Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
RICH HUNGARIAN NOBLEMAN
RESCUED BY AMERICAN GIRL
Member of One of the Oldest Families in Europe While the Girl
is the Daughter Of Street Pedd1er.
While the Girl
ing in the administration of the ancestral

ing in the administration of the ancestral
estates.
r
1t was In the vicinity Of his fathers estate
OF Kesmetecetcsy. on the borders OF Tran
sylvania, that he met the heroine of this ro-
nance, Miss Irene Manson.
A greater contrast than that between
Count Sigismund Zendovsky and Miss Irene
Manson can hardly be conceived. Miss Nam
sons parents were Galician Jews. who emf
grated to America. Her father began life
as a street peddler at Lemberg. and her
mother was the daughter of a gravedigger.
Her parents settled in New York, and Miss
Manson was born in Hoboken. twenty-five
years ago. Her father never rose higher
than to be petty storekeeper. Irene, how
ever. was a pushing and ambitious girl and
neglected no opportunity of educating her
self for a higher sphere of activity. She
was the only child, and after her parents
death. two or three years ago, there were
no ties to bind her to America, so she came
over to Europe to earn her living as an
English governess.
After holding one position in Germany and
another in Austria, she came nearly a year
ago to act governess in the house of a
Hungarian gentleman named Zoltan Ma
kocsi, whose residence Is situated in the vi
cinity of the Zendovsky familys estate Of
kesmetecetcsy. Nakocsis belong to the
been on friendly terms with their neighbors,
the Zendovskys.
Count Sigismund Zendovsky met Miss
Manson for the first time on the occasion OF
a visit which he paid to the Nakocsl family
toward the end of last year. and she imme-
diately attracted his attention and interest.
Miss Manson is typical oriental beauty.
nit n orly Iaxfoy
black flashing eyes. jet black hair and a
full. rounded. imposing figure. The young
count fell in love with her at first sight and
soon contrived to convey to her an intima-
ton of his feelings. The penniless gov
erness was pleased and flattered by his at
tentions, and secret communication was
soon established between the two lovers.
Their clandestine communication and corr
responderce was continued for several
months before either family had the slight
est Idea of what was going on. The young
count sent his letters to the post Office OF
the nearest village. and Miss Manson util-
lied her free afternoons to fetch them.
Often the young lovers would arrange meet
ings in the dense and almost impenetrable
forests Of kesmetecetcsy. where they were
secure from observation and detection.
One day, however. they were seen to-
gether and the inevitable consequences en-
sued. Miss Manson was elected from her
situation. and Count Sigismund Zendovsky
Informed his father that he intended to
marry her, The effect Of this declaration
may be well imagined. Count Zendovsky,
ST. was enraged beyond measure and took
energetic measures to prevent his son from
committing what he considered to be q
colossal act OF folly If not crime. Miss
Manson took UP her quarters in a cottage
belonging to peasant in the neighborhood
who was heavily bribed by Count Sigis-
mund to admit his sweetheart as ledger.
Count Zendovsky, ST., first applied to the
police to expel Miss Manson from the coun-
try as an undesirable alien, and when he
was Informed that this could not be done
without legal grounds the old aristocrat in
stituted systematic inquiries with view
to finding out something discreditable about
the American girl. One day detectives in
vaded her lodgings in the cottage during
her absence and searched all her belong
ings to ascertain from her documents and
papers where she came from, with whom
She corresponded, and so forth. This was
grossly illegal act but the perpetrators