The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-07-10
ARU|NED ROMANCE
Genevieve Wards Story Of Her
Wedding Tragedy.
PARTED AT THE CHURCH DOOR

e After Dramatic Ceremony FeIlovviv
Complication That Became an 1,
transitional Affair and Was Ended /
Our Government and the cxar.
S In Mrs. Tweedie's Thirteen Fear
E of Busy Woman's Life are som
! stories VI Gsneyievs Ward. the II mou
, actress.
, One morning In March. 1908. came
knock ON Mrs. Twesdis's door. ana II
, walked Miss Ward
''Out for my constitutional. my dear,
she exclaimed. 80 ! thought I wouit
just look you up. have walked siI
miles this morning. and after Z Httis
rest and chat with you shall walk an
other mile home and enjoy my lunch.
con all the better for IT,"
you are q marvel!' exclaimed our
anthof. Seven miles and over seventy.
] saw your 'yolumnia was great sue.
cess the other day when you played IL
with Benson
Yes she said. ''and the next day !
started for Rome. got telegram say
ing one OF three old cousins. with whom
! was staying in Rome few weeks
previously. had died suddenly. 80 four
hours after receiving the message | set
out"
Were you very tired?'
mo. not at all | knitted nearly all
the way and talked to my fellow pas
sengers and when | arrived. Instead OF
business. for these two old sisters. one
OF whom is blind. were absolutely pros
trated with grief and had done nothing
while awaiting my arrival. | stayed
fortnight with them. settled them up
and arrived back n few days ago"
Here Is the pathetic story of Miss
Wards marriage tragedy as she told II
to Mrs Tweedie:
~ was travelling with my mother and
brother on the Riviera In 1855 when
we met a Russian. CONT de Guerbel
lie was very tall. very handsome. very
fascinating. very rich and twenty-eiGht. |
was seventeen. He fell in love with |
ried at the consulate at Nice. which | |
was But the Russian law required |
hat the marriage should be repeated |
n the Russian church TO make the
ceremony binding; otherwise was his
egal wife. bur be was not my legal
husband.
lit was arranged. therefore, that |
hould 20 To Paris with my mother.
he count going on in advance to ar
ange everything. and we would be re-
married there in the Greek church.
When we arrived in Paris IL was Lent.
when no marriage can take place in
he Greek church. and SO time passed
u
He must have been a thoroughly
nd man. hec;inse he did his best at ,
Int time to persuade me to run away
'ith him. always reminding me that |
as his legal wife The whole thing Y
as merely trick of this handsome.
lsrinating rascal He promised me b
mt II | would go TO him he would
he me TO Russia at once. and there
e should be remarked according TO =
e rules of the Greek church. Being +
frightened by his persist.
zee, | told my mother At the same /
I'd debts reached her ears. and she
rote To a cousin OF ours. then Ameri :,
n minister In st. Petersburg. for con-
OF these reports p
My cousin replied. Come at once.
q went, |. of course. under my name "
Countess de Guerbel. which | had
turally assumed from the day of our
siding at Nice. and we stayed at the
lbaSSy In st. Petersburg. The d
mrs brother was charming to me.
; told W. my husband was u villain :,
d had better leave him alone. That
= impossible, however. WAS mar F,
d Ia him. but he was not married to
}. and such II state of affairs could Fl
remain.
IL became an international matter. ~,
1 II was arranged by the American
fernment and the cZar that we
'nld be officially married at War Fl
y, The count refused TO come. The
U iiltTeluIt Seut sedieu OTueTS IOT XII
appearance. Wearing a black dress sir
feeling apprehensive and misera- a
sad. ! went to the church. and at -
altar rails. supported by my father FC
mother and the counts brother.
! my husband -
Il was horrible crisis. for | knew FL
father was armed with loaded
Diver. and II De Guerbel refused to an
; me the last legal right. which was dal
ally already mine. its contents ne
lid put an end to the adventurer's No
There we stood. husband and
e. showing the service was a mere
II. but the marriage was lawfully FO
rted He bad completed his part
he bargain. and we had learned his -
liny AT the door OF the church we
ed. and | never saw him again"
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His Instrument.
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