NUN'S LOVE ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

NUN'S LOVE ROMANCE.

REVO CAT of vows. -

returns ON husband's death. Swept from a co f 25 years on a tide of siiddenly s ter Antonlove, a former nun d J''tter, »■ ella has now, some six y haven of the turned, as ft widow, to the haven ox

°Sr Antonella, before fnned for the first time the sombre robes <* nuns of the Order of Su Francia, _ Paula Schillinger, a society KnwYork ter of a merchant of Syracuse George Heeler won.her >eart * Kom« became engaged but he w« n Catholfc, and all her pleadings o mo him to change his faith were futile Finally, at the urging of her spmc a advisers, and, it is understood of ner family, '.he made it acondition, of. «' marriage. He was still obdurate, breaking off her engagement she became a nun. g She was eighteen years old at the 01 m .'Dramatic Meeting. ■ .:

George Heissler went * his way and amassed a large fortune as a manufacturer the city optica, but he never yarned It chanced that Sister. Antonella 25 years later, quite ignorant of wha*,l«j J of her former fiance, was sent with w other nap on a mission to Utiea. As slie emerged from the railway Ration a taJ, grave looking man of middle a ge de „ soended from his motor-car to catch a U Doubtless attracted by .the 'women's garb, his gaze rested upon Sister Antonella Instantly he recognised his former sweetheart, and, startled, he » to PP| d abruptly. At the same moment .the.nan realised who he was and also popped, overcome by emotion She would , have fallen had not the other sister caught her in har arms. , „ . "Paula, at last I have found you, she heard Mr. Hessler say. "I will ' never leave you again." Five Years of Happiness. The upshot of this meeting was that her vows were revoked by "the bishop of the diocese, and she became Mrs. Hessler. Her husband had accumulated _ all the wealth he wanted, and he lavished it upon his bride. They entertained extensively, travelled much, and, for five years extracted from life all that io held of great joy for them. . Then a year ago death claimed Mr. Hessler, and his widow, crushed and inconsolable, decided to retire again from the world, this time for ever. , It cook a long time for the preparation that had to be"gone through, but Mrs. Hessler, taking with her the fortune bequeathed by her husband, has now joined the Do'minican Nuns as the inmate of a convent near Cleveland, Ohio.