The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-11
Written For The sunday Morning Bazoo.
AN IRREGULAR PROCEEDING.
BY T.. q. y.

prOfusiOn here and there bv the way
side: the second represented by various
types of character and phases Of shy
or openly manifested devotion. all
along the route from prairie lands, on
through scenes and spice woods of
the buckeye state to the rugged hills
of West Virginia.
"Romantic fools! disgusting exhib-
ition Of mutual affection in the pub
lie light Of a railroad car, was the in
ternal comment of Phillip Hearne
leaning back in his seat with bored
expression of supercilious WEAKNESS on
his handsome face, and disposed to be
hard on others from not being sure at
this juncture. of his own superiority TO
to sentimental influence else, why
this very trick Ostensibly in the inter-
est of client, on legal business which
the young man could admit to himself.
might have been managed without his
presence and which probably would not
have compelled the same. had it not
led him to the vicinity of the home of
one met FIVE years before, and who in
a brief interval of his busy ambitious
career, had left upon memory tender
hold whose tenacity continued to be a
marvel to himself.
They had met at Monogaw Springs.
a bizarre summer resort of South
western Missouri, for which art has
done little against nothing; but where
nature shows features of savage beauty.
Violet Grey, the orphan niece
of an elderly gentleman of means
and decided opinions, came to this re.
mote place from a distant home in an
other state in company with his uncle
and his only son. The latter two were
looking up tract of land in this part
of the country to which they held a
title, and the younger gentleman of a
somewhat cratic turn, and possessed
of a geological craze, found in this re-
gion a new field suited to favorite pur-
suits his fair cousin was pleased with
the novelty of the scene around her,
and the principal of their family triod
was persuaded to linger and rest for
awhile in the quiet and GOODNESS of the
old caravansary, perched on a breezy
summit above the crowds and babel of
sounds around the springs in the val
lev below.
To this same hotel came Phillip
Hearne to recruit during short vaca-
ton, from the effects of overwork and
mental strain in the profession of which
he was already regarded as "rising
light" What followed? Well, a new
version of the old story. A winning
girlish presence met on the airy piazza |; |
a charming wood nymph clad in white
muslin sprigged as it seemed with bits
Of green from heritage about the paths
where the two strollei apart from 9th
Frs; violet eyes looking out from under
the brim of a sun-hat wreathed with |
pansies,-glances shy vet eloquent with
tender meaning half conveyed, half
a roee leaf face of the ex.
o uisite blonde type, rarely seen in re-
gions of prairie winds and fervid SUM-
shine, with soft bushes staining its
whiteness as the spirit that moved |
them, unfolded like a passion flower
under the sunshine of new, supreme
influence. Oh, hours of enchantment
when life opened a revelation of posi- |
bic sweetness and Phillip Hearne
could accept as prophecy the words !:
Thou shalt forever love and she be
fair" Meanwhile the Griffins who
should have guarded this enchanted |
princess whose destiny they had settled
in family conclave the elder of the
twain snoozed in an armchair on the
yeranda through the summer hours,
or pulled at his meerchaum, pleased |
to see the tone of color staining through |
constant use its original creamy tint.
The two nearest and dearest to his !
heart were wandering of somewhere
together. Here among strangers all
around them. Could there be more
fitting time or place for these young
people to share the idea of a union, to
which it must he confessed, they had
seemed toe Indifferent in the past, to
suit himself. Surely now, mutual re-
gard must ripen into something more
than good natured acquiescence to his
expressed desire.
While this optimist dreamed in
fancied security, his sons tall, angular
vet not unprepOsessing in appearance
and manner, tramped off into all sorts
Of out of.the-way places, hammer in
in hand chipping of bits of granite
and picking up fossils to his hearts
delight until the pockets of his ulster
bulged with specimens, glad to know
that his fair charge was being looked
after through the day, and entertain
ed in the moon-lit evenings, while he