The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-07-30
know more Of that.life which

sure was no common one.
do you know the young lady?a j
asked Of the tiny, esilver-haired lady
by my side.
! had arrived in Saratoga bat The
night before, and had risen early
this lovely June morning, and had
been rewarded by the sight of that
| perfect face.
VERY we'll, Her mother was my
dearest friend"
And while the pair ofwhom | have
spoken, pursued their way to the
Lake, sat and listened to az sweet
and tender a little story as it has
ever been my lot to hear.
"Yes, Elaine is very beautiful;
very like her mother when she mar.
ried lawyer Foster. He wasa stern
husband, and mourned little when
his wife died, leaving the little
Elaine to his care. | do not think
he ever loved the child, but he was
proud Of her beauty. Three months
Of every year he allowed her to spend
with me, in accordance with her dy,
ing mothers wish"
sin my large, breezy house in the
county, the little girl spent the sum
mer months in perfect abandon
ment Of delight at her escape from
the sombre restraints of her fathers
house in The city. Having no chill
dren of our own, my husband and |
loved her as if she had been our very
own.
"Three years ago, shortly after
Elaine's coming to u.s. 4 lwas2 seized
with a Low, nervous fever AIydarl'
ing hung over my bed with all The
loving anxiety Of daughter. DR.,
Ray, a young physician who had
been settled in our village for about
two years, came every day to see me.
| might have known that there could
be but one result to unrestrained iu-
tercourse between two young people
so fitted to each otherin all respects
save that Of wealth; but my illness,
| suppose, made me careless of any
ting except my own suffering.
Zone evening in the latter part of
August, when | was sufficiently re
covered to sit in my easy chair, l
had been watching the sunset, and
must have fallen into little doze,
when l heard my darling comequick-
ly into the room, felt her throw her
arms about my waist, and drop her
head in my lap, murmuring, so hap
pyl SO happyp
"What is it, my dear hearth" l said,
smoothing her golden hair.
Then the answer came, which |,
in my illness and blindness, had new
suspected.
"Auntie, Phillip loves me, and !
am the happiest girl in the world"
81 sat moment, unable to speak.
Then at last / faltered:
20 Elaine Your fatherl'
THE girl shrank back, frightened
for the moment from her happy
dreaming. Then the divine hope
fulness of youth and love asserted it.
self, and she replied:
CDR. Ray will go to New York and
speak to father shortly after go back;
and when he sees Phillip and knows
how we love each other, he cannot
refuse to make us happy"
"The following week my little girl
went back (she never called it going
home,' twas simply going back
She came home in June, she used
to say and a few days after, DR.. Ray
also left for New York.
"Then came heart.broken letter
from my darling, Her father had
laughed at Phillips love for her; rid
iculed bis poverty, and told him to
make fortune before he aspired to
Elainc's hand. At the close Of The
interview the judge had said:
young man, don't let me hear
from you again on this subject for
two years, and see that you hold no
communication with Elaine during
that time. Then, if you two still
think you love each other, and you
have made enough to support wife
respectfully, L will hear what you
have say
With this they were obliged to be
l,soNto,I