Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-27
-AN ELOQUENT DEFENSE.
Lady Dunlo's Soft Toned Voice Raise d
in Her Own Fehalf.

lCopnrigyh fS9Oby james Gordon Benncttl
LONDON, July 90 New York Herald
Cable-Special to The BEE Il was re-
ceived this morning by Lady Dunloa and had
an hours conversation with the heroine OF
the most sensational divorce case that Lon.
don has known for years. Lady Dunlo is
living with her sister, Miss Flo Billion,
concert hall singer at Cherwill
house, Mortimer Crescent post st. john
Wood, away northwest of the metropolis
Mr. Seymour, Flo Bilton'S husband, a good
looking young fellow, met me at the door and
led the way into a luxurious drawing room,
where the walls and shelves contain ed
many photographs of celebrated and
beautiful singers. While awaiting her
ladyship 1 asked Mr.. Seymouras to the prob.
able outcome of the case.
81 haven't a doubt" said he, "but that
Lady DunlO will win the case All the evi.
dence of the other side is now in and they
hove not begun to prove intidelity. AS for
that scoundre and perIureL Wood
and his outrageous statement that
on one occasion Lord Albert
Osborne Lord DunlO and himself tossed up
positions for the then Miss Belle Bton, |
will only say that at the close ofthcse
divorce proceedings Mr.. Wood will receive
one of the most thorough and most richly de
served horse whippngs that has been ad-
ministeredin this city for many day.
But at this point Lady Dunlo entered the
room with smile and graceful bow. Pretty
as was the costume, the young girl who wore
1t, for Lady Dulo is hardly more than girl,
was pretticr by far. She is beauty in the
fullest sense of the word, the pure type of
An Itch -,
about it. Her brows and lashes Were penciled
by natures brushes only; her clear com
pexion had no need of paint and those mists
OF auburn hair, dressed in Grecian style, Were
just as they mad grown.
II am glad to see the representative of an
American newspaper she said speaking
with those rich, soft tones which are the
glory of English women. II know that Your
countrymen will think none the worse of me
because L had to work for my living, even on
the stage of music hall L don't
believe that American gentlemen.
even though not noble lordn-her
voice rang gwith sarcaSm-'' would have taken
girl to be his wife and then nine days later
have left her without a penny or "a friend.
merely because another noble lord, who han
pened to be his father, decided, without his
having seen the unhappy wife, that she
would bea disgrace to his glorious family
name.
'And what is the crime, to be sure, for
which am so cruelty punishedl That there
was stain on my life before 1 married Lord
Dunlo. But did not Lord Dunlo wipe away
that stain"-here her eyes glistened with
tears-''when he gave me his love and ac-
cepted minei Did we not thereby
agree to forget what had been.
for | concealed nothing from him, and
love him only for what was to bel He had
put the ring of wedock on my finger know
ing perfectly well what he was doing. only
to tiaunt IN my face later ON that / have been
the mistress of another
''But they object to me on other grounds.
/ believe, because amsupposed to come from
the slums, mere painted creature who dances
on the tawdry stage and has neither family
nor heart; but there they are wrong g, too, - she
added proudly; II have heart and have
no reason to be ashamed of my own family
my mother was Miss Penrice OF Kverough
castle, Glamorganshire Wales, and my aunt
married Sir Charles Van Notten Pole,
colonel Of the guard-quite good enough. | am
To be daughter-in.aw to that cantan kerous
old man, Lord Clancarty who is drinking
himself to death, as "a matter of fact though
1t is Lady Clancarty who has had most to do
with bringing the suit You see, she
knows her husband cannot live much
longer at the rate he is now going,