San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-07
TWO WEDDING DAYS.

Everything ha" ,,,
or,v arranged for our wedding. The
en0acement of Miss Nell BARLEY 10
Mr. Bertram Langley had been duly
announced in the fashion columns OF
the leading society journals and the
wedding day had arrived
lam Bertram Langley-commoniy
called Bertrand, while l confess to DO
most sincerely and entirely in love
with my little Nell, l must add 1 nae
been quite annoyed about our marriage
frat az the persistence with which
she insisted upon grand wedding
T hate fuss and parade, and have an
old time notion that a marriage re-
bearsal, giddily and eventually soiem-
nized before crowd Of gosslp'ng' gap
inc people, is robbed Of all its sweet
nnritv. Then, too, the trousseau! Inc
whole business is a nuisance! Excuse
the big word, but my feelings are
s.rong on that point. What on eartn d
,vomop wants of clothes enough to last
five wears, and gewgaws more than she
can eve, hope to use, could never see'
,rless indeed. she entertains horrible
suspicion that the new firm may refuse
IN furnish fresh supply.
It's all right, / suppose, since they
all do it (no slang intended but 1t was
q irving time for me, 1 can tell you.
could scarcely get glimpse OF Nell
she WINS 80 busy with dressmakers, MIL
liners. ETC., and when l did see her she
WAS in such a rafting hurry to be oil to
keen an appointment with some work
woman or other that / actually grew
little savage. =,
For month before we were married
believe l never entered the house
once hat Kate, Nell's sister, rushed into
the room with an
excuse me, Bert, but Nell is wanted
q moment" or, "Don't look cross, Bert,
but Nellie must see Madam This or
That" till lost all patience.
There was another cause OF annoy
ance, too. Nell's father was rich
man, and as willing as he was able to
furnish his daughter with as much i'm
ery US she might desire, while /, on the
contrary, was man with his way still
to make in the world.
. True, had a fair income and fair
prospects, but could not hope to give
Nell as luxurious home or as elaborate
a wardrobe as her papl provided-at
least not for some years; but I could
afford to support a wife, and 1 loved
Nell with all my heart.
When asked Mr.. Bartley's consent
to our marriage, he was at first just a
little inclined to find fault with my
financial condition. An older man,
with we'll secured fortune, would have
suited him better. He had a most
wholesome dread of fortune hunters,
and even went so far as to have mild
suspicion that 1 might be just bit in
terested in that way; but all that wore
off in time, and we were on the best
of terms.
only mention this to show how a
suspicion once entertained will return
ON the faintest invitation, and not in
frequently on none at all, for the time
came when Mr.. Barley not only enter
tanned this unjust surmise, but eagerly
Rugged this foul thought to his heart,
and grew murderous in that vital organ
toward me-B rtram Langley-as limo
cent man as ever stepped.
The day before the one fixed for our
marriage Nell and had our first tiff. l
called to inform her of the smallest
possible hitch in the church machinery.
The regular sexton was obliged to
leave town, but he had secured the SER
vices of his brother Ia very deaf and
stupid man, as it turned out.) Possibly
she might have some instructions to
give him.
waited full half an hour in the re-
ception room, cooling my heels and
warming my wrath, before Nell rushed
in.
What is il, Bert 2" she asked breath.
lessly, Il am awful busyI'
A spark is enough to ignite q whole
city if it only falls upon highly infam-
mable material, and q word is quite
enough to raise furious temper in 8
4. N a.