~He is my ideal. I have left the
stage now and I am going to do ev
erything I can to be a good wife."
o o o
Earl Smiles Broadly.
The earl, who had remained silent,
smiled broadly and exclaimed:
“She is a wonderful girl. I’m so
glad we are married. You know, I
vowed to marry my wife when I
first met her in London, and when I
came to United States I was deter
mined not to go back until I had
won her.
“Will English society receive her?
Well, I'll eay they will. We will set
sail for London late In October or
the first of November. I have cabled
mother to have everything ready for
us. Mother is a dear, and she will be
so glad to see us.
“Jessica will be presented at court
at the first opportunity after our ar
rival. We will make a tour of our
country estates—four of them—and
will visit my haunted castle and—"
“Oh, Dav-i-d!" cried her ladyship,
“it isn’t really haunted, Is it?”
o o o
Real Haunted Caartle.
The Scotch laird placed a protect
ing hand about her shoulder and re
plied, rather ghostly:
"Yes. A long time ago a cardinal
was drawn and quartered for doing
something or other. His body was
divided between those slaying him,
and hi3 wooden leg fell to my ances
tors. The story is that on the anni
versary of the slaying the wooden
leg is heard walking up and down
the halls."
“Oh, oh!" his bride of a day shud
dered.
The Countess of Northesk was very
bitter toward Chicago newspapers
which pictured her as a rouged and
powdered Follies beauty.
