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Show TO WED A FRENCH NOBLEMAN. Mi. Gertie Diets, of Bharoa Divorce Cu. Notoriety, In a Maw Roto, San Francis( o, Oct. 38. News comes from Parts of the engagement to a French nobleman of Mrs. Gertie Diet, who played a conspicuous role in the notorious Sharon divorce suit. ; Gertie about ten yean ago was a handsome school teacher. She waa engaged to marry a young fellow named Morris Brandt, but one day as she mas coming out of the Occidental hotel the met gallant gal-lant old Senator Sharon, arrayed in a full mashing costume. It was a case of King Cnphetua and the maid. It was not long before the engagement between be-tween Gertie and Morris llrandt waa broken. The Diets romance lasted for two years, until there was a sensational suit for divorce brought by Sarah A'thea. It Involved a certain marriage contract. Now a colioctiou might be made of such papers a this, If anybody cared, and Gertie Dictz, It seems,was a collector. She did not appear as a witness, wit-ness, but she suddenly bloomed out in tine raiment and then went to Europe. She turned up in Paris a Mr Drayton, theru'h widow from California, with a little child whoso paternity was doubtful. doubt-ful. She hired a fine house on the Avenue del Opera. She became a great favnr-ite favnr-ite in the American colony as well as among Frenchmen, for she still preserved pre-served the golden beauty that ensnared Sharon. Life went very well then and the grand stand at Lnogchamp't was a flower garden in which the "lovely Drayton" was a rose. It was during the exhibition year of 'Htt that a San Francisco lady happened to be in Paris, and waa introduced to Mrs. Draytou, the "rich widow from California." Now this lady has received a letter written on orested paper, announcing a wedding wed-ding to occur, and that Doucot and La Ferrier are making the trousseau. The groom Is a French count, the brother of the Marquis du Bourges. |