The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-21
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
How Daughter Repaid Noble Act
After Many Years.
From. the Cincinnati Enquirer

How a Daughter Repaid Noble ACT
After Many Years.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
The concluding chapter in story that
glo les in all the romance of creation OF
Daudet was enacted in this city last Mon
day.
About eight years ago Tony Horning,
well-known man about town, returned from
a summer trip with a circus with which he
then Travelled, The season had been an un
usually fruitful one for him, aud he had
gathered together q very liberal sum OF
money.
Entering the residence OF his mother, be
walked into the kitchen whore he found her
sitting and talking to sad eyed woman
with little girl, whose face showed palmer
than words could tell the lack Of food that
the poor little creature had experienced.
Plainly they were in great distress.
Tony grufiiy asked what they were doing
there, and the kind-hearted mother ex
planned that they were in the city without
friends or money.
Notwithstanding the appealing looks Of
the careworn woman and her half-staryed
child, Toney still DOUBTED the truth of their
story.
Inc unfortunate female said that she was
trying to get to Denver, but saw little
no es of realizing her object
Tony finally inquired how much ticket
to that point would be, and was informed
| that one-an emgrant rate-could be pur-
chased for S24. He had gradually begun
to be won by the pitiful altitude OF the
| strange visitors, and handing out the
| amount named told the woman to go and
| buy the ticket.
She was starting out with the child when
| the suspicious Samaritan said: "Oh! you
| can't bunko me. Leave the child here
The request was granted. and she left.
Seemingly her feet possessed strange spe5d
for one so SICILY, for she was going with
the document that was to land her, as she
asserted, with her husband IN short order.
Happiness aud joy were fairly Breaking
out OF her face, and having become 50 al
fected by the womans strangely honorable
actions, he purchases a most paIatable lunch
and escorted her and the child to the depot
ard sent them Oh these way rejoicing.
The strange episode was uDpermost in
HOrning's mind for weeks, but gradually
the thoughts of it wore away, and finally
remembrance of it disappeared entirely.
And now for the denouemant, and no iic-
ton reads more romantic.
Last Mo day young boy called at
Horning's gun store, GA Main street, and
told him that a lady, Mis-, Lizzie Chandler,
at the st. James hotel. wan Ell to see him.
As doubtful as ever of the honesty of the
human race, he inquired il it was not some
chambermaid.
mo. She is perfect lady, and she gave
me- $l.n
With his ideas completely at sea as to who
Lizzie Chandler was, and what any lady
should want of him, and never dreaming of
the remarkable incident of years ago, he
I aIked into tae hotel and was shown to the
parIor As he entered IL 4 very handsome
young lady, stvlishly DIRE sed, advanced.
lis this h1r. HorningP she asKel.
at is"
"You don't remember meP'
81 can't say that do"
"Well, / am the little girl you found with
her mother ia your mothers kitchen SO
many years ago am Lizzie Chandler"
10 ming was unable 10 artlculate, SO
thoroughly was he overcome by the re-
markable unfolding of an experience that
had interested him so.
when we reached Denver" she con
tinued, "we found my father, who snbse-
queutly went to Silver City, Col, where we
lived There mother died land the tears
| trickled down TIE cheeks Of the reciter as
she related the story of her affiiction), and
| Just before her death she made me promise
| to search for you and return her most CRATE
| ful thanks for the kindness showed her and
| myself, and you never will know how much
we have thought of you and how much
mother has talked about you"
Mornings tongue Glove to the roof of his
| mouth, and lump in his throat that would
not down rendered him speeches.. Tie
meeting was continued for a short time,
when she babe him passionate good-by
and Horning returned to his home. where
| he found that the mysterious young lady
had called and left the original amount be
| had given the mother, and a handsome
diamond pin.
| IL is supposed that the father had amassed
a fortune as a miner, and the daughter had
taken this method of repaying for the kind
ness that made the union OF husband and
wife possible.