Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-17
LOVE FINDS THE WAY.

THE fiat gray stone front of Haughmond
Hall looked cherries in the early dawn of
a January morning in the year 1894. One
bit of bright color only broke the drab
monotony of its upper story-the face of
its master, that instant clean shaved in
cold water, and now appearing as rosy as
Aurora, at his open dressing-r room win
dow.
Keep your hands down, boys" he
called out.
Five stable boys, riding five promising
four-y -year-olds at exercise in the park on
the other side of the ha-ha, looked up at
the 'Squire's window together, touched
the peaks of their caps together, and,
skirting the lawn, trOtted gently away
under clump of beeches, and so out Of
sight.
They'll do" he said, as the last pair
of hind hoofs in the string was lost to
view, and, drawing in his head from the
window, he picked up his keys and money
from the dressing-table, counting the latter
with the care of methodical man; and
then he warily dropped his cumbrous
great gold repeater into his fob.
As he laid his hand on the heavy brass
| handle of his bedroom door, there came
through the thick oak-panels sounds of
anxious scratching and whining on the
otherside and directly space of few
inches permitted two white fox-terriers-
prime favorites of their master-bounded
into the room and wished him good morn
ing as plainly as if they had spoken in
the purest Saxon. While the Squire
searched in the pockets of the clothes he
had worn the evening before the dogs
shifted about the room. The result of his
search was agreat letter, six inches square,
rather the worse for the Squire's after
dinner custody, sealed on the diverse with
the arms of the ElliOts of Whitewell, and
addressed on the reverse, in the somewhat
boyish small-text hand of the heir of that
house
To Miss Georgiana Haughmond,
per favor of
Gilber HaughMond, Esq.
Having Strengthened out the creases and
put the corners right the Squire, preced.
ed by his terriers, went down stairs into
the hall, where he stuck the letter in a
prominent place in letter rack-a con
trivance of sporting design which hung
in the window to the right of the door
faced ON the opposite shutter by cOllec
tion OF seaweeds, and hanked by Mr.
Haughmond's select library of twenty-one
more or less useful and entertaining vol.
umes, which reposed in well-dusted array
in the window-seat. 1t was toward the
window to the left of the hall door that the
Squire now directed his attention. Here
among his fishing-rods and guns, hung his
weather-glass This longsutfering piece
of furniture came in for the usual morn
ing allowance of thumps; after which
having thoroughly satisfied himself of the
state Of the weather, Squire HaughmonC
turned his steps toward his stable-yard
AS he takes a shortcut through his shrub
berry and kitchen garden, let me say ,
word about him. First, he is ox-huntel
-an M. f. II. of five and twenty year,
standing; secondly, he is a widower o
tiftY-fve, blessed with an only child
Experimentation he has brought III
from infancy with such slight assistance
as was absolutely necessary from
governess thirdly, he is very
red-faced elderly gentleman, to whom
/ II is great trouble that he seldom
scales under sixteen stones in politics hi
, Tory. In religion, he takes his nap il
the family pewtwice on every Sunday from
J Advent 10 the last Of the after "Trinitys.'
His views In relation TO foreign affair