The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-08
HIS OWN DAUGHTER.

Startling Discovery While Inves tigat-
ing His Intende d Wife's Antecedents.
Two men came out of Madison square one
bright May morning anu walked toward
Broadway.
The younger one was scanning the faces
OF the passers-by and he interrupted his
companions remarks byexclajming: "Joye!
That girl rides well. Look, old man"
A girl was coming down the avenue on
horseback slender, supple creature, with
dainty fowerlke face. Beside her rode
young lad, evidently her brother.
Just where the avenue mergeS into
Broadway her horse took fright and
plunged Unexpectedly aside, throwing her
from the saddle. She pluckily re tanned her
grasp on the rein, and was dragged several
feet before assistance came. Then, just as
the young mau reached her side, she tainted
dead away and fell into his arms.
OF course he carried her home. OF course
he called aftcrward. OF course they fell in
love. OF course lie proposed. And Of
course he was turned away by her stern
father. All according to the old-fashi0ned
novel in three volumes.
Well they met each other at every OppOT-
tunity, and a. last were secretly married.
Shortly afterward her mother, who was an
invalid, was ordered abroad for the winter.
She desired the c0mpaniouship of her favor
lite daughter, and the young wife WAS
hurried away with only hasty farewell TO
her boy husband. Letters came by every
steamer. She was well and happy. She
would return in the spring.
At last there came one con taining news
that nearly drove the young fellow mad
with Joy and fear. He prepared to go at
once TO Join her. Before the steamer sailed
4 cabegram came from her father from
Paris.
marie is dying" it ran, "Come at
once"
When he reached the hotel where they
were stopping Marie was dead. The stern
old father uttered no reprOaches. lie took
the husband up to the chamber where Marie
lay, cold and silent in death.
As they were leaving he said. THE child
died, too, several days before the mother"
The young man made no reply He was
half crazed with grief and despair. lie re-
turned 10 America, and he never SAW his
wife'S family again.
All this happened nineteen years ago.
He never married again. Indeed, few of
his friends know he was ever married.
They cali rim confirmed old bachelor
Last winter he met a beautiful young girl
who was visiting some friends Of his. She
was many years younger than he, but he
loved her from the moment he saw her.
She had q peculiar fascination for him.
There was a vague, intangible, mOcking
memory recalled by her laugh. the sound of
her voice. lie could not explain IL himself.
But men in love do not bother themselves
about explanations.
He asked her to marry him and was &C.
cepted. Then he began investigating her
antecedents.
10 his surprise he found she was his
daughter, educated in a convent in France,
given the name Of her maternal great grand
mother and brought up in the belief that
she was an orphan.
And he, her father, loved her aud came
dangerously near marrying her. Very good
for three-colCmn novel. you say, but too
improbable to be true. Yet it is true, quite
true, and that man walks among you to-day
in this big city. But the daughter has gone
back to the convent in France.-N. Y.
Reader.