The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07

in Oakland once more. Her friends were regaled with stories of political triumphs presentation at the queen court and social successes. When these no longer interested idle tongues found another theme. The Hon. Yarde-B Bull Ter had an undue fondness for the flow
 ing cup and the gossips said his wife was fast learning to keep the pace that he set.
 From Oakland to Santa Barbara and back again, then over the seas to Eng land they took her, but the demon Of madness had her in his firm clutches. Her money was fast slipping through f her fingers. Then her father died. Later she returned to Oakland to fight for a larger share in the estate
 Shortly after her return she met val entine Gadesden. They became insep- arable friends. He was as cratic as
 she, but they found each other so com panionable that he returned to Eng land with her and her two boys to act
 as her business agent.
 The Hon. Yarde-Buller objected and
 gave vent to his objections by filing suit for divorce, charging intemperance and the grave sin against wifely vows.
 Gadesden and Lady" Yarde-Buller
 went travelling. From Germany came
 the startling news that Valentine Ga desden was dead Some whispered of a
 duel and a wrathy husband. Others
 said he was playing the piano when he suddenly fell dead at the feet of the woman who had laughed conventional ity to scorn for his sake.
 Once more Lady" Yarde-Buller came to Oakland. Scandal followed in
 her wake; first tales of revelry in the | hotel where she stayed with her two | sons, then of an almost fatal Illness,
 brought on, so 1t was said. by the ex-
 cessive use of stimulants. Finally l Ernest Wakeman remote cousin, and | his wife took charge of her.
 A champagne supper in a restau- rant was followed by an attack on Mrs. Wakeman. With cane the Hon. Mrs. Yarde- Butler administered blows that fell like hail on the defenseless | shoulders of her imaginary foe. The
 fimsy veil that had hidden the vaga-
 ries of this remarkable woman was torn asunder. She was arraigned in
 the Police Court. The daughter of General Kirkham had been found wan
 dering in a dazed condition over the 1 Oakland marshes.
 After this sensational episode Mir and Mrs. Wakeman took her to
 France. One son was a lieutenant in
 the army, the other was preparing to enter Berkeley.
 Next came the news that she was in
 a sanitarium, the kindlier word for madhouse. When the doors of the
 madhouse changed in her wake society | thought that it had heard the last of
 Lady" Yarde-Buller. Scarcely was
 her strange fate forgotten when once
 more came news that caused a ripple
 of astonishment. She had escaped | from the madhouse In France and was
 in New York preparing to return 10 i her home in Oakland. In Jersey City by some accident she took the wrong
 train. Her guardians, MT. and Mrs. l Wakeman, had her money and tickets,
 and while they were speeding West | Lady" Yarde-Buller was put off the
 train at Easton. Pa. The manager of the hotel agreed to give her accommo-
 datons until she might communicate with her friends.
 So, alone and penniless. at the mercy
 of strangers. she waits for the neces- sary funds to carry her back to her | childhood's home. where she may blot out the memory of the madhouse. She says she has learned that liberty Is not 1 license.