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was not ready to return, and could not pos
sibly be under a month or so.
Judge Richmond insisted, while Jane
continued unyielding. Things continued
in a rather unpleasant state for several days,
till, at len 9Th as though weary of opposing
his dauthcT, lie ceased his cntreatics, and
consetcd, or allowed her TO pursue her own
course. This very interesting young man,
who. by the way bore the very aristocras-
ic eognomen Of Stanley Markham, contiau-
ed ais attentions despite of the hints so
plentifnily thrown out by the Judge. He
was sincerely attached to the young lady,
and believed she was TO him, and he would
not abandon her for forty fathers, unless she
$50 decided.
AS the case stood, it seemed impossible
for the Judge to carry out his ~favorite
scheme. The cousin must give pldce TO a
stranger, despite a fathers wish. Discour-
aged, eventually, Judge +. returned home,
to reconcile himself as best he might tc the
disappointment. The lovers sped well in
their wooings. After the departure of her
father, and when the time for James return
arrived, Stanley Markham accompanied
her to her fathers house as her accepted
suffer and future husband. His daughter
once more safely under his W roof,
Judge r. prohibited the attentions of the
young gentleman, who had So far forgotten
the rights Of a father as to persist in them
when he was fully acquainted with that.
fathers objections. The sovereign will of
woman was :or once insufficient, and stolen
interviews was their only resource. An
elopement WIGS projected, with as great o
regard to secrecy as two romantic young
lovers could exercise. a very dark night.
was chosen fer their flight, Markham hav-
ing arranged every ti:ing so as to expedite
their departure without t.e knowledge Of
the Judge. |
To disobey her parents was so common an
affair with Jane, that the present decision
gave her no uneasincss whatever; hut, to-
the home of her youth, 20 forsakr
those who had watched her from childhood,
to abandon all for another, and that other
the acquaintance of but a few months, it
was a trial she had but little anticipated.
Creeping softly TO the parlor she paused
before the portraits of her parents, although
their mute faces were pleading with her dis
obedience. Beside her own was that of
her cousin Frank, taken about the time
she had overheard the conversation of hcr
parents in regard 10 her union with him.
] his recalled all her former energy. She
would not marry cousin Frank to please
any body. She was old enough to choose
FOR herself, and she would.
Making the best of her way through the
she gave 40 look behind, lest by
hat one glance she should lose the courage
he sight Of her Cousins portrait had i'll
'pired. Stanley was in waiting with 4 car
S~pringing in, the door closed, and
lie fugitives were soon beyond the reach of
,u,:.it. Arrived in a small village, re-
note Ir,m the observation Of the great
the marriage ceremony was perform
d by the village pastor, and the Maynard
,air departed for New York. Ensconsed
n close quarters at the AStor, Jane adj
her parents, informing item OF her
afcty, and the pleasure it would give Hsri
o see them. II
To this letter Stanley appended a note,
Whatever it was, Jane did not see it. Its
was to bring the Judge to New York, |
yho, as he hastily entered the room of the c
unaways, exclaimed '
"Good enough for you, you ugly mink;
might have known Frank would outwlt
OH in the end. /.
A.glance of surprise was James only an
wer, as she witnessed the cordial greeting I
between her husband & father. It
1t was Frank, only cousin Frank, after
ii, whom she bad run away with and mar
led. Five years absence, together with a
,uge pair of whiskers, had so completely
him, that Jane never suspected
lin Of being the cousin about whom she
lad rallied so numerically, and Judge Rich
nond, tho he had informed Frank of James
contemplated visit to Virginia, never dream
a .b,t lao mouid frouble himself 10 look