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Show 5 m, If' F m f ft T - i t n Adams and Mrs. Grade was eivker the boiling point, or had simmered down temporarily, or a about to blow the top off the steam gauge. One of the mysterious reports, which at How a Charming Chilean's Guitar Twansed the Chilly Widow Into Matrimony, and WHEN Why Her Family Spats and Squabbles Pointed the Path to a Surprise Ending Senor Humberto di Urbina, ixzlinsly "Stashing and tropical, took np hit post beneath Ui window of stately Mrs; Archibald Gracie and warbled Chilean love-sonInto her ear, she sighed and the world at large said: "Hal Another romance!" Bat behind the outer facts of the infatuation for that the '"400" matron and the South American cavalier loved each other no sane person doubted lay still more of which the public was ignorant: secrets fascinating;, intricate, intriguing and closely guarded. Later, let us survey these revelations, fresh from their hiding place, and see what a light they cast on the power of a Santiago guitar to wqo the soul of an impeccably correct and very society leader. But for the present let us content ourselves with a bnef resume of the two sweethearts' characters, backgrounds, temperaments and emotional blue-blood- had a distinct detective story odor to it, was that young Mrs. Adams had left a will deeding her whole estate back to her mother. Search was begun. Goodness knows how many planked floors wera ripped open, or how often the wainscoting was tapped, or secret panels sleuthed after. But It was all futile. The will, if will it was, stubbornly refused to rear its head. The mate of bickering did not in the least alter Mrs. Grades very Grade-of the nastanding with the tional capital. The halo of her husband's prestige hovered mystically over her patrician head. And then, too. she was such a charming person so cosmopso warmly magolitanso well-reanetic, despite her high social veneer I Everyone liked her Immensely, This "went" particularly for the t. g resi- owner, a lady, of the ? dence in which Mrs. Gracie found her--i self comfortably installed while her hostess sped West on pleasure bent And then, at a very exclusive social function, Humberto wat formally I I presented to her. He lost no time in giving his trusty guitar an oil ma. 1 sage, buying a brand new plectrum. and hastening around, one moon- -i I bright night, to do his stuff beneath the "eW' widow's window, which, while far from being flung wide open, J was at least enougn ajar to permit the melting Chilean strains to pen- 4 trate the room. 'Si You think it sounds too romantic to arry the ring of truth? Then let an acquaintance of Mrs. Gracie take up the narrative in her own spontaneous ana colorful way: . "Bnhrto earns, each night, like a thaiowy figure of fairyland. Be would stand, silhouetted againtt the moon, and then out of the dark garde would mound the tinkle and twang of hit guitar, played iai If mat. by a matter hand. "Tht next morning he vat sky Profile Portrait of the cavalier, and never lingered after he had Former Mr. Archiended his terenodethe would receive bald Gracie, Who fragrant beret filled with rare and curious Second Romance Bouth American blostomt, Then by r, Began with a Rota-Huwould come delicate trinhett warand Cottage ranted to touch the sympathy of any Graduated Into a normal woman. Love-Nea- t. Gorgeoua "Be treated her Wee eerftaota orta. A blue-bloo- ds y';. d rose-hun- Sc J capacities. Drama could demand no stronger and mora pleasing contrast than that between patrician Mrs. Gracie and flame-lippe- d Humberto. She, the widow coal-eye- N Excarpt from the 1925 New York Social RegUter, with the. Chilean Sheik'a - ; . met-tengt- ng Bride StiU Secretively Entered Under Her Firt ' cettr Mar- The incandescent ardor of the Latin blooded visitor grew by leaps and lurches. Mystery veils the precis spot where the lovers-to-b- e actually next encountered on another. But meet they did and then the crudest blow from fate nearly Mrs. Gracie out of the picture. ried Name: Mr. Archi bald Gracie. . solar-plexus- ed and. oK, How he could twang a mean string when he got into one of his troubadouring moods' The destined steps leading up to of Mrs. Gracie and the love-maHumberto were complexly interesting. And, as nsual in such cases, they were largely contingent on one gimple. little word t "if." IF Mrs. Gracie hadn't moved to friend the national capital, and IF acharm-roselad hadn't presented her with a cottage as a temporary while said friend was sojwelling-plac- e journing in California, inand IF Senor Washington, Humberto hadn't been with a hungry eye on the post of Chilean minister, and IF he tiadn't also doted on bungalows, why then, it is unlikely that all which did happen would ve happened. Being from a foreign country, Humberto probably had not heard the widely-know- n accounts of those events in Mrs. Grade's past life which make her so rehe markably pictorial a figure. Had husheard, for example, that her deadWashband had been a descendant of the ington family, or that the Gracie mansion, at the foot f East Eighty-sixt- h Street, New York City, was, in other days, the scene of lavish and spe'ta " lar entertainments! -. aristocratic sOf lineage. Colonel Gracie was, like most regular army men, . none too opulently endowed ' with the goods of the world. But, on! how me: society 4 rose-cover- the widow, who receive heads, the Colonel succeeded in intriguof it, and E'iith Gracie, who ing the attention of various vegted interests toward waterfront development in got the remaining Hoboken and on Staten Island. This would have worked out Business boomed; the original Grscie nicely, had not Mrs, Gracie's own holdings increased, tnd before long the money vanished in the collapse of a millon dollars wf initial turn-ovurr Interests, in found to be doubling and trebling itself. where she had madeWashington, her kome And then, just when good Juck was smilsince the Colonel died. A severely punctured purse, ing on the distinguished Colonel, camu the- - Titanic disaster. Gracie was ac of her acquaintances aver. credited m the, annals of that Another of Senora di Urbina Photo tPleating with having Taken Jut Bfor Her Recent Wedding. displayed incredible bravery twin?. Brrf and gallantry. But exposure and nard work weakened him fatally. He died from the oric-thir- d two-third- er "i super-acciden- after-effect- s. All this complicated and harassed and saddened the hitherto pleasant life of Mrs. . Uracie considerably. 1 he lor-mConstance Shack now w er confronted, not only a but dissension within her own charmed family circle. Her only livingdaughter, Edith, m a r rf e d Dunbar Adams, grandson of the man who, amassing a colossal gum, used to be referred to as "the Croesus." The jChewing-Gu' was solemnized in, uX5,te.'0T!i about the treasures coin 1917 in A year cealed behind the walla of later 'theWashington. new Mrs. Adams . the Gracie home. Chief of the trophies was died, precipitating in still Mrs. wound a dinner service, the various another which had been per- - Gracie's heart and incidentof pieces Duabar Aama Rick of the New Senora ' eonaiiy inscribes By gucn ally starting a long and labdi Urbina, Wboae Bickering with Her Have yrinthine series of disagree" as, Lincoln, Lay famous men ments between the bereft Suddenly Ceaaed Here Pictnred m fayette and King Edward. mother and her wealthy son- . Uniform at a Masquerade. out or such rarities com- , narafival-tItftle vac Irnnwn of the famous Colonel Gracie, of regular till Colonel Gracie suddenly acquired a - The Interlocking status of army fame, who nerfihed aa a result, of inuuon aoiiars and oeian to olav host the distinguished matron ami m 4 tk. .lit. the Titanic dliarter he. an arknowleWo-.:a .u. young Mr. Adams wag as follows : Colonel ,Gracie had ' n han-bl- e his social affiliations Throughwith e fancy-fre(till te glimpsed Graoei financiers, bank presidents and railroad died intestate. Accordingly his fortune was split between CorrtiM. IK-i-, to lilwiHua Peddinr Mrs. Gracie. Sailor'' in-ia- m y In a magnificent hotel suite, a gift from one of her dearest women friends, the new Mrs. Humberto and her groom settled down. Bits of annoying ill luck trailed them, but didnt take the edge off '' the honeymoon. For one thing,' the newg of the ceremony leaked out. Then Humberto lost his chance at the ministry, Senor Alexandre hotfooting it up from Chile to assume the post. Next di Urbina developed a shocking neuritis, which naturally prevented him from working. But the guitar (O ) Smm still held its old potency, and its twanging tinkle filled the love-ne- st with melody and The Dashing Humbert Ai y.rapture. Could the most exacting demand a Nightly Serenades Woa Him Mm. Gracie V for a , love artery T prettier wind-u- p riaad and Heart. There's only one added fact to mase it ', For they do say teat,' wa the result, with thenaturaf outcome more felicitous. 'since Senora Humbert came suddenly that Dunbar Adams and hi mother-in-la' saw the dove of peace flutter off without into a phimp little annuity from Dunbar Adams, she and Humberto need no longer moulting" a single leather for them to share with eachr other. Peepers and subsist on "bread and cheese and kisses," but can now have a fling with burgundy Pryer folkarho love a bit of snooping and grouser-a- ll because of the Senora a for its own take, went rushing around benevolent with the tale that the diaharmonv y '' " Son-in-La- w -- - .. " . Humberto was called back to Chile, maybe on personal business, maybe in connection with that post of minlstrr on which the Humbertiaa eye had been avidly fixed. Amid probable tears and possible sobs, the youthful wooer went sadly back to South America. The effect on agitated Mrs. Gracie wat arallin- -. She felt his absence like a tbjrn iu her wrist developed a bad ease of "nerves" acquired a torturing in somnia was "all in" for the time being. What saved her front worse things was the seemingly miraculous reappearance on the scene of Humberto I ' Ssid the still prospective new Chilean minister: "Will yoa marry me?" Replied the "400" widow: "Yes." The wedding, though held in Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, wa a dead secret. Even those persona who suspected that Cupid bad gotten in soma Gracie's heart and heavy work with Mrs. Sodal Regwho scanned the brand-neGracie still enrolled as ister found Mrs. ' V ill: ' . ..f. fen ' Bwrtca, laa.. - Dntt Itoiuia, BKka ' . h. wn-in-lat- rl ' |