MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 20 December 1907, Page 2

MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER.

A pretty Paris brunette, whose fortune consisted in her youth and 60,000 francs worth of jewellery, now sadly laments the loss of the latter portion of her wealth, in consequence of her infatuation for a count, whose title may be authentic, though it is not “found in the Almanac de Gotha. Her love affair, like all idylls, had a happy beginning. She was fond of the titled young man at first sight, though he had nothing but his name, handsome appearance, and youth, like herself. He told her, too, he would some day come into a big fortune by inheritance, but meanwhile it was difficult to live. The pretty brunette did not hesitate a moment to pawn all her jewels for a tenth of their value, and brought him the 5000 francs to make him happy. But before long she learned that her titled lover had deceived her as to honesty, being under sentence of p'rison. Her love vanished in an instant, and she sent him about his business, after indignantly tearing up a document he had signed to the effect that he was inr debted to her for 50,000 francs. To her dismay, after her ", ex-lover had gone, she found that he had not only taken all the money she had got for the jewellery, but had stolen her pawn-ticket besides. This time the brunette lost patience, and called in the assistance of the police, who soon arrested the count, and are keeping him fast to answer before the courts for his rather ungallant behaviour. It is only just to add that he stoutly denies “he ever did it.”