Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-11-20
ucrSSErUpE OF A MILLIONAIRE.

ETCTSEETUDEs Or mALLoN
At the time Of our story, there was an aue-
ton store near the Bourse-
The Uscount Robert y. de P@was TWEEN
-v-fve years of age, had an income Of 25,00O
Iivsrs. with good looks an illustrious name,
and could have made avery brilliant marriage.
re ought 10 have been the hsppiest man in
TIE world. He had only one regret-he had
nothing 10 DO. He was unhappy at bis hspPi-
ness. he constant tranquility OF hfetatigued
lin. He needed a little bitter in his cup OF
perpetual sweets. ButheaTen refused to grant
FL 3 him. He resolved 70 fy TO other lands,
here to seek the fatiguss, the suherngs5 the
novelties be lacked.
So. I've years ago. be entered by chance an
auction room. Just as they were putting up a
capital portable writing desk
He was about to travel, and II was Just what
ne needed; 90 be bought Il for three hundred
francs.
trrcbsbIv cost uore than ten times the
sun. In the interior there were compartments
sor everything, and e plate bore the name OF
Lord N-.one Of the richest peers Of En-
land. He was enchanted with his purchase,
and carried Il home in triumph. Some days
aHer he set out for Spain; as be went from
Madrid 10 Csdiz, be was stepped BY thieves
wbo eounIetelv des1oilsd him He prayed
them to return it.. They refused; but their
chief. Don Jose Marie, promised to send It at
far hin to Cadfz. on receipt Of a ransom.
Robert nromised two hundred reals and gave
ne address Of the hotel where be meant to stop
al Cadiz. He sent the money, and got the
desk
wss carried of bvthe Mexicsns. He thought
f. jost. -Four months sfterward be found It
IN a shop in Vera Cruz, and paid five hundred
IN $50. having returned to France, be
thought Of going 70 Baden He passed the
sumner there and went TO Paris, visiting Co
l0rns and Aix-Ia-ChapeHe On the way
Arrived at the frontier which separates
r-sree from Belgium, be fell into the hands Of
he custom house ohcers- Some days before
some Fkllful fellows had defrauded the Gus
IONS 10 a considerable amount, consequently
lie ozcers were on their guard
The search was long and the Niseount De-
cane furious
g Oh, sir objects Of great value an % COZ
csaled in a small space"
aHave the air Of a s~mugElerp .
aNo.b ut there are ambassadors who Snug
&c wifhcut scTgpie-"
Tbe sesreh CONTINUED. and the Yiseount was
sstonishsd 70 see the officers open drawers IN
hfs desL Of the existence ~ which he was
ignorant. At last, full Of impotence, Dc wish
ed 70 reclaim It.
act Us not proiong this unpleasant fnFesttga-
don.n
@What DO Won say, sir 20
81 ssv fbsf YOU have sen all, and know that
Ihare nothing coatrsband7
Year GOODNESS. Sir, makes ne pity you
Have you nothing - bring toTths n you g
30 vo1 viii Be freed BY raging the dues ; { not
andI find anyLhings there viii be a eenhsea'
ton ard a hne.@
aBut you have seen all"
. pe~haps.D
. what 90 you mean By perhaps
O. Is vel done. ANY one bus myself might
have been deceived"
sns
@whydsesivs nsP an going to PFOE'th'
If Tou find anything else, IsweaT kn0F
"A poor excuse. IVAN Jon that I do not
believe voa-"
aLstus huish this bad joks.D
ave VII, and 60 much the worse FOR you
And with a nail the officer pressed against
what was apparently a little ornament, Ehien
aew hack. disclosing drawer in which was a
ne oaesr took it out, looked att, and Pui
IT at is not e~ontrabana," said he with .
bow, . and with 80 much money was WronE
20 secuss v0u.7
HUr me NNaCU.NH vas HaAFEAI
/. Bank notes = cried be. But ] od no
nut them lbsre.n
HYou are very fortunate, sir, Il you tan Tor
Ests million 50 readily"
IN fact there was a million Of pounds ster'
ling.
replaced then, and determined 70 ind tn
owner. Arrived at London, ife sought on
I4rd-w whose name was engraved inside
The nobleman affirmed that the money va
not hfa. He had given this desk to a forme
valet Of his, whose address be gave 70 the M
ms valet was now a wesliby shopkeePer ]
PAN Mall. He told the Visoonut thai be kne'
rorrbf Of his nonsF, but while IN isaiy ~
~ ~ fssf 10 Count Luigi Settimani, w
vss IMMENSELY rich, and in whose service !
ne viseount set out for italy, and went
psrsra where Count Sstimsnis lived !
--ecornized the desk, but svowed hat ne p;
never placed any money in T. Sc sem 3
Uscount. however, to The signora Laura n
q former prims donna Of The san Caray
whose house, in his gay days, be had forgOtt'
lis desk.
The Signora Laura recognized the deEk a.
rsirted that she had given it 20 the kussi'
Prince, Alexis B. IN exchange FOR pea
collar. A.,
was very happy. He nov bad something
do-to fud the owner of the hidden none
He placed It at interest, in order that Il mig
not run the risk Of being lost
Prince p kuea the desk, bat declarl
nat he had never concealed a single bank 10
in If. Re told the Niscount that in ieavi
italy he had gone 10 Paris, and had given {
desk TO 4 danssnse Of the opera, Louise p
who was not Ia the habitof eohessling none
Robert returned 70 Paris
There be learned that after a life Of q
lsntrv and-luNuTT, Louise ?" bad died
misery, ard thsther furniture was sold BY b
creditors. Il was a. that sale that he 3
bought the desk.
What to do nowf He could onlythink r
DE maker Of the desk had placed the moi
there, or that IL was deposited there by
Spanish robbers wbostole IL.
The maker AZ London wrote thai be kn
nothing II II. and the Viscount learned a
the Spanish robbers had an been hung u
since.
All perhaps II had been deposited IN
desk BY the Mexicsns. He went 70 Mex
whence be returned two months ago.
he there discovered that one Of those Il
whose hands # had fahsn was trspper, v
had carried o. a Considerable trafs n *
VIII the Americans. ThisaEas sufficient
must have been the uaa who eoneezsd
bark notes. -
Tie Vscount earanusd his 5 sreh AMI
last found, one day, - Vt6 Gu. 4 very n
" rirlof seventeen. ne daughter 81 re u
lean BY fbe Frenckwomsn, who had con,
Vera Cruz sss miiiiner.
L answer 10 bis QUESTIONS, she told hin
she knew nothing Of her father. but thai
had been killed SF = Texan ranger.
She was exceedingly pretty, and ike a