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Show DIVORCED BY CHANCE. A Dutchman Whe Discarded Hl Bride Far Game of Faro. The attention of Marshal Young was recently called to a ;ase that possesses all the glamour of stage romance and melodrama. A young Dutchman wiih more assurance than wits came down from Park City with several hundred dollars in his inside pocket. lie was on his road to the hymeneal alter and a thousand passions were beating wildly against his bosom. Ho had often heard of the allurements of the faro table, hud listened to the legends of the imaginary winner, and on his arrival in Zion determined de-termined to give the goddess a trial. He experienced no dilliculty in finding a way to the lurid chambers of chance and sat himself at her tickle shrine. Turn came and went. So did the Dutchman's ducats until he finally rose a bankrupt man. He had started on his way to Chicago where a young girl had consented to become his bride. The ceremony was to have been performed on Wednesday, and all preparations for the, soul-stirring event were in progress. He was uow "a busted community." and appealed to the authorities lor the recovery of his money. This the game declined to disgorge. dis-gorge. Tho funds had been fairly won and deposited. "Give me enough money to buy ticket to Chicago," , wailed tho Dutchman. Dutch-man. The plea was taken under consideration, considera-tion, and as the dealer looked forward to that bridal veil something gouged at his heart and the money was forthcoming. forth-coming. The Dutchman has gone, lie did not go to Chicago to claim the hand that had promised to comfort his life, but went back to the mines, in whose sepulchral depths he is drilling for another an-other stuko. He has been taught a severe lesson, and will novor again be divorced by dame chunco. |