The age-herald., 1897-10-24
STORY IF EDWARD LANGTRY How He First Met the Jersey
 Lily" SHE THREW AWAY HIS MONEY And Then Cast Him Aside and Spent Her Time at the Race Track and With
 the Prince.

ness of face and figure, scandals that would have damned, socially, one less bsautifu1 he, in. the silence and shadow of the shame, bore all the obloquy Some said he was complacent. To this he answered that they who said 80 lied. And, to a large extent, his denial was corroborated by many circumstances.
 Perchance he was weak. Mayhap he should -haYe horseWhipped Sir George ChetWynd, whose Isa-=g gn presence nrst cast a shadow across the threshold of his door. Possibly, men living in republics may say he should have smitten the Prince of Wales as quickly as he would a guardSman. It may be true that he erred in not interposing his manhood pe- tween his wife and 0 coterie who tooked upon her as a lovely animal-a woman with a grace of form and freshness or face and a cheeriness and buoyancy that could not be found in the set in which they had their being. It may be equally true that it was his duty to fol- low her and break up her amours any where and everywhere, and that not to do it was weakness. Perhaps so. 1T so, Edward Langtry was weak, but ne had enough of disappointment and Of shame to have made any man weak
 In the madhouse his life went out. While he lay dying the woman who had been wife to him before her beauty made fatal her womanIhood was upon the race track still receiving the con gratulations of the Prince of Wales and his set upon the victory of her horse in the classic Cae9arswitch. which brought her another fortune. Edward Langtry had not been anything to her since she drained him of his patrimony. She only knew him as the man who stood be- tween her and another name and an- other fortune, and she hated him. It would be too cruel to assume that she q a all fQ1. rlnithp- woman are wholly different from what they Wsre in childf1oCd but, in the ab- sence of overt act on her part 1t saarce is possible to conceive that she will mourn him for an instant.
 And yet, one time, he was all her life to her. Thjan sine was Emile Le Breton, the daughter Of a dean on the Isle of Jersey, without knoweldge of the world other than as she read of it; without knowledge of men other than her father whom sine loved. Edward Langtry at that time was 0 handsome young fellow, Who loved racing and riding and was expert in handling yacht. His father was William Langtry, a wealthy North of Ireland Quaker. He did not like to see Edward attached to racing, and to win him from it he built him a yacht The Quaker could see health in yachting, and was delighted when llis son forsook horses for the boat.
 When the young man attained his ma
 
 fortune upon d1im but gave him permis- sion, Quaker though 1he was. to enter his yacht in the great ra cess at Cowes. The house of Langtry stood high in the com msrctal and social world, and the son found I1o difficulty in the way of proper intrcductions. His life seemed a sum mer sea, and for five years he dawdled upon it in indolent and luxurious leis- ure. He was 26 when ns got his second yacht, which he was to race at CoWes Rhf ft1ro +, ,on,t 1,.a run over to France. He started for Cherbourg. A gals came on ard he found Himself, one wild night among the channel islands. He made the har- Dor of St. Heller safely and went ashore.
 That was gale and a. nigrt and @ shore that inc nevsr forgot, unless. ir- deed, with insanity came the bliss of forgetfulness of the past. He was driven by the storm to his fate. On his going ashore he met the Rev. MT Le Breton, the dean of the place-a kindly, pious, well-educated man who was de- lighted to meet one who, like Langtry. had come so recently from London and scenes with which the good dean had been acquainted, but of which he had known little intelligently for some years.
 The dean invited the young yachts man to his home. The hospitality was accepted, and at dinner that night Mr. Uangtry met Miss Lily Le Breton, then IS years old. The rest of the story is an Oll-IoAu ldhe. MT. LaISIfy stayed at the parsonage long after the storm pass ed away. He forgot all about the re- gatta at Cowes. In a comparatively few days Lily had promised to become his wife. A meeting was arranged between the fathers of the parties. Tips elder Langtry was pleased at the choice of his son. In his belief he was getting a wife who would be honest and thrifty and loyal. The dean equally was pleased
 He liked the hearty manners of young Uangtry, and was the more partial to the marriage when he learned of the strong predibertion of the elder Langtry toward Qualoersm.
 The honeymoon embraced a tour of the continent and ended in London. Mrs. Langtry was infatuated with her new life. The yourg couple rentsd a cottage on the Thames and soon were favonites. The social life there was quiet The neighbcrhood was exclusive, but not wealthy, as wealth goes in London. The women devoted fair proportion of their time to church work and charity and many worthy projects. She was a cBsrgynan's daughter and such things were natural and congenial. ! The husband settled down with his wife. He sold his yachts, purchased a library and proposed that he and his young wife should ever be lovers in their cottaga by the Thames. One might liow- England should she marry again within with neighbor There he met Sir George Chetwynd, a man of the world, brilliant but not sSrupulous. The Irish Quaker, however, seemed fascinated with him. He asked Sir George to dine with him, and Mrs. Langtry and Sir George met.
 That was the beginning of the end. Sir George was smitten with the b;auty of Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Langtry fed before the charms of Sir George. The latter's home house was Grendon Hall, and thfther MT. and Mrs. Langtry, on invitation eff the baroneIt. wert on g. visit. From that hour began the es- arrangement The husband was slow to see what was discussed in all the draw ing rooms in Englard. Shortly after, Sir John Millais painted a portrait of Mrs. Langtry and called it "The Jersey Lilly" That pictuna drew the attention Of the Prince of Wales to the beauty. He asked for an introduction and re- ceived it. and Mrs Langtry filed the place in the affection of the Prince now, according to gossip, occupied by Lady Brooke The intrigue was notorious. The Lily had tired of the Irish Quaker