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I GEEV To SEut THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, ‘Finding a Job for Bont 8& FA! ZE BOoriFUL PAINTIAK/ MYSELF ZE PAIN AH! MADAME. you Buy tid! AM Ue Rais rogress: Authentic. History an the he Most Glitter- ing of Titled Spendthrifts of a Great American Fortune. | Facts in the Family History of the Young Count| CT, His Prodigal Youth, His Extrava-| gance, His Follies and His Pitiful Weak-| nesses, as Revealed in Many Legal Docu. . ments and in the Testimony of Members of| His Own Family in the High Courts of France and of New York City. } CHAPTER II. in New York. Hoe hired a third floor back room, over a Gressmaker's shop. The Powder Puff Count, |at No, 2 East Th nehman trotted | brepared to stay of a.French|of the money adv New-York by should be gone, at tho last gasp of his venture, *aran Bteyons. nd 1 eald to have 1 est daughter. The Count had never stot Paria) met the young lady, though he was already on friendly terms with her mle ter-in-law, Mrs, George Gould. He thought the {dea worth a tefal and ed his campaign by giving @ din- ner.io which the Goulds were invited. Plays Hio Last Card, ” Now, Bont, by this time, had scarcely price of ono squars meal left. to But a mere detail like this did * dampen hia_ardor, He went,to Cart Perhaps creased he had mado . ham | man for them port Set nrended in Paris, Mra to give a banquet which should be the first step toward his en- rement to Gould and asked Ber- er to take chances on payment. The caterer nocepted the proposition, and the dinner was given. In tendering this banquet Bont was playing hia last desperate card. Bhould [tt fail (and there seemed no strong that {: would succeed) he je worsé off than before, Failure’ against his whole Bur 6 guerdting tos! inherited from the worthy Marquis de Casiellane, nis father. stood him In pOMsOr SOT) Good stead. Ho made his final throw 2 st Fute—and won. and had « Paran Stevene, in the « him clothes, which ready 3 of nortness of A Newport Career. went 5} probe. Raoul Duval timo, wre about Posder Put ci {cll At his feet. Nie was in a xed; once to Harry and again to Will third time, Count Harriman, aad a 2 Bont'a cousin, -Pork ow del Bats Count washer exact oppoaite in looks and disposition, iiite beauty, grace—and—chatin— OF 0obe { Yereation “quite eaptivated th baghful {girl The ed. 19 others, dont {9 sald to have ‘cabled his irieh bac | reporting progress and neking: $5,000 “to goon with, In less than a month it belong Pot arrans Hontooutd + shone oat if was doubt Paar Pan BRR “T Me him, “3e is one of the most A wemmantsweaatens Grcorutive ttle men I ever met,” Mra, | ACh. fy MMs), tue engagement a ch Waa Ron{to say. But nobedy i "There can bene doubt tt waa a love so far aa the unfortunate little bride waa concerned. Her wealth waa estimated nt $15,000,000. The-ardent Count Boni lost no time tn Inquiring Into marriage settlements, He Js anid to have Hee Le honk t-comprom!sed-on-#5.t.o0 He shook oft the “dust of tha third floor beck (Pot over the drammakere on the we earnent wna announced and moved nificent suite at the Waldo Astor, tie glad newa of the Hetrothai was cabled to the noble Mtar- quis, his father, who, with the Mar- quise and Jean, hastened scross to at- tend tho wedding, From Penury to Fortune. For the engagement was unusually brief. In twenty-four dayw after ite an. Rouricement the marrage waa cele: brited. wa eb omoues ort ment ount'e tastes, 20 oor Mopreaeed by broke’ out afreeh Not onl: Bon move his quarters, but bought of @ f1tth re yade loweller many thousand dollars Worth of dismonds ‘and. made aim{lar then made bids for the-pipchase AL -particular form of decoration. Counts, even princes; were no novel In Newport. Shoals of destitute noble- men—hnd-—come--te—Americn—and—had: clainored ardently the —hand—ane dowry—of some rick American with But only in comparatively few tnatances had their quest been successtul, ' New- port was not the happy hunting ground Bont had pictured ts. He was at the end of his resources, Walesa fate unexpectedly favored him, Monsieur Powder Putt would econ de forced to retum home to faco a ifotime of ependthrift tastes and pauper tn- 4) bonte, Creatfalion, he left Newport and took @ Western trip. Not In search of the ‘bts Kamo" of tho Rockies, but in ,be- hylf of tho brand of champagne he had His wedding outfit been hired to boom. But this savored | ‘Mat tobweousty, elaborate, His career too much of real work for a nobleman, talks Fane of Pathe) had at begun In earn ‘and, a few months later, he was back “Suuyone mitten es arp pared bus, qup faintly, realleing OSettind of man. with he had to deal, did not turn over To this Neiater ‘ner whole. fortune. ‘ atoad he fnveoted 1"in euch a way ‘ghe fede only draw {ts interest of Ce to the In- that Prove It! There's nothing natural about a World Situation Wanted Ad ::: although it does secure $0, - ehD this looked princely roftt- ate little Frenchman, who had fo to pcrape alone tance, Besides, there re alwes thought, giner countless | Goota mitione to. fall bac | 60 the newly wed Serity Thatied tor ; Paris, Tho era of insane oxtrayagance i ‘Degun. nee (To Be Continued.) ——$ super- i Steamer in Distress Off Holyhead. HOLYHDBAD, Walew, Nov. i ALDERMAN SLURS [¥O.ESS,405 allotted to him for 1907 .—A largo! FIRE CHAPLAINS Davies Objects to Increasing Their Number to Eight at Lantry’s Request. When Fire Commi try appeared bet he wanted olght fire ch: & year, Chairman: Jo! that comeittes, ‘critictaed the Incroaso. Commissioner Lantry explained that. ohaplains were needed, that the firemen wanted them, that they were always to ings found doing good work in burning, butldings, that they never hesitated to enter burning butldings, that the fre- men when hurt needed spiritual conso- lation @nd that the chapiaina earned thelr pay, Chairman Davies replied: “Tt looks to me l!ke making Joba for wome people. Don't thene prieata and mintsters go to the fires in their nelgh- borhocd anyway!” at $1,000 Ro Davies, of — Tre na-Aribtthey-fo,"" replied Com: | fy minsfoner Lantry, “But these chapiains and the London smoke; WOMEN’S TWO-CLASR KID GLOVES, Piquet Sewing, farls point em- broldery, nal thenew shades, for made specially for thls event, and gold, beautiiu leading shades, value $5.00, for faney mull; prices from. at $35 00 to.$40.CO, for. WEST 125TH ST. EXCEPTIONAL 16. 20 i} «Black only, RIDING HABITS of dull Oxford and BLACK CHEVIOT SUITS, medium . din Great variety, Sonn Daniel\ WOMEN'S COATS of Jonea position é steamer in distrese La been sighted oft this port. vette to by a '\As.If By Magic! Teahate Venkht be a total loss, Deen. re 12 Button Lengths, vaiue $3.00, for., 46-Futton Lengths, value $3.50, forse eyee 2 SERN ESD Axi NOVEMBER: 21ST. 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