The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-01
A MARRIAGE NOT INTENDED


balcony of the clarendon" knitting
some white wool, smiled rs If well
pleased at INV Outspoken admiration.
''She Is indeed beautiful, and a.
true as she is lovely"
"Do YOU know the Young lady,"
asked of the tiny, silyered-haired lady
by my side.
Every well. Her mother was NV
dearest friend"
And while the pair of whom have
spoken pursued their way to the
Lakes, sat and listened t0 as sweet
and tender little love story Us it has
ever been my lot to hear.
"Yes. Elaine i very beautiful very
like her mother when she married
Lawyer Foster. He was a stern huS-
band, and mourned little when his wife
died, leaving little Elaine to bis care.
Three months of every year he
allowed her 10 be with me. i'm accord
ance with her mothers diving wish.
Sin my large. breezy house in the
country, the little girl spent the sum-
mer months in perfect abandonment
of delight at her escape from the
.ombre restraint of her fathers domi-
cilc. Having mo- children. nv huS-
hand and loved her ~ ii she had
been our own.
"Three years ago, shortly after
Elaines coming to Us, WAS seized with
a low, nervous fever. Nv darling
huny over my bed with all the loving
anxiety of Il daughter. DIR. Raw, a
young physician who hail been settled
in our village for about two years.
came every day to see ne might
have known that there could he but
one result TO unrestraincd daily inter
course between two young people 80
fitted tn each other i'm all respects
save that of wealth; hut my illness.
suppose, made me careless OF anything
except NV own suffering.
lone evening, in the latter par, of
August, when | was sufficiently re-
covered To sill in NV easy chair, | had
been watching the sunset, and must
have fallen into little dOze, when
heard my darling come quickly into
my room. felt her throw her arms
about my waist and drop her head in
NV lap, murmuring-
$50 happy so happy
What is it, dear heart | said.
smoothing her golden hair.
"'Auntie, Philip loves me. and |
am the happiest girl in the world
/ ii sat moment, unable to speak.
Then at last | filtered
"'Oh, Elaine! Your father,'
CDR. Ray will go to London and
speak to father, shortly after | return
home and when he sees Philip, and
knows how We love each other, he
cannot refuse to make us happy
"The following week my little girl
went hack home, and few days after
DIR. Ray also left for London.
"Then came a heart broken letter
from my darling. Her father had
laughed at Philips love for her
ridiculed his poverty, and told him to
make fortune before he aspired to
Elaine's hand At the close of the
interview, Mr.. Foster had said
"'ioung man, don't let me hear
from you again on this subject for two
years, and see that you hold no COM
munication with Elaine during that
time. Then, If you still love each
other and you have enough to support
wife respectfully, l will hear what
you have To- say.
Then Philip Ray came to me.
His eyes glistened, and his hand
was teverish. He WAS altogether
unlike his old self He was
going away. He couldn't make !
money fast enough there. and money
he must have, or he never could see
his darling again. He would 90 to
America.
1.-The next two summers were lonely !
ones to me. Mr.. Foster would not
let my little girl come to see me. He !
sud | had deceived him. Perhaps l
had. hut | did not mean To do SO.
Elaine wrote often. Sometimes the |
letters were hopeful; more often they
were sad with WEAKNESS of hope de-
ferred. Occasional mention was made |
of certain Dilkes Ramsey. q gentle !
man whom her father had taken into |
partnership.
"Mr. Ramsey, she wrote, was very
polite to her, but she did not fancy |
him. She didn't want to drive |
with him; she didn't care to see his |
beautiful home. But her father !
seemed to wish her to accept these at
tentions, and then it would not last |
long. for the two years were nearly |
over. D.