Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-28

might DC something to you, might be
yours. You wouldn't find him commit
ting such an imprudence as marriage with
that pretty Nobody. Why do you want to
close up every path by such marriage
yourselfI An ambitious"
whats the use now, mother" he cried,
rising on his elbow, ''in going on this
wayS I'm not ambitious. [ don't wish
for any rise In life. I'm content as things
are they're better than they ever were be-
fore. What | want is an allowance from
the old man; enough TO let me marry
Rhoda Chauncey and live comfortably. II
you'll help me, all right. If you won't
help me, all right--I'll help myself"
Have you ever asked herY' asked Mrs.
Havers, an anxious spot settling on each
cheek, for never before had she quite
dared to put the question.
That's not worth while till I can see
my way clear. She knows what I-what
feel, though"
II shall tell her plainly what she NAV
expect If she accepts you, Your father
and discard you ON that day"
"Oh, pshawl What dashed nonsensel"
Dashed nonsense or not, you will find
to your cost, If you try. We have reached
our position by bitter effort. We cannot
give our consent to being pulled down
from the height we have struggled so to
gain for the mere whim of love-sick boy
If must have rival with my son, Z"
cried Mrs. Havers, the fire of her anger
drying her sparkling tears before they fell,
let 1t be somebody who will bring some
sort Of compensation with her. Rhoda
Chauncey-a beauty, maybe; never saw
any beauty in her; but beggar certain.
ly. No. You shall have the money TO go
abroad and forget her; you cannot have
it to marry her. Your father and are of
one mind there. You have parts. You
can do better, you fooll"
That was the way in which Mrs. Havers
talked to her son Allen on occasion, when
chance and couraged served; and that was
the meaning of the more stilted way in
which she talked to Mrs. King at the din
ner given by the latter to this young Gov
Armisted of whom Mrs. Havers had
spoken to her son, as the two ladies stood
side by side at the fire few moments,
after they had left the table, while Rhoda
sang and young Havers turned the music,
and a general hum of low voices filled the
air of the lovely room at any pause
You know, my dear Mrs. King" she
said, the color burning on her cheek as
the tirc-light burned upon the purple lus-
ter of her velvet robe, "that a young man
has heights TO ascend, and must not over
weight himself. 1t is not what his father
has made him, but what he makes him
SELF that counts. If he has ambitions, he
is foolish to marry at all till he can, as
dealers say, command the market; if he
does marry, he must marry to help, not
hinder. To start on race handicapped, :"
said Mrs. Havers, assuring herself with
her white hand that lIer splendid diamond
stones were still in their nest of lace on
her breast, THAT explains the failure of
so many careers that looked so brilliant at
the outset"
We should scarcely agree with you
here" said Mrs. King, smiling; "we
think that good wife is the best start in
life young man can have"
But Mrs. Havers was already listening
to the remark of some others joining the
group. 1t was few minutes later that
she beckoned the passing Rhoda 10 her
side on the deep lounge, where she had
ensconced herself luxuriously. Never
any body was more aptly named than this
IKK9"s IKE S f6se. f"r Blt Bl OF Course Mrs. Havers
could only think it the guilty blush of the
one who had entrapped her son, and could
notlook his mother in the eye. She was not
the person to appreciate the lovely, lofty
innocence of that snowy brow, that violet
eye, that dewy lip. Rhoda came obedient-
ly, and sat by Mrs. Havers, doing her best,
as any member of family does, to enter
tain guest; and they talked of one in
different thing and another, till, in a mo-
inent of comparative quiet, Aliens laugh
was heard ringing from another part of
the drawing room.
Poor bOyl" said Mrs. Havers, look.
ing in his direction" poor boy! You
can hardly tell how mother feels, Miss
Rhoda," and she paused with emotion,
when | hear my boy laugh so gayly,"
she said, land think of the sad way lying
before every aspiring youth and Allen is
so ambitiousv"
Sad, Mrs. HaversS''
"Ah, yes; sad indeed, when as rule,
he must surrender either his ambition or
his happiness-that is, surrender what he
calls happiness now. l suppose Allen
would regard it, as all young men do, hap
piness now to marry penniless girl, if he
should think that he loved her. Twenty
years from now he would find it the mis-
! fortune of his life, of his whole life, and
the one thing that had ruined his career.
Do you understand me, my dear Miss
Chauncey?"
Not at all, answered Rhoda, calmly.
81 think If he loved girl, however pen.
niless, he would be better to marry her,
and have her comfort on his way"
Mrs. Havers' face grew white, and then
| grew purple, with her suppressed vitupet'
alton. " But it would be an outraged
she exclaimed, unable TO keep silence
wholly "It would be his death blow,
his ruin in more ways than one. For if ii
were my son, would never forgive him.
My doors should be shut upon him. Do
you hear, Miss ChaunceyY
Miss Chauncey did not reply. The
young Governor was STOPPING TO speak
with her just then, and taking his arm, she
rather abruptly left Mrs Havers, and Mrs
Havers presently rather abruptly left the
house.
1t was on the next morning that Mrs
Havers appeared at Mrs. Kings door, and
on meeting the lady of the house, declared
that she must excuse her for the early in
trnsinn, hut she was really in great dis.
tress, for she had lost last night the cen
trail diamond from her brooch; and she
begged that the rooms might be examined
to see If by any chanceit had been dropped
there.
OF course the household was instantly
in commotiOn. Every body remembered
that diamond-you were not likely to for
/
Mrs Havers' persona very uncommon
stone, worth, perhaps, a couple of thou
sand dollars; every body was upon the
search for it, in all disinterested eager
ness; and in less than five minutes Miss
Chauncey had espied it where it had beer
flung by Mrs, Havers in the sudden move
ments of her anger on the night before
and had given il TO Mrs, King, who placed
it in Mrs. Havers' delighted and grateful
hand-a plump, fair hand it was, but il
closed over that stone nevertheless, much
as the crooked talons of some old Hin
dostanee trader in diamonds would hav,
done. 70 r-h'-
"My dear madam, (" said the jeweler, a.
Mrs, Havers took from her pOrte.monaie
on entering his shop shortly afterward
the little roll OF silver paper in which she
had wrapped the loose stone, and ther
passed IL over TO him, do you mean tina
you wish me 20 take the diamond out Of
the brooch sold you, and substitute this
for ity"
at is out already, and | wish you u
put 1t back again, said Mrs. Havers, 81