Dora McDonald was one of the beauties of the West Side in her day, and
many admirers hovered about her threshold. The lights of the midnight
hours charmed her then, and she dashed off to marry Sam Barclay, a
professional baseball player.
Into that home came Michael Cassius McDonald. He was a gambler and a
politician and a man of great wealth.
For the second time his wife had left him; run away, people said, with
a man who had been a guest at their home.
Mike was lonesome. He saw the bride of Sam Barclay and loved her. He
dined with her, and perhaps he paid for her divorce trial. At least
she separated from Barclay and when Mike went a-wooing again he won
this pretty woman.
In a west side home of some pretensions Mike established his new wife.
He thought so much of her that he sent his sons away when she could
not agree with them. He gave her money and finery and servants and
carriages, and thought that she ought to be happy.