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Show YOUTHFUL HOWANCB Of Adolph li'nnnrry Iteaallnt ty th. .Vaiua In III. HIIL TArti correepondenee New York Mll ind Htprts The great melodramatic author, D'Rnnery, whose many plays have made at many nations ihudder with their dramatic Intenilty, died some time ago at the age of 90 years. When he waa SO he made np hi mind that the time had come when he rniut put hie affaire, lu order. Ho Waa troubled not with the affalra nt tha present, but rather with tboee of the past, and In particular was his mjnd tortured hy the remembrance of a little I ictrtoa whom he had loved, not wisely, hut 100 nell, ality yean before at the Amhlgu theater. There had been a little child born of their Irregular 1 union, and when fame and fortune ere flrat smiling upon him he had left both, and Indeed forgotten them; dot atter silly yeara of eucceaee U'Mn-nery'a U'Mn-nery'a mind turned onee moro to the ! romance of hla youth He sent for his I lawyers, and had a Mil made. In which he left every sou of his coIomaI fortune lo hla sweetheart uf other days, now an I old omin much respected as Mme. t-crou. When Dllnnery's relations, after hla death, found that all his money had been bequeathed to strangers strang-ers they not unnaturally resented It, and now I) Knnery'e relations versus those of Mme. Lerrnix aro waging a legal battle In the Trench law courts that promises to last an long as a chancery chan-cery case In the English courts. |