A ROMANTIC STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC STORY.

A singular story comes from the province of Limburg, on the Dutch frontier. The owner of a large manufactory, who had married young, and was left a widower, had an only daughter, to whom all the most desirable young men in the neighbourhood Here paying attention. Her father noticed that she treated them all with indifferences, and showed a marked preference for a young clerk of his, an orphan, with no means but his salary. As he had always given the greatest satisfaction in the performance of his duties, and was exceedingly well conducted, the father, persuaded that he would never venture to raise his eyes to h» daughter, who was evidently sincerely attached to him, made up his mind to broach the 'matter to him. What was his surprise when tho young clerk, after much hesitation, told him he would only bn too happy to regard tho young lady as a sister, but could not marry her, because he was not a man but a young woman in disguise — a disguise she had adopted when left an orphan, in order to get a more luciative situation. The conclusion of the story is that, instead of marrying the daughter, she is now tho wife of the father.