The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-08-06
A sEASHOltE ROMANCE.

n oEASINOEkI k6OuANCE.
Hoo a Phitadelphian Regaincd his Long
Lost LOve-Sared from Dropnnq to BE-
Married in tie Fall" Pretty Darling
PuSs" Nearly Leads to Co,ohidhg.
ATLANTIC CITY, July 2s.-Ten years ago
Charles Voysey was the confidential clerk of
one Of Pbiladelphia'a merchant princes. He
was steady, honest and industrious, inclined
to piety, but as poor as a church mouse. His
employer was proud, naughty imperious,
but he could draw his check for a million,
and the bank cashier would merely say !:
GLOW will you have it?"
Once every week, sometimes oftener ,espe-
ciailly if she wanted the needful for some
trinkets or gewgaws, the merchants daugh-
ter paid visit to the private office back of
the counting house. She was sweet sixteen,
buxom in form, fair in complexion and win
some in manner. In the eyes of her parent
she was more precious than gold, for she was
an only child and bereft ofa mothers tender
care, and he was never happier than when
strokiIg the ringets which fell over her
shoulders, and listening to her ripplng
laugh. BY and by he noticed that his dar-
ing's visits to the office became less few and
far between. AT first this fact did not strike
him as having any particular signif-
cance, but when she began to drop in
every afternoon his suspicious were aroused.
One day when he returned rather suddenly
from ride up town he found the pious clerk
and the buxom dansel engaged in conf
dental talk, without room enough between
their two chairs to run pin through. The
explosion which followed is remembered by
the other clerks to this day. Madamoiselle
was sent home with instructions to stay there
for the future, while the con fused employee
was soundly bersted for his presumption and
audacity. This" thought pateriamilias
when he cooled down, "will be the end Of
it" But for once the level-headed man of
business was mistaken. Less than week
later, while taking a ramble through the
wooded grounds which ndjoined his elegant
Germantown home, he came upon the pair
in much the same attitude as be had seen
them in before, only that the green sward took
the place Of chairs. Neither knew of his
presence until the presumptuous clerk re.
ceived sudden and unromantic application
Of boot leather. Then there was yell,
girls shrill shrek, and the falnting damsel
was hastily carried to the house by her
father while the nonplussed swain rubbed
his base and FASTENED away in the oppo-
site direction. Six days later the daughter
was on the ocean, booked for several years
residence in Paris, while her adoror, with a
months salary in his pocket, was enjoying
the luxuries which can be found in au emi-
grant train bound for the west.
Last Wednesday week the name" Charles
Voysey" was inscribed in round, bold
hand on the register of one of our most select
hotels, and couple of magnificent bays,
similar number Of grays, an elegant drag
and an equally handsome pheIon were
lodged at a ncighboring livery stable under
the same name. When the same evening |
one of the teams with liveried servant in /
front, and a "tiger" behind drew up in front
of the piazza, and the owner stepping in /
took the lines, the gossips Of the hotel were
all agog.
"Who is he?" they asked and the question
was taken up by the folks who watched the
attractive n turn-out M "a mani ,,r o,,l 49,.
Pacific avenue. Nobody could answer, how
ever, until the story came from the servants
quarters. where the footman had been max
ing love to the colored servant, that the
stranger was a wealthy Californian, with a
big sheep farm, hundreds Of acres Of vine
yards, and any amount Of real estate in the
Golden City of the Pacific coast.
A few evenings ago, just as the sun was
going down in the clouds, s,whilc the new ar-
rival was stolling along an unfrequeuted
portion of the beach, his attention was at.
tracted to the graceful movements Of
swimmer, who was enjoying the water some
little distance from the shore. (This, il may ,
be observed in parenthises, is no unusual
occurrence in the evening this season. Sud |
denly the faint cry oil women was borne ,
over the breaker, and at the same moment
he swimmer threw up her arms,and huge |
breaker hid her from sight. To kick off his /
shoes, throw off his coat and plunge into the
turf took the stranger but a moment. A =
minute or two later his strong arms were r
'eariLg the exhausted woman to the dry
and. AS he laid her down upon the beach
ier eyes opened and met those of her pre- i
erver. I,
"Charlie!" /,
"Nellel" 4.
The ordinations came in one breath, ,4nd
he recognition was complete. The double
rial ,howevsr,was too great for her strength, Il
md she had barely managed to whisper n
he name of the hotel at which she h
vas stopping when she tainted awaw. A
arriage was procured, and she was quietly
aken to her home, so quietly that not half
dozen persons outside of the doctor, coach e
river and the principals knew anything Of a
he occurrence. The next morning, before :
Charlie" had arisen palerfamilias, WIS at i