A Romantic Incident.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7984, 22 November 1905, Page 2

A Romantic Incident.

AN OLD LADY' AND IIEK I'ICTIKE. The following is nn extract from a private letter received in Christ church frcm a London firm :—" Quito 11 romantic thing has happened on the Smitliticld market. One of our customers, a -Mr Amlrade, picking up mi old picture at an auction room lor lis. it lias 'turned out 'to bo : h,t an old Italian 'master, Salvatore Ho.so, anil he 'lias 'been ' 'besieged by dealei-s] wauling' to 'buy. Agnew's people, the 'big picture dealers of the West End, 'have ottered him £IOOO for it, which he has refused, V.iecuusr lie has found out that the last salt of Salvatore llosn. was n ' 18,<?7, ami •Casou was the price. He reckons Hurt his ought to make twice - that now. He has traced where il came frcm to a poor old lady of TO, who was forced to realise some of her

old things to keep 'herself out of the workhouse, lie went to see hei She does not' know why be has smlI denly taken an interest in 'her, liecause he did not. tell her what the picture is worth, ami he told 'her -he has decided to settle, £U week on her for the rest of her life, which will enable her lo live comfortably. She told him the picture 'had been in her family for iiMiny generations, ami didn't know how .(.hey 'became possessed of lit originally. We have insured it for him in Lloyd's. H was wry nice of him to treat the. old lady in this way. All Smith- ' Held men arc not scoundrels, as som* u ?..;w *lc-al;uid s-.lx to iliiak," J