TRICK TO TEST LOVE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7928, 11 October 1911, Page 11

TRICK TO TEST LOVE

Alphonse Harron, a young man of independent means, found a novel means of testing his fiancee's affection, with tho result that the engagement was broken - off. He called on the .girl, illlc. Suzanne Koix, in Paris, and after a few minutes' conversation, during which ho affected great mental depression, ho asked her for a drink of water. As he took the glass from her hand he produced a tiny phial from, his pocket, and, emptying the contents into the water, drank it off before she could hinder him. llis face then contracted, and he sank a helpless mass on tho floor. He had only time to beg his sweetheart’s forgiveness before he expired, as she thought. Unfortunately for Suzanne, AI J phonse was not even unconscious, and lie was able to watch the effect on her of his own death. Without the slightest show of- sorrow she hastened to the telephone and rang up the police station to say that a suicide had been committed in her apartments, and begging that the body might be removed as soon as possible. This was too much for Alphonse, who- promptly resurrected himself and left the house, after telling his ex-sweetheart what he thought of her. ,