The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-07

| orIng in her face. a union OF mockery anc
| winsomeness in her f4te-Iike laugh.
| She was the belle of all the military fete:
in the loghouse at the preside.
The most original and the stranges
girl 1 ever saw" said the observant a.
| these fetes.
| IAN Ariel. with the oSfblities OF 2
| Caliban," said the reflective.
81 don't know where she gets that auer
faint in her blood. she is aot Ike anyone
else" said the frank.
| Leilah's lifelong wish was being granted
| She was like herself like no one else
in her little world
General kirkham left the comand OF
che preside and removed his family to
mansion built for them on the shore OF
Lake Merritt IN Oakland
was at the house-waru1ing" that she
met Boyle Blair, the young Englishman
| who had Just been appointed 10 con
| suLship in South Africa
She married him
Mrs. Boyle Blair returned from South
Africa in Widows weeds. With her were
her two sons. Rumors as elusive as the
breeze blown thistlede1n came from far
away SoutSlt Africa
The rumors described Mrs Bair's con-
duct as erratic. her temper as ungovern-
Die, her tastes IS those of a woman Of
pleasure.
When these rumors reached her ears
Mrs Blair only laughed She was still
like nobody but herself" Sac did ex-
actly as she liked.
There were few months in the man
CT i'm Nv T11r
went to Europe. In England. Mrs Blair.
the Old Leilah Kirkham still, married Hon.
Walter Yarde-Buller. He was the brother
Of Lord Churston. of Churston court. The
Yarde-BulIers were an old Devonshire
family. with a fin estate surrounding
Lupton House in that country
The honorable Tarde-Bullers said he
loved the beautiful American heiress.
He settled 1000 guineas upon her at their
marriage Yet she AYERS that as they
were driving through the streets of Lon
don half hour after the wedding ne
struck her in the face because she had
not brought with her enough money for
their travelling expenses
She says she hid this and other indig-
mites
1t pleased her 10 shine for a time in
British society. In this she easily sue
ceeded. The year after her marriage she
was presented at the Queens drawing
room and Bngliah papers proclaimed that
she was the most beautiful American seen
at that notable function. She became
member % the prince of Wales set. For
several LONDON seasons she was voted
the most beautiful woman of that set.
Her girfhood charms had developed into
the ripper. more exquisite attractions of a
beautiful maturity. She was tall and her
lissoIse grace had given way to half
Spanish, languorous dignity Her ewes
had all their old fire yelled by a newer
tenderness. Her hair, colled in the fashion
of coronet, was the FURNISHED crown of
a very queen OF beauty. She delighted
in Giraffe manifestations of her desire to
be herself and like no one else"
She was guilty of little breaches of de-
corum, at which British society frowned
and elevated its monocle, but Strengthened
its brow quickly when the Hon. Mrs.
Yarde-Buller was looking. She had
keen tongue and a marry laugh, and Brit
ISL society, not over brilliant at best
feared both.
She dressed with the taste of a French
women. coquetted with the inimitable
grace of the Spanish women. and the vi
vacity and self possession of the American
and was in no wise like her English sis
ters
Mrs. Yarde-Buller was success.
London was surprised when Hon. Wal
ter Yard-BulIer brought suit for divorce.
San Francisco affected 10 be equally sur
prised. but those who remembered the vag-
aries of the Leilah Kirkham of ten years
befare merely lifted their eyebrows.
Valentine Gadsden was named in Mr..
Yarde-Buller's complaint He alleged
that Mrs. Yarde-BuHer had been over
heard addressing Mr.. Gadsden as"Dear
Val'' This Mrs. Yarde-Buller denied. She
said that during a temporary estrange-
ment from her husband she had employed
Mr. Gadsden as her business agent.
Valentine Gadsden was an EngIishnan,
who was very little known in England.
very much known in San Francisco. He
fraternized with the Bohemian Club of
the Paris of the West. He was young.
handsome. of pleasing address. and #
Peter Bergman xzfAxzx
was he who introduced the costermonger
song among gentlemanly American
roisterers.
One day Mrs. Yarde-Buller was missing
from her fathers home, where she and
her lord had been visiting. Simultaneous
ly Mr. Gadsden disappeared Society
talked about an e1opement The pair
said that by the merest chance they had
left San Francisco on the same train and
New York on the same steamer
Mrs. Yarde-Buller filed counter-charges
= cruelty and infdelity against her hus-
band. The court granred her an abso-
lutedivorce and the custody Of her chill
dren
While the divorce proceedings were GO
ing on General Kirkham died Mrs
Yarde-Bueller said her husbands cruelty
to her had broke her fathers heart.
Soon after the granting Of the divorce |
Valentine Gadsden died. The physicians
said he died Of heart failure II vas wills !
pered that Mrs Yarde-Bueller had given /
him mortal wound in a duel.
However that may be, Mrs. Yar-Buner |
caused TO De sent out by the Associated /
Press this message:
Tell all the world that Valentine Gads- /
den IS dead"
She came to America shortly aft4rward. I
To the newspapers she gave our the state (
nent: Valentine Gadsdsn IS dead. There I
is nothing left in life for me-"
L was noticed then that the youthful 6re .
in her brown eyes was AIDED 2 rev and .
un~anny light.
l. was then that she became known as /
a li;igaut on both sides Of ne Atlantic
She brought suit against Baron Tweed +