The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-05
'IALE Of LOVE IND WAR
Romance of the Richest Duke
in All England
AND THE PRETTIt:ST GIRL
Which, Reads ExactI y Like a
Story-Book StoI y.
AND THE PRETTIt:ST GIRL

New York, JAN 3.-The Jou rnal says
The South African war has ROUgJlt tc
light the romance in life of he young
Viscount Belgrave, successor,by thu. death
of his grandfather last weel ,to the
splendid title and vast estate s. of the
Duke of Westminster
He is an exile by the stern ecree of a
stern grandparent-an exile to South AT
RIGA because it was discoyere that he
had fallen in love with sheila West, the
lovely daughter of lovely moi Ter.
The women of the house of c,ornwallis
West are renowned for the beauty.
This is not a fame gained from the news
paper Photographer who, in IL e pursuit
of his craft, paints all women of noble
birth in glowing pictures.
Their beauty is a matter history
substaTtiated by their tongues E Away
back it became famous when the Lady
Olivia FTtz Patrick, mother of FRS. Corn
wallis West, fascinated that p; Gragon of
virtue, the late Prince Consort, husband
of Queen Victoria.
Mrs. CORVALLIS West made lerseH, jr
resistible to the Prince of Wal rs, whose
wide taste in the charms of III fair sex
has been proved by the varie ~ of his
choice.
Then came her daughter, the Princess
Henry of Pless, who wrought. havoc in
the hearts of the Duke of ork, eldest
son Of the Prince of Wales
And now the youngest daug' Alter, Sheila
has won the heart of the ric hest man in
England, the young Duke { Westmin-
ister
She has carried out the ira iitions of the
house.
Its suitors have alwa vs. been selected
from the kingdoms fines / By the death
of his grandfather yoi ing BeIgrave is
Duke and Marquis of W estminister. Earl
Grosvenor, Viscount / ;elgrave. BARON
Grosvenor of Eaton and a baronet
But in addition to his 4 tiles he will have
wealth literally beyond the dreams Of
avarice. The late Duke reluctantly adj
mitted an income of s4,M 5000 a year. He
owned miles of houses il l the very heart
of London, in Grosveno place. in BEL
grave square, in Easton square and in
Ebury street. All these g reat estates will
pass to his grandson. Besides he will
have vast properties in Cheshire Ber-
shire and Flint, Scotland. Mr.. William
Waldorf Astor's estate of Cliven-on-the
Thames was bought from the late Duke
for one million dollars.
But why talk thus sortNd1y of dollars
and cents and titles whe n the heart of
one of the foveiest girls in Merrie Eng
land, given to what oui' grandmothers
would surely have called "a likely young
man." furnishes us with a romance?
BY his world young Belgrave is des-
cribed as very decent youngster He
is studious and as yet no particular vice
has been ascribed to him.
Even now. in spite of his absence-bis
enforced absence-he is discussed con
amore in stables and in banqueting halls
If aught could be said against him by all
the ways Of our kind it would be said
His companions acclaim him 'jollv
good fellow" and they add not ''but''
nor an '4f' to qualify the NEED of their
| praise.
The gravest accusation against him is
that his heart, as rebellious as that of
any well-bred, well-mannered youngster.
flew out of his keeping, undirected by the
iron will of his despotic grandfather, at
the first sight of a fair vision known so
| far but slightly to the world as Sheila
| West
Being both of London and Of the same
| exclusive set. it tbs not surprising that
these young people should have met.
1t was after a certain never-to- be-for-
gotten garden party that the current of
young Belgrave's thoughts coursed sud
denly from his grandfather's studs to an
absorbing interest in women-all women
centred in one slip of a girl.
Wherefore this one and not another?
| Philosophers may analyze and relatives
may storm and question. the mystery of
! Cupid's aim is the same whether he fires
an arrow into the quarters of peasantry
or the halls of aristocrats
The young man was struck between the
gnarled branches of old England's oak
/ trees all on a summers day.
Sheila West crowned in a glory of green
! leaves, came then upon the young mans
| vision.
Being very young, though the gosstps
say that she is three years older than
Belgrave, who was born in 1879, she
looked her very best in the yellow sun
light. 1t showed the blue veins in her ex-
| quisite skin. 1t sounds trite to ayit was
as white as the pearls she wore about
| her neck. But Sheia West comes, If ira
| dition may be believed, of family of
| coQuettes. She wears her pearls as
beautiful woman should. with knowledge
| with taste. She wears them in broad day
! light when most women would abjure
/ them, because she knows she may be-
cause she knows that her skin will be
| with them in comparison and not suf-
fer For the same reason Sheila West
wears white in preference TO any other
! color. So, in white from her feet TO the
| picture hat whose lace brim dropped over
her gray eyes the captivating eyes OF the
| house of West. she looked up at young
Belgrave and inthat glance created him
/ her slave.
Il seemed to him that the sun had new
er shone upon hair that reflected so many
! golden lights lie saw pearls about the
/ young woman's neck and between the
! curves of her vermiiion lips The ones
/ of her voice were like music when she
spoke to him. They tortured as discords
viii when she turned away and he heard
them addressed to another.
Before the day was out young Belgrave
knew that he was in love with Sheila
| West
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