The Washington times., 1921-11-20

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twenty or thirty cooks, kitchen girls,
chambermstds, buffers, pantrymen and
others to help ont In the new house.
Young Lord Northampton is not only
remarkable as the lord of splendid Tudor
mansions and many acres, but he has had
an interesting sentimental record. He has,
indeed, been involved In at least two en-
gagements before his marriage, and has
had trouble in getting out Of them. The
circumstances will perhaps give his bride
as much concern as the difficulty Of keep
ing up his vast palaces under present con
ditions.
In 1918, when the Marquis was just
twenty-seven years old, he was the de-
PENDANT in the most sensational breach OF
promise case ever brought. Daisy Mark
ham, a pretty little English actress Of Eo.
great rank in her profession, brought suit
against him for breaking his pyomise to
marry her and obtained q settlement for
the enormous sum Of $250.000, the largest
sum ever given for such an affair.
good many English noblemen had been
sued by actresses for breach of promise,
but the largest sum obtained by any Of
them was 100000.
The Marquis had not shadow Of de
actress TO be his bride on paper and in
impassioned words. His letters revealed
a fervidly sentimental nature that natural
ly caused alarm to his family, and may
continue to do so.
When he met and wooed the fair Daisy
he was Earl Compton, heir to his father.
the Marquis Of Northampton. When the
actress brought the suit his father was
dead and he had inherited the title and
vast estates. II was only the orders or
his dying father that drove him to break
OF his engagement. The old Marquis was
an extremely dignihed pious nobleman,
and the idea Of his oldest son marrying
an actress Mortified him unspeakably.
At the time she captivated the young
nobleman she was playing the part of
Suzanne in "The Glad Eye" Many critics
thought that the play was admirably suited
to her. She had been married once before
to a money lenders clerk named Moss.
During the lawsuit she produced an ex-
ceedingly favorable impression on the jury
by her modest, clinging demeanor and the
touching little notes she had written to
the Marquis like this one:
81 want you for yourself alone and not
for your titles or estates. l could be
happy with you in a cottage"
The Marquis's style Of love-making can
be judged from this letter, In which he
broke with her, for he kept his love to the
end:
Castle Ashby, Northampton.
my Dearest Daisy:
'T must Just write you a line, as am
so wretchedIy miserable. want to assure
you that am trying to do the right thing,
and though you win perhaps find It diff
cult now ! am going to ask you to believe
have always and do at the present mo-
ment love and respect you more than any
one In this world, and that you are abso-
lutely my ideal Of perfect womanhood.
But, Daisy, the ways of the world are
hard. and want you to believe that what
l am now doing am doing from a sense
OF duty, genuinely believing 1t to be best
for both Of us. Darling, have known It
all along. I have tried to smother my
reason, to sti1e my thoughts. for your
sake; but when my father talked to me on
Friday he only faced me with the same
thoughts that told you Of when first
been trying to suppress.
Daisy, you don't know how those sor
called ladies would treat you, and really
could not bear to see you suffering It. Ans
with your sweet sensitive nature II would
~ tnrfurn Ia Won . Oh. II only 4 could