MOTOR CAR ELOPEMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13575, 6 December 1907, Page 8

MOTOR CAR ELOPEMENT.

"BREAKDOWN" ON THE ROAD AND ITS SEQUEL. PARIS, September 19.— The story of a delightful little romance of a motor car elopement is told in the Herald. The hero and heroine -are a Paris barrister and the niece of a general in the French army. The parents of the young woman objected to their marriage, and last Saturday she consented to elopewith her lover in a motor car. The motor car got well away on its journey when unfortunately near Melun a breakdown occurred. The barrister passed several hours vainly endeavouring to repair the machinery, and was finally compelled to send for a machinist, who said it would be impossible to effect the necessary repairs without transferring the car to the workshop. Meanwhile the young woman had become irritated. She announced to her sweetheart that she did not any longar appreciate the advantages of an elopement and had determined to return to her home. Thereupon she left the disconsolate barrister in high dudgeon and returned to Paris by train. On reaching home she explained the reason of her absence to her parents, who had been much alarmed by her departure. They were so pleased to sete their daughter again that they decided to withdraw their opposition to tho marriage,, and yesterday invited the friends of both families to be present at a dinner party, at which the* betrothal was formally announced..