A MONTE CARLO ROMANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 6 (Supplement)

A MONTE CARLO ROMANCE.

A pretty and, I hope (but one never knows), novel story comes from Monte Carlo. A young gentleman, in delicate health, is sent ihere in charge of his father's butler, who is strictly enjoined to look after him. Tho invalid feels better in tho Sunny South, and totto r s into the gambling rooms; sits down from weakness, and then (from weakness also) thinks he will try his luck at the table?. He wins largely, immensely ; he is very happy, but rather hectic Ho is killing himself, but he doesn't care ; he will die rich. On tho third morning he wakes to find all his winnings (£3,000), besides all the money he has in his purse, and all his personal jewellery, has been stolen by the butler, who has fled into space. He has not a franc left even to get to England with. Very hectic (and also very unhappy) he telegraphs to his ! father for funds, who, justly indignant, only sends him enough to pay his hotel bill and buy his railway ticket. His feelings on the journey are easier to imagine than describe, so I leave them out. On hie arrival at home the first person to welcome him with open arras is the butler! That faithful retainerhad taken the OBly course to save his beloved young master from moral and physical ruin ; and the curtain falls on a united family—and household.