Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-06-16
The Disinherited sin Luck"

From the Courier des Etats Unis we take
the following extraordinary romance in real
life, which though told in column, CON
tains more Than plot enough for two or
three modern novels:
During the first three years Of the reign
Of Louis Phlllippee, man inhabited mag
niicent hotel in the Fouburgh St. Honore,
not far from place Beauveau. His fortune
was immense, his disposition saturine. He
saw no one, and occupied small apart
ment on the ground floor, which depart
ment was decidedly the most hospitable in
Paris. As for the other rooms in the ho-
Eel, they were always empty and closed.
This strange person always went out at
midday, and returned at four o'clock in the
afternoon the rest of the time he was in
visible. His only relatives lived at Peri
CORD, with the exception Of a nephew whom
he had brought to Paris and sent to college
Ia handsome boy, active and bold, fair as
a Saxon. The uncle and the nephew dined
together every Sunday, and after dinner
the old man said to the young one, slipping
louis d or into his hand;
You will be my heir" and the Inherit
ance consisted Of at least seven or eight
millions. Every Sunday and Thursday
morning the proprietor of the place Beou-
veau received visit from beautiful and
elegantly dressed woman. She always
came in carriage, entered the garden, and
returned at noon on Sunday and Thursday
at midnight. On no other day was she
seen at the hotel. This state of things last
ed for some years. The scholar was grow
ing into young man; the Jingle louis dor
had been replaced by double one, and
still the old man said-@Y GU shall be my
heif!" to WHICH The nephew sometimes re-
Piled: Heir or not, have time to wait. !"
The truth is, the millionaire was dry as
Z rattan, green as a bunch Of holly, and
strong as an oak.
One Wednesday they found him dead in
his bed. "A charcoal fire, half consumed,
burned on the hearth; there had been as
phyxia or congestion of the brain. Justice
came and sealed up everything. The rela-
tives, daily notified, came and before wit
nesaes proceeded to the opening Of the desk
where the papers of the .defunct were kept
A will written in the testator's own hand,
left, as sole legatee, the lady who paid the
Sunday and Thursday visits TO the hotel of
the place Beauveau, with the single charge
of annuity Of two thousand four hundred
francs to the nephew Of the deceased. The
family attempted to set the will aside. A
thousand rnmors as to the cause of the sud-
den death prevailed, but spite Of the ru-
xmors and law proceedings, the lady was
maintained by the legal tribunals in the
possession Of tie goods and chattels that
constituted the wealth of the millionaire
The nephew who should have had an in
come Of three or four thousand francs, had
only an annuity Of one hundred louis
Rich, be world have been q sportsman !;
poor, he became sailor.
Eight or ten years rolled on. The sail
aor, In cruising around the world had doubl-
ed his small fortune. Chance led him to
Paris, and having at the moment no yoy-
age to make to Vera Cruz, or to Calcutta,
he paraded the boulevards believing that a
imanswho had FIVE or six thousand liyres a
/ gear has . good right to bask in the sun.
One day while crossing the Tuilleries, he
mat yoalg girl be thought the most beau
ftiful he had ever seen. He followed her
Mithout thinking any harm, 70 her residence
o in the Rue de Bae. The next day, and
Witheutsany settled purpose. the sailor was
q asgain trasersirg the garden Of the Tuille.
xies. The same woman and young girl
were walking there again. He caught the
young, girl eyes, and sho blushed ssceles.
sftial rosy RED" The samething took place
I fpr several successive days; but on Sunday
instead of. going to the Tuilleries he betool
himself to ST. Thomas d'Aquin, where a
the FIRST glance he caught sight of a littl'
white bonnet and little brown head from
which hasceula not turn his eyes. Altho
ahs Was beld and resolute as a rover, tn
; ssilor was by nature sentimental and ro
u n4ntie. One day the young girl had drop
ped q boquet of violets which be pouncet
.supen and wore next TO his heart as tails
man, 8
ssMn i,n said be to himself one morn
ing, = should like to have that little gir