REAL LIFE ROMANCE.
The fourth Earl Stanhope, when on his homeward way late one dark night, was held up by the most gentlemanly of highwaymen, wbo preferred his request for money or the nobleman's life in quite tha nicest way. It happened that Lord Stanhope had not any money with him, and was wholly disinclined to yield the alternative. "Your watch, then," suggested tha gentleman at the opposite end of the pistol. That watch, the Earl explained, .was d«ar to him. He valued it -at a hundred guineas, and would not surrender it. "What I will do," he said, "is to bring and deposit in this tree the worth of the watch in money, and you can call and get it to-morrow night." "Done, m' lord!" said the highwayman. The law knew nothing about this arrangement, and the Kail did as he had promised. He placed the hundred guineas where the hi^hwavman might at his leisure collect it. And there, as far as he knew, the matter ended. Years afterwards he attended a great banquet in the city, and! found himself pleasantly entertained by art extremely well-known man, whose signa-> ture was good for a sum in several figures. Next day came to Lord Stanhope a letter enclosing the sum of 100 guineas. Accompanying it was a note begging his acceptance of a loan granted some years previously to the man who now forwarded if£ The loan, said the letter, had enabled the sender to gain a new start in life, to make/ a fortune, and to renew acquaintance atf dinner on the previous night with his lordship. The city magnate and the highwayman of earlier days were one and the> same. — St. James's Budget.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 72
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354REAL LIFE ROMANCE. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 72
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