coat, snd the air of snrawllng ease that marked his attitude, did not suggest the trim alertness of one garbed and tuned for - festival. 1 ' - ' 'Oood' evening. Farrtsh, he said .'The r girls will be down In a mlnnte. I'm going go-ing to beg off. Can't drag me away from " a good cigar ' end comfortable ' chair on such a damned cold night." His face. wss flushed; he hnd evldentu-non evldentu-non drlnklra- more than wa. ennslste'nt - i with a strictly temperate standard, s condition con-dition which often marked him after dinner. din-ner. But the old tendency-toward an open and unabashed Inebriety had been con-quered. con-quered. WeU-dreased," his heard trimmed. te sens, ot -degradation and faOurs lift- J- '" ' i ' ' . t ' '- , - . s . i , . m v 4 m.jt tf ft 4 a |