The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-05
A KENTUCKY ROMANCE.
The Love of Two Brothers and Two Sisters
with an Unexpected Denoument.

In g certain part of our county there
lived Il family, in which there are two
brothers just entering upon the prime of
youthful manhood; short distance
from thcm--in fact, in the same neigh.
borhood-their lives another family in
which there are two sisters also in the
prime Of maidenhood, beautiful, fasci
mating and attractive. These young peo.
pie being near neighbors, and coming in
contact with each other often, almost
naturally it would seem, fell in love with
each other, the eldest brother with one of
the sisters and the younger with the
other. All went smoothly for time,
and these young people enjoyed them
selves, and dreamed bright dreams of the
future, and no doubt in Imagination con.
structei fairy palaces Of love, and gar
dens, like Paradise which should be only
filled with beautiful flowers and fruits Of
happiness and unalloyed enjoyment.
Then, as n matter of course, the question
Of marrying arose, which must be refer.
ed to the parents of the young ladies for
approval. The eldest brother had no
difficulty in obtaining their consent TO
his marrying the young lady, and the
wedding day was fixed upon. Then the
young brother went to the parents and
made known his attachment for the
other sister and their mutual desire 10
"splice and travel the road of life
together" But the old folks were decid-
edly opposed to having more than one of
their girls marry into "that family" and
plainly Informed him that if he wanted a
wife he must 60 elsewhere to get her, init.
mating that he should desist paying furth-
er attention to the young lady in question.
But the young man was determined that
If his brother married one of the girls he
would marry the other. So he went to
the young "lady Of his love-" and told
her the circumstances of the situation,
aud desired her, if abe loved him, to
prove her love by running off with him.
20 TINS she agreed, and the night was
fixed upon when they should carry out
the mutual agreement. But now comes
the strangest part of the story. The two
young ladies resembled each other very
much in looks, voice, &C., and by some
strange freak, when the night of elope.
ment came and the young man went to
the appointed place of meeting, he found
woman there whom he thought was the
right one, but she was not. Unconscious
OF this, however, he took her to the place
where tho marriage ceremony was to be
performed before he found out that he
was with the wrong girl Most wonder.
iul to relate, he thought that after he
had gone to nil this trouble he would get
married anyway, 80 he asked her if she
would have him, and she, in order to
carry out the joke, said she would, and
they were married then and there. 1t
appears that she had overheard him
making arrangements to elope with her
sister, and knowing the place of meeting,
determined to go there ahead of her and
thus fool the young man, for whom sho
entertained a secret liking, although she
was engaged to be married to his brother.
Our informant also states that after they
had lived together for some time, the
elder brother, determining to make the
most OF the situation, took unto himself
the other sister.