| Show A romance of yesterday the independence beige belge of august lith says that about a month ago a legal gentleman called in his bis carriage at the frencl conserva toire and inquired for mile mlle Mat Bla mathilde mathlide thilde bilde benoit a young lady who was wag one of the pupils ile he requested re bested her to call with her mother on the tha following following day at his office on business of 0 importance and drove away she went at the appointed hour but ws vs w s nevermore never nevor more seen at the conservatoire her lover one georges durand also a pupil became very grave and reserved on the mysterious subject and shortly after he also disappeared and was seen nomore what took place behind the scenes meantime was as follows tha the next day after the appearance of the th notary Bla hla mathilde thilde and her mother called at hla hia office as already stated bein being very anxious to ascertain what be he wanted when they were seated the notary said peter benoit born 1760 was a pupil of the conservatoire afterwards he gained a great reputation aa as a composer a singer and a professor in 1804 a rich american who wanted a professor of singing and composition foghis daughters en engaged aged him to come to new york here biere under an italian name ha he soon acquired a great renow renown ji his music was sung in the theatre theatres the atres sand and he gave concerts which were always crowded finally his hla lessons were so much sought after that they paid him as much us twenty dollars per lesson he died two months ago at the age ot of ninety one having no direct heirs he leaves all his fortune to the children and grandchildren of his Us brother thomas you miss bliss are the granddaughter and sole descendant of thomas consequently your grand uncles unties fortune belongs to you has that inheritance some importance inquired madame benoit well said the notary who already appeared tad ead e are d much interested in the young girl you had better guess 2 I 1 bevill it be as much as thirty thousand francs francsi 9 inquired mother nother benoit who du did not nol dare to hope so much mith better than that fifty thousand francs go on I 1 sixty thousand I 1 f still hi higher hiher her still higher go on still 10 A hundred thousand fohl oh you are goin going so slowly that we shall never come to an end peter benoit has left a fortune of fifteen hundred thousand francs but what of the young 0 man her lover georges durand the othe other r poor pupil of the conservatoire his fellow pupils could never guess though the they guessed every way they could think what had iad kad become of him but bat in about three weeks time a letter of invitation to the marriage of mr georges durand with miss bliss mathilde mathlide dia Bla thilde benoit was received by the professor Profess oc oz of the conservatoire and by several pupils the ceremony was tota to take taka place lace at saint phillippe du roule and tha dinner at the mansion inhabited by the newly married couple in courcelles street |
