Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-06
An Original Gale,
Written for the Fremont Journal.
THE TWO WILLEES; Or, THE MTSTA
KEN LOVERS.
BY LILLY LARKsPUR.

| CHAPTER FIRST.
srELL cousin EHie am astonished said Irene Nyms,
as she entered her cousins bright morning 81
am astonished that you should have fallen in love. had
given up despair and had about to the conclusion
that you different from the rest of the human
and that love would never find place in your bosom;
but
why, Irene, declare, what is the matter with youl-
What reason have you to believe that am in ovei"
"oh you need try to keep any thing from me-
Piled Irene 81 will certainly find out all your secrets.
suppose you fancied that I would know of your
lovely moonlight walk you took last mig from the
cert with Willie"
Ee bIushed deeply as she heard his pronounced
-as most girls are apt to do under such circumstances
but did not reply.
Perhaps before proceed farther it would be wellto
give our readers little description of the characters of
our two heroines.
Ee May was the only daughter of wealthy merchant
in the little village of b. She naturally of gen
tie nature and that with her good looks and lavshed
wealth. won her many lovers. And indeed she loas a
lovely creature to look upon One might read world of
love and tenderness in her mild blue eyes, and indeed
many hearts had melted beneath their tender gaze And
then her golden rngIe floating over her pure white
brow made her appear like angel than of human
BIRTH Just the opposite in appearance her cousin
Irene She was the eldest two daughters of Judge
Nyms and the lighthearted creature that
shook ringles and beautiful ones she had to shake
They were oa glossy jet black and she had long dark
ashes which shaded as sparkling black eyes as ever were
looked through. There hut months difference in
their ages and they both "sweet seventeen They
had been playmates from early childhood, and
be found together. It pleasing them ogeth
err they made such contrast Efe with her quiet gen.
tie manners, and angelicke appearance and Irene gay
and thoughtless wild and fascinating 1t was general
wonder how they could agree with and DISPOSE
ons derent butthey did and the best friends
They universally Acknowledged to be the village beau
ties; but hieh the belle would have been hard task
to ascertain Neither of them wanted for admirers for
could boast of than constantly hand for
the two cousins Irene inclined to the part the
coquette She would encourage young opay her at
tenon and when confident of having the love- they
forward to offer their heart and hand would cast
them aside with painful and mortfy ing indifference. But
notwithstanding her coquetish nature she had prefer
ence to one. This lucky young mans name Willie
Lee He Young interesting and inherited vast wealth.
and Irene truly loved him. But yet he had propos
ed fearing perhaps he would meet the fate Of her
other wooers.
1t was different with Eae. She had as many admirers
Irene, but she did not wish to play the traers part
and with easy grace by look gave them to
derstand that could return theirove 1t need not
strange then that Irene should think it strange
when she heard that Eie had been walking with
tWillie." And indeed she had walked with Willie, and
taken fancy him. too mSeh to the surprise of every
one But was not the Wiie that Irene thought it to
be- No. but it was Willie Dayton, cousin to Willie Lee
and of respectable appearance and standing in society,"
not better But Irene only hearing that it Willie
that Ee May had been walking WITH and thinking,
of course of other but her Willie; jealousy that
greeneyed monster at entered and possession
her hea and to find out the truth of the report she had
called on her cousin the morning that story
mences.