ROMANCE OF A SECRET WEDDING.
Love at first sight, a secret marriage, separation, and a fortune of £40,000 on his wife's death-bed. are events that have been crowded into the last sis months of the life of Rylvanus Gray, 21. a messenger for a telegraph company at Durham, North Carolina. Six months ago Cray was sent to deliver a telegram addressed to Meri' tfldv Johnson, a pretty young woman, Vio was visiting relatives' in Durham. The couple fell in love with one another, and planned an elopement. Six days after Gray and Miss Johnson first met she drove to a village where she met Gray. They were quietly married, and, returning to town, immediately separated, keeping their wedding a secret. The bridegroom neither saw nor heard from his bride again until a few days ago, when he received a telegram to hurry to her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, where *be lay dying. Just before her death an uncle left her £40,000. By a will executed on her death-bed she left this fortune to feej messenger husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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176ROMANCE OF A SECRET WEDDING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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