A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
A most romantic tale reaches us (Jewith World) from Wilna. About 20 yews ago a Christian gentleman of property became the father of a little girl who was not the child of his wife. He was considered the the most respectable man in his part of tbe country, and if this affair had become known his reputation would hare been destroyed. He therefore quietly, and with* out any scruple, commissioned one of th« farmers, a Jew, to put the child out of the way. As the man saw that bis own" life was endangered, he only pretended to commit tbe crime. lostead of murdering he bid the little one, and, on the advice of the Rabbi of Kowno, gave her to a Jewish nurse, who brought her up at the farmer's^ expense. The child grew into a beautifui girl, and the farmer adopted her, saying she was tbe daughter of a relation of his. The farmer's son, howerer, fell in lore with his adopted sister, and wished to marry her. In deep perplexity, his father again applied to the Rabbi of Kowno, who counselled him to tell the girl the secret of her birth, and then allow her to act as she thought best. The marriage took place in due course, and two children hare increased the joy of the happy pair. The family prospered, and all was going well, when a coreligionist of the farmer, who had quarrelled with him, rerenged himself by informing the sirl's father of tha state of affairs. Furious at the deception which had been practised upon him, he claimed his daughter; but the girl, in spite of threats of disinheritance, refused to leare her husband Ho go to him. Her father then sought the help of the law and the farmer was accused of abduction* but the Rabbi of Kowno appeared as a witness, and on his statement of the case the following decision was giren: The girl is the child of a man of property and she must inherit it, as he has no other children; the farmer must be paid ail the ff** 1"?" incurred in th« bringing up of tke child; the informer is sentenced to two months imprisonment. Hero is a etory for a dramatist to work upon,
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5098, 20 May 1885, Page 2
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383A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5098, 20 May 1885, Page 2
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