A SHOP-GIRL'S FORTUNE.
A girl employed in a shop in the little town of kisujez alias, in Hungarv, had ■a tremendous surprise, the other day. A regular customer at (ho shop left her .£26,000. He always spoke to the girl when he came in, and one day asked her how much she earned. "Surely not so little as that?" he exclaimed when she told him. P«me littlo while after he laughingly announced that he thought he must make her his heiress. His clothes being always shabby, Fraulein Wardyss had always looked'on him as little better off than herself, so she laughed, and treated tho whole thing as a joke. "I really mean it," he said, and, taking out u fountain pen, he thero and theu wrote a short will, called two apprentices to sign it, and, putting it into his pocket, walked away. When he died tho other day, Fraukiiii Wardyss, to her amazement, found that his bstate, valued at 42H,000, was left to her unconditionally!
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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166A SHOP-GIRL'S FORTUNE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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