| Show I MAIN FIGURE IN ODD LOVE LO r w tj S 4 t I c w I Eli Hilli Hillis Larkin the late St. St Louis millionaire whose will is being heing contested contested con con- con con- I tested and the home where ho lived as Mr H. H B B. B Thompson with the woman he lie never nover married This picture pic pic-I pic ture turo sh shows w them standing on the thet steps t ps of ithe the house I i i I I At End Woman He Loved Di Dies s of Heartache ea fache he Hi Himself Himself Him Him- self of Heartbreak ST ST. LOUIS UIS Sept 5 B By Newspaper Enterprise rY u cannot cheat the con conventions You m may 1 succeed d for Cor a long time but u t in fn tho to end you jou II pay This Is the lesson to be learned larnol from frem the double lifa Hta led by I jil Hilt Larkin I the tbt late laio chemist ho o will i IFe being cont contested will left lea ap ap- ap proximately to charity Larkin up tp to the time of ot his death I Iwas j was cl believed 1 by 11 most of his business business' associates and b bv by the public generally ncr lIy to be u at bachelor who found more mote PC pleas pcs pleasure Sure S- S ure in unostentatious philanthropy p arid and scientific works than In fn But Dut a deposition filed Wed In the will win contest con con- tf test t how f-how that for tort forty f be he con I had lived n ns nil the common low In hll husband nf t Mrs tnt Harriet Belle Belie Thompson un under er I tho the name of ot H. H B B. Thompson I i The conventions howeY however r did not wit wait 7 until L Larkin and Thomm-m Thomm er ere er de dead d o j ro collecting Oll ij k their toll In shame t-hame ostracism teal fear ear sorrow heartache and heart b break ak while th the couple lived Uon Honey ioney and i t a shield for fit them but hut the shield pro prove l 1 luher able Sd SHAME AM E. E Larkin and anti Mrs Irs Thompson Thompson then on then a a. amere a. a m mere re girl slipped girl slipped Into St St. L Lou Ju about tort forty years j-ar arR hrh h h. h her r I I show a no plump rather aid not very pretty girl with eyes that were extremely shy an and reticent Ho He is believed d to have ha m met t her In England when she was about Il 15 or 1 or or maybe it it was in New Orl Orleans Why hY he ho didn't marry her then n no knows But ho slipped her Into an U unpretentious home concealed her further tu under un un- Ocr der an assumed name and visited her warily warily under under cover er of ot tho the ost St of a largo large 9 city ty OSTRACISM V lle Larkin the tha chemist chemist- won re renown rc- rc n c n. n by his discoveries inventions and business ability t Mr 11 and md Mrs 1 were self self ostra zed T The Th 1 con can inanity did not know them Tho tors or ors just set them down as is a quiet couple who nobody an and di didn't nt j ll i to want to be bother bother- t. The didn't B seem m liko esi esi- dally daily ap- ap p- p people people arid and n naru questioned ques Ques- tol ed where hero Mr MI Thompson worked or hAt ho lie earned or how hr I. pent spent it H. Jarf d 1 rs Thompson seemed to live only fur for her husband Thus fo to twenty twenty- jears tars S tip S La rk n could hold h hi lih secret n no ne longer He wan vis a man wha re religious re re- instincts although nut not a a. church member As A i an Instance ance 11 ho be bequeathed lie lie- Ie- Ie to Christ church ca ca- ca thedral To his relatives relative and some of his most Intimate friends he confided ed the tho story OL or Mr lr and Mrs H. H B. B Thompson Ho wanted to do tho right thing but how could ho um n now w His mother not r with tears in her het eyes urged him to marry this woman who had given tIm JIm all But Larkin de de- de n He lIe said that at this late day Mrs Thompson felt a ceremony would her DR DREAD EAD Tho The dr dread a of ot What hat would people sa say f was always with the Thompsons especially Mrs Thompson And theman theman the theman man was always ready to shield the woman whose only real shield the shield the conventions he he had swept away They moved to a better house kept a few servants and entertained Larkins Larkin's Larkin's Larkins Lar- Lar kins kin's relatives es occasionally for for for- these relatives were sympathetic and forgiving ing in o O S Moro More and more Larkin dc devoted td himself himself him him- self entirely to Mrs rs Thompson he Thompson he had no sport no relaxation savo save reading did not own an automobile till tin a a few cw months before his death FEAR As she grew older one fear tear grew great in Jn the heart of Mrs Thompson Thompson- that Larkin would dio and ind sho would bo be thrust out upon the world alone to support herself herselt a n. pauper When hen this dawn dawned d upon Larkin he took tool Immediate steps to set et her mind easy lIe Ho put lUt In trust for her herand herand and g gave ga her In cash I HEARTACHE Always Alwa's too was as this heartache I burning In Mrs Thompsons Thompson's bosom bosom- a as she tie grew grew- older would Larkin tire of ot her hei and turn to another Bell Belle ho he said to her one day In inthe tho the presence of ot a n. relative am I 1 no not growing older ohler t too o You and T r growing older together ar are just the tho same ago as wo we were were were- well it l do seem so long ago docs does It H HEARTBREAK Finally death entered the house of or ortho tho the Thompsons Mrs Thompson was the first to go 10 Not long afterward Larkin was waa found roun dead In b bed dead bed d dead of If a broken heart said a 3 relative MEMORY The They He lie to ther side by side In I to graves gra In the Larkin burial ground And there the they would havo have rested without tho the world knowing Know their 8 story Or if It it ft hadn't been that the money the money that was waa once so strong a tL part of ot their defense led defense led to a a. suit to break I will I I Their story now is written in S the i I public r records cords of ot St St. t Louis |
