Romance in Real Life.
Titj; talk of Paris juf't now is a romance in real life, of whom the heroine is a young Englishwoman, and the hero no less a person than 'Eagle-Eye,' one of the ' braves ' - of Mexican Joe. Joe and his redskins wenb over to the big annual fair of Neuilly, outside Paris, where they daily and nightly amazed and amused Parisians by their diabolical yells, their horsemanship, and their praine pranks generally. It, appeals that, duiing one of the repiesentations given by the troop in England, a young lady who was present became enamoured of v Eagle - Eye. ' She shortly afterwards disappeared from her homo ; mid her parents learned on inquiry that she had gone to JTi'ance with the Indian troop. A detective was sent to Paris ; and lie, accompanied by the Commissary of Police of the Neuilly district, went to the camp of > the-^ redskins at the' Porte- Maillot, where ' the young was discovered in the tent of ' Eagle-Eye.' M. Martin, the Commissary, and the English detective had much i rouble with the sax age, who assumed a threatening atpect, and would, have shown fight but ior the intervention of Mexican Joe himself. 'Eagle-Eye' was almost foaming at the mouth, and \ threatened to lull the Commissary if he led l [ the young lady away. The detective, however, taking advantage of the general con- .' fusion, quickly seized the girl in his arms,V ran with her to a vehicle, and was speedily.driven off, leaving M. Martin to deal with*" > the redskins as best he could. ' '-">„//
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3
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257Romance in Real Life. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3
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