Show t t t c t t THE FASCINATING F TING WOMAN t WHO MADE AN EARL WORK WORKS t 4 Strange and Romantic Episode in the tIle History of or f Yar t t mouths Family Which Compelled the this Young Man t t 4 s to Go on the Stage to Make a Living LivinA New York World It came caine about through no fault of Ms kIs own that Lord Yarmouth lineal descendant de and chief heir of that great duke of or Somerset who was lord protector In the r ign of King Edward VI has hall lately been working In Amer ica ice at the profession that has been ien n perhaps more productive of hard bard lines than dollars Unlike many noble Britons Briton whom extravagance W or reckless vice drove from their na lIve tive tt land the Uie th Earl Ban of Yarmouth was forced to earn earls a living by misfortune pure pore and simple And ADd this misfortune dates from a romance remance as strange as it was sad This scion selen of one of England s old est eel and ami noblest t bouses bouses a house whose sons have from times Ume far in the past pa t been bean among the closest t in the great court to their sovereign has been forced to to taste the bitterness of pov pot poverty erty not through any aR fault tault of ot his own but bat because his ms grandfather one oj oC the die late queens most faithful and trusted tru ted servants was subjected to as 8 keen an injustice as ever fell feil to th lot of man manFor manFor For this peer the fifth Marquis of Hertford when hen he succeeded to an il II name and an historic hl title found that these were his only herit bent heritage age ace Through a womans caprice the vast wealth and extensive estates which had In days gone by made the marquisate of Hertford the most mo t mag in the history of oC English 1100 no had been separated from the title and had fallen into the hands of those to whom they would never be restored r The tale begins with the third Mar Marquis Marquis quis of Hertford who was under the name of Lord portrayed by Thackeray in his great work of fiction Fair Pair This peer eer had married Marie Marte an Italian whose ca e career rest reer made her famous throughout Eu Europe rope First a ballerina a and afterward a British peeress her dazzling beauty captivated all with whom wh m she came In contact A face tace slightly over oer a brilliant com corn velvety black eyes and a slight and lissome figure made her a woman whose powers of fascination few men were able to resist Three fortunes were bequeathed tg to her by three men man each of whom claimed to be her father tather The wicked Duke of left her w the Marquis whose name she bore left her a princely sum George Selwyn bequeathed bequeath r to her herf herNot I f Not the least romantic of the strange episodes In the life of this remarkable woman was her detention In Paris during the war between France and England She happened to be in the French capital at the outbreak of hos laos The eye of the little emperor always ke keen kean n when it came to toa a ques tion of ot beautiful women had fallen on her man many times during her stay In the gay city Whether he had as some say fallen captive to her charms and desired the chance of a closer ac with their possessor P or 01 Whether some S me one of those strange freaks Creaks which have ever since been a puzzle to historians and biographers I seized seised Napoleon Is not chronicled But whatever the cause may have been he detained Marie in the city during the war as a sort of hostage At that time she was separated from her liet husband Lord Hertford The t I separation ar a n was wa s a long oni and during ii IS latter part she gave birth to toa a son Rn erward known as Richard Bichard Wallace I It was tras through this son and the wo we man than whom he married that the great Hertford Hartford tates estates became separated from frem the title The third marquis of I Hertford did c d w not t acknowledge the pa of this son That son was waa en enI titled to call can himself Richard Seymour but through love of his mother he be did I not take this tb step to expose her frailty He lie chose the name of Richard Wallace Richard Wallace war wae passionately pa I fond of the beautiful woman who had nursed and reared him His two older brothers Lord Yarmouth who after afterward afterward afterward I ward became the fourth marquis of Hertford and Lord Henry Seymour I the founder of the Jockey club of Paris Parts I shared this devotion to their mother but it was the youngest t son who dem demonstrated demonstrated that love by his acts He remained with her until her death Af At After After Atten ter ten that he became the sole companion of the fourth marquis of Hertford Hartford And so it came to pass paM that this lat latter latter latten ter ten nobleman at his hia death left his en entire enI entire tire fortune to Richard Wallace Forty I millions of dollars In money and art treasures by this thi bequest left the house I of Hertford and went to Richard Wal Wallace Wallace Wallace lace gentleman a token of gratitude for his loving care and devotion to our dear mother read the instrument to which Lord Yarmouth now owes the fact of at his hi comparative poverty The title of ot marquis and a small en entailed entailed entailed tailed estate passed into the hands of ofa ofa ofa a distant cousin tn in Warwickshire That heir grandson of the second marquis t and grandfather of the present earl of Yarmouth entered his heritage with without without without out a contest Richard Wallace Vallace who might have bave claimed the estate and t title to do so 80 rather than in invite InVite vite vile legal proceedings and drag his him I mothers name and the circumstances I of his birth into court He was wa afterward knighted by the i queen and aad as a baronet displayed great generosity in the t bestowal of the wealth bequeathed to him by his hill broth brother brothen er en He married a beautiful woman But he married her some years after the birth of ot his eldest son eon George Wal WaS Wallace Wallace lace Years after the birth of that son Sir Richard Wallace died a bitter old tURn man soured by the Ute refusal of at the queen to admit his wife rn In the highest I circles of English society To that wife he left his entire fortune for he had quarreled q with the son whose whore birth hail had I kept his hi mother from court and left him without even the proverbial shill shilling shilling ing lag Years Teare after when the wife died she like her husband left the boy penni penniless lees less The art collection she bequeathed to the British nation making it a con condition condition that It should be named for her Her fortune she willed to Murray Murral Scott a man mau noted DOted throughout the thi kingdom for tor his handsome face tace He Hr I had been her husbands secretary and anc I after his death served her in the same sam S capacity Lady Wallace Wanace also al o stipulated that thai Murray Scott should have bae charge of at ol the transfer of the art collection to t the nation By shrewd tact in this at af affair fair fall and by liberal subscriptions to the thi conservative campaign fund Scott t managed mana ed id to obtain a baronetcy By these the e strange means fate has or ordained dalrie I that the mother and sisters of a Murray Scott shall shaH appear hi In the royal roya drawing room decked in the ancestral Jewels jewel of the marquis of or Hertford who has been obliged to keep closed his own country seat for tor lack Sack of ot means to keep it up And IId through this strange chain of o circumstances It has come to pass that tha while Murray Scott enjoys the riches richet i of or the marquisate of Hertford Hertt rd Lord Loni Yarmouth in a strange land is seek ing lug a livelihood en n the stage |