Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-01
A SEASHORE ROMANCE.
HOW A PHILADELPHlAN REGAINED
MS LONG-LOST WIFE.

HOW A PHILADELPHlAN RECLAIMED
MS LONG-LOST WIFE.
Saved from Drowning to be Married In the
Fall" Pretty Darling Poss " Nearly
Leads to . Cowhiding.
Atlantic City Correspondence Philadelphia
Ten years ago Charles VOysey was the
confidential clerk of one of Philadelphia
merchant princes. He was steady, honest
and industrious, inclined to piety, but as
poor as Il church mouse. His employer
was proud, naughty, imperious, but he
could draw his check for a million, and
the bank cashier would merely say {:
L" How will you have it 20
Once every week, sometimes Oftener,
especially if she wanted the needful for
some trinkets or gcwGawS the merchants
daughter paid visit to the private Office
back of the counting house. She was
sweet sixteen, buxom III form, fair in COM
plexiOn and winsome in manner. In the
ewes Of her parent she was more precious
than gold, for she was All only child and
bereft of q mothers tender care, and he
was never happier than when strokiug the
rinrlets which fell over her shoulders and
listening to her rippling laugh. by and by
he noticed that his darling's visit to the
office became less few and far between.
At first this fact did not strike him
as havin. any particular significance but
when she began to "drop in'' every
afternoon his suspicious were aroused.
One day when he returned rather suddenly
from Il ride up town he found the piOus
clerk and the buxom damsel engaged in a
confidential 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 confused cmplOyc was soundly
bcratcd for his presumption and audacity.
This" thought patcriamilias when he
had cooled down, evil he the end of it. \"
But for once the evelh,adeG man of busi-
ness was mistaken. Les. than week
later, while taking ramble through the
wooded grounds which adjOincd his
elegant Germantown home, he camo
upon the pair in mucn the same attl-
tudc as he had seon them in be-
fore, only that the green Sward took
the place of the chairs. Neither knew OF
his presence until the lrcsumptuous clerk
received sudden and unrOmantic appli-
cation of boot leather. Then therc WAS q
yell, 4 girls si,rill shrek, and the faint
ing damscl was hastily carried to tho
house by her father, while the nOnplusscd
swain rlbbcd his base and fastened away
in the opposite direction. Six days later
the daughter was on the ocean, booked
for several years residence i'll Paris,
while her adorc:, with months salary in
his pocket. was enjoying the luxuries
which can only be found in an emigrant
train bound 10 the far West.
Last Wednesday week the name
"CharlrS Eoyscy was inscribed in 4
round, bold hand on the register of one of
magnificent bays, Il similar number Of
grays, an elegant drag and an equally
handsome p!,aeton were lodged at a neigh
When the same evening one Of the teams
with a liveried footman in front and a
'stiger'' behind drew up in front of the
piazza. and the owner stepping in took
the lines, the Sossips of the hotel were all
agOg.
"WhO is llc?" they asked, ana tho
question was taken up by the folks who
watched the attractive turnout rs it went
up and down Pacific avenue. Nobody
could answer, however, until the story
came from the servants quarters, where
the footman had been making love to the
coiored servant, that the stranger was a
wealthy Californian, with a big sheep
farm, hundreds OF acres Of vineyards ana
any amount of real estate in the Golden
City of the Pacific coast
A few evenings ago, just rs the sun was
going down in the clouds, while the new
arrival WAS strOliing along an unfrequenteti
portion Of the beach, his attention was
attracted to the graceful movements Of a
swimmer who was enjoying the water
some little distance from the shore.
(This, it may be observed, in parcnthesis,
IS no unusual occurrence in the evening
this seascn.) Suddenly the faint cry of a
woman was borne over the breakers, and
at the same moment the 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 surf took
the stranger but a moment. a minute or
two later his strong arms were bearing the
exhausted woman to the dry sand. AS he
laid her down upon the beach her eyes
opened, and met those of her preserver.
"Charie!''
"Nellie!"
The exclamation came in one breathe,
and the recognition was complete. The
double trial, however, was too great for
her strength. and she had barely managed
to whisper the name Of the hotel at which
she was stopping when she tainted away. A
carriage was procured and she was quietly
taken to her home, SO quietly that not half
a dozeu Persons outside Of the doctor,
coach driver and the principals knew any
thing oi the occurrence. The cst morning
before Charlie had risen patcr!amilias
was at the hotel and to make 4
long story short, Germantown will sec ono
of the most brilliant weddings this fall
which has ever taken place in that quiet
= suburb, while California will gain one of
Philadclphia's faircst daughters. Mean.
while the bays have a heavier load TO carry
every evening. Neither Of the lovers had
married {; neither had forgotten the other,
although, they never expected to meet
again. BIT literally, in this case at
least, "Time 1T last makes all things
evcn."
Druggists Testimony.