The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-11-05
A startling ROmnnce-.A Secret
Of Thirty Years Involving u
Popular Clergyman.
Cor. Gin. Enquirer.

popular WITH HIS claSSIualeo ou az
count of a certain of hand generosity
and good nature, favoritc with his
professors on account Of his bright ill.,
telligence and oratorical abilities,
and pet in the society of women,
went to spend his vacation with some
relatives in. Schroeppelville, in this
State
While there he met for the first time
his cousin, Mollie Schroeppelville, an
exceedingly pretty and winning young
girl. They fell in love with each 9th
sr and were soon betrothed. On ac-
count of the youth of both parties,
and for some other reasons never
made public, their marriage was OPP
posed and their summers happiness
turned into winters discomfort.
When spring came, impatient OF pro-
longed opposition and as much in love
AS ever, the young couple came to
Brooklyn and were clandestinely mar
ried.
Soon after they separated, when
each returned home. But few
months passed when the young wife
found her secret would soon be be-
trayed. Under pretext of making
visit to some friends, she came to
this city and rejoined her husband,
who would not consent to their rela-
lions being made public. Assuming
the name of Crosby, they took mod
est lodgings on Houston street and
lived in
THE sTRIcrEsT RETIREMENT.
The poor girl looked forward with
hope and content to her approaching
trial, feeling that when child came
to them her husband would certainly
see the wisdom and necessity of cut
ting short the concealment so pain
full to her; but George Pencil,
with all his good nature and brains
was a selfish man and weak one.
Above all he feared the displeasure
Of his father, doctor in high stand
ing. who when advised of his sons
act, sternly forbade him to make it.
public.
When the infant was born imagine
the grief and Disappointment of the
Young mother when her husband s
father tenderly broke the news to her
of it's immediate death Feeble in
body and almost in mind with anxi-
ETY. and suffering, she was then per-
suaded and frightened into consent
ing to return home, and keeping her
secret, and she found no consolation
in her husbands grief at parting, for
with the vanquishing of his epheme-
real love returned the selfishness that
prompted him to look out only for
his own interests.
Mollie returned home and so clev-
crly had everything been arranged
that her absence had not excited the
least suspicion, though her changed
appearance called forth comments,
for the shock of finding her husband
SO ready to renounce her, and the
TERRIBLE DIsAPPoINTMENT
in regard to the child whose coming
she had so longed for, she never got
over in this life. She lived to be IL
grave, middle-agcd woman with a
high reputation for generosity snd
Kindness to the poor. Offers of mar
IMAGE she refused and her property
gradually increased in value until
She became wealthy.
Five wears ago she died lamenting
her more than widowed and childless
conditions, leaving her lands and mon
ey to relatives and charitable insti-
tutions, and but one human being in
possession of her secret, for through
out she had passed as a single woman.
This friend was Attorney General
Pratt, whom few days before her
death she took into confidence, little
suspecting what strange use her con
fession would be put to and that it
would result in the restoration of a
son, her son, whose existence she had
never suspected, to his rights.
Never was woman more wickedly
or cruelty defrauded of all that makes
life sweet and precious, and by those
to whom she looked for protection
and comfort When the child whose
coming she had yearned for was born,
and before she had sufficient con-
seriousness to ask for it, the husband's
father DR.. Pencil, had, with his sons
consent, taken from the house and
given it into the keeping of poor
German couple in Brooklyn who
broughtit up as their own.
Young George Pennell then return
ed to college, graduated with honors,
studied for the ministry, became pas.
tor Of St. Johns Episcopal Church
in Newark and for twenty-five years
has been caf 7a3'la
POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL PREACHER.
He gratified his fathers ambition
by marrying charming and wealthy
woman of high social position who
has given him several children.
Meantime his first-born son
by his real wife was chris
tened Robert Fulton Crosby,
and brought up by the honest Ger
mans, who received a certain sum
weekly for his board and clothes,
teaching him to speak only their own
language according the agreement
with the old doctor.
When the latter died no one came
forward to pay the child's board,
which, up to his coming of age
"a I. + e..