Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-28
THE DUNLO-BILTON SUIT.
Her Ladyship Sure That Her Husband
Will Not Get His Divorce.

Special Cable to New York Herald
Lady Dunlo (Belle Blton) will probably not
be dispossssssd of her husband by the court
When her ladyship was visited the other day
she wore coquettish peignoir Of pink
| silk, with dainty cape of old gold floating
about her shoulders; but pretty as was her
costume, the young girl who wore it-for Lady
Dunlo is hardly more(oh han girl-.was prettier
by far. She is beauty in the fullest sense of
the word-the pure type of English beauty.
Nor was there any make up" about it. Her
brows and lashes were penciled by natures
brush only. Her clear complexion had no
need of paint and those masses Of auburn hair.
dressed in the Grecian style, were Just as they
had grown
In speaking of his lordling's divorce suit
Belle said: ''And what is the crime, to be sure,
for which l am SO cruelty punished?-that there
was a stain on my life before / married Lord
Dunlo. But did not Lord Dunlo wipe away
that stain when he gave me his love and ac-
cepted mine? Did we not thereby agree to
forget what had been-for concealed nothing
from him-and live only for what was to be?
Then, is it not the act Of q coward, after he
had put the ring Of wedlock on my finger,
knowing perfectly well what he was doing to
| Haunt in my face later on that had been the
mistress Of another?
But they object to me on other grounds.
believe. Because am supposed to come from
the slums, mere painted creature who dances
on the tawdry stage and has neither family nor
heart 1 have no reason to be ashamed of my
own family. My mother was Miss Penriee Of
kilverough castle. Glamorganshire, Wales. and
my aunt married Sir Charles Van Molten Pole,
colonel in the guards. Quite good enough
am to be daughter-in-law to that cantanke rous
old man, Lord Clancarty, who is drinking HIM
self to death.
CAS- matter Of fact, though, it is Lady Clan
carly who has had the most to do with bring
ing the suit. You see, she knows her husband
cannot live much longer at the rate he Is now
| going and, OF course, at his death would be-
come Countess Clancarty, while she would be
put upon the shelf as dOwager countess She
| Is tolerably young woman yet and don't take
| kindly to that idea at all, SO she is trying to
| dspossoss me of the title. But she won't sue
coed" added Lady Dunlo, earnestly, because
| L am not the bad woman they say am and a
| jury will declare it So Oh! am sure they
will, and her big blue eyes shone with convic-
| tion.
The lady's words are probably near the truth.
There seems to be a notion abroad that Earl
Clancarty is an impecunious Irish peer. Moth
| ing can be further from the truth. viscount
Dunlos father is not only q very large land
owner himself, but he married the daughter of
one OF the wealthiest Of English marquises-
| the marquis of Bristol-and does not possess a
| large family. He owns at Garbally, County Gal
| way, some $4,000 acres of land, and the valu-
| alton OF 100000 year is not far from the
| amount OF his present income. He has another
| and smaller estate in RoscommOn worth about
| $4,000 year. The heir to S65, 600 per annum
| cannot justly be described as a penniless peer.