A ROMANTIC STORY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2809, 14 February 1878, Page 2

A ROMANTIC STORY.

The story of Evangeline is repeated with wonderful fidelity in all its details in the experience ol a young French girl, a resident of Marseilles. She was engaged to a sailor, to whom she was to be married on his return from a voyage to New York. He did not return, and after a year she got a berth as stewardess' assistant on one of the Havre steamers to come here in search of him. On the passage a rich American lady became interested in her story, and resolved to help her to find out her lover. In New York she learned that be had gone to Canada. For months she travelled about the Dominion, sometimes on his track, and again losing every clue as to his whereabouts She returned to New York, and one day, while standing at Broadway crossing waiting her turn to get across, she sow the object of her long search on the other side. She shrieked his name and Tan into the middle of the street, but a policeman caught; her, and saved her from the wheels of the .string of vehicles. " Angel of God there was none," and she never again saw the Gabriel she had so long sought and so nearly found. She learned then that he had sailed for San Francisco, and so went overland to California to meet him. Arrived on the Pacific coast, she found that her lover had fallen overboard, just outside the Heads, and been drowned. Meanwhile, the body of a young man, dressed in sailor's clothes, was cast ashore on the beach, carried to, the coroner's office and not being identified, was interred in the public cemotery. A water-sod-den pocketbook was taken from the dead man, which contained only a few letters written in French and unaddressed. The girl* hearing of this, went to the coroner's office and found that the loiters were hers. The waves had tardily and partially recompensed her devoted search, and she was able io find the grave of her lover.—New York World.