The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-23
REWARD OF WAITING
To Faithful Ones Whose Love
Defed Insanity.
TWO REALIZE STORIES
Of a Noble Young Lord and
an IgnobIe Old Lord.
TWO REAL-LIFE STORIES

New York, March 23,-The Journal says
The srange case of Lord Seton and his
betrothed and the case equally strange OF
Lord Durham and mis- bride offer TO any
novelist hard up for plot material enough
for a brace Of master works.
They contain every element of romance
except padding, every element Of the dra-
ma, including sin. In each there is res
direction. Behind both is an English mad
house. But where in the one there is a
picture of love rewarded. in the other
there is tabIeau of hate repaid.
Conformity they represent a new varia-
ton on the theme Of The GIRL Who Didn't
and the man who did. With all our hearts
we wish the art were ours to unrou the
double story as it deserves. That, how
ever. is immateriaL We lack the art, in
deed, but we lack the space aas well.
Here, though, are the facts:
In the month of April, six months ago
| by the clock, a chap named MolyneauX,
who, parenthetically, has nothing to do
with the person in the Tombs, jumped in
/ to saddle, jabbed brute with a spur
/ and-away. Ten minutes he had held in
! his arms the prettiest girl in England. Ten
minutes later ne was in the clutches Of
death. The horse bolted, slid, stumbled,
! spilled him and, falling, crushed his young
life, tossed girl out eonhcf cmfwtyaoin
life, tossed a girl out Of enchantment into
nightmare, did what further evil he could,
In the morning Of that day Molyneaux
represented nearly everything Of which the
majority Of US may dream yet never pos
sesses. By night1aII, no one, except it may
his namesake in Centre street. would
have envied him. It was not that he was
dead. There are things worse than that
Into them he had cen projected. He was
a prisoner imprisoned within himself a
human eng whose humanity had escaped,
an inert, senseless, mindless yet living
corpse
That is what the horse or fate or both
had done to him.
But then there are those who have too
much, who to the rest of US poor devils
are insolentIy happy, who almost merit a
cropper for being so insultingly superb.
He was the eldest son of the Earl of Self
ton. In the delightful sphere Of repubI-
can simplicity to which it has pleased God
TO call us, the heir to a peerage is, as such,
no better, of course, than you or ]. Some
times no worse. either. But in England
there are few positions more enviabIe.
Moreover, in addition to being the son Of
an Earl. Lord Molyneaux was the son of
a very rich' man.
Prior to his recent decease Lord Seton
owned the greater part Of Liverpool. The
ownership of even a smaller part is by no
means to be sneezed at. And that is not
all. Molyneaaux was surprisingly bright
and outrageously good looking. Beloved
by Oxford dons he possessed his tailors
fullsstesteem. Add that up, complete it
with youth insert in it health, and what
more any man not an anti-imperialist
could require, we for one would Ike to
know.
And yet this chap had succeeded IN gett- |
ting more. As we have already intimated, |
he had got the prettiest girI in England |
The latter, Lady Mary WiIIoughby. daugh- |
ter Of the Earl of Ancaster, we cannot, |
however we try, describe less conscIent- |
iousy than by saying that at the age Of |
eighteen, when this episode occurred, she |
was a festival of beauty in the festival Of |
life
NIolyneaux had not nearly got her, got
her hand, that IS. or rather the promise
Of it, he had got her love. From the docu-
ments in the case there appears to have
been no pretence about it. To use a
~,1,--
fore, she was simply some on him and he
Was mad about her. The date OF their
was fxed.It was just three
weeks away. But weeks are short. And
then abruptly into all this. just PERHAPS
because there was too much of it. be-
cause, as the Buddha knew, Sorrow is
shadow to life, moving where life doth
move presto, There was this handsome
young fellow pitched pretty nearly into
kingdom come and there was this fair
young SRI betrothed TO a Iunatic.
Hetrothed, as we shall presently see.
differs from matrimony. After a decent
period Of retirement the Lady Mary could,
bad sre been SO minded, given her heart
ana hand to another.
But the charm OF this story IS that the
Lady Marywas not $ ominded. The &C,
1dent in the Held which had deprived her
n her lover Of his reason had not deprived
him Of her love. To that he was insen-
5''-e, but then he was insensible of al
-1-nss else. The horse he had ridden had.
IN splitting him. rolled on aim also. The
77neasS.on was such thar a complete para
2S'S OF body and brain ensued. About his
'ad procession Of physicians passed.
mere came specialists from Vienna. sur
icons from everywhere. We assume that
all brought wisdom. but We know that
l7na lstt hope. They demonstrated as
rat two and two make four that the pa
sent case was incgra5-e.
Blu, The heart mas lostc which lor.e
i7aS not know. It IS only those who are
.ery young and very beautiful and very
2';-e1t that have the right 70 to desra-~ G
.'.-- right which The Lady Mary n7ss=Ss-