Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-04-25
a Genuine Romanco in Real life.

~ tchHihc Romance IN Rcal Llfe.
HOW TWO Lowers WE'RE AT LAST UNITED.
Boston letter to Chicago Tribune
That truth is stranger than fiction,
everybody knows. But real life is not
merely more strange--it is often more
romantic than anything invented by the
! romanoe-writers. An instance of this has
recently occurred within our knowledge;
and the denouement Of the story is so
pleasant that | cannot refrain from Civ
ing it TO your readers. | can vouch for
Its correctness, as one at least of the
parties concerned is we'll known to me:--
| About ten years ago, a wealthy mer-
chant of this city, having an only child,
a beautiful girl of II, became alarmed
at certain indications of consumptive
tendency in her, and to recruit her health,
sent her to pass some months at coun-
try home among the hills of Vermont.
The young lady recovered her health but
she lost her heart. She made the ac-
! quaintance of young man named G.,
farmers son, intelligent and we'll edu-
Gated, but a working machinist. The
young people became warmly attached to
each other, and entered into an engage
ment conditional on the consent of the
lady's father. But the latter had more
ambitious views for his daughter and
when the young machinist presented him.
self as her suitor, he was treated with
very little ceremony,-was in fact, dis
missed by the father in manner so Of
ienslve that pride forbade him to make
any further advances. He went West,
and entered into business in St. Louis.
Having plenty Of talent, energy, and
character, he was successful, soon had a
large establishment of his own, and has
accumulated u handsome fortune. Alb
| sorbed in business, and in various occu-
pations OF man of prominence and in.
iiuence, he had doubtless outgrown his
early disappointment IN love but he had
! formed no other attachment, and remain
ed unmarried.
The young girl meanwhile, her lover
being quite lost TO her accepted the hus-
band selected by her father, was married
and went to live in France At the end
/ of two years she became q widow, but
continued to reside abroad. She was in
I possession of a modest fortune, and her
parents having died in this interval,
there was nothing TO call her back to
Boston. Up to September of last year,
this was The position OF affairs between
these two. With each the romance OF
their early youth had faded into the mem
ory of a tender dream; and nothing
could have seemed less likely than the
occurrence of any event which should
| reunite their sunderel lives.
However, it so fell out that the require
ments of Mr. Gs business took
him last year to Europe, and he remained
abroad several months. One evening,
laGe in September, he vas on board lit
tie steamer going from Marseillos to
| Leghcrn, when there came up one of the
sudden storms for which those waters
are unpleasantly noted. 1t was very
rough, but no danger was anticipated.
| Mr.. G--- sat on deck. watching the
storm and many other passengers,
among them several ladies, were doing
| the same One Of the latter had risen
from her seat to 60 below, and was stand
ing in an unguarded attitude, when, the
| steamer giving violent lurch, she lost
/ her balance and was thrown overheard.
MIR. c. saw the mishap, and in
stantly leaped after her into the sea. He
was fortunate enough to find and sup
port her but it was dark, the sea was run
ming high and though boat was quickly
sent out by the people on the steamer,
those in it were unable to find the mis-
sing passengers, and it was supposed that
they were drowned. But fortunately for
them, the steamer people, as soon as the
accident was known had thrown out va
rious things for them to cling to. A
plank floated near them and by this they
were able to keep themselves from sink.
ing. They were picked up the following
day by vessel bound for Malta, and
carried to that port.
And thus it was that these long gsepara-
ted lovers met at last In the darkness
of night, on plank in the stormy wa
ters of the Mediterranean, they recog-
nzed each other They were reunited,
but with no prospect before them but Of
speedy death in each Others arms.
Was it strange that the old love which
had slumbered, not died, in their hearts,
was re-awakened, and that, on finding
| themselves once more possessed of life,
they found it impossible to spend that
life apart? At any rate, they were mar
ried soon after, in the English chapel at
Malta, and having passed the winter
there for the benefit of the lady S health,
which bad suffered greatly from the ex-
posure she had undergone, they are at
present on their way home to America.
And may all true loves have an equally
fortunate isSuei