Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-07-12

cared as little for ceremony as her Be-
hemian sister Isabel; she wished it all
over, and herself settled in home of
her own. Home! What q delightful
sound! Should she ever realize the
wordP
There was ring at the door. The
postman had brought her letters from
her Professor and her mother.
"DARLrNo FANNY" (wrote the iirsr-"I can Z
wait June is a long way on, for the winter Is
only Just begun. Moreover, there IL no need
of waiting. We were idiots 10 think of 1t. Mrs:
Delaney has sSnc soSh for so the winter and
ished. You remember II, do you not2 IL was
at a sociable there, behind the garnet plush
curtains in the bow.window, that you told me
The house has had Its associations for me
ever since. never 90 by II In the evening ana
soc the light streaming through the stained
glass over tho han door without fancying that
weakness for lovers That house is TO let, or,
rather, IL was; IL Is so no longer, for have
rented 1t. Don't start and drop this paper.
Tho house awaits q mistress. I've told the
kitchen girl that you will appear Monday
morning. Now don't say you cant, for have
just received letter from your mother, and
ne an se5be nan n sSe has bearS of
Why should spend my evenings I'm board
ing-house for six months longer. when might
toast my toes, instead, at my ain firesidel The
letter to me, in which you will see that she
proposes that bring you TO her next saturday
evening. We can then be quietly married ut
church after the regular Sunday service, and
can start for our own home by the early train
Monday morning, which will land me at the
college I'm time TO attend TO my regular classes:
l know that your sister very kindly intended
to make social event of our marriage; but |
have n horror of events and, besides, cant
wait. She must come with you, and see the
knot properly tied. l will meet you both ut
the Depot at half past four Saturday p. m. "
The letter from Fans mother re-en-
forced the Professors plea, and gave a
maternal sanction to the hasty marriage.
Fan ran to her sisters room, only to as
certain that she had gone out In the car
riage, the maid did not know whittier.
1t was Saturday, and half past three in
the afternoon; and scribbling hasty
note of explanation, which she left upon
her sisters dressing table, Fan packed q
handbag and departed. She reached
the station little too early, and sat in a
corner of the waiting-room, enjoying
watching the people come and 60, trying
to imagine their histories, and wondering
whether any were going on brands like
her own. At last the train trundled in
There was the usual hubbub of embrace
ing friends, .importunate cab-drivers, and
hurrying travellers. She eagerly scanned
each passenger who emerged from the
cars. Her Professor had not come. In
experienced in the ways of travel, she
began to be nervous. She still sat in
the corner of the big room, outwardly
calm, but inwardly quaking. An old
gentleman by her side, who, like her,
had watched the crowd with meditative
interest, his stubby chin resting pensive-
ly on the horn handle of his umbrella,
turned to her and remarked: "Such q
power of people!-such power Of peo-
pie! Nary two on 'em alike; nary one
on 'em you ever sec afore."
AT last she stepped to the ticket Office
and inquired the last train from the col
lego station. Yes, one would be in at
eight o'clock, but no trains going out
after that to Edgecliff, her mothers
home. Could she not go at nine o'clock
TO - Junction, and catch the night
express at that point? eyes, that was
possible" and Fan sat down again, and
waited. The eight o'clock train brought
the Professor, weary and anxious. He
lOSJ tiC tldlII. anu ltaltt dil
would 60 wrong in consequence. The
idea of the express at junction raised
his spirits at once.
They set out in high glec, only to be
delayed by the heavy drifting storm sufli-
GENTLY for their train TO reach the juno
ton five minutes after the express had
left. Here was predicament! They
stood together on tho platform, stranded,
upon a stormy Saturday night, in strange
town, the last train left for everywhere,
and the statiOn-master locking his door
for over Sunday. There were no carriages
in waiting; and inquiring the way to the
nearest parsonage they set out for a
tramp together through the storm.
Courage, Fam said the Professor /;
"there is no way out of this mess but to
get married as quickly as we can"
A mcck-eyed minister wife answered
their summons. Her husband was at
home and sick in bed; not so ill, how
ever, but she thought he might marry
them, though he had been somewhat de-
lirious during the day. They might fol-
low her into the bedroom; she was sure
no license was required. And so the
Professor in his snow-hecked ulster Fan
thought Historically of her sisters
words, "His presence would give pres
tige to any occasion'O and Fan in her
damp rubber waterproof stood together
hand in hand by the good mans bed
side. Fever had left him little incohe-
rent. He made the Professor promise to
obey Fan, and Fan to support the Pro-
fessor, but otherwise they were soundly
and sacredly married, and the minister's
wife was made to smile by crumpled
bill Of large amount pressed into her
thin hand. A telegram announcing the
event winged its way to Fans mother,
and long sleigh-ride Of twenty-seven
miles across the country carried Fan the
next day TO her new home. But Mrs.
Sue Hathaway never, never forgave them
their unccremonious wedding. -Harpcr's
Bdzdr.