The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-23
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or both had tossed her she arose presently
Her girlhood it may be was dead within
her, but the saint survived. To the sug
gestions of her people she was deaf. To
the approach of other men she was blind
She had given her love, and where that
had gone there only could her lips follow
also. She did not despair, neither perhaps
did she hope overmuch. She shut her little
hauds very tight and waited. There is nc
harder task than that.
And so the years fell. six Of them, six
eternities( slowly. interm.ndaby, after the
manner Of such years. until recently, in
that bed, about which the stream Of spe-
cIalists had stroIled, a change occurred.
The motionless began to move. To the in
durable convalescence came; 10 the mort
bund, health; TO the lover, life The young
lord rose from paralysis as his lady had
from nightmare, and found her just as
might have happened in a ballad, tender
and true, awaiting his return.
Such IS the story of the girl who didn't.
To our thinking it has the merit of being
very pretty. What is more to the point,
it has the merit Of having actually occur
ed. It is not fiction, it IS fact. Now for
the wedding bells. We must note that in
the interim Molyneaux's father having va
Gated the greater part of Liverpool and
| incidentally the earth, Lady Mary will be
Countess of Seton. Gentlemen, hats off.
! There is a woman deserving of homage
And now hats on again for here comes the
man who did.
Coincidentally with Lord Sefton's resur-
rection, the doors Of a madhouse opened
and Lady Durham emerged. The circum-
stances attendant on this case from the
| pendant and contrast to the first.
| Prior to her marriage, Lady Durham
! was Miss Ethel Miner. She had mother,
a rother and a dearer one yet. The moth
er was a rock, the rother a reed and the
! dearer one yet a sprig in the guards. All
wanted her to marry. 1t was only the
guardsmen who did not want her to marry
well. Here the plot thickens.
While considering his sister, Mr.. Miner
always considerate, later considered the
Duchess Of Montrose. a man lives as long
as ne desires, a woman as long as she is
desirable The Duchess was forty or fifty
years older than Mr.. Miner but she found
favor in his eyes, and he asked aand re-
ceived her hand in holy matrimony. That
feat was to be accomplished later. how
ever. But it indicates that nothing less
than a title was good enough for his sis
ter or for himself In all of which his
mother agreed with him perfectly. The
Earl Of Durham happened along. Both
made a dead set at him. The girl looked
the other way. She did not want his title,
she wanted her guardsman. But little
girls who don't want titles must made to
do so. Besides the Earl of Durham was
not a peer merely, he was a plutocrat,
minor it is true, worth at most ten or fif-
teen millions, but plutocrat all the same
Such things are very inviting to the moth
ers and brothers of little girls.
Among the things that are very inviting
to peers and plutocrats, little girls who are
pretty to look at, but who won't look at
them, land the fish. The earl was piqued.
Pique an earl and you find a husband.
Here the plot grows thicker.
A council 0 fpeace was held, as a result
OF which it was determined that the
guardsman must go and the earl should
stay. As it was ordered so was it done. |
There were tears from that little girl, pro-
tests from the guardsman. There were !
clasped hands, kisses that mingled, sobs |
that fused. In vain. Mother and brother |
were one too many. The guardsman went, |
the earl remained. Presently Miss Miner /
was carried to the alter Vac victorious |
woe to the victors From that moment |
a real tragedy unrpled.
Lambton Castle, the seat of the earls Of |
Durham, is a show place. and well worth |
being shown. It is spIendor in stone. There !
the bride was taken. We much wish we
were Elzabethan dramatists that we
might rightly portray how she felt, how
he acted, and the pathos Of the denou-
ment of it all. But as we said before, we
lack the art, which is immaterial, since
we lack, too the space. Here though, are
the facts:
There is nothing more distastful to a
woman than the love of a man who is not
her lover. But when that man is her hus-
band distast ceases: his love becomes re-
neiant Lord Durham was in love with
his wife. frankly at first then passion
ately. finally with that fever which prop
nquity and aversion create. She was
there always at his side vet always alb
sent The asking Of aims from a statue
y ere as profitable as the asking of af-
lection from her. Such as her fragile
leart had TO give had been given. There
VAS none there at all for h.m-a repulsion
merely which grew with the days and
which at once fascinated and tortured him,
90. OF the fascination she was uncon-
scious. Of the torture as well. She hated
lim, he knew it. and she knew that he
lnew it. Apart from that the rest was
/ blank. For the experiment Of the thing,
o arouse her. if arousing there could be,
lie nirted with other women in her pres
nee. She never needed. once he kissed
-ady de Gray before her face. She never
AIRED. She cared for nothing any more.
Al day she sat her head in her hand. in
nat attitude which Durer gave 20 Mean-
holy. Then he also began to hate. He
neu8ced and reviled at her. Call0us %
lis careSses, she was calloUs 70 his abuse.
But within her. meanwhile, something had
mapped. The poor girl was insane. IN
he midst OF a dance given by the Duchess
Z A5erCorn she was seen und0lng her
air. unlac.ng her dress Put away Al
nee IN an asylum. her husband then ask
d q divorce. But in England divorce not
eng granted for insanity occurring after
marriage, Lord Durham svore tina; enc |
las mad previous 10 becoming his wife
\ lie is an a5ominat.on in the sight Of
be Lord. but II IS a great help in time Of