The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-16
A THIRD.CLASs TICKET, AND WHAT
CAME OF 1T.

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But papa, YOU have never even seen
Mr.. Tcmpleton-and rs for knowing any
thing against him, | am sure that is quite
impossible"
81 don't care, Nelly, that doesn't alter
matters, allow ms to say, one bit Your
aunt Edith, on whose judgment and tact
in this sort OF thing | implicitly rely, a..
sures me that he's improyident, cStraya.
CANT, and In every way Just the kind Of
young man who ought 10 receive no en-
couragement--least of all from you And
nov | hear that you have danced with
him far too often, met him at the BOtaui.
cal, and where else | know not, Frankly,
Nelly, | won't have Il, My experience of
the worlds opinion Is that its invariably
founded on fact and my knowledge Of
physical science Is quite enough to tell me
that where there rs smoke there's sure to
be fire, ! tell you | don't want 10 sec
him, my dear, l know quite enough about
him already"
Mlas Elderteld also knew enough Of
her revered sire to be quite aware that
nothing was to be gained by pursuing the
subject further; aud exercising that essen
TALLY feminine quality OF apparent acQui.
esCenco, turned ~ her tea and her half
read letter; while Mr.. Elderfeld con.
unued to dispatch bis breakfast upon more
substantial principles, and Ia a more solid
fashion.
II was q pretty breakiast.room that in
which Mr.. Elder1eld and his daughter
were seated, IN this dellclousJuly morn
ing in their house In Hyde Park Gardens.
Luxuriously furnished too; its dceora.
tions and finish such as are only TO be
seen where there is what Mr.. Coventry
Pstmore gracefully calls the Angel in
the House." while there was a certain In.
describable air, not less about its pruprie.
tor than the apartment, Of prosperity aud
solyencv, Mr.. Ellerfela, head OF the
firm Of Elderield, Stock 4 Luker-though
his position was In reality now more that
OF a sleeping partner than Of an active
speculator--was a wldowcr. Miss Elder.
Held was his only daughter. and, with the
exception ola son WIN was In the business,
his only child. Proud OF herr Of course
he was, and with good reason, for Helen
EideItield was generally admitted to be q
very charming girl, She had won her
lanrels IN the metropolitan campaign and
Mr.. Elderfeld liked to think that NELLY
was appreciated and admired. The con
seriousness of these facts was all the more
agreeable TO him, inasmuch IS It entailed
no exertion or hi3 part. Whether Mr..
Elderield would have been so well pleased,
II he had himself been compelled to be
perpetuaUy present at the scene of all his
daughters triumphs, Is quito another
thing Tor evening parties and balls were
Mr.. Elderfeld's abomination. But the
existence Of a married sister OF Mr., Elder
fields, Mrs Multiple, the auut to whose
social insight he had alluded with 40 much
satisfaction, relieved him from any such
necessity. Mr.. Multiple had no children
OF her own, and took a positive delight in
dlscharging the duties of chaperon, Some
person had once eaid something to her
about the abolition Of chaperons.
When | hear that soldiers are able TO
fight battles without their generals" was
Mrs. Multiple's reply, "then | shall be.
lieve tkat there is no need of us, aud not
I'LL then. / fhould like 10 know what
would be the use Of the gun II there WAS
no one 10 point IT.
With which military trope Mrs. Mul.
tiple would wave her fan triumphantly,
as II demolishing in imagination some
ideal antagonist. Mrs Multiple chung ia
the belief that marriages were made In
drawing rooms, and that their presiding
deities were duennas Personally this lady
had nothing to allege against Frank TEN
pleton. But she had asceItained that his
prospects were nebulous in the extreme
that his income was slight and that his
expenditure vas considerable. Therefore
she had informed her fair charge end
niece that Mr.. Tcnpleton was q young
gentleman to be avoided; and when thai
admonition seemed barren ofits due effect
she had appealed TO Mr.. Elderaeld &c
enforce with his parental authority The
exhortatton Of the aunt. Like most gen
tlemen who have made, rather than In
herited, their fortune, the head,partner o.
Mcssrs. Stock and Luker attached q YER
Keen value TO money. Above oil thing
ne abhorred any approximation to extray
igancs or impecuniosity. Whenever h
declined-which was as often as he wa
asked-to lend a small sum in q lriendl,
way to an acquaintance, he always did n
upon principle. "It's against NV princi
Pies replied Mr.. Elder0eld. "HI M
mol acted upon these principles through
o. my life, | should not occupy the nos
ton which | occupy now aud l inten
70 act upon them 70 the end Of the chal