Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11

| silly words of encouragement, followed
him. Dick was busy with beefsteak.
Give called for glass of iced tea.
Shall you go to the hop tonight,
DickP"
Certainly not. Shall youP"
"Yes, think so. A new face is al
ways interesting"
Perhaps Miss Ten Eyk will not be
there"
40 yes, she will. Carols sister, in
some feminine way, found that out. l
wonder IL she is prettyP"
"You would not think So"
"What, have you seen her, DickP'
al knew old Peter Ten Eyk; once
helped him in a knotty piece of busi-
ness; that is four years ago. | dare say
his daughter has forgotten me-"
Nonsense! l thought Ten Eyk
lived in some desolate little mining
town among the Black Hills, or the
Rocky Mountains, or somewhere of
that kind. Carol said So"
Yes, he lived in Dogwood Gulch.
Five years ago l had the gold fever,
'Cleve, and went there. l did not find
any gold. Ten Eyk was one of those
little quicksilvery men that attract all
the gold in their locality to them
selves"
"And Miss Ten EykP"
Had Just returned from st. Louis
school then. A very nice young lady,
l should say"
"Then why not renew the acquaint-
aaceP"
ITO tell the truth, Cleve, had to
borrow money from old Ten Eyk to get
back to New York, and his daughter
knew it. OF course repaid it, but the
old miser wanted interest. l did not
like that, and l took the liberty of say
ing so, and also of sending him an ac-
count for few professional services.
So YOU see have no pleasant ante
cedents on which to renew the ac-
quaintance. Let us drop the subject"
Cleve was willing to do so. He was
a suspicious fellow about money mat
ters, and in his heart thought it likely
that Dick Dayton was in debt to the es-
tate of the late Peter Ten Eyk. Be-
sides, it was rather principle of his to
let any conversation drop which was
inclined to drift toward cash.
But Dick did not find it so easy to
drop the memories this short converse
ton awakened He wandered off to a
deserted end of the long piazza, far away
from the lights and music and laughter of
the dancing-room, and lived over again
the events of those dreary weeks in
Dogwood Gulch. Certainly most prom
inent in them was girlish figure clad
in gray alpaca. He recalled hundred
circumstances all of them pleasant
or picturesque which they had been
concerned, and he wondered if the
plain little chrysalis could have become
the gay butterfly report said she was.
He had mind to just step inside the
ballroom and have look at her
Then he remembered the gypsy's
prophecy, and smiled scornfully at the
inclination. "These vagrants," he
thought, "know, because they keep
their eyes and ears open. The girl in
some way had learned both of the ac-
cident and of Miss Ten Eyk's arrival;
and because l am considered" Here
Dick had the grace to stop in his re-
flections, yet he knew that he was
strikingly handsome, and that unedu-
Gated women are apt to overrate the
power of great beauty.
But he threw his cigar away and
strolled toward the front of the hotel.
Should he look at her or notP Was
this girl the fortune that had been pre-
dictedP If so, he could, in this in
stance at any rate, defy fate, and
choose for himself. And he chose to
ignore Miss Ten Eyk that night, and to
leave for New York before she was up
-. ti,a .->H~,'i"e And Richard naytnn
had so seldom in life felt able to order
his movements according to his whims,
that absolutely snubbing destiny in this
fashion gave him an exhilarating sense
of independence.
After that small temptation Miss Ten
Eyk gave him little concern. His fate,
indeed, seemed to lead him in ways far
enough from the fortune that was as
sociated with that young lady. He was
| obliged to work very hard, in order to
| retrieve fruitless past, and lay the
foundations of more remunerative
future, and he gradually dropped out
of that gay society who dress more
elegantly than Solomon's lilies, and
yet who, like them, toll not, neither spin.
Still, he occasionally saw his old
companions, for there are always hopes
of clever young lawyer, and as long
as he has decent suit of clothes, and
does not want TO borrow money, he is
among the list of future possible eligi
bles. And after Richard Dayton
argument in a certain great railway
case, his prospects frightened visibly.
Acquaintance who had forgotten him
for two years began to leave cards il
his Office, and send him pretty remind
ers of balls and dinners and very ex
elusive "evenings at home"
1t was at one of the latter that he
met Give Raynor again. They had
not seen each other for many months
and their hand-shake was unaffectedly
glad and honest. 81 thought you were
in Europe for your health, Clive," said
Dick. "You don't look WE'LL"
"No, dare say not. l have gone
through enough to kill me. Do you
remember that handsome gipsy grill
She has made the biggest fool of me,
and after all my running round after
her, things came to nothing, and haG
to go to Paris to console myself"
"Did you really want to marry herP''
" | don't know-I suppose so; but
while | was trying to be sure about the
whole affair, Reglita goes and marrie'
one of her own wild yellow cousins
and he was so impolite, and said such
dreadfully disagreeable things to me
that l was obliged to give up the girl.
1t nearly killed me. had to go t.
Paris; and l shall never marry any one
now. Reglita was right: l shall never
have wife, Dick"
The little, handsome, daintily dressed
fellow did look 80 much changed tha
Dick had no heart to treat the conf
dence in any other way than seriously
and out of their mutual recollection o
the lovely Romany girl sprang easily
the memory of another woman-Mis
Ten Eyk.
"Did you like her, CliveP'
"A good many of the fellows did
she always seemed to be laughing a
| me, and Reoiita was very nleasanf In