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Show FIRE FOILS CUPID. Sad Story of an Angry Lover and a Heart-broken Heart-broken Maiden. I know a case where the course of true love has run crooked as a ram's horn. Miss Blank, a graduate of the Belle vue training school, was wooed and won by a gay young doctor. He took a mortgage mort-gage on her affections in the form of an engagement contract and sailed away to complete his education at the medical schools abroad. This was two years ago last September, and for a year and a day after his departure love's rivulet ran smoothly. Then the serpent entered their Eden. The girl lost her lover's address in a fire which consumed her abode so quickly that she escaped only with her life and her nightgown. His letters continued to come regularly for a number of weeks. At length he began to express surprise that she had not written. Then came reproaches, re-proaches, then anger, then anxiety and finally despair. In none of his communications, communi-cations, however, did he think to give his address. The girl was nearly frantic. Faithful to the last, he sent her a cable a year ago last Christmas. Since then she has not heard from him. He lives in Minneapolis, and his family name is a common one. She does not know his father's initials. Was ever a lovelorn maiden in such a plight, and did Cupid ever play a meaner trick on his votaries? New York Mail and Express. |
