Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-12-27

81 Terms, CASH PAYABLE Quarterly.
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: But man whose muscles physical
and mental, are all relaxed for
want of use is always a broken
reed in adversely. This is your
misfortune, perhaps, more than
your fault but you cannot blame
| me for declining to intrust my
daughters future in the hands of
) such man. You have my answer"
Assurances, argument, entreaty
; were all lost on Judge Copeland.
He listened with no show of impa-
tience, but with compressed lips
and mistaken firmness. In despair
Gayl went from him to Maud and
we have seen the result of the in
! terview. An hour later he stood
again in the presence of her pa
rent.
"Mr. Copeland" he said, "Ihave
just been urging your daughter to
exercise the right which the law
gives her-she being of age-and
marry me without your consent"
; "Ah!" replied the Judge, watch
ing him curiously from beneath his
; overhang;ng brows. "And with
! what resultl'
: "She refused to be unfilial, and
Y brought me back to my senses by
t a display of her own noble woman
7 hood. ! have come to ask your
Y pardon, as | asked hers, for ap-
preaching her in that way; and to
Q say that / am more determined to
;. have her now than ever"
Gayl looked squarely into the
{ the Judges face while speaking.
: The faintest trace Of grim smile
e stirred the grizzled moustache of
D the parent at the announcement of
e his daughters loyalty, and his eyes
Q contracted speculatively as Gayl
: expressed his determination to win
e her. But he waited silently fr
0 the developement Of Gayls plans.
r ~ ask probation of five years,
/ with an engagement conditional
: upon your approval at the end Of
: that time. Your daughter viii
b then be twenty-three and thirty"
). "Mr. Fsrnsworth, / regret the
l necessity of declining. A mo-
ment's thought will show you the
: wisdom of so long and so uncer-
!, tain an engagement
3 "Will you consent to correspon-
: denre between us?"
"My dear sir, is that much bet
= ter than what have inst refused I"
e asked the Judge, with a lift Of
/ the eye hrows and an indulgent
It smile. "1 cannot consent that nv
e daughter be trammeled in the least"
It "Surely, sir, you viii not inter
o dict my visiting her, when chance
in the cityf pleaded Gayl despair
d ingly.
e "No." smiled the Judge, think
e ing the young mans visits might
e not be mere chance. "No child OF
mine shall be hedged about by any.
to thing more tangible than precept
N With a rational being when this
fails, coercion is useless"
~ "For this is much, then, I thank
It you. Five years from to-day, i
not sooner, l shall renew my suit
is and depend upon it, I shall win ~
ID 81 tell you, Copeland, he's bound
ID to be an ornament to the profes
be sion And he sought it from pure
il love Of 1t. He was independently
e. rich before he saw the title page o
in Blackstone. He was the first il
: his class at Albany. They tell m
a he worked like a Trojan. And nov
in he has won the most notable cas-
ny that has come up for decade
n His handling Of it was mastery
mt such subtlety, such perfect com
We prehension of the law, sucl
,r- thoroughness in detail He can
of stop short Of the bench!"
la Judge Copeland smiled an inwar(
ef- smile, and when he reached HON,
, tossed the paper across the table t
,c- Maud. She was looking just q
.ht beautiful and fresh and sweet, ant
/ more womanly than when he saw
ith her last. AS she glanced over tn
Is headlines, her face lighted up glori
,en ously.
he "Father," she said, All aglow wit
ian love anticipation, elf he were |
come now"
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