The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-16
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! than to steal ring which was Che Hlos'
| cherished gift of the King to his fancee-
The ring was fthe kind called by jew
elers half hoop, and was set with tur-
quoises cut ike forget-me-nots. Clara
| left it temporarily on a dressing table.
| Having obtained the ring, Clara Zeislel
soon afterward gave it to handsome
| young officer of the Kings body guard
whom she f1attered with the delusion that
! he had made brilliant conquest. The
| young officer bore his trophy with some
pride.
When the King next met the Duchess
! and after they had exchanged the tender
est greetings, he noticed the absence OF the
absence of the favorite ring.
81 have forgotten to put it on" said the
| Duchess, not liking to admit that she had
| lost or rnislaid 1t.
On thes anne day the King saw the
young officer of his guard. As soon as he
saw the man he saw the ring on his
fngger.
Where did you get that ring?" asked
the King forgetting the laws Of polite
ness.
'Oh, friend gave It to me-" remarked
the youth, in tone intended to avoid
further conversation on that point, but
which hardly concealed his secret exulta-
ton.
TELL me who gave you that ring"
shrieked the King.
THAT is one thing will not tell, even
to your majesty" replied the other.
King Louis went into a paroxysm or
rage. The young officer had to fee from
the palace to avoid life and death strug-
gle with the sovereign.
AS soon as he could control himself suf-
fciently the king sat down and wrote =
letter to the Duchess Sophie, in which he
accused her of faithlessness in the rudest
terms. His passion were unbridled. and
as soon as they gained possession OF MN
reason had no place.
The Duchess heart-broken and horror
stricken, returned all his gifts and told
him that after his untrue and brutal ac-
cusations their betrothal must be at an
end.
The King then returned once more TO
Clara Zeigler. He sought her society more
than ever and tried to drown his dlslllu-
sionment in the sunshine OF her adorauon.
She was overjoyed. She believed that her
scheme had worked to perfection SO con-
fldent and emboldened was she that she
decided to tell him all, in order to prove
and feel her power. One summer AFTER
noon they were gliding over the lake of
Starenbera in The swan-shaped boat which
the King always used. She believed that
he was her slave for life, and told how
she planned to seperate him from the
Duchess, all for love of him.
The same terrible look came into the
Kings eyes that they wore when he saw
the ring on the officers finger and which
presaged his eventual madness.
For few seconds he was powerless with
rage. Then he took the wretched woman
with both hands by the throat, choked the
breath out of her, and flung her into the
lake Had not the actress been woman
of unusual strength and stature she would
have been killed at once. AS it was, the
occurrance was seen from the shore, and
she was rescued from the lake almost
dead.
The King rushed posthaste to the palace
of the Duchess to implore her forgiveness,
and to beg that all should be sit was be-
fore. But she refused to see him. She was
a woman of exquisitely tender and SEN
sitive nature, and the brutal and insulting
words the King had lately used toward
her had shocked all love out of her.
Some years later she married in accord
aance with the wishes of her family, the
Duke d'Alencon, dull man of excellent
character. As years went on she became
entirely immersed in affairs of religion
and charity. She was the principal organ
iZer of the Bazaar de la Charlie, in Paris,
in 1897. When the fire brooks out the Ouch
ess remained behind with several nuns
who would not struggle to deprive the
other victims of their chance of escape.
Those who saw the Duchess say that she
met death with an uplifted. smiling and
fearless face praying TO the last.
After his dismissal by the Duchess, King
Louis hunned the society of women. His
extrava game became wilder every day. He
exhausted the resources of his kingdom
in building Chiemsee and other palaces.
The world is indebted to him however, for
his limitless generosity to Richard Wag-
ner.
In time he became hopelessly insane. so
that he had TO be constantly attended by
keepers. Thirteen years ago he drowned
himself in the beautiful waters of Lake
Starenberg, the scene of his early happi-
ness and sorrows.
Clara Zeigler. the actress, disappeared
from the public view for year after the
King threw her into the lake. She deveI-
oped into an acatress of high ability, with
aan excellent personal reputation She
played many classical roles, including
Iphigenia in SchilIer's "Iphigenia Among
the Tauri;" Gretchen in Faust" Portia
in THE Merchant OF Venice" Hermione,
in "a Winter Tale: Juliet and Mary
Stuart. She is the only survivor OF this