The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

| Matrimony seemed to her out of the ques-
| ton matter TO be spoken of, thought Of
! perhaps, in five years or more
| She communicated the foolish boys"
whim 10 his grandfather, the Duke of
| Westminster.
A scene followed. The nature of It crept
out though it was held behind closed
doors. The old Duke, forgetful doubtless
of his own love affairs, would have none
of his grandson's yet. He set his foot
down the equity foot Of "a He made all
! sorts of threats. And, finding these
might be disregarded, he pleaded. The
boy was Of his own flesh and blood He
could not be driven as he drove his horses.
So they sat down to reason the matter
out together.
There could be no objection to Shella
Vests family. 1t is an old and dis
tinguished one. directly descended from
King Henry III of England. Her grand
mother, Lady Olivia Fitzpatrick, was the
daughter of a great Irish nobleman, and
her father is Col. CORVALLIS West, an
English landlord with large landed es-
tates chiefly in North Wales, and a de-
scendant of the Plantagenets.
This wonderful family of firts was
doubtless discussed from generation to
generation, their escanades enumerated
and exaggerated
Whatever the grandmother might have
done, whatever indacretions the mother
i''t-9 nave t't'H EuHNk Oh iIouBD the
Princess of Pless may have allowed the
tongue of scandal to wrap her about as
IN a Name of fire, Shella West was adored.
1t was, the young man maintained, a
question of her and of no other. What
cared he for the vagaries and suscept-
biiities Of her grandmother, or her motn-
er, or her sister? Her gray eyes, her rosy
bps, her dulcet tones. her Irish wit should
De those Of his wife with parental and
grandparental permission, or without it,
SO at last the powerful Duke Of West
Minister he who could control tenantry
Tor miles, who could bestow upon his
daughter on her marriage with the lber-
tine son of the Duke of Teck q. 600 900. he
VINO has won the Derby four times by the
excellence of the mightiest stud in all Eng
land, yielded condtionany.
ne marriage should not be vet Shella
west might have all the virtues that were
not given to her grandmother or mother
or sister, and none of their failings: she
might be such a creature as never before
hau peen seen by the eyes of man. but the
old Duke insisted they were both too
young. He not yet q, and she-ah, why
be ungalalnt enough to ask the age of a
woman when she is young enough to be
beautiful?
Her enemies say that she is by three or
-FOUR years young Belgrave's senior. Her
friends deny this They say, too that
she is not flirting, but has fallen deeply in
love.
Imagine, then what her suffering must
have been when finally the fun terms of
the conditions upon which she might hope
to wed peacefully were made known TO
her.
Young Belgrave, with all the tender care
OF lover, spoke 10 her first of separation
Tor few months, then of reunion. Grad
ually he told her he was going to South
Africa to fight for his country, to win
honor for her sake
OF course, he assured her there was no
danger; that he was merely going, as he
did. to Cape Town as aide-de-camp to Sir
Alfred Miner. But she knew well the
sort of man ne is; that if there was Tight
ing he would somehow get to the thick
OF 1t, and be no more content to stop in
the background than any other English
man. She trembled, as would any girl
though she would not have him otherwise.
1t is easy to fancy the parting; how she
tried TO keep back from her sunny Irish
eyes the tears that would gather there;
how she tried to be brave and to hide the
trembling of her rosy lips; how she forced
her voice to be firm.
Well, somehow they said goodby, as 9TH
er men and women less in the public eye
have said it before them. and will say it
after them as long as the world lasts
The annals of the Boer war have not
been such as to bring comfort to the young
girl waiting at home for her lover.
The world sympathizes with Shella West
and the young man who became last week
by the death of his stern old grandfather.
the Duke of Westminster
Win he hurry home now to claim his
bride?
No one believes that he will return I'M
III the war is won, and he may be among
the thousands who never will return
If he does the prospects of the Young
couple will become brilliant enough to daz-
zle many heads wiser and set upon older
shoulders.
Ihey Will come into possession of the
great town house in Grosvenor Souare
with its magnificent picture gallery the
famous collection begun by Richard first
Earl of Grosvenor. They will doubtless
divide their time, as has been traditional
in the family, between this splendid Lon
don house and Eaton Hail. the great I'M
dertaking of the late Dukes life,