Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-20

found awaiting him letter which made
bis heart heat with Joy and caused him
10 altar his decision.
The naissive ran rs follows:
DEAR PERCY: rr. s-g-
Tie folks arrived yesterday. / called
to see them last night and they wished
to be remembered to you, Am TO busy
TO give details. HOWARD.
7. Shy the way, I think Pauline
intends going TO the Old Guard Ball In
January.
The postscript made Percy very
happy.
Would he go with "the boys to the
greatest event of the season."
Well, he thought, II would be very
strange If he didn't.
The holidays flew by on golden wings,
and his manner WAS so changed that
his father said:
My dear boy, Pm glad to see you
have given up moping and are once
more acting like a man. What Is the
reason you have chBnged so SUDDENLY
"Oh, Nothing, father, nothing. I'm
happy be cause Pm going to New York
in lew days"
"POor boy! don't blame you for
wanting to get away from this grave
yard. Ii the mud was not so deep j
would move from this village to-mor-
row and take TO my abode in the great
est city in the world-the home of those
great and good men, Vanderbilt, Gould
nj d Sage. However, if you meet them
at the TALL, remember me kindly to
them and say that their fame as phil
anlhropists has extended even into the
borders of this rural retreat"
IT'S the night of the Old Guard Ball.
The most magnificent opera houEe in
the world il ablsze with incandescent
lights, the fragrance of flowers fills the
ar, aid sweet strains of exquisite bar
mOny enrapture the ear.
Percy, resplendent in the gorgeous
uniform Of the Philadelphia City Troop,
is one ofthe most distinguished looking
men present.
On one side of him stands stalwart
member of the Troy Citizens Corps, his
brilliant scarlet and white uniform, with
shining collar and cuffs, Troy Laundry
style, presenting a glowing contrast to
the youth on the other side-a Worces-
ter Continental afrayed in the cost, knee
hteeches and hose of his great-grsnd.
ather, suTmOunted by a three-siied hat
pinned up with rOsette.
Percy looks like q sheaf OF wheat sur
rounded by suuflOwers aud tiger lilies.
Soon he spies the fairest flower in that
vast cons rvatory. She Is aIrayed in
blue satin and lace, ily-of the valley
hinge, and on her brow, iairer than
alabaster, q eOronet Of pearls.
Pauline is more radiantly beautiful
than ever.
Percy's heart flutters as heapprOaches
her, and she, with the dignity Of queen
receives him gracefully and kindly.
She grants him the privilege of the
first waltz. Ii made him feel that he
could dance forever with such charm
ing partner.
But pleasure like this is too joyous to
last, and too soon the splendid vision
vanishes.
All that is now left are merely faint
memories of fair women, fragrant flow
~ and fairy-like music.
The next evening Percy told his love
He did not, like OthellO, recount the
history of his past life, nor did h.
dwell upon the incidents connected
With that mountaineering, but he sim
ply said, in the language OF Claude Mel
uUtte.
Pauline, | love YOU"
And the only answer she gave him
wDs.
percy, knew that when We first
met"
The wedding will take place in June.
BY the time Percy's father believes
the mud in the Quaker City will be
efficiently dry to permit him to go to
Gotham Without being compelled to
walk ON stiIts