SHRINE OF A LOST LOVE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 33, 24 October 1916, Page 3

SHRINE OF A LOST LOVE.

Number- 19, Queen's Gate, Kensington, has been stricken and tenautlesrfor over 40 years (states an English paper). Now a part of it has collapsed and killed two workmen who were making some alterations, and at the iliquet, t at Westminster an old romance was revived by Mr Bingham, appearing for the widows of the workmen. He told how 15 years am ;i happy lover built No. 19 for his ln'ide-to-be. On the eve of the wedding she eloped with his brother, and No. 19 was left ready for th e home - coming, empty, while the faithful lover waited for her repentance and return. She never came and by and by the man placed a caretaker in charge, and never "afterwards entered the house except to pay this woman's wages. From that day until now, when the house has passed into other hands, not a things was done to keep the place in order, borrow brooded in the empty rooms, and gossip pointed to the dreary monument until the story became common talk for a time and then dropped out of memory. "What hae haippened to the bride—retribution?" asked the coroner. Mr Bingham: "I am not instructed.'' All the information forthcoming was that the man who all these years had been content to. leave No. 19 tenantless. merely to shrine a precious memory. had died, and the property had been sold by the executors. But of the loved one and the faithless brother and the course of their romance there was no word.