AN ADELAIDE ROMANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 11455, 24 January 1901, Page 4

AN ADELAIDE ROMANCE.

In a suburb of Adelaide there lives a young lady who ia the central figure of a most romantic story. The yonng lady’s grandmother (according to the • South Australian Register 1 ) was a titled Russian lady, who married one Baron Da Rose, a French nobleman. Hen parents disapproved of the match and disinherited her, A son was born and when the child was four years old the Baron deserted his wife, and has not since been heard of. When the boy became a man he married a Russai lady, and the heroine of this romance was the issue of the marriage. Her father was never recognised by the Baron’s family, but a will was drawn in favor of the daughter, bequeathing her enormous wealth on condition that sho married Count baby in arms her father emigrated to Adelaide, and earned bis living up to the time of his death, two years ago, as a tailor. Another condition which had to be fulfilled under the will was that the lady should support herself until marriage. Count R has been to Adelaide twice to press his testamentary suit, but. has each lime been rejected, on the first occasion because the lady refused to leave her mother, and on the next because he had already contracted a morganatic marriage. That, at any rate, was the reason given by the lady to a reporter of the ‘Register. 1 The young lady supports herself and her widowed mother by working as a tailorcss, and has sacrificed wealth to moral principle.