The daily gazette., 1874-09-01
AlOernon Mssd Nellie.

| t. IHE rhEbkDENT DAUGHTER.
lGreep Bay. Wis. letter 10 the Chicago Tri
hune.1
There is an Enslishman here who il
the friend and agent Of Sartoris, senior
Through this friend, Mr.. Sartoris, fathe,
fof the subject Of our present sketch
bought some wild lands in Green BAY and
in Sheboygan, Wis. simply as O fair in.
vestMent for surplus funds. Finding his
second son, Algernon, likely to SOW too
many wild oats, he sent him to America
and Green Bay to look after wild lands
hoping. the change of occupation would
prove beneficial. Coming out the first
time, he met Nellie on the Scotia, and
that young lady fell desperately in love
with tho indolent, Indifferent English.
man, who scarcely cared at first to profit
by the kindness of the gods. When He
reached Green Bay, her frequent letters
aroused q sentiment unlike any Charles
Francis Algernon had ever before erper-
fenced. Here was the innocent, confid.
ing heart Of a young girl laid open before
him, with a@l its tender sentiment, it's
untried music. He was a man of fine
literary culture, well versed in classic lore,
speaking six different languages educated
at the University of Heidelberg, and con-
stantly meeting, in English society, ele-
CANT and accomplished young ladies'
The little girl of Galena won him. At
first he threw her letters about his room
indiferently, and took but little interest
in them. But time hung heavily on his
hands; he had plenty Of money and no
work; even hunting and fishing lost their
zest when indulged in daily; and SO he
went to Chicago, pet the President and
his daughter on their Western tour. pro-
posed to Papa Grant, and was politely
snubbed. Sartoris grew desperate, went
back to England, kept up furious cor
respondence with Nellie, and the follow
ing summer returned to Green Bay. Here
the telegram came which announced the
death OF his elder brother. Sartoris had
just gone to Washington to plead his un-
successful case with the President-Mrs.
Grant and Nellie being both on his side.
he was walking with the young lady in
the garden OF the White House when the
telegram was placed in his hands an
nouncing his brothers death by fall
from his horse, and his own changed for
tunes IN consequence-heb being now pros
pective heir to an immense estate. The
young people were at once engaged.-|
Charles Francis Algernon went to New
York and bought superb diamond ring.
q solitaire. with which to bind the engage
ment. The rest is a thrice told tale.
we eau easily imagine, after getting de.
scrlption of Sartoris, why Nellie Grant
should have elected him her choice. He Il
was the antipodes OF American Young men.
A stout, good-sized, broad. .shouidered man.
with muscles like whip-cord. covered with
clean flesh, just saved from fat; fair, round, |
Saxon face, white by nature, red by educa-
ton; Innocent blue eyes, with baby like |
wonder In their serene depths; f1axon hair,
parted exactly in the middle and b-ushed /
hst, the ends bobbed into little duck-taii |
curis; solid, elephantine limbs, and tre-
mendous hands and feet, the first of which
were forever In tho way, while the neither
appendages spread out over all creation.
And then his clothes Never had such a
vision dawned upon the belledom of Green
Bay Wide, bagRy trousers of white duck
or brown velveteen, or lemon colored cor.
duroy; coats with swallow-tai.s, and coats
with NO tails at all, making him look like
An overgrown school boy; costumes of pure
white, with flaming neckties. Apropos Of
bis trousers, they tell this story of him: He
made a call on young lady, one of the F.
F.s OF dreen bay, but had scarcely seated
iimself when the lre,beli rang. He seized
lis hat and made rush for the door. the
7oung lady following. She closed the door
'iter him ana had been some moments re-
Gated In the parlor when abe heard the
haraoteristic ring, and opened the door her,
ali saw, thwank yaw, Miss Ida; had
o come all the way back. my trousers were
ausht In the dooah Eucnse me aw I" and
10 made his final bow.
He lad great bulldog that To- llo " al him !,
verywhere. One rainy AFTERNOON the pair
etired for nap in thia SsSae hotel where l | ,
m Writing-tha Beaumont Sartoris had
made hiSasslf comfortable with diverse bran,
y punches, and retired, with his dog al his
eels, for an afternoon siesta. In about an
onr he rushed wildly into the olRse, his I
axon hair on end, his ohlNa hiae eyes start | /,
ng from his head, MIA pale lips ialntly !
jaculatiEg, HThe devilW while The dog J
lolehed az his feet in q panic OF terror.
here could be but one solution of this, 9
bought all present; the maa had gone I
razy and frightened the dog but the real s
ause OF his terror, 1t turned oui, was the I
pparitlon OF an immense colored washer
Toman, who had entered his room without | d
moving 1t was occupied, and appeared at | i
Is bedside In long waterproof, the black =
cod OF which was drawn over her head and Z
round her ebony face. Sartoris had been I
eveling In claret-colored dreams, and the :,
wakening was too much for him. 1 5lG
Nellie, have no doubt will win him oyer i L
ON horses, dogs and wine, and vii jog q
'an Vale, Sartorisi " o. Iv