Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-14
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

The Manchester Mirror publishes the fol-
lowing story -
In the fall of 1S47, young man came to
this city from a northern country in quest of
employment in the mill. After weeks of I'M
successful effort, he became reduced to the
pitiabe necessity of disposiug Of his best
clothes, in order to obtain means to iquidate
his bills and seek employment elsewhere.
After consulting about disposing Of his clothes
at auction, he returned to his boarding house
to pick up the same, when the lady of the
house handed him letter, directed to him in
a female hand, which she informed him had
been lest there by boy; which on being opened
was found to contain $40 in bank bills with
note of hand for the same amount, accom-
panied with the following explanation.
Mr.. -, Knowing your pressing wants,
snd having the means at my disposal, send
you $40 with which you will please immedi-
ately settle your board bill, and call at the
card room in - Milton - Corporation,
when by applying to the overseer, whom have
seen, you will be able by giving your name,
to obtain situation as card stripper. The
work may not be desirable, but persevere, and
in time it will lead to something better. In
return for the money, you will please sign the
accompanying note, which you will enclose in
an envelope without direction, and with PEN
ny for postage, request the postmaster to place
it in box No. STRANGER.
The note was made payable to bearer.
Though greatly surprised at such timely
favor from the hand of an entire stranger he
gladly availed himself of it, and impeed by
an irresistible power, he obeyed all the d.
rections to the very letter. On application
to the designated room he found that the stu
ton had been secured for him, through the
earnest solicitations of yourig tad }, who r-ae
equally stranger to the overseer, yet whose
pleadings he could not withstand.
The whole transaction was SO unsual that
after our hero, by assiduous devotion to his
business, had secured the confidence of his
overseer, he related to him the whole affair,
and solicited his aid in endeavoring to obtain
the name, and whereabouts of his benefactress.
He entered willingly into the plans yet two
years had passed, and the mystery remained
unsolycd. In the meantime, the stripper had
been promoted to grinder, and had laid by Of
his earnings the $780, with interest, in the
Savings Bank, so as to be prepared to settle
SO Just claim at any moment.
In his first endeavors to unravel the mys-
terry, he applied to the Post Office, but found
on inquiry that the box in which the note was
placed was not used by any body, permanently
at the time of the occurrence. Every succeed
ing attempt in other directions proved equally
abortive until at last he ceased all effort, and
resolved to wait for coming events to unfold
or coming time to reveal the mystery.
Our hero, after residence of over four
years in this city, had formed some valuable
. acquaintance, and it is not strange, that not.
J withstanding his pecuniary obligations to ono
he had formed very intimate acquaintance
with another of the fair sex. True, bis moral
sense rebelled at first, against yielding up biz
; affestons to one while being so strongly under
: gratitude to another; but gratitude to the
vnknoWn was compelled to surrender, o. last