The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-21

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Irumps, of the firm of Wickett n'umps
and Bungalee to meet US; and the eonver-
ysatlon ran on oil so intirely that it took
away my appetite. But who should care
for food who could sit near Wilhelmina
Wickett, and feel the folds of her siken
robe brush his knee-who was absolutely
permitted to pass her plate for more turkey,
and see that She had '.just morsel. more
grayey?' Not for one. A delicious GER
tainty that my day-dreams were to be full
filled, and that | would one day call Wilhel-
nina my own, possessed me.
! That night | drew her little note of invi-
tatlon from my bosom, and, kissing it, re-
| peated, alluding to the signature
Remain Wilhelmia Wickett. Oh, no!
no! not long, for shall make you Wilhel-
nina Paragraph. Does she not smile upon
my oily cousin for my sake?'
Yes, she had been very kind to Sias.-
She continued to be so. So did her papa.
Also, the members of the firm-Trumps
and Bungalee. They made Silas Peek ithe
fashion, and lovely girls called him "a dear
odd creature
When we passed along the street people
ran to look at the proprietor of the ''Peek
OIl Farm, aud then they would whisper:
That $ his COUSIN Mr.. Pierre Paragraph
the poet. So that | shown by reflected
light-the light of oil.
l began to see at last that poetry was
nothing beside petroleum. That Silas Peek
was adored for his farms sake That he
was vcrltable lion. A man bowed down
to and adored. He had influence also; eve
ry man with whom he conversed resolved at
once to put his money into oil. " | should
myself, if | had any.
AT last narrowing suspicion dawned up
on me. 1t was idiotc. | laughed at it
Yet it remained
One day, when dining with Cousin Silas
at the Wicketts, it forced itself into my
mind. / resolved to Danish it forever, and
sezed the moment when the old gentleman
and Cousin Peek were roaring about ile and
we, Wilhelmina and |, were on the garden
balcony. Then | began:
WlIhelmina, you must long have known
But she put up her Lands aud impored--
Please don't, Mr. Paragraph"
But L must, said l.
II go away if you do"
Nay, stay and hear nc.
''Oh, dear! Ple-c-c- ease"
Angel, we have no auditors Your faith
eerr and my cousin have forgotten all in oil.
My heart"
"Oh, you mustn't say anything about
your heart, cried Wilhemina. in quite
tragic way. Its wrong for NE to hear
it. y
Wrong to hear my fervent protestations
of adoraion Oh, Wilhcnpina, | love YOU
better than MY soul! /"
"Oh! what would Mr.. Peek say? Do 90
9WHV ~ AOI { no yrIrr,r bnr brnJg ,ln,,,ni,.
ingy.
"Mr. Peek? I trust Mr.. Peek would not
venture to utter a word on the subject, | |
SAID, haughtilJ. II accord him no si1ch
privilege.
ION! but he has, you know"
elias WHAT"
THE privilege -the-the right Oh, Mr.. |
Paragraph. don you know I've been en-
gagged to Mr. SilaS Peek tort-nigh,?"
tell back Hat among the flower pots
When picked myself up Wilhelmina had |
] j)lned Siias Peck in the pallor.
They had sold her for oil. Mr.. Wicket |
had put his money into oil and added his
daughter Mr.. Trumps and Mr. Bungalee |
only wished that oil farmers were Mormons,
that they might give them their daughters
also. They had sacrificed her, driven me
to despair, and established THE Grand |
Peek Farm Oil Company"
Next week she was married in Grace
Church. Silas asked me to be his grooms-
man, and L, for the first time in our acuuain-
lance, turned on him and called him an
oil barrel.
Who cared? They went on their tour Ito
ne oil farm, | suppose, as merrily as tho
had not uttered the indicative words.
About three months afterwards I remtm
Der TO have read something in paper atont
! celebrated divorce case. 1t appears that
Mrs. Wilhclmima Peek had been in divers
Ways, ill-uscd Among other things ex-
!atated upon by her lawyer were the facts
hat Mr.. Silas Peck having invested all her
ortune in oil lands had insisted on estab-
lShing his residence upon tho oil farm,
where it hahitually rained grease; and fur
hcrmore, had insisted on replcnishing the
'as'or cruets with petroleum, aud had fore
d the delicate Wilhclmina to partakc there
If.
read the announcement with great gus
o, attended court daily throughout the
ult. Yes, l have been avenged!