Veritable Romance.

Cincinnati, O., Dec 24. -- The Enquirer's Gallipolis, O., special says the discovery of a manuscript in a secret drawer of an old clock in the city reveals a secret of the French court and shows the reason of the visit to that city in 1789 of the Duke of Orleans, afterward Louis Phillipe of France. The discovery was made by Claude M. Wall while taking apart an old French clock that had long been standing in the storage room of his store.

He found a secret drawer in the clock, which contained an old parchment manuscript written in French, and which was wrapped in a child's flannel skirt, richly embroidered and bearing a monogram. A piece of fine lace was also with the manuscrupt. Upon translation the manuscrupt purported to be a "true history of Adele de Alonquin." It bore the signature of Louis de Alonqiun and was dated Oct. 13, 1780.

It was addressed to Adele, apparently to be given her when she grew to maturity. The substance of it was that Adele was the daughter of the Duke of Orleans. The mother died at the child's birth, ignorant of the rank of the child's father. The writer was then placed in charge of the child and sent with it to Gallipolis, where there was a French colony. The story ran that he became her preceptor and finally, after the visit of the Duke of Orleans to Gallipolis, it was determined to send Adele to a Catholic school in France. The mother of Adele not being of royal blood, the marriage was kept secret.

Mr. Wall has sent the manuscript to the French Ambassador at Washington. Some portions of the papers giving names and lineage have not been made public.