HEIRESS IN A HOVEL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 15 April 1908, Page 2

HEIRESS IN A HOVEL.

A young and accomplished girl heiress to a fortune of £17.000 persists in living in a hovel in Cardiff, in spite of the pleadings and remonstrances of her relatives. The anxiety she is caiising them is, she says, an "appropriate vengeance for the wrongs she has suffered. The girl's life story is^at :< once a romance and a tragedy. Her father was a retired Government official. She left home when her mother died some years ago to take up the work of a governess in the "West of England. There, shi> says, she was cruelly wronged, and she fled to Cardiff. Her relatives sought for her all over the country, and by the merest chance discovered the circumstance of her life at Cardiff. They found her there, and then, for the first time, she says, she was told that her mother had left her £17,000 under certain conditions. She refuses to fulfil the conditions, and repulses •every effort on the part of her friends to reclaim her and restore her to her former position. They have brought money and clothes to the hovel where she lives, and have begged her to return. Her answer is always the same: "I have been driven to this by those whom I regarded as friends. If they suffer because I live as I do, then that affords me some satisfaction." Later information is to the effect that there promises to be a happy ending to the strange case of the young woman now in Cardiff gaol, ivho is heiress to £17,000, but who has refused to accept the legacy under the terms of her mother's bequest, mainly, it is esserted, on the ground that she desires to have revenge on some of her relatives for past treatment. "Lily, the lady," as she is known among the lowest of the outcast class among whom she has been living in Cardiff,, has promised to abandon slumdon and go home to her people.