The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-14

and in stepped spa" When the old
mans eyes fell upon the interesting
tableau he was thunderstruck. Hand
released his hold on the young girl and
jumped to his feet. Rose ran to where
the father was standing, and attempted
to throw her arms around the old gen.
tleman's neck.
The old man pushed his daughter
aside and angrily asked what the scene
he had just witnessed meant. "Who
is this MANI" he demanded, turning
toward Rose, who, with her face
buried in her hands, was weeping.
at is only john" returned the girl.
"Only JOHN repeated the irate
gentleman, turning to the young
mason. "Who are you, sir, who
enters my house and dares to caress
my daughter?'
"Sir," replied Hand, Strengthening
up, 81 love your daughter, although |
know cannot hope for your consent
to our marriage. l am only poor
mechanic"
Marriage! mechanic.w exclaimed
the old man.
81 think, Sir" continued John,
"your daughter loves me-"
"She does, ell ?" almost shouted the
father, 81 don't. How dare you, sir,
steal the affections of my child? If l
had pistol l would kill YOU"
The old gentleman caught the me-
chanic by the shoulder and pushed him
toward the door, at the same time adj
ministrating sundry kicks to the dar-
ing lover. If he wished the young
man could have turned on the old
gentleman and given him severe
beating, but knowledge that he had
done wrong and his love for the girl,
deferred him from molesting his as
sailant.
AS the Infatuated parent lifted the
young man down the brown stone
stoop, with the toe of his boot, he
said: eff ever again | find you in
this house l will shoot you as l would
dog
Hand did not trouble the Cumber-
land street mansion again. He had a
stolen interview with the girl, and she
told him that her father had threat
ened to lock her up in an asylum if
ever again she spoke to her lover. A
! few weeks after Hand met with 50
lively reception by his intended IA
ther-in-law, Rose left the city. Hand
was not appraised of her departure I'M
til one day he received letter from
her post-markcd Attica, New York.
Rose was stopping, 50 she informed
her lover, with her aunt-hcr father
sister. That was last fall, and Hand
left the city and proceeded to Batavia,
which is no great distance from At
tica, and there obtained employment.
Rose and her lover met frequently,
and all was as happy as a marriage
bell. The commission broker in Broad
street little dreamt that his daughter
and her rough lover were together, de-
spite his efforts to keep them apart.
Hand several times asked Rose to
elope with him, but she refused, say
ing that although she would marry
none but him, yet she would not DISC
| hey her father. AS that father is a
hale and hearty gentleman, on the
ny side of fifty, the prospects of a sud-
den demise were not tiattering, and
Hand almost despaired of ever making
the beautiful blonde his wife. A letter
! from her father to Rose made her less
scrupulous about breaking his COM
mands. The old gentleman sent for
his daughter to return to Brooklyn.
| He also intimated that he was ac-
quainted with young gentleman
whom he would like for sOn-in-law
| The fathers letter finished the bust
ness. 1t was shown to Hand, and he
renewed his proposal for an elopement
| How the young man succeeded may be
CLEANED from the fact that, a few days
after, the broker received a letter from
| his sister in Attica, saying that Rose
had eloped with "some young man, :"
and that she learned that the girl had
taken the train for Buffalo. The father.
upon reading the note, felt as if about
| forty blacksmiths were hammering on
his head with giant sledgeS. Hastily
| packing few articles of clothing in Il
valiSe the broker took the lightning eX-
press for Buffalo.
In the parlOr of the Lift House the
father met his runaway daughter.
Taking her into a private room, he
asked her where was her companion.
Rose confessed that she had run away
and been married to John Hand. She
begged her father for forgiveness. The
old gentleman refused to listen to her
appeals, and, drawing large navy re-
volver from his pocket, ran to the bar
room in search of Hand. The enraged
gentleman did not succeed in his
search, and policeman, who saw him
running wildly through the place,
thinking him insane, took him in
| charge.
Next morning he was released from
custody, and, after retaining his bag
gage, which had been left at the hotel.
the old gentleman, without again see
ing his daughter, returned to Brook
Ign.
Through the medium of kind friends
Rose has been reconciled to her father,
and few days ago herself and hus-
band returned to this city and took up
their home with the father, in Cum
berland street. The writer is person.
ally acquainted with all the parties in
the case, and but few of the facts re-
lated above are known outside the
young couples immediate friends.
John Hand, so his father-in-law SAYS,
will in a few weeks start in business in
this city on his own account. Brook
Ign Sunday San.
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