BOMANTICLOVE QUEST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 13

BOMANTIC LOVE QUEST.

PLUMBER'S SEARCH FOR * BB BRIDE.

- ■:- * and, indeed, all France, is deeply " r a romantic love drama now M*"** 0 " jvg principal characters are plumber named Victor, *$*&*. the daughter of a mRUon--5 , ■ * the young lady s father. !B w I~L ago Victor elopeS, as already K s!ri 4 these columns, with the pretty teportea » father £52 wbrlTto track the pair down. His ' £ found tteri at Ostend. and then, >sai % „ to the special correspondent of gSttftf- *** comse °* f 1 * 10W ft™ to ran anything but smoothly. Se fine "morning the pretty damsel was HdMPPed W her P"«nf B agents on the r«i at Ostend, and earned away m an .fwmobile. THe disappointed Romeo 5M back to France to recover his bnde; fT alas' ie soon learned that she was not ft ler father's house. She had been taken l! a safe place, and was being kept in 2-a seclnsioa. Victor, who is a fine-look-i" fellow, an d distinguished himself in toe past h a cor P oral in tne PaTis fire swore that he would find and -israe ler. eTen, if necessary, with hook 3 laSaerl He wandered from suburb to £Lrb, ready to ask every passer-by, ■t-Have jou seen my belle?" | jjga' he discovered the retreat of his —tty Andree, and at once set out, accom•Miled by his father and some village Sooths-of He Adam anxious to help a comrade in distress. ; lady was shut np in the house Of-l aoctor at "Saint Oven l'Aumone, a. jiretty Tilla in the midst of green trees, "ti-cre the love-lorn lady was prevented tom escaping by stalwart guardians. Victor thoaght lie was about to carry the tjllaiFistonn. when the wary parent, who tad got wind of his expedition, sent an igjM telegram to the police commissary isßa S; for protection. Early in the afterBOon'tberefore, six gendarmes, with regulation cap ana tuuronn, and sabres clinking «t their -ades, marched up in heavy boots jna took np their strategic positions around He Tula. A moment later Victor and his detachBffflt airivefl. He was baulked, this time, ari-ordered.his men to retreat, while he Balked np and down before the villa read-ia-r a paper, -while tne whole village, jtotied -by -the appearance of the gendarmes, gathered round. •'Suddenly an automobile drove up, trie to tber of Andree alighted, entered the villa, !j mj after a. while came out again and tore away. When he was gone Victor iolffir came' along reading his paper. A jjrianne called to him, "Say what are you doing -ttere, young man"?" "And you"?" -prunpflyretorted the imperturbable Victor. Heseadannfi. smiled knowingly, and said jo more.

wjßn-twD hours -were up six more genBanEes came and relieved the first, and so an "dnrmg the whole night. Meanwhile, .however, :the.crowd learned the secret. Ibeir sympathies were at once with Victor. A voice cried out, "Courage, Andree, '■Victor, is- here," and Andree heard it in fhe-rilla, no-doubt with great delight. That ;&£ alfiSr will end in a nuptial march noibdy j lit Sahrt Onen TAnmone doubts, dejpite'tbe obstinacy of-*Cre father, for it is Certain flat lovers will always tare their Fay.: