A ROMANCE OF THE COUNTING HOUSE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XX, Issue 6237, 26 October 1888, Page 2

A ROMANCE OF THE COUNTING HOUSE.

A painful romance of the counting house occupied the attention ef Mr Justice Charley and a jury in the Jfiai Prins Court at the Birmingham Assizes on August 9. Some two years ago Miss Amy Foilis, a young lady of nineteen, lately filling the situation of bookkeeper to a Birmingham manufacturing jewellery firm, was wooed and won by the office manager, Mr Matthew Wilson, and after a brief delay was introduced to the gentleman's friends as lna future wife. For a few months all went merry as a ; marriage bell with the amorous couple and love's young dream with .them was a walking reality, as attested by the warmth and frequency of (heir letters; but by-and ,-by disagreements began (:o ayisej and •'the little rift witliiifflie Me" of their affection widened porcoptibly evory day, "My darling Amy" became "My dear Amy" your fond lover Dick soborod |down dreadfully into "yours truly the once ardent aspiration for "hugs" and tlio multitudinous symbols for kisses iu the gptlpmante lotto became conspicuous, (Ijoir absence ; and' wjieii he did invito |iip lady-lovo to devoto an afternoon to his tjocioty, \yliich was not ofton, he soot lio|' home dinnerless. Something is said about the objection of his friends to lit's marrying "an office giii." On the other hand, tlio young lady thought that a certain fascinating widow was at the bottom of her loyoi h coolness; and though dooply distressed und indignant, sho \yat) not iiltftßOthcr surprised tvlioif alio ono morning receivo" a loiter from hor faithless f»Vam, cool y announcing his determination to break oil the ougagomont. The jury ooncQlUß'. hi the Birmingham Assizes on August 9th appraised Miss Follis's disappointment at %