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EVE NELL BY JOHN M. ARRIBAS EVA NELL WAS A BEAUTIFUL BABY, LATER A TEEN A GORGEOUS WOMAN, AS HAS EVER BEEN SEEN COQUETTISH, CHARMING, WITH INVITING SIGHS SOME SAID THERE WAS EVIL BEHIND THOSE EYES OF ALL THE MEN THAT PURSED HER EXOTIC CHARMS IT WASN’T A SURPRISE THAT SHE FELL INTO THE ARMS OF THE WEALTHIEST BACHELOR IN OUR TOWN THEY SOON WED , SHE WORE A BEJEWELED CROWN THEY LIVED THE LIFE, THE RICH ARE PROJECTED THEN ONE NIGHT AN AWFUL SCENE UNEXPECTED HER IN-LAWS WERE KILLED WHEN FAILING TO BRAKE CAR JUMPED THE GUARD RAIL AND SANK INTO A LAKE RUMORS SAID EVA AND HER SPOUSE DID THEM IN AN UNBRIDLED AND RICHER LIFE NOW TO BEGIN AFTER ALL THIS WAS BIG MONEY, AND ONLY ONE HEIR SUSPECTING THE FOUL PLAY WAS TOTALLY FAIR ABOUT A YEAR LATER TRAGEDY BEFELL EVA NELL HER HUSBAND PERISHED HE FELL INTO A WELL OFFICIALS LAUNCHED A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION NOT MUCH REMAINED DUE TO SAME DAY CREMATION EVA MOVED TO RICHMOND, THEN ONE NIGHT AT A BALL SHE ATTRACTED A RICH WIDOWER HANDSOME AND TALL WITHIN A FEW MONTHS THEY WERE JOYFULLY WED WITHIN A FEW MONTHS HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD AS THE SURVIVING SPOUSE SHE WAS AWARDED HALF SMIRKING DISBELIEVERS GIGGLED AND LAUGHED SNIDE REMARKS AND WHISPERS TO HARD TO BREACH SOLD ALL OF THE ASSETS AND MOVED TO PALM BEACH THEN ONE NIGHT AT A CHARITABLE AFFAIR SHE MET A OLD GENTLEMAN, A MILLIONAIRE IN A QUICK ORDER THE TWO WERE ALL SMILES THEN WED, OFF IN A YACHT TO ROMANTIC ISLES NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED NEXT THE OLD MAN HAD DROWNED SO SAID THE TEXT EVA NELL (2) SOMBER AND SAD SHE RETURNED TO PALM BEACH A GREAT FORTUNE WELL WITHIN HER REACH COLLECTED INSURANCE AND HER MARITAL SHARE THEN OFF TO EUROPE WITH NARY A CARE IN-LAWS DEMANDED THE EVENT BE INVESTIGATED TO LATE, THAT VERY DAY SHE HAD HIM CREMATED AGAIN SNIDE REMARKS AND SUSPICIOUS CRIES CAUSED HER TO MOVE FROM PRYING EYES SHE MOVED TO MIAMI WHERE THE BEAUTIFUL MEET FREQUENTED SOUTH BEACH A MAGNIFICENT TREAT POOR EVA NELL MORE GRIEF FOR HER TO SURVIVE SUBSEQUENTLY LOST HUSBANDS FOUR AND FIVE THEN ONE NIGHT WHILE CROSSING THE STREET SHE WAS NEARLY STRUCK EXCEPT FOR THE FLEET ACTIONS OF A MAN, WHO SWEPT HER INTO HIS ARMS CULTURED AND URBANE GIFTED WITH CHARMS ENRAPTURED , SHE INVITED HIM TO DINE AT HER PLACE WITHIN A FEW DAYS THE TWO IN CONSTANT EMBRACE SHE SAID TO HIM, YOU I MUST MARRY OFF TO RENO NO TIME TO TARRY AT A SIMPLE CHAPEL, THEY BOTH SAID I DO SHE HAD FOUND HER LOVE HONEST AND TRUE SHE WAS TRULY HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL AND RICH A FEW MONTH LATER SHE WAS FOUND IN A DITCH THEY SAY SHE WAS DRIVING FAR TOO FAST OTHERS SAY SHE WAS CAUGHT UP BY HER PAST HER BEREAVED HUSBAND WAS SOON REWARDED TO ALL THE RICHES EVA NELL HAD EXTORTED JACK WAS A BEAUTIFUL BABY LATER A TEEN BECAME A MODERN ADONIS AS EVER BEEN SEEN FOR ALL HIS CHARMS AND ROMANTIC SIGHS SOME SAID THERE WAS EVIL BEHIND THOSE EYES
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