ROUND THE WORLD FOR A BRIDE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9563, 9 August 1909, Page 7

ROUND THE WORLD FOR A BRIDE.

GIRL'S HIDDEN MESSAGE. Details of a pretty Cornish romance come in a roundabout way from America. The idyllic love tile began tour yeara ago when Miss Maude Betiisnn, of St. Blazey, Cornwall, a wilful baauty staying at Penzance wrote on a scrap of paper: "Whoever in this world shall find me shall win my love eternally." Miss Bettison thrust the paper into a small sea shell, and dropoed it under a rose bush in Morrab Gardtns. She had previously rejected several offers of marriage, and the act was purely one of girlish mischief. She confided what 3he had done to the Penzance girl who was her hostess, but exated profound secrecy. At '■ this juncture Cupid played his part. It happened that Edward John Berrymau, while walking in the park on the following morning, found the shell and the note which had been carefully tucked away inside the pink-hued imprompu envelope. From that moment he began a desperate quest for the writer of the challenge. Miss Bettison's little joke had one flaw in it, which she had not recKoned. The paper had the letters "Quee" on one corner of it. In brief, this clue when followed established the identity of the writer. Miss Bettison had been stopping at the Queen's Hotel, in Penzance, '. ar.d had used the hotel paper to bear her love message. However, three years had elapsed when young Berryman carried the precious note to St. Blazes. Then Miss Bettison had gone on a protracted vieit to Colombo. Ceylon. The ardent wooer obtained a pictute of this will-o'the-wisp girl*.and from then on was more determined than ever to find her. He went to Ceylon, too. It was a case of mutual love at the first meeting. Soon the engagement was announced, and now Miss Bettison is niakine the journey to the shores of the Pacific, where the wedding is to take place at an early date.