New-York tribune., 1907-11-18

- --o - very me, and there splendid
'4e"s 4rom the front OF the house and from the
tower above 1t. while the entire castle is protected
'oil4 tlie north wind by large wood of fir trees.
' 4N'H''uIe OF the principal bedroom belonged to
'iie famous Napoleonic Marshal Ney and the Kaiser
While at High cliffe will sleep in the bed that in
llines OF peace courted the slumbers of the 'brav
est of the brave" 1t was the favorIte residence
or Louisa Marchoness of Waterford who had in
herlteo II from her uncle and she in turn left it
TO her knsman Colonel f Stuart Wortley who
rented 1t for several years to Mr.. and Mrs George
Cavendish Beatnck. the latter a sister of Mrs
Ogden Mills, of New York
QUEER SEQUEL. TO CHARITY BAZAAR FIRE.
Unless tie efforts now being devoted at Paris TO
hush the matter up successful an extraordinary
afa1r suggestive of the wild Of the novels
Of Gaboriau rather than prokaic everyday life IN
this twentieth century, will shortly before the
Paris courts. Among those who were reported to
have perished in the flames of the Charity Bazaar
fire at Paris in May 1897 was the beautiful Comtesse
de +. Her charred remains recognized by
her husband, and were inferred with much pomp
and ceremony in the family tomb in the Pere
Lachaise Cemetery, where twice a year-on the
anniversary of the confiagration and All Saints
Day-the widower deposits magnificent floral trib-
utes. Her name likewise figures among those of
the victims of the catastrophe in building that
was erected on the site of the tragedy as a me-
mortal by the then Comtesse de Castellane, now
Nine Anna Gould.
If the case referred to at the opening OF this
paragraph comes to trial 1t will show that the
in question is still in the land the living
and that ever since her alleged death she has been
in receipt of a very handsome allowance from the
count. It would seem that at the time of the Char
ity Bazaar fire the husband had obtained induoi-
table proofs of his wfes faithlessness and had al
ready instructed his lawyer to institute proceedings
for divorce against her. She aware OF the
fact realized that her appearance at the Char
fly Bazaar destined to be the last great social
function at which she could figure before her until
then wholly untarnished name was enveoped IN
a scandal that would have gravely impaired. II 1t
did not actually ruin. her position in the world
in which she had been moving up till that time.
The fire and the recognition by her husband of
corpse among the victims as that of his wife en-
abled her to escape at any rate the scandal Win
which she threatened.
At what point Of the game the husband became
a party the deception I unable to say Per-
haps he knew It from the very outset. But at any
he, too perceived in it the means of protect
ing his name from scandal and his children from
ever being burdenod in after life with the knowl-
edge OF their mothers shame For several years
lived quietly the provinces, perfectly content
to remain in the background. But about year
ago she began to frequent the metropolis, seized
apparently with the Partisan nostalgia, was recog-
nized. blaclmaied. and became involved in legal
proceedings that necesstated her giving her
sumed name, which. according to French law, is
punishable forgery. In this manner the whole
tnlnS was brought 10 tne Cognzance OF tHe du-
thorities. and it remains to be whether the
affair will before the courts
OF course it would have added TO the complica-
tion and TO the romance If the pseudo widower
had married again. But this he has refrained from
doing, and, while he has in the eyes OF the French
law rendered himself technically guilty of an in
fraction thereof in signing official declarations TO
the effect that his wife dead and that he him
self was widower nothing but sympathy is felt
ior him by all who have any spark of chivalry in
their character.