Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-18

ried the eccentric Marquis dc Talleyrand-
Perigord, later the Due de Dino. When the
marquis ceased 70 receive his enormous al
lowance he neglected her for other women
He came to this country, visited New York
Newport and other places. Al Newport he
met Mrs. Richard Stevens OF New York.
He returned to France az the end Of the
summer and informed his wife that he in
tended TO divorce her. In the meantime
Mrs. Stevens made a similar announcement
TO her husband
The Marquis de TaIleyrand refused TO
consent TO the loss OF her dearly bought
title, whereupon the elder Talleyrand gave
his son his title Of Due de Dino. Mrs.
Stevens and the duke were married. They
lived together for some years. more or less
unhappily, and then the duchess secured
divorce. "Incompatibility" was the cause
given In the court decree, but It generally
was understood that this word covered a
multitude OF sins.
The story Of Helen Morton. daughter OF
the former vice president, Levi p Morton,
reveals a tragic msalliance. Helen Nor
ton was a fine type OF the accomplished
American heiress and an ornament to any
society. Brought up in the most refined
manner, and with literary attachments she
married the dissolute Due de Valencay,
fascinated by the glamour OF his title. They
married in grand state in 1901. She suffertd
for several years from the crueltes, neg
lect and indignities OF her husband. and,
although she saved his family from abso-
lutte ruin and his family property from the
brokers, she afterwards discovered that
not ony had her dowery been forfeited 10
the sordid family OF her husband, but that
she had no right TO wear the soiled and
mud-bespattered title OF Duchess de Val
encay, and that her right was clear only
to the title Of countess.
There Are Others.
A dozen or more years ago there came
a dissolute scion Of q decayed French no.
bility across the waters TO the United
States, fortune-huntinR. This fellow car
ried as his only asset and passport to the
favor Of some wealthy American girl-to
any American girl who had the desired
ducats and would listen to him-a title.
vain and vague and gay. He was intro
duced as Count Boni de Castellane. This
title gave him entrance TO the select circle
in which moved the daughters of the late
Jay Gould and finally to the Gould man
sion on the Hudson. The man who had
amassed the Gould millions, the father and
bard-headed. old Jay Gould, was dead; his
youngest daughter, Anna, was charming
rich and twenty, the owner by right of in
heritance Of an estate in cash and equities
amounting to $H,OOO,OOO.
Here indeed was a plum worth the pick.
ing. Count Bonn did not conceal or at
tempt to conceal the motive of his matri-
monial quest 1t suited his purpose, In
connection with Il. to make love ardently
to the heiress. His success was advertised
in one of the most brilliant weddings ever
staged in New York. Anna Gould became
Countess de Castellane, paying out OF
hand, 1t is said, for the title &2OOO,O0O TO the
fortune-hunter's mother in France and S.
100000 to the successful angler himself
The details of this shameful bargain and
sale were known to all the world, yet
when Anna Gould, Countess de Castellane
sailed away from her native land it was as
a reputable woman whose sale OF herself
to a fortune-hunter and a libertine was
legal and honorable.
Now. after a series Of years in which
her fortune has been squandered upon
debts and vices unnamable, comes Anna
Gould, Countess de Castellane, into court
asking release from the chains she so will