The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-24
Strange STORY
OF Two MEN
Who Loved Woman Who Was
Burned in Bazaar Fire.
CHANGE IN THE HUSBAND
Who Discovered Love Letters
and Started to Kill His Friend.

New York. August 23-The New York
World prints the following:
The recent suicide of Count Pierre
dHauterive at the death-bed Of Henry
Iangham has caused a remarkable sensa-
ton in Paris Il marks the end of q
strange and tragic romance Of an incom-
prehensible companionship which had up
lifted the Two men since the woman
whom they both loved, and who was
d'Hauterives wife, persisted in the Char
ity Bazaar fire in 1897.
Everybody IN Paris has long known of
the affair in a general way, but there
Is only one man besides the two chief
actors in possession of the details. That
man is the Marquis Jean de Louversac,
a alf-brother of Count d'Hauterive.
From the Marquis The World cores
pondent today obtained the Information
and, in consideration Of the fact that
slI parties concerned are now in the
grave. a reluctant permission to pub
Iish It.
Anita Fellows was a Boston girl. When
she hrst came here with her aunt she
was one Of those pretty American maids
well of and well bred-whose vitality
rejuvenates the spirit of our permanent
Paris colony. Her father had made lots
of money IN wholesale business OF other
and, that being accomplished. departed TO
q world where there Is supposed to be
no possible use for either banknotes or
coin.
Miss Fellows disported herself in Eu-
rope among fashionable people. passing
through the usual routine of teas, lunch
cons, operas, studio receptions; spend
ing a month at Trouville and a month at
Lucerne In summer and the season. from
Christmas to the beginning Of April, on
the Riviera.
Two years Of that and she was twenty.
Very soon after this she married Pierre
d'Hauterive a French count. who. for
once has as many times as much money
as his American bride Therefore, on
his side at least, we may feel very GER
tain it was purely a love match.
On hers. too, probably. Why not? To
be sure the Count was twice her own
age; but a sturdy hunter still, a favorite
at the clubs and approved of by even
the most cynical duennas of society; in
short, a gentleman of culture and posi-
ton.
The honeymoon safely over without dis
appointment on the one side or other,
there followed a period of content In
d'Rauterive's aristocratic world his wife
had been received and petted for his
sake at first: for her own charm after
ward
1t was a year after this contentment
that Henry Langham appeared upon the
pretty Countess horizon.
lie was handsome. young and wealthy
son of Virginia, and graduate OF
great university-wh last does imply
something after all. as regards the talk
and manners Of a fellow. and the impress
sion he makes. People on this side took
20 Langham at once. He was a manly
jolly. ahd apparently harmless. Nobody,
not even himself, could have suspected
that he was going to create sentimental
disturbance in the heart Of any married
woman. So we may be reasonably sure
that what happened occurred in spite
OF himself.
However that may be. nobody ir the
colony remembers observing the usual
progress OF an intrigue. All that is
known is thst Henry Langham was In
troduced to Anita. Countess d'Hautcrive.
at bagatelle, after a game of polo where
in he and his pony had done so well.
Sometimes little brllisncy of that sort
but we'll just tell the tale.
Langham became a frequent visitor at
the d 'Hauterives Even more than the
wife the husband liked him. The Comte
and Langham went on hunting tour
In Norway. The following winter the
together in the mixed doubles in the ten
mis- championship at Monte Carlo.
II may be inferred that by that time
Anita had noticed that Langham's hair
was not pepper ard salt though she
was wont to boast that the tinge OF gray
in her husbands hair was very becoming
and distingue.
The Charity Bazarr fire killed no more
people than many a mine accident: per-
haps not so many by far as die OF want
every day in the ignored novels of our |
cities. But It was a very spectacular |
catastrophe this pretty crowd caught sud |
denly I'm huge. hendish furnace made Of |
its lace and dnery.
Moreover the victims were all OF that /
class who were usually exempt from ths /
dangers OF LIES warfare They were /
the flower % French aristocracy. Alto /
gether. The thing was exceedingly effective |
on the popular mind
The sky was blue and the summer 4
breeze caressing under the trees OF the /
Champs Eiysees. Henry Langham. in his 4
smartest frock. was walking Ieisurely 70 4
the Bazaar TO buy the requisite number /
OF fans and honbonneires at exorbitant /
prices from the women he knew. The /
acrid odor Of smoke and the distracting 1
gongs of tearing engines yoke him from
his day dreams.
Where is the fire."
"C'est e Bazarr &c IA Charlie Out brul,.
answered the passer-by.
Lord And Anita was in there,
Yes. she was-in charge OF a flower
stan
Langham ran TO the Rue Jean Goujon.
and when the masses Of people prevented
further approach. he inquired:
Has any one been killed or injured?"
why. man. there are three hundred
men and women IN there who can't set
cut. Don't YOU hear them2'
The crowd was not damned tightly
enough then 10 hold him back. and the
policemen OF the Gordon took him Tor
sne Of those who had 8 mother, wife