A BROKER'S ROMANCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3031, 14 March 1881, Page 4

A BROKER'S ROMANCE.

It is a very touching incident. We heard a Southern editor telling it on an elevated train yesterday, and he was in a great hurry to get home and put it in his paper and make an affidavit that it was true. The scene of the romance opens in a palatial mansion in New York. A lady sits in a parlour filled with the most costly luxuries. Diamonds as big as filberts glitter in her ears. Lace costing 36d01s per yard almost hides the colour of her dress from sight. A clock costing 18,000dols. strikes the hour of 4 p.m. At this moment her husband rushes into the house, pale, bagged, suspenders broken, hat bunged up, and his boots all mud. " P " Have you—have you caught the epixootie ? " she gasps as she starts up. " O wife !we are bursted —ruined —gone vp —smashed flat as shingle ! " he moaned in reply. ," How? " " 1 invested 75,000 dols.in the Crooked River Railroad at 98, and it has declined to 4! Jay Gould has bought and all consolidated it! We must leave this place and all these luxuries and works of art and take two fourth-storey rooms over in Brooklyn." She laughed merrily and long. Had the sudden news crazed her ? He thought it had ; but ho was green. She left the room for a moment, and then returned with a pillowcase containing 200,000d015. in greenbanks. " Let the Crooked Eiver Railroad crook away!" she laughed, as she emptied the money at his feet. " You have given me this money during the past five years, a few thousand dollars at a time, to buy little articles of toilet. I have saved it up to get me a pair of stockings for Sunday, but I cheerfully hand it over to my good husband to set him on his pins again. Take it, my darling, and if you can get a whack at Jay Gould bite him hard, and I'll back you with the 50,000d015. I had laid away to send to the heathen on Christmas!" They embraced. All was joy and peace.—Wall Street Daily News.