Arizona republican., 1899-02-20
COUNTESS TURNS GOVERNt tSS
BosEon Girl Leaves inc Husband
 Bought by Her Father.

From Vienna comes the account of a
 Boston heiress who .las taken service
 there as a gcverness in the family of
 a well known nobleman and govern
 ment functionary, at the beggarly sal
 ary of 500 florins per year. Her req
 sons for taking this step reflects little
 credit upon either her father or her
 husband-for she has been but lately
 married
 She is the only daughter of Boston
 merchant and received an excellent ed
 ucation Her father is a self-made
 man, who late in life became a mil
 lionaire by lucky speculations. With | his desire for money gratified, his next
 ambition was to acquire social position
 for his child. Like other rich Ameri-
 cans, he and his daughter spent much
 time in Paris. Here he ran across a noble dame who eked out a livelihood
 by arranging matches between heir esses and impecuDious members of the
 aristocracy. This woman promised him 6 sOn-in-law of the bluest blood for a consideration-and, after looking up the names submitted to him in the French peerage, he decided upon a cer- tain Count de B. as the most desirable on the list He paid 10 0CO francs down. part. of which was to pay the counts expenses on Q journey to America, the rest being for the servi- ces rendered by the noble dame. Soon after the BostonianS returned home, and some time later M le Comte visited them there. He is a flashing young fellow, has charming manners and speaks English with a delicious accent. No wonder the young Boston girl fell in love with him. After a short courtship the wedding day was set, and the delighted father gave or ders to French agent to prepare a charming nest for his children in the Faubourg St. Germain-a bandbox of a house, furnished in the latest style, with gardens and stables galore.
 Everything went well up to the very day of the wedding, which took place in Boston. Then, when the guests had assembled and the carriages for the drive to the church were standing in front of the door, the count sprung a surprise on his father-in-iaw elect by submitting to him a we'll authenticated record of his debts, amounting to near ly a million francs, which he desired to have paid before the ceremony took place. The father submitted to the de- mand with the best grace he could This made M. le Comte bold.
 There is another little matter to be arranged he said. "I must have absolute control of my wife's fortune
 Dreading a scandal the father con sented to this also. though on coudi- tion that his daughter should agree to it. That satisfied the count, who did not imagine that his bride would cffer any objection to the bargain
 Half an hour later the Boston girl was a countess. Next morning her husband submitted to her the papers providing for the cessiOn of her for l tune. But instead of finding the meek, | little wife he expected the comte en- countered an indignant and stern | young woman, who not only refused to enter into the arrangement stipulated | but further declared that she would | never live with a man who had so basely deceived her.
 T will never be the wife cf a fort une hunter" was her unalterable de- cision. which father and husband tried | in vain to modify
 The young countess left her husband | forthwith and went back to her fath CTS house, where she remained, how ever, only twenty-four hours Then she disappeared. Ten days went by in a fruitless search Then the father Paris that his daughter had gone to Europe and had decided to make her own living. When. after hunting for in Paris. London. Berlin and Dresden, the countess at last arrived in Vienna, she had just ten flOrins left of the few hundred dollars she had brought with her from the United States She went to an employment agency and inscribed her name as Gn English governess' She secured the place mentioned none too early, for her money was quite gone.
 The countess. who is known at the house where she is employed as Miss Marguerite, likes her position and is perfectly contented with her surround ings. She loves children and is fond of her work as teacher. She says