The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
WANTS MARK TWAIN
 TO EXPLAIN TO HER
Mrs. Ashcroft HurrieS Back From Her Honeymoon Abroad to Find Out About $4,OOO Suit.
FORMERLY WAS HIS SECRETARY
She Thinks the Attachment on the Hum. 0rist's Gift HenSe is the Work of
 His Daughter.

Mrs. Ralph Ashcroft, who until her
 marriage few weeks ago. was Miss I. N. Lyon, secretary to Mark Twain arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Carmania to learn why MT. Clemens had obtained an attachment of S4,OOO against the house in Bedding, he gave her when she got married.
 She is a demure-looking woman, but was wroth when she landed, for she had to leave her husband and cut short their honeymoon to return to America. She lays the blame for it all on Miss Clemens, daughter of the humOrist, whose artistic temperament, she said, often led her in the wrong direction.
 Mrs. Ashcroft was met at the pier by her mother, and after a day in New York she will beard Mark Twain in his country home, Stormfield. to learn the true inwardness of the at tachment and seek an adjustment of the matter.
 Two weeks ago in London I was notified that MT. Clemens had sworn out an attachment against the house he gave me-" said Mrs. Ashcroft. 'I came home as soon as possibly could, leaving my husband behind. I can- not think that MT. Clemens is respon- sible for what has happened. He and I were the best of friends, and he has II.
 For seven years I was closely as- sociated with him. I relieved him of every care could. and' he gave me the house, and later lent me the mon- ey with which tosfurnish it. This mon7 ey, both understood, was to be paid back when could do SO. Knowing him as I do, cannot believe that he attached the property.
 believe the whole trouble is caus- ed by his daughter. Miss Clemens is of the artistic temperament, but in this afrair believe that she has been wrongly advised into taking a step She would never have taken had she the right understanding of the case"
 Mrs. Ashcroft said she intended to take steps at once to adjust the mat ter. She thinks that the whole trou- ble must be due to some mistake. She said that no request had been made the money. Indeed. she said, that several times she had refused sug- gestions from him that she consider the cost of fixing up and furnishing the house as a gift from him.
 eff Miss Clemens knows all about the case. and I notice that she says she is fully informed as to her fathers anairs, she must know that every step in the restoration of the house was done not only with her fathers knowledge but with his approval" continued Mrs. Ashcroft She does not exhibit surprising knowledge of af- fairs when she presented her case, for in spite of what lis said to the con- trary, every cent that was expended for renovation I incurred a liability to pay.
 MT. Clemens has notes amounting to nearly $1.00O, which were signed by my husband when the first rough es- timate was made of the cost of fitting up the place. MT. Clemens made a written agreement with MT. Ashcroft to accept his notes for the balance of the indebtedness outstanding upon the completion of repairs.
 ''The whole case will be settled, but the shame of it is that I should have been placed in an improper and false light"
 MT. Ashcroft was formerly financial secretary to MT. Clemens. It is said that both left the humorist's service because of differences with Miss Glenn ems.