Romance.

Manawatu Herald, 20 December 1904, Page 2

Romance.

A romance, which might have come from the pen of a sensational novelwriter has occured in the family of M. Felix Tellier, a rich rentier, living near Rouen. Twenty-five years ago M. Tellier, then a penniless young man, came into a fortune and married. His young wife died on the day she presented him with a son and heir, who,became his father’s only joy in life. M. Tellier vowed that he would never marry again. After having endless care and money lavished upon him young Tellier, at the age of 17, got into a scrape with a servant girl, and fled from his father’s house, M. Tellier was inconsolable. He advertised and travelled all over France, and only gave up the search when he learnt from a shipping company of Marseilles that a boy Tellier, answering his son’s description, had died of yellow fever at Vera Cruz. M. Tellier, though now an old.man, was so desirous of having an heir that he resolved to marry again. His choice fell upon a handsome girl of good family, 30 years younger than himself. To the husband’s joy Mme. Tellier the second became a mother. While the wife’s mother was showing the newlyborn heir to the happy father a handsome young man entered the house, and hearing his father’s voice, rushed into the room. The old man, in his excitement, nearly dropped the child, and in the rejoicings over the prodical son's return the baby was forgotten. Mme. Tellier, accompanied by her mother and child, has now : left the house, declaring that she was enticed into the marriage by false pretences, and only became the wife of the aged rentier that she and her children might inherit hi* wealth.