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

After a weeks travel he arrived at
the Ten Eyk homestead. It was only
little frame cottage, but old Peter
Ten Eyk had considered it a species Of
palace, and been exceedingly proud of
It's bow windows, and wide
piazzas. Dick knew that the
eastern one was James favorite place
in the afternoon, and he went at once
there to seek her. She was sitting in
low rocker, sewing and dreaming, but
she heard Dicks firm, rapid steps and
knetO them. Dicks first glance at her
face showed him itillumined with ten
der expectation. He never knew who
first threw ceremony to the winds; the
only recollection was an embrace in
which everything was explained and
everything forgiven.
What blissful evening that was! A
full summer moon transfgured the
mountains, and in its glory the lovers
paced the wide plateau, and laid their
plans for the future. Dick would not
speak of James fortune either in its
past or its future. "Let the creditors
of the estste have every dollar there
was" And Jane was very grateful to
him; it was great relief not to have to
explain all her mistakes.
OF course they were to marry at
once, and after short European trip,
the home which Dick had been con-
templating lately would be ready for
them. Jane was very happy. Dick
was better than silver mine, and she
was supremely content with the ex-
change. Mrs. Gruudy, however, had
her opinions about the whole "ridicu-
lously Quixotic AFFAIR." and the rigidly
Just ones thought it a very demoralizing
thing that Jane Ten Eyk should be re-
warded for her obstinate conceit with
the handsomest and most promising
parti in her set.
They were open now to criticism.
and were not spared: Dick was absurd
ly happy and demonstrative about that
plain little wife of his, and James af-
fectation of contentment with her loss
of fortune was ridiculous; the world
knew her better, and was quite sure
that she was envious and miserable be-
meath it.
In business circles Dicks singular
behavior was also discussed. Why did
he not marry the woman before she
made ducks and brakes of old Peters
money! And at the clubs this question
was thoroughly canvassed to the ex-
clusion of much more general ones. For
men at clubs do discuss their house,
hold affairs; they call it politics, but
women know better.
Still, people can not talk forever on
one subject, however aggrieved they
are about it, and in a few weeks the
Daytons bade fair to quietly sink into
tic mass. Just at this point Fate again
interferred with Richard Dayton's
plans. One afternoon he saw gen.
tleman leaving his house whom he
knew, in vague sort of way, as inti-
mately associated with the manage
ment of the Ten Eyk estate.
An unpleasant feeling of some an
noyance to be encountered, and which
he ought no longer to put off, impressed
him, and it was with q sensible de-
crease of his usual buoyant spirits that
he sought his wife's room. His first
glance at her face and attitude con-
vinced him that something unusual had
happened. She had number of sus-
picious looking papers before her, and
was holding her head in her hands in
a very thoughtful manner.
Still she smiled pleasantly at Dick,
though in an uncertain mood; and ris-
ing with a sigh, pushed the papers in
side the secretary, and locked it. Dick
was determined to know the worst at
once. Something is worrying you,
Jane, what is it, dearP'
"Dick, l am afraid that you will
think that have been deceiving you;
that is the trouble. But indeed, indeed,
l can not help the way things have
gone. 1 am so sorry, darlingr'
"Why, what ever is the matter,
wifeyP"
80, Dick, Simon Hewes has been
here-father's old manager, you know
and he says, Dick dear, that they
have found the lead again in the Ter
Eyk mine-struck it richer than ever
and those shares, Dick, 1 bought, and
that every one said were just so much
waste paper, Hewes has sold them fol
two hundred thousand dollars, and now
he wants to know how the money is tC
be invested. can't help it, Dick-in
deed can't; and what in the world an
1 to do with the mine and the moneyP
$50 haze married an heiress, aftel
ALL" said Dick, laughing, and kissing
the heiress twenty times over as evi
dence of mis- forgiveness. And Jane
was very humble, and very thankful fol
Dicks kindness in the matter, and fol
the really handsome way in which he
not only forgave his contrary destiny
but also took it into his own special care
and keeping.
Marriage takes all the nonsense out
of fellow, you see," said Give Ray
nor, in his club, the night that this new
topic about the Daytons came up" F" and
besides, Dick did not know that he mar
ried an heiress."
Nonsense, my dear fellow" sale
the elegant Jenkins; "it is only a new
version of an old comedy-LoUe'S Strat
nqem. Bet you a hundred dollars Mrs
Dayton knew where the Ten Eyk leaC
was all estime; and old Simon Hewei
knows railway scrip somewhat better
than his Bible. 1 only wish some pretty
girl would fool me in the same way
Pom my honor do, now, really"
But if Dick ever suspected any fool
ing in the matter, he laid it all OF
Madam Fate, and he very graciously
forgave her the deception, and ac
cepted the fortune that was evidently
so inevitable. .-Harper'S Weekly.
A Marvellous Pistol-Shot,