Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-11
A MANS MISTAKE.


Two gentlemen sat at the little rount
table in the cafe of the St. Denis Hotel
j discussing their five O'Clock dinner.
at an adjacent table, half hidden behint
newspaper. sat another gentleman, wait
ing for his order to be received.
80 Glenham has been caught at last
You have heard of his ennagment, Of
course ?''
The gentleman addressed laid down his
knife, in the very act of carrying a slice OF
roast duck.
''Glenham to be married Mark, where
did you hear such astounding news ? Non
sense it can't be true! Glenfam Why
he must be-well, nearly ffty.''
''Forty Il happen to know. Well
he certainly is engaged to be married, in q
very short time, to Miss Lillian Baldwin j!
"O-h!'' and the tone of voice said as plain
~ as words could have said :sWell, if that
is the case, don't wonder. Miss Baldwin
is young, pretty and society belle, and it
has always been understood that she Was
10 marry money, and -Glenham has any
quantity of it,.
"Yes, she is the lucky girl who has Sc
cured the greatest match of the day. OF
| course it is his money that has done it
only, with his well known horror of being
married for it, it is decidedly very much te
the fair young angels credit.''
Its all very " ell, but you see am not
so sure it. I tell you Glenham hasn't the
girls heart for know to certainty she
was engaged to Harry Marion, and it near
ly killed her When people broke it off or
account of his impecuniosity. I shan'l
believe Glenham's marriage to Miss B
until read it in the papers,
Then these two noble specimens of the
sex that never is guilty of the weakness Of
gossiping, went cut, and Mr.. John Glenham
took bis absorbing interesting newspaper
| from before his face, behind which he hae
heard every syllable.
Was it true? Had these gentlemen
spoken the truth Was his little Lily on
ly accepting him because he had so mucl
| money wilerewith to deck her out like
princess? His dainty, affectionate littl,
| betrothed, who had SO often chung so low
| ingly to his arm, and looked in his fact
with her sweet, pure eyes-was it possible
| that she had simulated the tender, modes
love she had shown While her heart really
was with Harry Marion !?
Mr.. Glenham remembered young Marion
villa fne-looking, dashing fellow, ove
whom girls and women had away of going
into ecstacies-a gallant, lazy, good-natur
ed fellow, who had made love violently tt
pretty Lily Baldwin, and who, rumor de
clared, had been engaged to him, and tht
Engagement had been broken on account
of Marion IS general shiftlessness.
Mr.. Glenham thought of all this as he
ate his dirner-witE less keen relish thar
usual and the more he thought the more
uncomfortable he became.
| He knew he was, as his noble friend hal
said, on the shady side of forty-s'pretty
old for my little eighteen-year lily hi
thought, with a pang; but did not take in
to considerations the fact that he was tht
line, manly, self-possessed, cultivated gen
tleman, or that his grave, intelligently
handsome face, with its luxurious whis
kers OF dark brown, and the heavy nous
tache, and the thick, curling hair sprinkle6
with gray, was far more attractive to mos
WOmen-WCmen of refined taStes-thaI
Harry Marion's effeminate blonde beauty
| Mr.. Glenham's was a warmly affection
ate nature, which had never gone out te
any woman but Lily Baldwin but all hi
| life he had suffered horror of being mar
red for his money.
Il believe Lily loves me. won't believe
| she is SO false as these tonguey, jealous fel
lows would make out. There is no reason
why should fret myself into state O.
misery until have some foundation, a
least.''
And he gravely strove to put the horri(
little suspicion out of his mind, and wen
on with his dessert as if he had risen supe
rior to the disturbances that annoy ordi
nary mortals.
But after he had got into his carriag,
and was being driven slowly up Broadwa,
the thought came back again with re
| doubled force.
| eff she doesn't love mel I wonder wheth
er or not could be mistaken in thinking
she does? How could she act and look al
she does if she were playing a game? Ny
precious little girl Am wronging yol
and Furnishing myself by such thoughts
Or is it one of those subtle instances O
warningp TT thought her people hat
/ forced her into this, I'd release her now
for her own sweet sake, even if it killed
me! Ought to speak to her about it P
The self-put question was still unan
swered when Mr.. Glenham Jumped out O
his carriage at the bank.
/ He went in, and was told by some on
of whom he inquired that the president 0
the bank, Mr.. Delarcher, whom he wished
! To sea was speciallv engaged at the MON en-