The Cincinnati Daily Star

Restaurant Romance.

A bit of romance recently came to my notice which has not before appeared in print. Some time in December last a girl about seventeen years of age, who at that time was serving as table waiter in a large dining restaurant, was arrested for stealing a package of money from the pocket of a gentleman's overcoat which was hanging in the room while he was eating his dinner. At the preliminary examination a party swore to having seen her take the coat down and hang it up quickly again; that she soon left the room for a short time; and as it was not to be found she was held for trial. In vain she protested that she merely moved the coat to avoid its getting soiled: in vain with tearful eyes she offered to be searched. The circumstances were suspicious, and the officers inexorable. In the meantime the gentleman who had lost the money became interested in her history, found that she was an orphan girl, and though comparatively friendless, bearing an excellent character. Further than this, he ascertained that she was of English parentage, that her name was the same as his own, and to make the story short, from the evidence which he could not disbelieve, that she was the daughter of his own brother, whom he supposed to have died childless in Australia several years ago. Of course he declined prosecuting her, and, as he is wealthy and without near kin, he at once arranged to take her home with him on his return from the West, whither he was en route. The other day, he with his newly adopted child, so strangely brought to him, departed for New York, whence they will soon sail for England.