The morning call., 1894-04-11

pounds before he married Dolly Tester.
He sold one of his ancestral estates. Ger.
vaulx Abbey. for a45O. 900 just after he at
tanned his majority and more recently he
tried to sell the great Savernake House,
the seat of his family for generations, for
e75O,0OO. This attempt was foied,
bur for all that nearly $6,0O0000
melted in his hands. to say nothing OF the
100000 which Dolly brought from Squire
Abingdon after the divorce episode, and
even this could not suffice his talent for
spending money.
Ducks" degenerated from a line that
perhaps has been more noted for the
historic titles it has held than for having
made them historic. The earldom of
Elgin was once in the family, but the Earl
OF Egin-he of China and Canada-was
not a Lord of Savernake. So. too,
Ducks" is Earl of Cardigan. but brave.
laundering, narrow-minded Cardigan. W h0
was the last peer tried by the Lords for
dueling, and who afterward rode his splen-
did, stupid charge at the head Of the Light
Brigade, was a collateral ancestor whose
title fell In to ''Ducks." Still the family
has done the state some service. First
made Barons Kin loss in 1901. having be-
fore been baronets of Kinloss for genera
tlons, the family came into the English
peerage as Barons Bruce Of Spelton.
County York; Viscounts Bruce of Ampt
hill, County Bedford. and Earls of Allies
bury, County Bucks, through the services
rendered to Charles l. and in the restora.
tion of his son by the third Baron Kinloss
and second Earl of Egin in the Scotch
peerage.
The second Earl of Ailesbury showed
his devotion to the Stuarts by refusing to
Wedge the Prince of Orange as
King, though for the maintenance of the
Protestant religion threatened by King
James II he had joined In inviting him
into the country. For this he spent some
time in the Tower, and was at last exiled
to Brussels, where he died. Through his
marriage with Elizabeth. sister of the third
Duke of Somerset, the Allesburys became
lords of Savernake, to-day the only "for-
est" in possession of a subject Ducks"
succeeded his grandfather, the third Mar
Quis, in 1868 when a lad of 5. This was
the same year when his mother. second
daughter of the Earl of Craven. died. As
the year of his attaining his many titles
death, so that of his birth-1S63-
marked by the death of his father. cap
tain in the fourteenth Hussars.
There is nothing in all this to explain
the degeneracy of Ducks" The family
seems to have conducted itself in history
making way, much as did other English
noble families of its time. falling now
upon the wrong side or the right, as time
served. The history brings Gown the
family merely to the period of its union
with the house of Hasely-marriage Of the
fourth Marquis to Dolly Tester. How far
back the house OF Hasely runs boots not.
For the purpose of this narrative it Is
sufficient to trace 1t from the Theater
Roya,, Brighton, where Dorothy 'Hasey
wore th e stage name Of Dolly Tester. to a
tradesman's shop in the suburbs of that
watering-place kept by her father, the
original-for the purposes of this narra-
tive Hasely.
She was the star Of the provincial play
house, rattling singer and twinkling
dancer. 1t must be good many years
since she possessed that natural beauty
with which some of her pictures credit her.
In the summer of her honeymoon she was
u
she had the genius which made one
woman In this century's history an
empress. Probably she did not express it
in such an epigram as did Eugene, who
became the wife of Louis Napoleon, but she
managed to make the same meaning clear
when transplanted to the Comedy The
a:er, London, in whose coulisses she met
her fate in Ducks" This is one story.
There are others. AS far as Ducks" Is
concerned 1t is probably true. Ducks"
married her.
OF the inward and spiritual grace OF
their menage there threatened to be some
startling evidences in 1889. when "Ducks"
brought the divorce sui in which "Mr
Abingdon" and CaptalB Riley of the Tenth
Hussars, the Prince of Wales own Beau
Brummel regiment during his brief and
bloodless military career, were. or were 10
have been, the correspondents. But the
town had the richest molseI ever promised
it snatched from its lips when Dolly's
solicitors laid before sfDucks'" solicitors
the kind of lecrimInaton they were pre-
pared TO go into. Ducks" might not
have minded that, but Dolly showed
large amount Of yellow gold, and their
generalization was celebrated by a dinner
which was the talk of the town for
season.