The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

tile fingers round your slow-beating
heart, they say. and before you know II
you're young again-and in love. 1t
may be only the angel-eyed newsie on
the corner you're in love with. Or it
may be a duke.
Miss Elizabeth Frances Hanan loved
the duke. She wasn't quite old enough
TO be his mother. But what wonderful.
eternal, poetical. beautiful, Italian court
he paid her-may the love god reward
him! Even after they left Venice he
paid that court. At first her brother
thought it only a coincidence that the
Duca Durazzo appeared wherever they
went. Then he asked for her hand in
marriage.
Miss Hanan admitted her love. But
the brother who had made several mil
lions making shoes had every intention
Of seeing that proceedings were regular.
Therefore he made a thorough investiga-
ton of His Grace's character, which
proved most satisfactory-in Italy. His
right to the title was unQuestioned; his
family had q distinguished history; and
though he was possessed OF only a small
income. Hanan marked him o. k. and
passed him on to sister. The wedding
followed q few months later.
There are those who say that honey
moon couples should trip round alone.
They say that bridesmaids and brothers
in-law bobbing up across the breakfast
table and on the hotel veranda make for
shattered nerves and Quarrels.
Maybe it's true. Anyway II the Duke
and Duchess had been unaccompanied,
she'd never have known-perhaps-
about the row that mussed up her do
mestic peace and security. OF course,
she knew that her husband was in the
habit of taking solitary and nocturnal
jaunts about Monte Carlo. But it was
brother John who was hailed to the
police station, presto, after His Grace
had mixed in a street-corner free-for-all
and been nabbed for hghting.
John produced the price Of the fine.
But the booking cop tore at the ends OF
his moustache. and seemed disinclined
TO raise the bars. And finally the giddy
tale came out. The scion Of the ancient
and honorable Italian family, direct de-
scendant Of royalty and bluest-blooded
of an aristocratic land was just a dub
swindIer. without imagination enough to
promulsate an entertaining promoting
scheme by way OF liquidating his ornert-
ness. He got his fingers round $500 be-
longing to E. Polecheid Cornet, pro-
prietor of the Hotel Richmond, Paris,
where His Grace had worked three years
before, and he kept his fingers fast
closed and beat it. In France, where
they do things that way, he was tried
in his absence on an embezzlement
charge and sentenced to serve three
years Imprisonment should he ever be
caught The Captain at Monte Carlo
had caught him.
Brother-in-law arranged with the
Paris police to take the prisoner away
in a nice, gentlemanly manner on the
luxurious apartment Of a fast train.
The Duke had paid back the $500
with money secured from Hanan Just
after the wedding The French court
reduced his term from three years to
six months and suspended sentence.
Hanan and his wife agreed that the
Duchess wouldn't mind the thing so
much II she didn't know about it. There
fore they didn't mention it in the family
circle.
She found It out, however. And then
there was a wild scene when she de-
nounced His Grace and all his relatives,
possessions and appurtenances, and said
she was through When the Hanans
sailed for .hore on July IL she was with
them, She went into retirement upon
her arrival in Waterford, Conn.
Tho Duke, however, showed United
States nersistency. The Duchess hardly