ROMANTIC WIDOW'S MISTAKE

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 28, 25 July 1904, Page 3

ROMANTIC WIDOW'S MISTAKE

Bash Proposal to a Married Deceiver. Fascinated by the good looks of a young man less than half her age, a rich English widow on a visit to Paris has just had a rude awakening from her visions of happiness.

While a guest at a palatial hotel in the Champs Elysees, she was one day leaving her dressmaker's, when a young Frenchman gallantly assisted her into her carriage. Tbis chance introduction resulted in the developing of the haphazard acquaintance, and the pair were soon on the best of terms. Taking advantage of his influence, the young man borrowed several sums of money, which, however, he always returned. Finally, the lady, completely enam riured of her youthful admirer, proposed marriage, and was accepted.

She then crossed to London to make arrangements for the wedding, leaving with her prospective husband the sum of L4OO. A mysterious silence on his part, however, caused the lady to return unexpectedly to Paris, -when on,enquiry at the address her fiance had given her, she learned to her astonishment that he was unknown there.

A few days later the anxious lady descried her erring lover walking in the Champs Elysees. .She had him shadowed, and was considerably surprised to find that he was residing in the same house as her dressmaker. An hour later, while the widow and the dressmaker were exchanging confidences, the subject of their conversation entered the show-room, and then for the first time the two women realised that the English woman's sweetheart and the French woman's husband were one and the same individual.

Enraged at being deceived in this cruel fashion, the irate ladies rushed at the deceiver, and when he finally managed to escape from their vengeance he presented a pitiable spectacle.