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i How a Clerk in a Real Estate
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If some enterprising theatrical pro
ducer were to put on “The Lady
of Lyons,” Lord Lytton s famous
drama, the most appropriate person
to take the title role would be Helen
Steck Dodge Kirkman.
Indeed, the unfortunate Helen has
played the part so well and so faith
fully that as a result she may now
be found in her fashionable New
York apartment nursing her wrongs
and poulticing her pride.
For this modern Lady of Lyons
has a pride as great as that of the
original Lady of Lyons.
She has a beauty as bewitching
And a mind as credulous.
And relatives as relentless.
Her awakening from dreams of
honor and affluence is as bitter.
And all has come about in just the
same way and through the same mo
tive.
The heartbroken Lady of Lyons
and her counterpart, the equally
heartbroken Lady of Manhattan, bad
suitors who loved well but not
truthfully, and who erected homes
for their brides which neither their
bank accounts nor the facts justi
fied The young men builded airy
and unsubstantial structures to daz
zle the maids of their hearts. And
when the maids discovered that
they had been deceived they did
precisely the same thing. Both
went straight home to mamma.
Helen Steck Dodge is the Pauline.
I’eschapelle of this second drama of
• ■'e i.adv of Lyons, daughter of Ed
win Steck, the Pennsylvania opera
tor of coal mines, and who is affll
ated with the Pennsylvania Rail
r,,ad. she has lived in as handsome
’ home in Germantown as the
haughty and beautiful Pauline ‘u
Lyons. To them both came woeers.
' laude Melnotte, the peasant
lover In the play by Lord Lytton,
described:
A palace lifting to eternal Summer
its marble walls from out a g'ossy
Dower.
Ihe wooing by George Kirkman,
*h p employe of a real estate firm at
Interlaken. N. J., was less poefical
but quite as fervid as that of the
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' peasant’s son disguised as the Prince
of Como, in the drama of love and
disappointment. It was, according to
well, authenticated rumors, of this
fashion:
“Darling Helen, after the first of
August I shall be a member of the
k firm and will be able to take care of
you as luxuriously as you are iu
your mothers’ home. Come with me
to-morrow to call at our home. My
mother is away but my sister will
be delighted to receive you.”
Next day he escorted the lovely
girl who looked so charming in her
Summer gown of pale pink batiste
and her broad-brimmed hat that
drooped, heavy with its weight of
pink roses, about her face, to call at
his home.
“There it is,” he said as they
'.uiiied a corner,and came upon one
of the most attractive bungalows in
the seaside city. It was as nearly
palatial as a bungalow can be.
stretching half way down the block,
its square brown outlines and huge,
piazza crowded with swinging ’
couches, gay hammocks and easy
chairs, suggesting all the luxuries of
the Summer home of wealth in a
mood of relaxation. They sauntered
past it that the Lady of Manhattan
might better view its breadth and
the effect of the awnings that spread
green as the boughs of a giant shade
tree at the windows.
“She is entertaining guests, but it
doesn’t matter. Come on,” and with
his fingers resting daintily beneath
her elbow the pair mounted the
steps and were greeted pleasantly by
a young woman who rose at sight
of them and came forward with a
smile.
Mrs. Steck Dodge—Mrs. Blank.”
Young Mr. Kirkman, iu his white
flannels, sat silent but smiling.
When they sauntered back to the
notel where she was staying with
her mother Claude Melnotte 11. said:
"And now. darling, since you’ve
met my family, why not be married
at once?”
“I would. George dear, only I am
afraid < mamma would not be
pleased.”
’“lad’s be married first and tell her
e fterwards.
An afternoon spin with her sister
and the sister's admirer, a New York
broker, had become a daily institu
tion. Mrs Steck complaining of a
headache, told the quartette to get
on as best tHey could without a
•haperon that afternoon and dark
ened her room, sought her smelling
salts, and fell asleep. While mam
mas nap. girls elope. Mrs. Steck’s
younger daughter did not elope, but
leaving her sister and the New York
broker on seme pretext for a half
hour they went to aclergyman and
were married When Mrs. Steck
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awoke she faced startling news and
a new son-in-law.
She cried a little, as mothers do
at weddings, or when news of wed
dings is suddenly broken to them
but the new-made bride comforted
her with little pats and kisses and
this logic:
“Mamma darling, you know I am
only twenty and entitled to another,
chance for happiness. After I mar
ried Walter Phelps Dodge and was’
t driven out by his spook wife I de
termined to marry a young man next
time and to marry for love.
Mrs. Steck, who is a fond indul
gent mother, dried her eyes, kissed
her daughter and said: “Well dear.
I hope you will. be happy. And
George does seem a nice boy. Os
course, you met him on the hotel
piazza and without an introduction,
but now,- since you’ve met his
family—”
Soon after. Mrs. ’ Steck and her
elder daughter returned to their
apartment near the park and River
side Drive. The honeymoon of tile
Lady of Manhattan began. It lasted
for three days. At the end of that
time there was an eclipse of the
honeymoon. At least it was hidden
by a storm of tears.
Tlie bride hurried back to New
York. She rushed into her mother's
apartment, flung herself upon her
breast and burst into tears.
"Mamma,” she sobbed. “I have
married an impostor. That lovely
girl wasn’t his sister at all. And he
hasn’t any m money; hardly a cent
We went to a miserable little room
like a cell, In an inn. There wasn't
any bath room Oh, It was dreadful!'
“If she wasu’t his sister who was
she? Helen dear, are you mad?”
“Yes, I am. mamma, but not in the
way you mean. When I asked him
why his sister didn’t call he said it
was a joke. I went, to see her and
she said, 'Yes. I had never met him
but once before, when his firm was
selling me the place. I wondered at
the time why he called.’ I asked
him why he lied about his income,
making it out to be several times
larger than it was. and lie said: ‘A
man’s got a right to He to a woman
when he’s making love to her. Alt's
fair in love.’ Then, mamma. I came
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straight home and I'm never going
back to hhn. 1 hate him.”
*«eorge Kirkman followed his bride
to the city and tried to see her. He
saw. instead, her mother and sister.
We are sorry, but Helen won t see
)on, tliey said, lie went away and
telephoned her. Iler replies over the
public communfcator were in effect
the angry words of Pauline to her
new-made lord:
"This is my bridal home and thou
my bridegroom!
O fool, O dupe. O wretch! 1 see it
all.
The brine's ismlly sent detectives
to Asbury Park to make Inquiries
were true or not, they flung the bride
into an abyss of hysterics.
Claude Melnotte had the grace to
be sorry for his victim. Said the
peasant’s son:
"Thy father’s arms shall take thee
to thy home.
The hiw shall do thee justice, and
restore
Thy right to bless another with thy
love.
The young real estate’ clerk and
errand man, less noble than the poet,
rages in jealousy He fancies every
man to whom his twenty-year-old
bride used to bow prettily Is a suitor
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could buy float d
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talk. Bubbles, bubbles ' t burst at last with a bang!**
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about the in
truder. One de
tective report
fl that his
father, w h o
was dead, had
once been a
shoes t r i ng
peddler, that
h i s mother
kept a board
ing house.
Whether these