The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-22
BARNARD TO PEERLESS;
HUSBAND IS SOLDIER
FOR OUR UNCLE SAM
Once Obscure Girl Comes Into
Title and Riches Through
an Inheritance.

Pretty AnnRbel Angus, former bar
maid at q small hotel In b poor quar-
ter Of London has just become q peer
ess of the British realm.
Romance clusters thickly about the
British peerage, but few, IL any OF its
houses, have q story that EQUALS that
OF the rise Of Annabel Angus TO aristo-
cratic distinction.
The Baron de Freyne, her noble hus-
band, viii not be able to enjoy his good
fortune for some time. since he has
nearly another year to serve as private
In the Efeftfh United States infantry In
the Philtbpthes. end he IL the sprt of
chap wiz WIN sick to. his s~ohdiering
until the period Of his enlistment -
ended. lI~. " s ...- .aI, ~. .
Whether his wife, who has been liv-
ing at Rothes. q small Scotch village,
In recent years. while he has been serv-
ing In the army OF an allen nation, will
proceed to the great De Freyne estate
In County Roscommon. Ireland, and
take possession In his behalf. Ia not
known. II 10 highly probable though,
Is until she and he are reunited.
The De Freyne family is OF French
origin though 1t settled In Roscomrnon
before the days OF Cromwell II has
held Immense tracts Of land in Ros-
common. Sligo and Mayo for genera
lions. though its patent of nobility In
much less than q century old.
The elder Baron de Freyne was one
Of the largest l~andholders In Ireland
n the new peer comes into possess
sion Of 10000 fertile acres, to say moth
ing of vast holdings Of stocks and
bonds. 5GM" ~ s,trn
1t was in 1902 that the Hon. Arthur
Reginald French, "a years old. and
lieutenant In the British army became
fascinated with the pretty girl who
served him with drinks at the little
hotel saloon he visited near tho bar
racks where he was stationed. The
hotel was the property Of her father.
Lieutenant French made ardent love to
her and his father was scandalized a
few months later by his heirs marriage
60 the barnaid. hf ra
It was terrible social descent for
Lieutenant French and the row with
his family and the disapproval Of his
friends In the RIM became 30 annoy
ing that he chucked up his commission
and disappeared. That was early In
1904. For months. the newspapers or
the world were fun of the strange case
of the missing heir and, for long, the
superstition was that he had killed him.
self. Whether his bride really Knew
where he was or not, is not known, but
she appeared to be as ignorant OF 1t as
anyone else L ....nH@ 4 &a
In Clnle, however, IL became KNOWN
that he had gone to New York, where
he enlisted under an assumed name as
a private I'm the American army.
Shortly after II became known that
he was in the American army. his
father made him an allowance Of $500
q year, and he immediately proved that
he was made of the right kind of stuff
by arranging with o lawyer In Aber-
deem. Scotland, to receive this allow
ance regularly and transfer 1t to his
wife she has been living IN luxury
undreamed OF In her barmad days on
this income, while he has been getting
elong on his pay OF $18 q menfh.
The new baron still retains the as
surned name under which he FIRST en-
listed in the army and, according 30
letters he has written 20 his wife in
recent years. his own company aSR0-
ciates do not know that he has q title.
There has newer been any estrange-
ment between the couple. The shock
to his class pride on being by
his friends and denounced by his father
was the sole reason for his going
away. .... L.'E
He declares that his experience IN
the American army has been q great
thing for him, making q thorough man
of him and giving him q democratic
view OF life that would have been de-
MED 10 him but for his break with his
a~ristocratic connections.