The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-07

5 My stay in this place is limited :
: business only, OBTAINING me here
t few days longer; but l shall wal
: again, will you pardon?l unit
some word or Zine from you, give
, me permission to seek your acquaint
ance;-iR whatever way, you ma
1dietate-Or, until the absence of sucl
permission, shall convince me tha
is hopeless.
Let your message, lady, be as i
villas it must-so it does not for
bid my seeking to know you, and tC
be, myself, known by you and youl
! friends-and l feel that, either BY
letter, or in PTOpFia persona, I could
plead my cause with some degree OF
success, since the depth of my sin
ceHty, could not fail to be measured
| by the earnestness ofmy word, and
-lmy worth-slight as it may be-by
fervency Of my admiration, and the
character 1 bear, among those who
know me. ras .-f.frf.
And now, lady, awaiting your
pleasures, ! subscribe my true name
Brace Clifton.
Benton
If anybody who knew Leila Law
renee, has been asked if she would
belikely to write to any gentleman
whom she never saw, or heard of
until he wrote to her, the reply would
have been.
Certainly not Leila has peculiar
motions about such things !" and I
am equally sure, Brace Clifton's
friends would not have believed he
would address a letter, very lover
like in its tone, to lady whom he
did not know. Nor would he, him
self, have believed it a few days be-
fore; but, whittier it were magnetism
or-.fdHcy, he seemed to have known
this Leila of his dreams, for wears,
and could bring her face before him.
when he chose, as he could that of
his oldest friend. It was in truth
ever before him: and thus it came
that, although neither the lady nor
the gentleman was of the class, who
usually engage in romantic friend
ships with unknown correspondents
the letter we have read, was written.
sent, and, received.
Was it answered.
Circumstances alter cases" il is
said: and I am inclined to think they
do. Certain it is, that the stately
Leila, without abating, materially,
her anger, did send to the post office
of her native city, shortly thereafter,
two letters.
One Of these, sped on its way to
Miss Daisy Cumming: and the other
was addressed to Brace Clifton at
Benton.
That gentleman, meanwhile, found
the time hanging, somewhat heavily,
on his hands.
The bright little lady of the white
house by the roadside, had given
him a gay little nod and smile, on
his return from the village that day;
but Give refused to answer his in
quiries concerning her, unless he
would consent to join him in his
calls, and sshow his elegant person"
as he expressed it, to his hosts ''ad-
miring friends"
This, he had, so far, deelin to
do, thinking his stay would be too
brief to make visiting acquaintance
either valuable or pleasant. But,
now, anticipating a time of waiting"
and rightly concluding, that, however |
indignant Miss Lawrence might be, |
she would not betray hun to her
friend, he consented to go with Give |
on the arduous round Of calls which |
that gentleman declared he had "on |
his hands"
Miss Daisy Cummings received |
the first Of these: and her new guest |
the pretty confusion of her |
first reception of him, almost as much
as the laughing bddiHage oftheir af- !
ter acquaintance.
He found her charming, and it re-
quired only this first call with his
friend Give, to learn that Miss Daisy |
was the "lady love" at whose shrine |
he truly wOrshipped.
The days went on: and, at last,
Brace Clifton had his letter. Ne
need of waiting" longer! He rose
from the personal Of the brief note,
with white lips and detected mien.
(TO BE CONTINUED.