Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-10
A LANGUID LORD.
A Nobleman With Poetic Face and Dudish
IaNa

legs of dude, and the manners of
much bored and sought after noble
man. When | say that his face is
poetic, | mean that he has n high fore
head, big eyes and Il melancholy droop
of the mouth, which accord with the
traditional ideas of what g poets face
should be like. There is n suspicious
caving in the back of his lordship's
head, and his long legs are indubita-
bly, weak AS he dresses in the very
heighth of dudish fashion, his appear
ance invariably attracts attention. He
stands at least six feet two inches in
height and is rs thin man as one
would care to see. Miss Fortescue, to
whom his father paid $50, 900 in Lon
don a short time ago, ON condition that
she would release the precocious
young lord from his engagement to
marry her, is also lean and lank. The
whole world was interested in the suit
for Il time and then it suddenly
dropped out of sight on payment of
the damages, only to be recalled by
the presence of the young Lothario
here.
The most amusing feature of the
whole trial, and one which | believe
the beautiful letters with exalted sem
timents and well rounded periods,
which Mss FOrtescue whose real name
was Fnucy, wrote TO the lover, who
was popularity known rs Gumboil. 1t
was dis ovcred, after the trial was all
over and the money paid over to the
merccnary plaintill, that every one of
these letters was copied from an old
81 IL 4
in England several years ago under
the title How to Write Love Letters" "
This little book was sold for pence at
the news stands when it first came out,
butlt had grown rare at the date of
the beginning OF the trial, and the
source OF the beautiful letters which
Miss Finncy wrote to Gumboil re-
NAMED mystery until II newspaper
man, who was rumagino among the
books ut IN old London shop, suddenly
found II number Of sentences on one of
the pages which struck him us being
familiar. He bought the book, com
pared il with the Finncv letters and
the result was II complete identifica-
ton.
Gumboil is painting the town red, af-
ter Il solemn and heavy fashion. He
wanderS about from one play house to
another of an evening. dimes at the
Brunswick or Dclmonico'S, where he
often holds his knife and fork poised
in the air for some minutes, while he
stares at some beautiful woman who
catches his attention. lie is not a
great man in his own country by any
means, and the woman Finney, when
she was here as II chorus girl at the
Standard theatre, earning the magni-
cent stipend of $l5 per week, attract
ed attention only by reason OF her
stiffness, angularity and stupidity on
the stage. He, too was thin and tall,
aud imagine the love making between
her and his imperial nibs, Gumboil,
must have uecn lank affair An Eng
lish gentleman who knew Garmoyle
slightly in London, and who is man
of wide acquaintance in every great
city on the globe, said a night or two
ago up town, Lord Garmoyle belongs
toa class of men in London who are
known rs mashcrs. The term there
has u much higher significance than it
has on this side of the water. A mash
er here. | take it, is a man no may be
in anv position of life, from II street
iounger up, and who walks along the
street ogling the women, or devotes
all his attention trying to make femi-
nine conquests,
"ln England such Il man might be
digniied by n number of names, but
dever by the title of "masher." Most
men here would resent being called
by that name, but it is not SO on the
other side, where the little band of
men known MS mashers is composed of
the fastest livers in Great Britain.