The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-11

and the preparations were hurriedly pushed forward.
 ! After her apparent submission the baroness was not supervised so closely, and she found means to communicate with Zigora again, her infatuation hav- ing been only increased by all that she had gone through on account of her love for him.
 Flight, however, was impossible, and So the wedding day arrived and the marriage ceremony was gone through in the presence of distinguished compa- ny At noon the service was over, the wedding breakfast had been eaten and the bride and bridegroom were on their way to spend the honeymoon at quiet spot not far from Munich, where they arrived early in the afternoon.
 few hours later the countess of half F. days standing fled from her hus- bands house and took the train back to Munich. Here she went straight to Zi gora's apartment, told him that she had ruin away from her husband, and invi- ted him to take her over the frontier into Austria.
 Zigora, seeing that she had over three thousand dollars with her, and scenting chances of blackmail and hush-money from the husband or rela- tives of the bride, readily consented, and early the next morning the guilty pair left Munich for Budapest. which was Zigora's birthplace.
 Count Stettinhausen informed his wifes parents of the facts, and neither he nor they ever attempted to ascertain what had become of her. She was dead for them: and month or two later Count Stettinhausen obtained divorce from her on the formal ground of deser- tion,
 As long as the countess money lasted Zigora and she lived together in Buda- pest and spent it recklessly. They oc- cupied magnificent apartments at one of the finest hotels, and enjoyed the best of everything. Zigora, too, ran through large sums in playing games of cards, which he did not in, the least under stand, and engaging in speculations of which he was utterly ignorant.
 The result was that in two months time there was not a penny left, and the couple were forced to leave their rooms at the fashionable hotel. They took room in one of the cheapest parts of the city.
 The countess fully expected that Zi- gora, who could easily earn one hundred dollars week in his profession, would at least provide for her maintenance. She was, however. soon enlightened as to the futility of this hope. Zigora was already tired of her, and the moment her money was gone she ceased to have any value for him.
 The day after they Removed from the hotel to the humble lodgings he accept ed touring engagement and deserted her She was utterly destitute, being unable even to pay the rent of the room for two days, so that she was obliged to leave her personal belongings in pawn with the landlady.
 Now began terrible struggle to earn the barest necessities of life, in the course of which the highly-born noble woman learned to know the seamiest sides of civilization in @ great city,
 FiFst, she obtained employment as 8 domestic servant in poor tradesnan's house, but, being wholly incapable of doing the work required of her, she was speedily dismissed. After long search es, during which she suffered the worst bangs of hunger and rarely had shelter over her head at night, the countess was given a job as builders laborer, in which capacity she had to mix mortar and to carry 1t up steep ladder to the part of the scaffolding where it was re- quired by the bricklayers For this, too, she was incompetent, and again she was thrown out of her hard-found em- ployment.
 After these reverses she became a street beggar, and this proved more profitable than honest work, for she ob- tained enough to enable her to eat and drink and hire lodging for herself.
 Not quite seven months after her mar riage to Count Stettinhausen, her baby and Zigora's was born, and the coun- tess found it necessary to enter the public hospital during this period. The child died few hours after birth, and the unfortunate mother was soon dis charged from the hospital to make room for others of her kind. She resumed her activity as street beggar, and was to be seen day by day, in the early part