ROMANCE OF MILLIONAIRE'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1917, Page 7

ROMANCE OF MILLIONAIRE'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER.

Seaford, the little picturesque seaside town,of Sussex, has been the' scene of a wedding that throbs with romance. A few weeks ago to one of the boardinghouses of the town came a pretty young visitor, who gave her name as Miss Gertrude Vandertalt. She dressed magnificently, went about 111 motor cars, and rode down the sea front) in the early morn on horseback. The good people of Seaford speculated a hundred times a day about the identity of their visitor. Very, very quietly, and in the presence of a more handful of ■vWtnesses, ahe was married the other morning to "a gentleman in khaki." The bridegroom, Lance-Cor-poral Lockquell, of the Canadian atmy, is a Portuguese 3>y birth, foot has Kved for years in Canada. His father is a professor at Oporto University, and the, bridegroom is a linguist of no mean order. The bride is the adopted daughter of Mr. Frederick William Vanderbilt, the well-known American capitalist. She is 21, pretty, and speaks French like a, Frenchwoman. Iler father, Mr. Benjamin Harry Langley, an accountant, was an old frienit of Mr. Frederick Vanderbilt. Her mother is dead, and she was only seven wTien Mr. Vanderbilt adopted her.. "It is_ so romantic how I met my husband," Mrs. Lockquell said to a Pressman. "A few weeks ago T was riding 011 the seashore between Eastbourne and Seaford, when I became suddenly .dizzy. I felt that I should fall from my horse if I did not dismount. I pulled, up, sat down on the shore, and left the horße standing l by my side. There was no one 1 near, and I was feeling really ill. Then the man who was destined to be my husband came along. He was kindness itself, .and —well, you know the sequel. It was love at first sight." "We have tried to keep our marriage quite a secret, ■you know," she went on, "and I am astonished to find it has leaked out. My own people know nothing so far. They will be so surprised." Asked how it was that she used the name of 'her foster father, Mrs. Lockquell went to a. drawer and produced a legal document. It set forth the authorisation to adopt the name of Vanderbilt. "This I have done." added the bride, "and now you know all. We are happy; very, very happy, It may seem romantic, l>ut it is a love marriage in the truest senße of the word."