Misplaced Confidence.

Manawatu Herald, 3 March 1894, Page 3

Misplaced Confidence.

9 — %- k y&uth belonging to a highly respectable family at Saint Cloud recently met in the Boulevard eta Strasbourg in Paris a young lady with whose appearance he was much -~\ atruclr. He followed her, watched her as she went into a house, and haVing- ascertained her name and tbej fact .that she lived with her widowed mother, contrived to find gome ona-who. knew t tho ladies by way of getting an introductiou to jihfm^ He was extremely woll

received, and repeated the visit more than once. Finally he determined to offer marriage to the young : I lady, and he spoke to the mother on . j tho" subject. The mother was very I sympathetic, but declared it could ! not bo. " But tell me why not," said the love sick youth. " Because," said the widow, bursting into tears, "my husband is a convict, a villain, ' who abusing the power the law gives him in France, has declared ' that he will never give his consent to his daughter's marriage unless he , has 10,000 francs given to him." The youth said he was willing to pay the money provided the father undertook never to molest him in any way, and in a few days the sum was forthcoming. The day after it was paid, however, the widow and her daughter .-decamped.-' The police are now on the look-out for them.