ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 8

ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT.

COUNTESS AND PEASANT,

A romantic story of the elopement of an eighteen-year-old Hungarian countoss with a peasant seven'years her senior comes from a village in Trentschin, Hungary. The girl, who is tho Countess Henrietta itongracz, daughter of Count Edward Kongraoz, is now living-with her lover, Johami ; Amlrassik, in.; a hut adjoining her father's estate. ■ Tho couple told the roprosentativo of a Budapest newspaper that they first met six years ago, when Andrassik' rescued tho countess from a ditch after a carriago accident. The* couple mot frequently, and finally fell "in love. 'Two years ago tho countesses family discovered tho attachment, and the girl was sent away to school for a time, whilo Aiidrassik went into the army. Whon ho completed his torm of military service and returned to tho village, tho clandestine meetings between the lovers' wore renewed. . At last they'decided to dope. Andrassik brought, a ladder to tho countess'o residonco one night, and placed it against her bedroom window. She managed to oscnpo without alarming tho household, and the couplo wont to Andrassik's home. The countess's family tried to force her to return, and even sent gendarmes to Andrassik's cottage, but she refused to lcavo her lover, and declared that sho would marry him when sho came of n;jo. Her father then wrote hor a letter for.T.illy disowning her.