MILLIONAIRE TYSON’S LOVE STORY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3676, 28 February 1899, Page 2

MILLIONAIRE TYSON’S LOVE STORY.

After all, it seems, the late Mr James Tyson had a love story. A narrow experience had given him a prejudice against-women, he believing that wives were “ a deal for husbands to bear,” and he was, moreover, the victim of an invincible shyness, not the shyness born of egoism or sensitiveness, but the shyness which is dissocial, which regards strangers , with distrust. - -This want of the power of being social did not induce Air Tyson, as it did a duke lately deceased, to hide behind a door of his own reception room, but it made him prefer to be alone, ami it is pretty clear, according to the notice of his career published in the “Times,” evidently written by one who had an intimate knowledge of the subject, cost him the only love of his life. Ho once, when. 24 years of age, and very poor, made a long journey to collect a debt of £5 : “ He had crossed the range and being weak from - hunger, had begun to fear what the ordinary man might well have feared from the beginning—namely, that ho might never find the house of Sir John Hay—when he perceived a cottage and an old man a'bout to enter. Ho approached,, wishing to ask his way, but hesitating in consequence of a shyness of habit, which throughout his life caused him to shun intercourse with strangers. As ho'reluctantly drew near the door a young woman came suddenly out— 1 a beautiful, young, bush-roared girl, dark, rosy and well-grown.’ He told her that lie had wished to ask his way. She looked at him, and without answering bis question,’ bade him come in and eat. He refused. . She then laid both hands upon his arm, and with gentle compulsion drew him : hi; saying, ‘You are hungry, conic in and eat.’ Being ‘ wellnigh famished,’ and supposing that she ‘saw the truth in his face,’ ho let himself do as she bid. She called to her sister to help to get some food ready. and in a few-minutes he was sitting before a good breakfast. He was not in all more than 15 minutes in the house. He never spoke to the girl again, but for 20 years ho continued to visit the neighbourhood aud inquire after her until he learned that she was married. Then he thought it was time to discontinue his'- visits., . His: shyness, ho explained in telling the story afterwards, kept him' from seeking to speak to her again, but, he added, ‘She was the only woman 1 ever thought of marrying.’ ”