ELOPED!

NZ Truth, Issue 148, 18 April 1908, Page 6

ELOPED!

Love's Young Dream Disturbed. The inhabitants of Fendalton, Christchurch, are agog with excitement this week about the unusual happening of an elopment m reasonably high places. The girl is a nice-looking young lady named Miss N. Brett, who hangs out m middleclass comfort somewhere m the neighborhood. She was to be married on Thursday to Fritz Dilworth Fox, a Waikare farmer, who was living m anticipation of intense happiness m the near future. For is reported to be '~Wy well m, and the union would , be most satisfactory for all concerned. Unfocfc..iiatelv for the prospective husband, love doesn't, always accompany the dollars, and a girl's heart often goes waywardly, m the direction that doesn't make for worldly opulence. At any rate, she lost her sympathetic organ some lime zno to a young man named Haselden, a poor bank clerk, but son of the well-known judge oE that name, who once resided at Fendalton. As the fetal day FOR THE SACRIFICE approached she battled hard with her natural affection; but when he said "come!" she went, and as they both disappeared at the same time it is assumed that they went together. Derenzi Brett is a son of old Colonel Brett, an Indian veteran, who settled thereabouts, and some stirring tales are told of the pranks of his reckless sons, one, of whom was the eloping daughter's father. The lassie, has evidently inherited a spirit of pride of independence (she once earned her Kvinc a's collector to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), and was not to be tempted with a bribe of luxury and many acres. "Truth" raises its cady to the girl, and extends its sage blessing to the youthful turtle doves. Subsequent advices show that the romantic couple made Wellington the Gretna Green, and were married there with little pomp; anfl circumstance. They should have lived happy ever afterwards, as the average novel would- have them do, but unfortunately there is apathetic sequel to the story. Young , Haselden was taken, suddenly ill and at time •of writing was lying iit Wellington Hospital m a precarious state. HE BROKE A BLOOD-VESSEL shortly after the wedding ceremony and his distracted bride is fearful lest she should have loved and lost. She is a niece of Canon Dunkley, who has a comfortable living of £600 a year, m the Glenmark parish. The Pious will proliablv regard her affliction as a judgment from heaven for jilting a moneyed farmer like - the Fox person, whose acres cover the * district of Scargill, near , Waikarc, and whose uncle is a medico with a Christchurch practice.