San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-11


though her age was not far from
that of his own attractive mother.
The chorus girls dancing in the
third rank of the chorus of a must
cal comedy company at Ports
mouth had caught the young Wis
counts fancy, and he could not
live without her. In the flight he
was accompanied by a rather dis
sipated Young brother officer, and
the pair of them Travelled on BIZ
cycles.
also heard that another of his
pranks was TO sit in his bedroom ut
the Craven family mansion, at 8
Chesterfield Gardens, London. and
shoot out the public electric lights
with a shotgun. As he sat in the
darkness under cover, the police
were for long time unable to find
who was doing the damage.
Lord Uffington's cxtravagances
had been so great that his family
would only give him a limited al
lOwancc, and not a penny more
when that was spent. This was
why it happened that when he ar
rived in Birmingham and found his
charmer he was almost pennileSS.
He and his brother officer were
obliged to sleep out at night in a
public park in order to exc out
their few remaining pennies for
food and an occasional drink.
Lord Uffington's financial con-
ditiOn, of course, was not one to
please a chorus girl. She expected
something more than the unre-
munerative pleasure of meeting a
viscOunt and chatting with him.
Her appetite for chicken patties
and champagne was keen, and she
let him know it.
Lord Ellington was desperate,
and he felt that he must do some
thing to show his devotion. He
dropped into a drug store and
asked for a penny tablet of sample
soap, which they were selling as
an advertisement. While the drug
gist's back was turned, | heard it
said, the ViscOunt somehow came
into possession of large bottle of
strong perfume, which he slipped
into his ample khaki pocket.
He presented the bottle of per-
fume to the chorus girl, who was
greatly touched by this mark of
devotion. When her company took
her away to Liverpool the Viscount
followed her on his bicycle. There
he was met by his noble fathers
agent, who had been despatched
on a clue to run him down.
A few minutes after this meet
ing he was placed under arrest and
escorted back to the barracks and
placed in confinement. A court of
inquiry was once more summoned
to sit upon him, In consequence
of their verdict 'he was shipped to
Bermuda, where it was thought he
would have less opportunity for
sipation. But even on the steam
ship going from New York to Ber-
muda he made himself conspicuous
by climbing up the smokc->tack
and doing other things that an
nOyed the captain.
This brings my narrative down
to his meeting with Mary William
ina George, the beautiful young
daughter of William George. the
Town Clerk of Invergordon, in
Scotland. That is a matter into
which ! shall go more fully in an
other place, for it has a very inn
pOrtant bearing on my own life.
The war had then broken out
and young Lord Ellington was then
training with his old regiment, the
hampshireS. The marriage was
as everybody knows, an elOpement
and must have been a considerable
shock to his parents, the ariSto
cratic Earl of Craven and the
wealthy American Countess OF
Craven.
But almost Immediately he was
sent away to the war, where he lost
a leg and was also shot in the arm
1t was during the first exciting
years following the war that | met
young Lord Ellington, as have
already told, and it was within sio
months of that time he became
Earl of Craven, through the sud
den and mysterious death of hi.
father.
Nobody has even been able t.
throw any light on the mystery Of