The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-12
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Young Somerset was not 70 be rebuHed.
however. He went ahead-he and Par
is. The mother also objected, but in the
end Somerset won, and they slipped
over TO London ard were quietly mar
ried. Just why London was chosen
when Paris is as good a place as any for
that romantic lLinO of wedding does not
appear without suspicion as to the in
tent of Somerset.
They slipped off to Switzerland for a
time and there Somerset unburdened
himself Of his secret. He was an en-
gineer wen enough, but he also was a
son of Lady Henry Somerset and man
of prospective title and great wealth. He
had desired to WOO a woman who would
know nothing of h s position, he ex-
plained-again the romantic color of his
line. He was a kind of Prince Jenmco,
desiring a woman whose love would
have him for himself
Whether this caused a coldness or
whether there was some darker secret
does not appear. Miss Hunter is silent,
but there is more than a hint Of such
thing in what has come after At any
rate. there was a quarrel and cOOlneSs
On the honeymoon trip.
Meanwhile a card from the girl
mother had arrived in Kansas City with
the mere announcement to the father,
Craig Hunter, q broker and real estate
man, that his daughter had become the
wife Of Lord Charles Henry Somerset.
There was CONSERVATION. Craig Hunter
is a plain American in every. sense. He
hated the English alliance, and didn't
mind saying so. He saw no advantage
n a marriage to a lord. A letter from
Mrs. Hunter with more particulars of
The affair failed TO mOllify him greatly.
Instead Il aroused suspicious, and these
were strengthened when he could find
no trace OF any Lord Charles Henry
Somerset He Immediately concluded
that his wife and daughter had been
humbugged into a marriage with a bO-
gus nOblemans yet he was not all con-
WINGED. for he is not rich man. What
was the idea?
New Field Opens to the Gossips.
There was GREATNESS gossip and spec
ulatiOn for ten days. Then the UneX-
pected happened Mrs. Hunter and
Mrs. Somerset had landed in New York
and we're on their way home. The con-
sternatAon caused by the announcement
Of the marriage was nothing compared
10 the new one.
couple OF days later the women ar
rived in Kansas City and denied them
selves TO friends and fnterviewers at
home. Through the father the announce
ment was made that Somerset had been
summoned home by his mother, Lady
Henry Somerset, who was angry and de-
nanded an accounting from the young
man. Young Somerset had explained to
his Wife-sO Craig Hunter gave it out
that his mother controlled absolutely his
fortunes. and that unless he was able
to make peace at home he would be
p5nniless. For that reason he had sent
his wife to her parents until such time
as he might be able to mollify his moth
er and make arrangements for her re-
CeptiOn at home.
That unsatisfactory explanation was
al that ever was given out. A friend of
the family, however, let slip a remark
about an English law. Tins remark
was enlarged upon until the town had it
that an old English law made the mar
riage illegal without the consent Of the
mother as head Of the house, and that
the girl had been cruelty duped and
then sent be OK to America. They even
went so far as to explain the trip to
London for the marriage under this
heading, saying that Somerset had done
the thing to take advantage OF the Eng
fish law, of which he was well aware.
Rumors Suffer the Usual Fate.
To all this the Hunters and Mrs. SOM
erset said nothing. They neither af-
frmed nor deIied it, despite the sedu-
lous attempts Of a dozen newspapers to
get under the cuticle of the mystery.
The usual crop Of rumOrs sprang up and
vanished as the months bore on, and
none was ever either confirmed or de-
MED.
Lately. however, the family found out
more about Somerset than had been
known at first. At least that is the sup
position.
Somerset was born in 1874. and is thus
81 years old. In 1896, when ne was %
he married Lady Katharine de We're
Beauclerk. a young English woman OF
great beauty and excellent family
That She did not die the Hunters now
feel certain. Whether or not they were
divorced the Hunters do not appear t
know. Somerset was a soldier in South
Africa: he had hunted i'm the Rockies
and has knocked about the earth q
greaY deal since his first marriage.
Gossip Immediately grasped the ides
Of Sohqersets first wife, and worked
g. il for AL II was worth. In this they
firmly believed they had the key to the
'disagreement on the honeymoon.
I'm the whist of il Mrs. Somerset was
aiken III and removed to a hospital. At.