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Show YOUTHFUL ROMANCB Of Adolph D'Ennery Recalled by th Nam In BU Will. Paris correspondence New York Mai ind Express: The great melodramatic author, D'Ennery, whose many plays have made as many nations shudder with their dramatic intensity, died ..ome time ago at the age of 90 yeari. When he was 80 he made up his mind that the time had come when he mum put his affairs in order. He was troubled not with the affairs of the present, but rather with those of the past, and in particular was his mind tortured by the remembrance of a little Kctress whom he had loved, not wisely, but too well, sixty years before at the Ambigu theater. There had been a little child born of their irregular union, and when fame and fortune were first smiling upon him he had left both, and Indeed forgotten them; but after sixty years of successes D'En-nery's D'En-nery's mind turned once more to the romance of his youth. He sent for his lawyers, and had a will made, In which he left every sou of his colossal fortune to his sweetheart of other days, now an old woman much respected as Mme. Leroux. When D'Ennery's relations, after his death, found that all his money had been bequeathed to strangers strang-ers they not unnaturally resented it, and now D'Ennery's relations versus those of Mme. Leroux are waging a legal battle In the French law courts that promises to last as long as a chancery chan-cery case in the English courts, i |