Official's Attempt to Convict His Unrecognized
Son Was Interrupted by Wife
He Deserted Many Years Before.
Coincidence--chance, play a tremendous part in human history. Fate is
another name for the same thing; so is luck. All these words are merely
our puny euphemisms for X, the unknown quantity.
Not a day passes but the story of a remarkable coincidence is brought to
public notice. A stranger incident never occurred, however, than this one,
the account of which we have unearthed in an old copy of the _Chronique de
Paris_.
A youth of about nineteen was brought to trial for having broken the
window of a baker's shop and stolen a two-pound loaf.