The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-10-01
URG, PA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER |. 1880.

! me, Snc SalI.
lie hesitatcd.
4 should be happy to do so, but hay,
very little leisure
Cant you como Sunday evening 2
Yes. come by all means. said Ill,
hearty voice of Mr. Browning and lii,
old lady added her invitation.
I'll come, he said, if possible.
Wonderful clever, this Chester Naug-
han. said Mr.. Browning, when they
were fairly seated in the buggy. Knows
as much as the college chaps, and is 90
my to get out a patent for some wonder
tul Improvement or invention of some
sort, they say. Dout know but it will
make his fortune.
'Well, he's the handsomest man I've
set eyes on for many n day, said the old
| lady.
i shouldn't wonder if Edna were to
fall i'll love with him, chuckled her un-
Gle. IF | had n daughter | should be
proud TO own him for son-in-law.
Chester Vaughan did call on Miss De
Nerney, and they We're mutually pleased
with each other. They found endless
topics OF conversation. She was sur
prised at the wonderful culture of his
mind, the beautiful. original thoughts he
expressed. She felt that he was far
ahead of her intellectually.
What avails all this sympathy of
taste ? he thought, bitterly. i'm only
an engineer, and she is rich Miss De
Nemey.
Edna had strange fits of musing. One
evening" when she had spent half an
hour gazing into vacancy, her uncle raj
lied her on her abstraction.
Don't you expect Mr. Vaughan this
| evening ? he asked. 4 notice that he
has power to brighten you up wonder
fully. Confess now, Edna. wouldn't
you marry him if he were in your set as
you call it 2
Edna never knew what impelled her
to speak, but she answered promptly:
4 would marry him as he is, and call
myself the happiest girl on earth. if he
loved me, and asked me to do so.
Chester Vaughan, just stepped over
the low doorway in the purple twilight.
heard the words with a glad thrill at his
heart. lie never paused but stepping
up to her, and, and in the presence of
the wondering couple, said
i love you Edna. Will YOU be NV
wife ?
She had known what was in his heart
for her from the first, and was not sur
prlsed. She put her hand in his, and an
swered, simply:
Yes
The uncle and aunt shook hands with
both heartily.
Just what I've been hoping for said
Mr. Browning. Bless me if | don't
think Edna almost proposed the question
herself !
Nonsense, uncle Tn sure | had
real, straightforward proposal, in Your
hearing, too, haven't | 2 turning to her
lover.
Certainly you have. But I'm too hap
py to discuss such trihes. I've won nv
wlfe-that is all can realize
When the engagement was known.
there was quite tlutter amongst Ednas
fashionable friends.
4 always knew she would do some ir-
regular thing, she's so strange, said one.
Quite scandalous proceeding-to
marry sooty engineer !! said another.
But one day this paragraph appeared
in daily paper:
MIR. Vaughan, who is likely to realize
handsome fortune by wonderful in
ventlon i'll connection with the steam en-
glne, is shortly to marry an heiress, Miss
DE Nerney. We understand there was
quite romance attending his courtship
Miss DE Nerneys cnoice rose in popu-
lar favor at once. In the refined and cul- |
tured circle there were no men more
distinguished looking, more manly in the
essential elements of manhood, than Mr.. |
Chester Vaughan, the former engineer
OF the Maytlower on the b. b. lS G..
Railroad