QUEER HOLIDAY ROMANCE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 142, 18 July 1929, Page 9

QUEER HOLIDAY ROMANCE

GIRL GRABS OLD LOVER. EXT RAORDINA R Y MEETING. A11 cxtraordinary holiday advcnture bel'ell a young woman at Torquay recentlv. While Miss Mildrcd Church, of Plv1110 1th was walking along the promenade she felt a tug at her handbag. She turucd round sharply and cauglit a man's arm. Instead of banding him over to the police, however, for attempted theft, she gave a cry of joy and stood almost speecliless with astonishment. He proved to be a man to whom she was engaged five years ago and from whom she was "separated owing to a mistake. The strange meeting is to have a sequel in a wedding shortly. "After we |iarted five years ago," M iss Church said, "I did evcrything I could to find him. but it was 110 use. Imagine our mu tuai amazcment when wo camo face to'facc 011 the promenado. "It was a horilile iuoincnt, hut he lias explained everything. He had never attemptod anything like tbnt before, but had been driven to it by hunger. I helievc his story, and 1 have forgiven him. I am going to ask my fatlier to find him work.