A NEAT REVENGE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 15162, 4 October 1913, Page 6

A NEAT REVENGE.

GIRL AND HER RIVAL. The comedy of a lover's broken vows, in wiuch Miss Jessie tue 'lti-year-old daughter of a well-to-do family, obtained her revenge on a man wno jilted her, is causing much amusement at Wheeling, in West Virginia. American advices tell the story as follows: Miss M'lntyre's finance, a young and prosperous business man named Harry Pendleton, after two years of ardent courtship, suddenly informed her that he had fallen in love with another girl whom he said he intended to marry. Miss M'lntyre received the announcement with outward equanimity, but secretly plotted to obta.n her revenge. She discovered her rival in the person of Miss Henrietta Aiken, an attractive girl living in the town of Bridgeport, in Ohio, just across the river.

Againsts the protests of her parents, who were ignorant of her motives, Miss M'lntyre, it is stated, cut her hair short, and then donning a suit of clothes belonging to her brother, visited Bridgeport. Through the medium of a friend she was introduced to Miss Aiken, who promptly fell head over heels in love with the handsome stranger. Miss M'lntyre, masquerading as Mr Laurence Dessing, provtd a devoted lover paying daily visits to Miss Aiken's home.

. On Sunday, evening the couple, were sitting affectionately in the porch at Miss Aiken's residence, when Mr Pendleton appeared and furiously demanded an explanation. Spurred on by her new. ly-found suitor. Miss Aiken confessed her love "for "Laurence," and angrily dismissed Mr Pendleton, declaring that she never wished to see him again. Two days later Miss Aiken, while on a shopping expedition in Wheeling, met ; Miss M'lutyre dressed in a gown of the latesb fash on. Recognition was mutual and Miss M'lntyre gloatingly acquainted Miss Aiken of her successful plang for revenge. The sequel to the comedy took the form,,of scratching. The igiris were finally separated by the police and taken mto custody. The magistrate dismissed them with a warning, amid the laughter of the spectator of the Court.