Word: celinda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...titled couple with his own house, and Elena with a magnificent assortment of soap and perfumes. Canterac, the Frenchman, built an artificial park just to give a garden party for her. Even Richard Watson, the leading juvenile, fell under her spell and forgot all about his interest in little Celinda, the flower of the Rio Negro, who used to lasso him jokingly in the most affectionate manner. But things went too far when Pirovani and Canterac staged a fistfight and then a pistol-duel about her. Pirovani was killed, Canterac fled from justice, the Marquis began to feel that there...
Richard Watson very properly married Celinda. Twelve years later the happy couple, their four children, the engineer, Robledo?all now extremely rich?returned to Paris on a visit. The visit brought up memories of Elena. Robledo wondered what could have become of her?and found her by accident, on the streets of Montmartre, a mere rag of a woman, with everything gone but a taste for good whiskey. So that was the end of Elena, and a very suitable...