The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-24
DEFED ENGLISH COURT
Young Lieutenant Cecil Loved
Pretty Jessie Balm
AND WED HER HE DID
In Spite of Mother, Detectives
and Court Of ChanCery.

says:
The English Court of Chancery. frown-
ed. put on its wig. took pinch Of SNUFF,
ana said she shall not"
LADY Francis Cecil widow Of the late
Lord Francis Cecil, Marquis OF Exeter
tapped her foot nervously OF the tiger
skin rug in her library and said: she
shall not"
The Scotland Yard detective and the
bailifs Of the Courts Of Chancery ad-
journed TO nearby public house and over
mugs Of We nut brown ale said in chorus:
''She shall not"
1t really looked for some time that as
though Jessie Balm was not going TO mary
Lieutenant P T. W. Cecil. younger
brother TO the heir Of the Marquisate Of
Exeter, son Of Lord Francis Cecil. grand
son and heir OF William Cunliffe Brooks.
and subaltern in his Britanic Majesty
crackest calvary regiment, after all
She loved him. o, she loved him as
much as a girl can love q man. Nobody
not even the dIgnifed Court Of Chancery
or the stately Lady Francis Cecil. or the
dark-lanterned sleuths from Scotland
Yards doubted that And young Lieuten-
ant Cecil fairly idolized beautiful Jessie
Bain. That was another proposition which
did not require demonstration.
But Jessie Balm, while she was as fair a
maid as e'er the sun ever shone on. was
por and only the daughter OF a common
insurance broker. And she was Irish.
and Lady Cecil did not for the life Of her
see why her brilliant son should throw
himself away on a simple Irish lass when
any number Of the statelisst women Of
England, with families dating back be
fore the food, would have been indeed
proud and happy TO have been wed TO the
hope of Essex.
But it was Jesie's Irish heart that con-
quered the Saxon; and it was the fighting
spirit of her Irish blood that made him
swear never to give up the man she
loved
So. although Jessie Balm loved with the
love of which poets speak. her love seem
ed n hopeless one What can a girl do
when the Court of Chancery and a proud
mother and numerous. sundry, and divers
detectives against her?
If Lieutenant Cecil had arrived fully
at mans estate the case would not have
bee so difficult. But he was only 19 years
old nj a ward in chancery. His grand
father. Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. had
left him fortune Of s1m0ooo. which he
was 10 come into when he was p years
old. But when he was making love TO
sweet Jessie Balm he was only 70, and two
long years interviewed between himself
ana the day when he was TO be free
The court of Chancery mad been ap-
pointed the guardian of Lieutenant Cecli
and therein lay much mischief For
court of Chancery in England has the
most despotis authority over its wards
4 ward Of chancery may not leave the
country without the courts permission
may not 20 TO school without the court
permission. and as for marryiag-"ell
that isn't TO be thought Of court or
Chancery Furnishes not only it's ward II he
marries. but Furnishes as well the girl that
mar1ies HIM. 1t can and frequently does
impose heavy fines or sets aside entirely
the Inheritance which is waiting for the
ward. and not infrequenuy sends both the
ward and me person he marries 20 JAIL
So it is no laughing matter III r--isl-l1
to trihe with court of chancery-
That was the situation But Lieutenant
Cecil. on the hnt of the sword welded
by the former lords of the house Of Essex,
svore that Jessie Balm he would family
courts. detectives, and everything else not
withstanding
And essle Bain laughed when tod that
she was building prison bars before her
pretty face by defying the laws or I'm
glands august Courts of Chancery. and
said she would marry Lieutenant Cecll,
and he loved her. come veal or come woe.