SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8901, 22 August 1907, Page 4

SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT.

Victor Dehaulon, -plumber's sou, | aucl Mdlle. PiodaUu, millionaire's j daughter, have had their love clieim spoiled, for the present at all events How Victor went to mend pipes at M. Piedallu's chateau at his e Adam, how the daughter of tire house fell iu love with him, and how going on a trip to Pans with er I governess the young lady gave hei chaperon >e slip and eloped with her lover lias already been tow m these columns, but there have been developmetns, . So incensed was the millionaire that he Ims decided to leave the neighbourhood. As ho spent some thousands of pounds a year there this is a terrible loss to the town, the iesidents in which havo endcavouied to lessen their grief by boycotting M Deliaulon, sen. . In addition to the town losing its patron, and the plumber his busi- • nes", Victor has now lost Ins lad> ■ love. Victor, who is known as \ : ' Pretty Heart,'' tells the story o, I his conquest himself:—Mdlle. Andico was 18. She was rich, I dared not oven look at her. It was she ' who looked at me. Ot course I hn ed her in return. When she came of age Uho cried, "Let us fly, I love thee. Nothing shall prevent my being thine." I was naturally agitated. I The next day I received a note sayi in" "To-morrow at two, near the Louvre,' at the corner of the Kue 1 fiaiut Honore. Be there with a ! closed cab, and, if possible, a white horse." , ; , , r „„,. Victor was there, and the lovers drove to a railway station and travelled to Osteud. Thero thej | took cheap rooms, and Dohaulon obtained work at a Avell-kuown hotel His wife carried his dinner m a bundle through the streets each day. But they did not know that the father Wf.s a shareholder of the hotel, and certain to learn of their whereabout'-'. One day Andreo was raking her Victor his lunch in a handkerchief. Two men seized, ■>-.i"<»cd illl;1 '• M ' ric;l ,lpr mto p " motor car,\vhieh drove off at full speed. Since then Victor has been searchin'* in vain for his Audree, and lias instituted proceedings against M. Piedallu for the unlawful seizure awl detention of Ms daughter, who is of ago. _„«__