Evening star., 1923-05-05
Deposed Sultan's Removal to Haifa
May Portend New Political Upset

off by his mother 10 South Africa last
fall in order To save him from his
projected marriage to the fascinating
Mrs. Trewartha Surle, English-born.
but the widow of a Montana man.
! There is no doubt that an engage
/ mcnt existed between the widow and
the youngster. But the latter insisted
/ that he merely became engaged to
her by way of a joke and that he
never had any intention of making
her his wife-the more SO. as II is
only a rich marriage that can restore
rthe shattered fortunes of his house,
and the Montana widow has no money
TO speak of.
1t may be recalled that the earl
ned more or less sureptitiously to
South Africa in order to escape his
charmer. woman considerably older
| than himself. after she announced
everywhere that she would follow him
to the end of the world and wed him
to spite the opposition of his mother
and family. The latter took the most
extraordinary precautions to prevent
the widow from boarding the ship,
and actually seated herself at the
, foot OF the gangway until just be-
lore IL was WITHDRAWN 10 act as q
sentinel.
The widow thereupon publicly an
nounced that She would frustratc all
/, opposition of the earl's relatives and
| would take means of boarding the
ship at MADEIRA, travelling overland
to Lisbon.
But she managed TO miss the connec-
! tons at Lisbon. and failed to reach
MADEIRA In time. Returning to London,
! she found that Lady Dupplin and her
sister-both OF them quite determined
women-had sailed for the Cape OF
| Good Hope in order TO rejoin the earl
| and to protect him there, as they had
| successfully managed to do In Eng
! land. A few weeks later, she, too,
sailed for South Africa. She did not,
| however. meet with her fugitive
where. with his mother, he crossed the
street to avoid her, and where soma
sort of a financial settlement was
! reached through the Intervention of
| lawyers and friends. At any rate
| Lord kinnoull has arrived in London
| free from every matrimonial entan-
| clement. with his mother and aunt
i The widow had already arrived some
! weeks back. and there Is no further
question of any marriage between
| them.
Lord kinnoull will now take his seat
| in the house Of lords. where he will
have his place, not among the earls
since his earldom is a Scotch one, but
among the barons by virtue of his
! English barony of Hay.
He has just come into what re-
mains of the extensive landed es.
[ tates of his grandfather, the late and
twelfth earl, who sold the greater
part of his landed property in Scot.
land, including Dupplin Castle, his
! ancestral home in Perthshire, to LORD
Forteviot. formerly known as Sil
| John Dewar. head of the great Scotch
! whisky distilling firm that bears his
F.; name. who paid $1,500,000 for the
| property.
/ AS Dupplin Castle formed part OF
| the entailed estates, the young
; earls mother. as her sons guardian
would not give her consent to the
/ breaking Of the entail, or to the sale
| of the property, until half of the pur.
| chase money-that is to say, in the
neighborhood of $s00.OOO-had beer
\ put in trust for her be-.
| A number of years have elapsed
| since then. during which this sum
has gone on increasing by means OF
compound interest. SO that the young
earl, while not over-rich, neverthe:
/ less finds himself today at tho heaG
| of a tidy little fortune, thanks to his
| watchful mothers diligent care OF
| his interests. He still retains large
country place in Scotland-namely
| Balhousie Castle in Perthshire, sit.
uated very picturesquely on an emf.
| nance overiOokinR the river EarnA