Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28

didate was Bosom de Talieyrand. afterward
called the DUO de yalencay. He 10 the
young man who subsequently, married MISS
Morton. and whom she subsequently d.
vorced. AS this latter marriage took place
years and years after Boni's, and as the
divorce came or years before Boni's. his
wear as possible husband for an Arneri-
can girl was obviously less than Bonts.
Nothing of all this could have been fore
seen in the early days. Bosom de Taliey-
rand came to be Miss Anna Goulds or
flciai sutton In Paris: and when the girl re-
turned to New York. It was known that he
would shortly follow her.
Here blonde boy got In bis work-with
no help but that Of his Irish tailor Boni
was very young, without q dollar. and not
considered In the marriage movement The
year previously this same tailor had made
dimcuities to accord him three summer
suits on credit.
Nov the taiior,s confidence grew sudden
". Innocentiy and enthusiastically the
blonde boy had told him Of a sudden chance
for fortune that enticed him. AZ Boson's
poor cousin. no ono had paid attention to
him; but he knew that he had made far
stronger impression ON the American
heiress than any one dreamed Of Had he
clothes and money to rush after her. IL
would not take him long to cut out his
cousin, Bosom. or any one else.
As the tailor was an Irfshman, you may
believe without erring far that 1t was the
contagious romance OF the thing that APP
pealed to him. rather than the speculation.
hacker. SO It Is said He furnished him
with a magnificent wardrobe and a good
supply of ready cash. And when Boni later
cabled him from New York for more. he
went out into the London street and ber-
rowed Ell 900 to send him.
When the young Comte de Casteilane
finally returned to London with his bride
and his millions, he was so grateful that
he paid the Irish tailor an account of 500
pounds. At the same time he ordered 1.40o
pounds worth of ciothes-and the bill ran
on During the succeeding five years the
conffding Irisnman continued dressing BDni,
accepted small accounts, and humbly
thanked the young aristocrat for recon-
mending his Paris branch. This waJ the
only benefit he got from Boni-his aid in
building up Paris business but how many
years of its profits are to be swallowed up
in the final writing off of Boni's account
only the victim knows. During the past
five years their relations have been con-
fined to pleading by the tailor and lodging
took him to New York to win his bride was
never fully repaid.
The Oxford Tutor.
1t Is therefore, scarcely more than poetic
Justice that he who betrayed the Irishman
should be finally betrayed-by an English
man. The story of the Oxford tutor is
bound to loom UP big in the final divorce
proceedings
oiiCfiy, dHd NttltOul ScdluSti, Tie yVoitS
countess decided to divorce. Her first step
being wisely to consult wel-known inter-
national lawyer settled in Paris, he told her
they must first get evidence.
Now evidence-the legal kinds hard to
get Thus Ii soon came to pass that ma
dame shortly found 1t time that her two
boys begin to study Latin
That is to say, they needed tutor-a
young Oxford graduate by preference-to
walk and talk and read with them and in
still Latin, mathematics and Elton slang
and social manners into them.
Count Boni said all right; and when a
heavy young English swell took up resi-
dence In the pink palace Count Boni found
it diverting to play billiards with him.
AS time passed the Oxford tutor became
quite a favorite The two little boys de-
lighted in him. The ladies flirted with him.
And Count Boni came to so enjoy his con-
versation that the Latin and the matlle-
mates suffered. AS for madame, the young
Englishman so amused her and made
himself useful. that she had to pull her
self up every now and then to realize his
true-and secret-raison d'etre!
The Oxford tutor was not what he SEEM
ed. Count Boni took him out and showed
him good. time; he put 1t all down in a
certain note book. Count Boni took him to
one of his garconneres: and he smouched
bundle of letters from the drawer of a
writing tablet
All the documentary evidence that the
Comtesse de Castellane's lawyers hold
against Boni, 1t is declared, was obtained
through the Investigations of the tutor.
VINO was their man from the start.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS