Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-30
BARNARD TO PEERESS;
HUSBAND IS SOLDIER
FOR OUR UNCLE sam
Once Obscure Girl Comes Into
Title and Riches Through
an Inheritance.

Pretty Annabel Angus, former bar
maid at a small hotel in a Door quar-
ter of London has Just become a peer
ess OF the British realm.
Romance clusters thickly about the
British peerage, but few, If n of its
houses, have a story that equals hat
of the rise of Annabel Angus to ariStO-
cratic distinction.
The Baron de Freyne. her noble hus-
band, will not be able to enjoy his good
fortune for some time, since he has
nearly another year to serve as private
in the Eighth United States infantry in
chap who will stick to his soldering
until the period of his enlistment is
ended.
Whether his wife, who has been liv-
ing at Rothes, u small Scotch village,
in recent years. while he has been serv-
ing in the army OF an alien nation. will
proceed to the great De Freyne estate
In County Roscommon, Ireland, and
take possession in his behalf, is not
known. 1t is highly probable though,
that she will elect to remain where she
is until h and he are reunited.
The De Freyne family is of french
origin though 1t settled in Roscommon
before the days of Cromwell. 1t has
held immense tracts of land in Ros-
common, Sligo and Mayo for genera
tions, though its patent of nobility is
much less h a century old.
The elder Baron de Freyne was one
OF the largest landholders in Ireland
and the new peer comes into possess
sion of 10000 fertile acres, to say moth
ing of vast holdings Of stocks and
bonds.
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 the bar
racks where he was stationed. h
hotel was the property of her father.
Lieutenant French made ardent love to
her n his father was scandalized a
few months later by his heirs marriage
to the barmaid.
1t was terrible social descent for
Lieutenant French and the row with
his family n h disapproval of his
friends in the army became so annoy
ing that he chucked up his commission
and disappeared. That vas early in
1904. For months the newspapers of
the world We're full of the strange case
of the missing heir and, for long, the
supposition vas that he had killed him.
self. Whether his bride really knew
where he was or not, is not known, blu
she appeared to be as ignorant of 1t as
anyone else.
In time, however, it became known
that he had gone to New York, where
he enlisted under an assumed name as
a private in the American army.
Shortly after 1t became known that
he was in the American army, his
father made him an allowance Of $500
a year, and he Immediately proved that
he was made of the right kind of stuff
by arranging with a lawyer in Aber-
deem. Scotland, to receive this allow
ance regularly and transfer it to his
wife. She has been living in luxury
undreamed of in her barmaid days on
this income, while he has been getting
along on his pay of $13 a month.
The new baron still retains the as
sumed name under which he first en-
listed in the army and, according to
letters he has written to his wife in
recent years. his own company ASSOC
ciates do not nov that he has a title.
There has eve been any estrange-
ment between the couple. The shock
to his class pride on being "cut" by
his friends and denounced by his father
was the sole reason for his going
away.
He declares that his experience in
the American army has been a great
thing for him, making a thorough man
Of him and giving him a democratic
view of life that would have been de-
MED to him but for his break with his
aristocratic connections.