The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-06

! believe; hnt there is very sad story
q hiedt to Won regarding your daughter
Wrath took the placcof teWur
My daughter y cried the little man.
flriously. Who dlres carry stories about
my daughter:
'Well-you- stammered his FRIEND
The women folks say she eloped this morn
ing with Fred Seymour
Fred Seymour Why he's head over
ears in love with Susie Beknap. My
Belle! Why, she has been engaged for
two years to Lieutenant Weston of the
navy, though he did not publish the fact
for the benefit of all the tattlers in Myrtle
Vile
Il am afraid, was the reply, that it was
the fact of these engagements that drove
them to secrecy and elopement'
Il tell you the whole story Is false =
roared the excited father I'll make these
mischief makers eat their own words My
Belle, indeed They must be crazy.
But on his way home, Mr.. Granger met
the report in so many places, heard II in
such plausible versions, that he entered his
wifes room with very grave face from
which all angry excitement had vanished.
Where is Belle, Mary ? he asked
She went to New York this morning to
do some shopping. She will stay at her
Aunt Marias tonight
"Dld young seymour go up Oh inc saii'o
train Z?
i suppose so. He usually goes at eight,
and that was the train that Belle took.
Mr. Granger was on the point of telling
his wife the whole story, but on second
thought he restrained the impulse.
Sure in his own fatherly confidence in
his gentle, modest child, that there was
some mistake admitting Of explanation, he
said nothing After all, it was a subject OF
congratuation that none of the busy bodies
of Mvrilevile had invaded the sick room,
| and he easily made some trivial excuse for
going out again. He was determined to
sift the gossip thoroughly before alarming
the invalid, and his first visit was to the
telegraph office on the railway station. -
is Belle at your house % flashed over
the wires and was carried to a handsome
house in the city.
Yes. VIII be down on the next train,
was the answer; for poor Belle imagined
that there was death or trightful illness to
cause her fathers message. when visit to
her aunts was such a common occurrence.
Satisfied on this point, Mr.. Granger
quietly waited until the train came in,
walked up Main street with his daughter
on his arm, left her at home, and started
out to defy all Myrteville.
From house to house he travelled with
exemplary patience, and followed the
snakc-like coils of the story, till he faced
Mrs Sawyer, who earnestly assured him
Mrs eymour and Mrs Kitely were in
the sittingroom as ! came in the back way
through the kitchen. They were talking,
and Just rs got to the door, Mrs Seymour
told Mrs Kitely that her son and Belle
Granger had eloped. They saw me then,
and Mrs Seymour said very carelessly:
Here are the morning papers, Mrs Kite
w. Just to change the conversation.
And YOU rushed off to carry the news
all over Myrteville, said Mr. Granger.
Well, | thought it must be true, from
such authority
Pshaw You misunderstood what was
said.
tell you heard her as plain as l hear
you now
, Telling Mrs Kitely her son and my
daughter had eloped! 2
Yes, I'd swear it on my oath = said Mrs
Sawyer, as il there were several other ways
5 of swearing, if she chose to take heI
l choice.
Suppose you step over to Mrs Kitely's
, with me-
Well | will
< But to Mrs Sawyer's discomfurt, +.
< ktely denied the story entirely. Mrs Sey
mour had never given her any such infor
! nation, either in confidence or otherwise
! Mrs. Sawyer tearfully persisted in hel
story. and finally the trio went to Mrs Sey
| mours.
o The hero of the story was at home b,
o this time, and eating his supper when I'll,
visitors entered.
d 1t was an awkward story to ten, but i
J, was told and Mrs. Seymour's face wa
II the picture of indignant surprise.
n i = she cried-'I say my Fred had elop
;, ed with Bell Granger ? Why, Mrs. Sawyer
= you must surely be dreaming
d You said so. heard you,' sobbed tho
n widow.
o Said WHAT
: You said distinctly Belle Granger RAJ
n away with my son this morning
r, At this moment Mrs. Seymour burst into
: a fit of uncomfortable laughter, to thu
l. great CONSERVATION of her audience. Sh,
II laughed till she was obliged to wipe til,
/ tears from her eyes; when catching sigh
Il of Mr.. Graingers disturbed face, she said
?, with sudden gravity,
C Pardon me, Mr.. Granger, | see | hay,
most innOcently caused you a serious an
e nOyance. The truth of the story is this
y Fred, as you know, has all the morning pa
pers sent to him on the early train, AM
many of the neighbors come in to borrow
r, them. Mrs Kitely always likes Il
see the Sun, and | save it TO
st her; but this morning your daughte
., stopped on her way to the depot for
10 paper to read as she rode to the city, an,
it took the Sun. When Mrs. Kitely cam
for the papers l said to her, Belle Grain
S. ger ran away with my Sun this morning :!
II And all Myrtleyille has been busy witt
is the scandal Mrs Sawyer manufactured on
,r of your remark" cried Mr. Granger. =
p can only hope she will be as active in con
tradcting as she was in circulating it.
S. But to this day Mrs Sawyer persists Il
re declaring that she can't see where she wa
er to blame, after all. Anybody, ske is quit
e. sure, might have made such mistake o.
the same grounds.
id Pretty Susie was not left long in doubt
for Fred, having drawn from Mrs Sawyc
" the confession that she Thought it a dut
ID to tell the Belknaps the first thing" hast
r! ened over to his betrothed wife, to vent hi
indignation against all tatters and mis-
W chief-makers, and very soon Mr.. and Mrs
e, Frederick Seymours wedding cards pu
N the final contradiction to the Myrtlevlll
he scandal