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WILL WED ARTIST;Miss McComb to Test Provisions of Father’s Will by Marrying Herzog,ANNUAL PENALTY IS IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF $95,000,fTwo Fell in Love on Ardsley Links, but Talk of Match Aroused McComb's Anger.Miss Fannie Rayne McComb, hraiing th ado«rst stipulations of her father's irill, hai announced io her relatives (hot she is engaged to marry Unit Herzog, a Philadelphia arritU andyhat the u-cdding uill oc* cur in the near future.A member of the family authorized The World yesterday to make this statements It menus that Miss McComb uitl forfeit about $2t500,000 for love of her artist suitor in ease the special codicil in her father's will stands. Be left her only an annuity ef $15WO if shi marries the or:• iHf with a bequest of $300fi00 to her chil■ drsn at her death*THEY FELL tN LOVE ON ARDSLEY LINKS.She Was Just from School and w He a Young Artist Devoted to Nature.CHAPTER I.It vraj but natural that Fannie Rayne He Comb should fall in love -with LevrfB Herzog. She, a romping' youn* srtl, just cat of the fa*hknable school of the Hisses Masters, at 2obbs Ferry, reared Cor the most part in the country wjhere ehe haa tfce freedom of the spacious lawns and -woode*! hills of Esther wood, toe splendid estate of her millionaire father, and the a young man fresh from the studios of ipme of the most renowned landscape painters of Paris— their mutual love of nature was a bond evon at their first meeting on ttoe golf links of Ardsley several yearn ago.The young painter was there because he knew that the scenery of the Hudson River around Ardsley offered splendid opportunities for a landscape painter. And she was there because she had Just left aohool and was preparing for her debut Into society, a realm she cared tout Uttle about, but In which her father, who idoilsod her, had determined she should reign with the sway that her personal beamy and charm and his millions mads possible.Many a day did the young couple start out in pursuit of the golf ball over the links, and many a time did they lose Interest In such pursuit and revel in .the beauty of the scenery, the green-carpeted pills and the lordly Hudson In the distance. Love 1b born of suoh summer Idyls, and that first summer did not pass without leaving a silent understandingIn the hearts of Fannie McComb. and lwls Herog.Young Herzog was invited to Etethcr-■wood And went there as a guest several times. That was before It waB known to James J. McComb that Mr. Herzog was In love with his daughter.The secret of the young people whs »et eves disclosed to James Scott Mc-(;Comto, brother of Miss -Fannie McComb. although he -was frequently on the Ardsley golf links, himself being a noted devotee of the game. He wasnever Intimately acquainted with the young painter, who had come from hla studio In Philadelphia to take back upon his canvas views from the Hudson River bill*.MwtvWcforwkoftiotiowbConeiforNowhthe lov aw wh TOPITHE WILL CHANGEDMiErahMl!tfoitLc\ her ri qiasberemotoohtrmiethenot
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Fri, Nov 29, 1901
Page 7
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