A HINT FOR THE PLAYWRIGHT.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1306, 5 October 1883, Page 2

A HINT FOR THE PLAYWRIGHT.

I •,. — : •" : — ~ From New York comes a story which might well serve as the material for a melodrama, or at least for a sensational scene in one. It is as follows : — As the steamer Egypt made her slow and stately wsiy into the harbour the other day, a tall aiid we 1-clad gentleman stepped on her deck from the puffing tiv^ which had gone down the b.iy io meet her. Scarcely had his polished boots come in contact with the deck when the assembled passengers were startled by a piercing shriek, and a lady fell heavily forward. It was tho work of but an instant' to lift her. Was she dead.? No;'it\vas< merely a swoon. Wherefore this stiddon collapse 1 Her nostrils having been duly tickled with a

feather, the lady recovered, and embraced tho mysterious visitor. And then the quick display of emotion was . explained* Vf ;o?he visjtoriwas hei* busbaii^.: Hf^jhad travelled with he£ -froiji Livftrp : oolspj(it wWe'S^he vessel^iiclj^' * at Qhf'easfcdwii he ww t^jiorai|o make' soma purchases, atjid l wa^em't^iWhile j debating what he should'do, the sin >ko i ( spirals of the City of Rouj darkened the I , horizon by Spik-3 Island. Sue too. J was going ""to America, "and lie took " J passage by her. The 'favouring billows bore hfi- to liar d .^sti'viSion a fe'.v hours , before the arrival of the Egypt, and he , qnietlyTsfi, to DV-etiriswi'fc.' Th'ekdy,' " fancying him thousands of miles away. took him for the of hor lord j and master, and did what ladies always do in moments oc crisis — fainted.