The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-11
WON A COUNTESS IN THE PARK
Mss SMYTR WEBS THE WAN VINO
SAVED HER FROM RUNAWAY.
He's he CaScrta With n Title and she's
Philadelphia With None, Father
objects. but They're Married Capt
O'KeIIy Il. ~. Tells the Romance.


Count Jean Valerie Manuel de Caserta
quite low in mind was Smelling peanuts
IN Central Park for the greedy Squirrels
and discussing with Capt. Jim O'Kelly
Or n retiredl the peculiar humor of the
cunt his grandfather, in willing him an
estate in Bilboa which he might not enjoy
until he had son Of his own
Capt O'Kelly was busy with the spsrrows
and gloomy thoughts Of his own Neither
had an idea that Luck was hiding just
around the curve of the East Drive ready
10 shower fortune
There came to the ears Of the two. quite
suddenly, the drummi. OF hoofs some
where behind the trees far up the drive.
O'Kelly's ears caught woman's shrill call
for help.
The squirrels and sparrows scurried and
nuttered away IA black horse, bit in
teeth. foam fecked, Numbered around n
curve Of the drive at Tooth street The
bride rein was swinging over his head, the
saddle had slipped to his flank and a white
faced woman was hanging desperately to
the pommel sliding nearer and nearer
the ground with every unge the horse
made.
The Count took one side Of the roadway,
the Captain the other There was the
chance that one might jump and grip the
bride il the other failed. Then the black
was upon them in swirl of dust Tho
woman. they saw had tainted. O'Xelly
leaped for the bride rein. just gripped it
and hung on while the Count, with trick
the Foreign Legion teaches even better
than Wyoming vaulted to the back Of the
ii, h .ftt nd
got his muscular fingers around the horses
wndpipe choking it desperately until the
black stopped tagged out
Both men were sweeps for looks just then,
clothes in rags and ribbons, blood stream
ing from cut in O'kely's arm and the
Counts shoulder where the saddle had
torn il. While the Royal Navy man soothed
tho horse. the Count lifted the girl from
tho saddle and laid her on the grass She
came to in a few winks and the one thing
she did not say was, Where ain ~
She used her scant breath in beratng
az lady might a google eyed person in
o rubber coat who had footed "A hurrid
horn under the nose OF hcr horse. Then
she thanked the Count and the Captain
very prettily. telling then-the Count in
particular, the Captain says-that they
bad without doubt saved her life. az she
couldn't have kept her hold much longer.
Then she gave them her card from
which it appeared that she was Miss Kathe-
Sine Isabella Snyth OF 80 West Seventy
sixth street. Would the Count and the
Captain take tea with her? Indeed they
would. and over the ,Samovar they esti-
mated Miss Smyth's attractions with en-
thuEasmat least the Count did, the Cap
tain says.
She vas something more than IS. unde-
niably pretty and "a undeniably well bred
bhe was as frank and breezy as a wind from
the West and they found her charming the
Count grew poetic, the Captain lays.
The lols and short Of it was that the
Count fell in love with her and she with the
Count. The Captain was delighted and
grlmbed advice as was his way. The
Count proposed was accepted and Western
I MON message informed an old gentleman
In Philadelphia that his daughter was
about to become the Countess de Caserta
The old gentleman was Thomas Smyth, |
who had made his millions out Of coal mines /
He was long on horse sense and short on [
romance, the Captain puts it..
The message gave him tad quarter OF |
TO this city 10 interview the daughter and .
the Count He looked oyer De Caserta
hnG told Miss Smyth in Il positive sort Of
way that he didn't want any foreign
nobility in his family" He said he had
g1' along without a Count for sixty odd
years and he thought he could struggle along
a while longer
he aptain proved himself brick right
there. Ha knew many things about the
Count and he recited an Had Of South
Airca and Algeria 10 the old gentleman Of
Philadelphia maainS out the Count a man
oi honor and some exploits Of note. IL
Vas true that the Count was a bit hard up,
hat what OF that Should Riches balk at
Love when Romance leads on Old Mr..
>myih thought that was pretty but he was
~ IN his way. No And there was an
end 20 It. said he.
His daughter told him cody that he
cou!dnt help it. She had half million
81 her own that her mother had left her.
'he said, and II papa didn't want TO give
m Why he could go straight back to Phila-
lelphia That's just what papa did, omit
ing quite the parental blessing.
Ou Feb. ,. IN the afternoon, Miss Smyth
nd the Count de Caserta were married
" Or. Houghton at the Little Church
around tho Corner. Capt O'Kelly gave the
ride away and some friends OF the bride.
Jeanne Tracy Richards and W h. Richards
II the Hotel Bristol. were the witnesses
The very first hing Miss Smyth did then
'as hand the Count a check for $4,000,
20 ne would feel independent.
Just one week later they called for Europe
andiHg at Havre and going then to Paris
estcrday Capt oKely got French
o7'e de pos'c from the Count and Countess.
I made him chuckle over his cigarette
u coffee
Now isn't he the lucky young dog?'
aid O'Kelly. Where would he have been
be hadn' been Rrumblng to me and feed
ns NE squirrels in the park that day. Good
'"ow, gentleman all through. blood as
'Dod a. he King Of SPANS Yet for four
'an wears be Knocked around New York
ehins cigars pcddling life insurance
m'ns the Spaninrds and the French and
urnns an honest dollar wherever he could.
ID Oa>erta comes Of n line that is
ranch Of the House Of Bourbon. He {
Aa some rough service with the Foreign
= zion IN Algiers. where he got the nick {
'Sine CO diable Csseua' INN he went {
'Apior1ng in South Africa and got 70 know z
nor about the Transvaal than Dom Paul
" found likely spot going cheap, =