Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-08-23
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seoWIed upon me, and cave ny companion .
glance OF distrust and dispIossurs So soon 40
he was out OF eight, loft the ladies and hurried
up the hlnty street TO the parsonage The old
clergyman was quite willing to como down be
nad already. he said, promised to marry cot.
pie at No. 81, at HIAs o'clock, and no could es.
silly come down an hopv earlier 10 No. 80. !
designated my own room as tho place 10 meet
me, but VIC had decided that tho ceremony should
be performed in Lady GFey's paVlor, o room ad.
jacent to Miss Copyingham's own, After oon.
cIuding the arrangements with ths clergyman.
and obtaining q License, ! hsstened back TO pre-.
pare my luggage and seRd 1t TO tho depot, Az
eight O'Clock everything on ny part wss rsady,
and sat In the large arm chair beneath tho
Ventilator, waiting for the signal thai would
indicate that Miss ConyIpgham was ready, The
signal did not come, but in It's place ! heard q
low voice repeating my pans, / Sprang up;
there stood Bess.
Z" am locked ip," she exclaimed In terror.
" Herr Won Holt saw us together and informed
my father, and he says shsll not leave this
room, or communicate with my aunt even, until
the clergyman comes At nine O'clock, He suS.
peets US, you and !, of clipping,
Only one moment was coDfoHpded ; In the
next an expedient occurred to mo but would
BesS take advantage of it'~-that was tho ques-
tion.
" Wait moment" said, " until write
note to your aunt, Lady Grey" 1t was writ
ten and sent and Lady Grey and her maid
stood at my door. briefly informed her of the
facts, and suggested her only chance of fight.
Bess must come through the Ventilator. The
clergyman would be there in fifteen minutes,
and we could be married in my parlor, instead
of Bess's.
" She can never do it," exclaimed her lady
ship.
<" She must" firmly replied
8.''zWelI, we will abide her decision" she an
s~ered. jumped Up, and in aalf,a-dozeu
words told Miss Conyingham of the hope re-
naming to US; would she avail herself of it,
Yes" was her quiet reply.
The word was no sooner spoken than began
to cut away with my knife the piece from the
panel of the door, in which revolved the axis of
the ventiator. The glass was soon removed,
and the ventilator free fom incumbrance.
reached through, whispering to the trembling
girl to come at once. She sprang without hes
itation, and in i've minutes she was safely by
my side. then hastened TO put back the win
dow in its place, that the vacuem might not ex-
cite suspicion.
Bess had short time to compose herself be.
fore the clergyman entered. He began the GER
emony directly, and was soon the husband of
the loveiest gilr in the world. As was paying
my five pound lecture fee, heard door un-
locked in the adjoining room and loud excla-
nation, accompanied by an oath. | did not
wait for the denouement but hurriedly bade
Lady Grey and the clergyman good bye the
latter, by the way, saw going around to the
performance Of the other ceremony at nine o.
clock-and carried off I}ess to the carriage. We
went to London that night by rail. The next
week got letter from home, with permission
to return. availed myself OF it, and brought
my English wife to America, and to this day,
hold in reverence the ventilator, for by what
other way could my wife have come to me ?