The Washington herald., 1911-02-26

New York. Feb S.-Heart interest of
the kind that finds its acme in fervent
love letters and the struggle between two
women for the love of the same man will
be az Par Monday in the second weeks
session of the $4,000 breach-of promise
trial which Miss Anna Bertha Grunspan
has brought against William English
Walling, the rich young socialist author. i
Miss Grunspan, a woman of twenty
three, the brunette beauty which Wall
ing is said TO have admirede so much
during his student days in the French
capital, laid bare her life story in the
past week in telling the jury how her
mad love- for the American settlement
worker led her to leave home, friends,
and all that was most dear to her to cling
10 the man who spurned her affection. =. !
Sobs Out Her Tale.
The pretty, simpIe-hearted girl, who
claims to have trusted walIing with her
future happiness, sobbed out her tale of
Il broken heart with many tears of re-
I.Cntence. Her dark, lustrous eyes wan
dcred about the Supreme Court room,
occasionally piercing the gaze of WaIling
as she sought to learn how her words
tuated by animated shrugs of the should
crs and much wringfng of her hands, as
if she was in physical and mental pain.
Walling and Anna StrursEy, the woman
whom he married after his alleged ro-
nance with Miss Grunspan. presented
picture of Unconcerned interest in the
proceedings. They sat almost directly
m front of the plaintiff and appeared
both amused and bored when her pathetic
love messages to her socialist lover were
read in court.
WaIIfnE's Letters Guarded.
WaIling's letters to Miss Grunspan are
phiIosophic reflection. They are the pro-
duct of a man trained to think care
fully of what be puts in black and white
There is little that can be read between
the lines. The letters of the young girl.
who declares he travelled with her as
her husband and allowed himself to be
introduced to all her friends as her
fance, are written from the heart with
out reserve. Every line throbs with the |
affection she felt for the man she now
sues.
Mrs. Walling, who prefers to be called |
Anne StrunslSy. appears to find the trial |
tiresome. During the first day |
she was in court she found many things |
to joke about with her husband. Their |
faces were wreathed in smiles most of !
the time. But as the trial progressed, she 4
lost interest in the passionate appeals |
that Miss Grunspan penned to Walling in |
Russia. Some of them were sent after |
Miss Strunsky had become the wife of |
the defendant.
Mrs. WaIIinE Up on Topic.
Mrs. Wauing has had her own love ex-
periences and written many prose pas
sages about the sentiments which ac-
feelings of love between man
and woman. In collaboration with Jack
London. the novelist. she composed the
X kempton-Wace letters. The volume bears
on its title page this quotation from
Dante: And Of naught else than love
would we discourse
1t is always more important to love
than to be loved" Miss StrunsBy made
Dane Kempton write Il wish. it had !
been vouchsafed me to be by when your
spirit OF a sudden grew willing to be-
stow itself without question or let or
hope of return, when the self broke up
and you grew fain to beat out your
strength in praise and service for thI
woman who was soaring high in the blue
" aSteS
Men love as intensely and with as
much abandon as women. PEOPLE love |
in proportion to the depths of their na-
tures and the finest man in the world
has an infinite capacity for giving and |
love store"
Defines VampIrism.
Concerning the man who takes love
from more than one woman, Miss
had this to say: 1T was vam-
prism and sin to take all from this
woman and to return her favor with so
much less than all, as surely as cow I
ardice and selfishness are SINS
Miss Grunsapn. in her love epistIes to
Walling. did not have much to say of
the tender passion in the abstract She
rited daily instances in her own life TO
show him that there was no one in the
world who could take the place she had
given him in her heart
Once she was tempted by a "comrade"-i
= physicisn-who met her in Paris and I
'ecame cnamored Of her pretty face and L
gurc. Il ran across him accidentally" I;
she wrote Walling, and he tried to makei
love TO me
" Monsieur. | told him. I am the
" ife now four months OF a man who is
4 great traveller. My husband is now in
Russia and l am true to him. Then you
say you want only to call on me at my
home. If that be so 1 live at giving
4 false address)-good-hye'
Then she wrote in another letter:
No affection satisfied my heart, which
YOU have captured so entirely. Even fam
lly life bores mes. 1t will be with
sigh of relief and with cries of Joy that
will greet the dawn of the day that
Uill make the end of your long Journey.
kiss you as much as I love you"
Miss Grunspan looked for some loving
response from Walling. He was in Rus
$40, so interested in revolutions that her
frantic love appeals seemed to make no
impression on him. He wrote her:
Girl Breaks Into Tears.
And I have the most important busi-
ness of my life. America does not un-
derstand the revolution. and 1 and my
friends can do much to enlighten them.
And what learn will help me all my
life in America. Tomorrow q tell il to
you) l shall write in English. You will
men get a better idea of my manner of 3
thought, which is not so rough as my
french, which is not rough at an
Miss Grunspan, at the conclusion of
ner cross-examination on Friday, broke
INTO tears when he mother approacher
her.
II don't understand it ALL" she cried
put. How can a man sit there as Mr..
Walling does and never stir a feature
when he knows / tell the things that
treak my heart? How can he be SO
cruel? Why does his lawyer ask me
about men whom 1 do not know and
whose names I never heard before2,'
Miss GFrunspan was educated in a