The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-04-20
Mistrllaneons.
vICIssITUDEs OF A MILLION
POUNDS.

> POUNDS.
i A. the time Uf our story there was an auctiol
, store near the Boursc Paris, France
. The Viscount Robert n lie p was twenty
five years Of age had an income Of %, 900 livres
: wit, good looks, au illusiTious name aud could
: have made very brilliant marriage lie ought
to have been the happiest man in the world
lie only had one regret lie had nothing 10 do
Tie was unhappy a. his happiness lie needed a
little bitterness IN his cup OF perpetual sweets
but Heaven refused " grant II 20 him ie
resolved 10 us 10 other lands there 10 seek ,hs
fatigue, tue suierings, aud the novelties h,
lacked
30 five yeats ago he entered by chance an
auction room just as they were putting up a
capital portable writing desk
lie was about 10 travel, and Il was jusi wha,
hc needed so he bought II for three hundred
francs
II probably cost more than three iitaes ,ha,
sum. In the interior there were compartments
ioF everything, and plate bore the name of
l.osi ", uuc OF ihc richest peers iu England
lie was enchanted with hi. purchase and carried
% home "a triumph some days after he sat out
TOT SPAN As he went from Madrid to Cadjz
he Wa stopped hy thieves, who completely rob-
bed hin' The "uli Thing be- missed was his
writing desk Tie iiaycd them 10 return H.
They refused hn, their chief, Don Jose Maria
promised iu send u after him TO Cadiz on
receipt OF ransom. Rober, promised two
iundfcd reals, and gave the address ofihe hotel
where be ineti 10 stop when ~ caah lie sen,
the money and go; the desk
In America. 10 the WUds Of MrAico. his d,sk
was carried of hy ihr N,A.cau- Iic thought II
/ lost -Four months afterwards he found IL IN a
shop in Vera Cruz AMI l'nid five hundred francs
/ for IL.
In lst3 having feigIucl 10 fTaucr he though;
I oi going 20 Baden lie jassed the summer iherc
and went 10 l'iii- visiting cologne aud Aix.la.
| Chapelle on the way
! Arrived Al the frontier which separates France
from Bee. ilIi, hr 'c.i sn'o the hands Of the
cusion-huuse uiliuis some DAYS before some
skiilin fellows had dciauied the customs 20
consid, ,fah.e amount consequently ;nc Unccfs
weTe on ;h,i, guAri
The search Nus ,iug .na 'hr N.-colui isrrame
iurious
wha; do YOU frau hc sskr,. .ugt.ly.
oh, SIT, uhi"cis q. Etc,i value can he conceal
81 IN u snla space
Have the as - smuggler he asked
No VA; 'iicic ambassadors who smuggl.
wiIhou, .rsup,c
The search was continued aud tie viscoun,
Was asoaishcG 10 ste The officers open drawers
IN the desk Of the existence Of Which he was |
ignorant. ~ last. 'ull Of impaiience he wished |
20 reclaim H.
Now, that you have secu ~, said b. let Us |
not prolOng this unpleasant investigation
What DO you say
J say that you have se,u a.. aml know tina,
have nothing COutiaband
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/ run the ri,k Of being losi
P,iuee B---Lrc,, ~ j.A h,, ,..i...a
/ that he hal never ocnocalel !, hank na,s IN !,
I iIc ,olA the Visroun, ,hat In lcav;n, i,,i, a.,
had gone 10 Paris ana haA given thr aesl =.
/ lanscuse of,be o,,efa Iouisc p a. -
I NO, IN lhe habit ~ coneeallng n,.nc,
B kUbcts returned 20 Fafis.
There hs EARNED that after lie oi galan'ry
y