A MYSTERIOUS PASSENGER.
The captain of a vessel which was going to America, in the. fall of 1796, watched a mysterious passenger, who had come aboard at Hamburg, so closely that at last the passenger said one day:
" Sir, this is not the first occasion- upon which I have obseivrd the attentive scrutiny yon bestow upon me. May I inquire the reason \" " Sir," responded the candid captain, " you took passage on my ship as a Dime; I don't believe ■you're anything of the liind." The passenger smiled; the smile was full of
perspicacity and confidence, and v/as followed with: " Pray tsll me, then, what yen believe me to be?" At this question Captain hesitated, and Dually bluite'd out; "Well, to be honest, I tlnnl; you are a gnmbler. You've well nigh mined yourself at home, and are now (Timing to llccce the fools you'll lind on shine." The young man's smile brofklo.-.ed; the next minute lie turned grave again, lowered his v.cice, and replied: '• CapUtm living, us you' have studied me during thin iwsoo so I have studied you, I have come to the conclusion that yen are a mini to be fruited. I am Louis Philippe, Due d'Orleans, eldest son of' that Louis Philippe'd'Urlcnns who wa3 slain by the guillotine on the seventh of November, almost three yeaiuago," ~ •
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 9779, 12 January 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)
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