The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-27

t4NtN lokh W GEl0st
It came about through no fault Of
his own that Lord Yarmouth, IineaI
descendant and chief heir of that
great duke Of Somerset who was lord
protector in the reign Of King Edward
VI has lately been working in Amer
lca at the profession that has been.
perhaps, more productive Of hard lines
Lnan dollars. Unlike many noble
Brltons whom ill-timed extravaganza
or reckless vice drove from their ma
tive land. the Earl Of Yarmouth was
forced to earn a living by misfortune
pure and simple. And this misfortune
dates from romance as strange as
1t was sad.
This scion of one of Englands old
est and nOblest hOuses-a house whose
sons nave from times far in the past
Deen among the closest in the great
court to their sOvereign-has been
forced to taste the bitterness of pow
efty, not through any fault of his own.
put because his grandfather, one Of
the late queens most faithful and
trusted servants, was subjected to as
Keen an injustice as ever fell to thu
lot OF man.
For this peer, the fifth MARQUIS of
Hertrord, when he succeeded to an il
lusJrlouS name and an historic title
found that these were his only hertz
age. Through Woman's caprice the
vast wealth and extensive estates
winch had in days gone by made the
marqulsate of HEREFORD the most mag
nificent in the history of English no.
bliity' had been separated from the
ute and had fallen into the hands Of
tRose TO whom they would never be
restored
The tale begins with the third Mar
quls OF Hartford, who was, under the
n
1lLackeray IN his great work of fiction
anity Fair" This peer had married
Marie Fagntani. an italian. whose ca
reer made her famous throughout Eu-
rope. First ballerina and afterWsrd
a British peerless, her dazzling beauty
eaptiyated all with whom she came in
contact
A face slightly over. a brilliant com
plexion, velvety black eyes and a
shght and lissome figure made her a
woman whose powers of fascination
Few men were able to resist.
Ihree fortunes were bequeathed tc,
her by three men, each of whom
canned TO be her father. The wicked
DUKE of Queensberry left her 50 O00
Oo0i the Marquis Fagnianf. whose
name she bore, left her a princelv
$500. 900.
Not the least romantic of the strange
episodes in the life of this remarIa he
woman was her detention in Paris
during the war between France and
England. She happened to be in the
French capital at the outbreak of hos
tl1ties- The eye of the little emperor
always keen when it came to a cues
ton OF beautiful women. had fallen
on ner many times during her stay
IN the gay city. Whether he had as
some say. fallen captive TO her charms
and desired the chance of a closer ac-
quaintance with their possessor. o.
Whether some one of those strange
freaks which have ever since been a
puzzle 10 historians and biOgrapbers
seized Napoleon is not chronicIed Rut
Whatever the cause may have been
ne detained Marie Fagnfani in the cifv
curing the war as a sort of hostage
At that time she was separated from,
her husband, Lord HEREFORD The
was a long one, and during
rs latter part she gave birth to a son
aIterward known as Richard Wallace
II was through this son and the vo-
man whom he married that the great