Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-12
THE HUSBAND oUFWITTED.

most of the time each day spent IN the
company of Mr.. MAXWELL. the gentle
man whom Miss EllsWorthss old friend
| had introduced to her on-4lorn1ng on
the piazza. She had sailed with him
along the shore on the moonlight even
inps and she had danced with him in
thronged drawing rooms.
! Miss Ellsworth was not fIirt, who
distributed her ideals among many
| gentlemen, as she had her ideal well
nigh realized in Mr.. MAXWELL. Only
the evening before their talk had with
drawn itself from the general topic to
which each had been congenial
and in her admiration of his intelli-
/ gence and manliness, she had encour-
| aged an approach to that personal sort
/ of conversation which relates to love
and matrimony.
And now to find Mr.. MainwelI, this
morning, with his coat off, and
smiths apron on, engaged in mending
/ a lock He was doing it publicly
| The lock was on the door that led to
| the middle of the front piazza, where
the fashionable ladies and gentlemen
were sitting or promenading.
! His back was towards her as she ap-
/ preached, leaning on the arm of her
/ friend Anna West. She recognized
him, looked intently at him, gave her
| companion over to party of young
ladies near, and then stopped and
/ spoke to him.
y
Mainwell ?'' she asked.
ST do, Miss Ellsworth. / believe I
am a natural mechanic"
sit appears very odd to see you doing
at is my trade" he replied, rising
from his work and turning to her.
Her cheek bIanched little. s'Your
trade ~ she said family.
Eyes, trade, Miss Ellsworth. The
| proprietor said the lock needed mend
| ing, and told him that could mend
/ it for him."
! then. After wondering at Mr.. Main
well awhile, and laughing at him, they
all proposed a ride.
There were three carriages for them
all. These would take the party.
! Ned Whitaker here joined them.
''What the deuce are you about
! here 2" he exclaimed TO Mr.. NJ Ma1nWell.
"Ah," he added, when the latter turn
ed and glanced at him "but while
you are here you might as we'll enjoy
! yourself
Mr.. MAXWELL excused himself from
joining the party, and they went away,
leaving him to finish his work.
Miss Ellsworth left him without any
| word at parting.
''It is well, - he muttered to himself.
| eff she cannot take me as am, she is
not worthy of me. Z, g. woman that
Inarries me must take for myself. y
| He stood and looked after her until
she had disappeared. She did not
once turn to look back.
He gave his shoulders a shrug, COM
pressed his lips, uttered a cynical
Triumph % and turned to finish his
work.
stLet it be so, he muttered. when he
was through and was putting on his
coat. 81 thought perhaps that I had
found woman after my own heart
I, n r,fv
she, too, has lost her soul. Let her go.
He avoided her hereafter. He did
not seek to catch her eye for a bow of
recognition. When she entered a
draWing-roOm where he was, he would
90 out by another way. But he was
more than ever in the company of Ned
Whitaker. Ned, in passing to and fro
between Miss Ellsworth and him,
served still as link between them.
''You are a cynical fellow, y said Ned
one day. 'sWhy don't you take peo-
pie as they are You will find good
enough in them"
''But they won't take me as am.-
That is the trouble"
"Pooh You see yourself that she
allows no other suitors to accompany
her. Don't you see she is alone or
with other girls the most of the time?'
s'Her heart is full of vanity
s'Pshaw She is trained to lux
urious notions, that's ALL"
MainWeIl's trunk was awaiting him
and the stage, outside on the piazza, at
the time this conversation was going
on. On the trunk were the initials G..
NJ Miss Ellsworth, passing that way,
saw the initials, not by any matter of
chance. for she had been very busy
scrutinizing the trunks that lay to-
gether in pile, and when she saw the
initials she started and turned pale
! She recovered herself and withdrew
] L In
stood still and watched. Presently
Mr.. MAXWELL came out with Ned upon
/ the piazza. He CHANGED to turn his
eyes toward her, and their eyes met
5 met for the time since she had left
him while at work on the lock. She
did not turn away her eyes. She
bowed. He lifted his hat. The ice was
broken. He approached to bid hel
goodbye.
What the conversation was that en-.
sued between the two persons wheI
they were left alone by means of Ned'E
ingenuity in spiriting away the rest ot
the company. is unknown, save the
following:
"But / am locksmith,' p said Mr.
|. MAXWELL.
''No NATTER
care you willing to live as the wifi,
of one who with his hands earns hii
daily bread %
> 81 am willing to undergo anything
to be with You. I have suffered enough
Z, During these last few days I hav'
learned what it is to despair of beinl
united to the one love"
Z Z 'But your mother-your father"
); "Unless [ am willing to leave then
d for your sake, I am not worthy of you.
= "But then the loss of wealth, of po
y sitiOn, of the surroundings of refine
ment."
''Do not say anything more about it
9 am willing to leave all for your sake
. 1 am weary of being without you"
"Would you be willing to becom
my wife this day, this hour? You
father and mother might otherwise pu
obstacles in our way"
= 81 am willing-this hour, this min
Ute"
"They do not know of my positio
in life."
G '..Phey still think you are wealthy
as I did,
e .sCome, then, we will go our wa
Il, with Ned, and become before the worl
what we are now in spirit, husban
In and wife and then at once we wi
N N take the cars for the home have fc
= you-a home which-though lowly-
will make you happy"
ril "Whither you go I will GO"
Z They were married in a quiet way
aaee the little watering-place chapel, wit
y | the wicked Ned cOnniving at the mi
~ chief. The next train sped with thel
to the city.
g ''I will show you the shop where
ne work" said Mr.. MAXWELL, when IL
~ carriage they took at the depot in Il
city had drawn up before one of a lor
IL block of brown stone houses in
es splendid part Of the city.
" "What do you mean p she deman
n, ed, as she accompanied her husbar
lc- up the broad steps to the door.
-ttI mean,' he replied, "that this
~ the home, and this is the workshop. -
Iii And he led her in. Among 9th
as rooms to which he conducted his wi
lte was one fitted up as a workshop, wher
nd as he said, he was accustomed to
IN duIpe his love for mechanical wor
eu after having, as he assured her, reg
larly served his time at learning
= trade.