Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1873-05-29
ROMANCE or REAI

There IS q little r0m10 the
rounds about Richard Far@ ~
and his wife Phoebe. and r. s. S15
and his wife Mary. The =
strange fortune that hspr !. = =
pies is 50 circrmssansi Lilb
in the main true. ~
English. and we're nc, -
in England. before the heSnnouncs}I 5 o.
World to ccrrt the gyandidste to rerss
| Dick uinele aud s.j in .he Sen.,r !
blondes, aud Bob cepi2g Fll clec,;..
browns. and both women we ss.ns1s q
their respective type. aud all we're young
and adventurous. The two couples didn't
come over in the same ship. but they came
about the same time, and they did not
know each other.
( Dick Dinele and his pretty wife went
to Petroleum Centre. Pennsylvania. with
capital Of $4,000. which was soon sunk
in oil wells-all but S40O. Dick divided
the sum with Phoebe and started out alone
for the Argentine Republic to retrieve his
lost fortune and make another. lie struck
a good streak of mining look, and cleared
81. 600 in the FIRST two years, whict he
sent to Phoebe. and which she duly re-
ceivcd. This reconciled her to her hus-
bands absence for the time, but she heard
from him no more for some years, and she
began to reg,rd him as dead. The fac.
Is he was living a wild sort Of life in
So-th America and had almost forgotten
his blonde wife, though be carried her
picture.
/ Bob Moore and his brunette wife had
also comfortable capital when they ar
rived in this country. and lost some Of it
in unfortunate specnlations. Bob left Mary
in Rochester n. Y, and went to South
America full of golden visions He prom
ised to write to his wife soon, but never
did, and was not lucky in the Argentine
country. Finally Dick Dingle and Bob
Moore met. aud both were vagabonds. in
a strange country. and without money or
friends. They joined their fortunes and
told each other the story of their lives
There was remarkable similarity between
them. They both had pictures of their
wives, and, strange to say, each went into
rap:ures over the others picture, and cared
very little for his own.
In mad Freak vsgabond Dick and vac-
abond Bob exchanged the pictures of their
wives, ani some luck appeared to come to
them afterward. They were fast friends
aud accumulate some money, aud began
to behave themselves better. II was sew
en- years since Dick Dingle had written to
his wife. and one day in fit of repentance
he wrote her a letter enclosing 81 900,
and asking her to join him i'll South Amer
leo as soon as possible. In Tie meantime
she had removed from Petroleum Centre
to Philadelphia, but the letter aud money
found her after long delay.
As Dick had waited the proper time,
and hca.d nothing from his wife, he be-
gan to feel uneasy, and one day resolved
to return TO the United States to hunt her
up. He started from Panama on the Eng
lsh steamer George Watts, for the Uni
ted States on Friday, the 7th day Of June
last. while his wife sailed from New York
for the Argentine Republic the next day,
Saturday, jane s. Dick went to Petro-
leum Centre. thence to Philadelphia. but
could not end his wife or hear anything
of her. lie then went to New York. re-
solved TO take the next packet for South
America to Bob Moore. But something
occurred to prevent the voyage He got
on little bit of a spree in New York aud
happened to stumble into store on Broad
way to buy some trifng article.
There. behind the counter, he saw
handsome brunette, whose face looked
eharmingly familiar. lie was not mista.
ken; it was she. and the picture be car
ried proved it. The acquaintance ripen-
ed. Mary had sought and obtained di-
yorce from Bob Moore, for desertion, and
was free and lovely, and still young
Dick Dingle told the story of his wife's
disappearance. and the couple resolved
tha, sue must be dead. and so those two
go. married, and are now living happily
in Brooklyn
Phoebe DiIgle plowed the deep to join
her rccreant but rcpen,ant husband in the
Argentine Republic She wa. doomed to
disappointment. but she found Bob Moore,
and Bob showed her the picture which he
had received from Dick Dingle himself;
but he did not tell her the whole story.
In fact. it is uncertain what Bob did saw
TO the beautiful woman who had come 50
far to find husband and failed; but j, is
quite certain that those two got married
in very short time. and now live in good
style in Cordova city, Argentine Repub.
lie,