The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22

win. So sanguine was his loriship that
he backed his horse TO win fortune On
the day of the race he took a coach load of
Gaiety girls TO EPSON to see him make the
coup. When his racer failed to win Lord
Ailesbury's rage knew no bounds. He fam
had tricked him. His roars as he belched
forth billngsgate could be heard above the
shouts of the crowd cheering the WANING
disciplining from the jockey club Turn
ing on his female companions he bias
phemed them for bringing him bad luck,
them off the coach, leaving them TO get
back to London as best they could
he No Mob moro Lord AIes6Try En0 or ducks n as
iron Of prize fighting, badger drawing,
chicken and dog fighting. and all SUCH So
cert hall and other London charmers palled
upon him he was wont TO HE him to some
English town in search of a fresh face
among provincial play actors. He was par
tial to 'mummerS.' but if none struck his
not over fastidous fancy he sought fem
mime companionship among the farmers
daughters or in public houses. Every such
journey ended by his bringing fresh sweet
bort book TO London with him. The show.
iness Of his garb could not be easily
matched, and, II matched hardly anyone
holiday could have been coaxed TO wear
such blazing toggery in public:
He affected plaids the blocks Of which
were rarely less than an inch square. Com
bnations of reds, greens, yellows, blues
and black pleased him best. With his
stocky, overfed person incased in this
flaming plumage, with a score OF white
pearl buttons large trade dollars
cleaning on his coat, with his fingers full
of rings, with a diamond in his light blue
scarf, with a low, brOad-brimmed white
silk hat clapped on his head and with the
whole profuSely Sprinkled with perfumery,
he looked and smelled like a perambulating
bouquet. Once seen he could not well be
forgotten.
1t was in 1884 that he had a tiff with
Beatrice Beaumont the witching Column
bine in holiday pantomime. He wanted
her to drink sparkling wine, but she stood
out for gin and water or nothing. 1t was
this little difference as to the proper after
the-show tipple for young woman in pink
tarletan skirts and ''heshiGgs" that sep
arated Ducks and his sweetheart
MET DOLLY TESTER.
Ducks waddled off to Brighton in
search of recreation. That night he CHANGED
to enter the Theater Royal, and there
clapped eyes on Dolly Tester. She was the
star of the provincial playhouse. not in the
heavy tragic manner of Captain Costi-
gan's daughter; but airly clad, blthe
some singer and frisky dancer. She was
not beautiful, but that cut no figure with
figure her pale blue eyes. her large mop
of hair-looking like a tousled yellow bag
wig-and that settled il.
In a twinkling he got behind the scenes
and from that night Brighton folks knew
no more of Dolly Tester. When next they
heard of her she was the wife of Lord
Aiiesbury.
From Brighton Ducks" transplanted
Dolly TO the Comedy Theater in London.
Even though she was not handsome, Dolly
had the same sort of subtle intelligence
that made Nine. De Maintenon the wife of
Louis XIV, and although Miss Tetser may
not have expressed it neatly as, Sire,
there is but one way to my bouGoir-by the
church door," still she managed TO attain
the same end with Lord Ailesbury. Her
real name was Dorothy Julia Haseley. Her
of Brighton, and in her youth Dorothy
used to carry mugs of ale to the skittle
players in her papaS back yard. So ii was
said at that time that Dolly's evolution
was as marked in one direction as
''Duckss' was in the other.
They, with twenty birds of the same
feather, on the first day of their married
life. boarded launch and steamed slowly
through fleet of small pleasure craft in
Moulsey Lock, near Hampton Court
rainbow, posed on thu bow, while Dolly and
the other women lolled in flowers half a
foot deep the deck Though half Of the
women had, at one time or another, been
dear to Ducks" neither he nor Dolly was
constrained by their presence.
Though he came into the vast estates OF
his father when five years old. together
with s509,0oo he quickly ran through the
half million dollars. Then he sold the an
John Culifre Lister for $4,000 all Of
which he had run through before he mar
ried Dolly Tester. He had no bank ac-
count: his debts were appalling, and cred
time he was running deeper in debt to pay
for frolics with low companions of both
sexes. The only thing poss BILE for him TO
do was TO sell the bsrthright. the beautiful
savernake estate. tne pride OF his --caent