Word: herâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her???she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon...
...still strong, but?"Too old," said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty?jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her???at last she began to belong to a real family. And there settled, for the time at least, and, fairly content, we leave...
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...