A ROMANTIC AFFAIR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 236, 21 February 1880, Page 3

A ROMANTIC AFFAIR.

A pair of old and devoted lovers, -each of whom had thought the other dead, had'been eamly waiting: for death to reunite them, have just been reunited in this world under most romantic circumstances. His name is Henry ring and hers was Miss Vena WaldronThirty five years ago they were engaged to ¥e married. In 1845 the war with Mexico caused him to volunteer to follow the army of general Scott. After -a few months Ralph Kitehell, a young neighbour of Miss Waldron "a'ely, arrived in the army told Lauring that she had died just before he (the newrecruit) had left home. Lauring became desperate and after an engagement ( nc clay was missing, and was returned "lost in action" But he was not dead. He had recklessly deserted from the army and sailed for Cuba. Thence he went to Spain, Englond, Austria, Prussia, and France. When the late Franco-Pruccian war broke out, he entered the French ranks and at Metz was almost fatally wounded. When he recovered the war was over, and remaining k< France until the Russian v> a - with Turkey, he le :.ir d to Russia and joined tho army, tluugh an old man. V7'th a detachment of troops attempting to v-ross the Danube, lie was shot through the lungs. For a long time he languished in a a horpifcal, and finally recovered. In the meantime, Ralph Mitchel., who = ad" l:;d about Miss Waldron's death, returned to h?r home in Arkansas, and asked her to be Ids wife, She i\fused, Lining her engagement to Lauring and when he .reminded her Lauring was dead, she replied the engagement was not, ami they would meet in heaven. And then -the perfidious Mitchell, to revenge himself on her, told her of the lie he had told Lauring and added that he believed Lauring was alive and well. This .blighted Miss Waldron's life, and ever ; since until la-t week, she has lived with her brother in Pike dainty, Ark. j One evening last week an old gentleman passed wearily along the road in front of her brother's residence whilst ] •she was sitting in the garden. It was j Henry Lauring who had wandered | •back to ids old home, thinking to die j there in peace. He asked pprmi»sion to j Tst awhile on a garden-seat Miss Wal-lr >n r.eognis-'d his voice, the lie j ll.at ha.l t,eparated them for so many j years was soon explained, and, to make j ,a long story short the two old lovers were made man and wife a few days after.