DR WRIGHT'S DISAPPEARANCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1629, 6 August 1887, Page 3

DR WRIGHT'S DISAPPEARANCE.

♦ : (Feom Pvi-a.) Dr Wright has turned up all right 5 And he is right and I was right, and all ia right as tight oan bet Told yo^ 80 ! I wonder where he's boon all the time? Don't make impertinent enquiries ; He'a been slumming and loat his way, moat likely 1 Sydney's a rummy place for a stranger to get fooling round m, I can tell you 1 Worse than London I Well, I'm not sure that it UVt 1 Some queer things take place m London sometimes 1 -. >■■ No, not really ? You're chaffing { There was a very qomioal incident some years ago, that happened to a wealthy Australian! ! What was that 1 Did he lose himself ? That's jaat what nobody knows? Ho and his wife were staying at a private hotel m a quiet street out of the Strand, and one evening a friend came to dinner with them ! Ah, friends will do that m London, if you let them ! Shut up ! Well, after dinner, and a little music and so on, the friend took his departure, aod the Australian went downstairs to Bee him out t It was a fine summer night and ho went out on the pavement with him, m his evening dress, without a hat 1 And he caught cold, eh ? Sarve him right 1 ' He never came back, anyhow ! His wife want to bed, supposing ho would return every minute, and the hall porter waited for an hour or so, and then looked up, thinking it was' no business of his whore the gent had gone 1 And you say he never came baok at all ? Never ? He'B never be^en heard of since 1 How about the friend ? Oh, tho friend was sent for next morn* in^, of course, but he knew nothing \ He said he had parted from his host at the corner of the street not twenty paces from the hotel \ He'd hailed the first hansom, nnd shaken hands with the Australian and driven homo! Then where did the Australian go 1 Nobody knows, and nobody ever will know till the grave gives up its dead and all eeoreta are revealed '