Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1885-01-10


ne wat quite irresistible when, in addi-
! tionto his. handsome face and sweet
temper, came the charm OF being mas
] ter OF agfand old manorAhouse, with
/ threelthousalld per anfltign. No wonder
| which troubled me about Lance was
| bis marriage; always feared it. With
| his gay, passionate temp permanent, his
UNIVERSAL admiration ana chivalrous.
| imannerof treating the fairer SEX, it
i was certain that he would, sooner or
/, later, fall in love and marry. From
7 What knew Of him, from the innate
conviction of my own love, ! felt sure
THAT his marriage would be the hinge
/ on which his whole life would turn,
| was very anxious about it, and talked
to him a great deal about it which we
| were together. oa sist ~ 4As1sftc
~ s..afssyoua many the right woman,
Lance, Z 4 said tQIhipa, you will be one
! Of the happiest and most successful
men in the world but but, 4 you should ~,
/ most miserable. q4oD 9slsmolaiu
TIE always locked at = me With laughing
shan make no mistake, John. 4
know that somewhere OF other the
nl0stsad0rable woman in the world is
| waiting for me. / shall be sure to find
| her, and fall in love with her, marry
her and live happy forever afterwards. =
ltsButyouwill be CAREFUL LANCE" I
4 said s9tfss- sla5iii 8fis rs sza8sl4gfA1
| las careful as a man can be; but,
/ Join, as you are so anxious, you had
better choose for Tfae.nt
{. No, p j replied. III made SO great
| mistake when had to choose for my
| calf fhaf qflo1 m ffQfo Ylfs ~ #
| Circumstances happened Chat drew
4 me over to America had a large in
| teresti i'm sonneiland there, andnot caring
| about the trouble of it,, / went over to
| sell it,. I succeeded in. selling it to-
| great profit, and as liked America
lTenlaiiied there three years. j sailed
| for America in the month of October,
| two or three weeks after the incident
| of the Chain Pier, and / returned to
ENGLAND after an absence Of three years
and seven months. found myself at
home, again when the lovely month OF
| May was at its fairest. During all that
/ pened to me, or rather, happened that
interested me. Lance Fleming was
/ married. Il iytin alat s.y stil.
He wrote whole volumes to me before
| his marriage, and he wrote volumes af-
1 forwards. 8Of course she was peffec-
|tion-nay, just'a little beyond perfec-
| ton, think: she was beautiful, clever,
accomplished, and such darling, -of
| course, might be sure of that One
/ thing only was wanted to make him
/ pBrfectly happy-it was that / should
see his lady love. Her name was Fran
ces Wynn, and he assured me that it
world. Page after page of rhapsody
did he write and read. until at last /
| believed him, that he had found the one
1 perfect woman in the world.
Lance wrote oftener still when told
him that / was coming home. | must
go at once to button Manor. should
/ find button Manor an earthly Paradise,
4 he said, and he was doubly delighted
4 that I should be there in May, for in
4 May it wore it's fairest aspect.
III. "a wife makes home Heaven, John, y
he never tired of writing. II wonder
often why Heaven has blessed me SO
II greatly My wife i5--sFell, I worship
| her-she is a fair, proud woman, calm,
|. fair, and lovely as saint. You will
/ never know how much L love her until
| YOU have seen her. She fills the old
manof-house with sunshine and music.
I / love to hear the gentle sound of her
|, voice, sweet and low as the sound of
lute-the frou-frou of her dress as she
moves duUuo. alu sven sven niolo " Aoy9
Win heT IMAM when married ner, ana
/! should not nave thought, That posi-
ple. Make haste home, John, my dear
old TREND; even my happy nome Is IN
complete without YOU Come and share
ITS brightness with mey'2 aiiea lie ST
lie Wrote inn M directions TOT,
I ny Journey Inc nearest railway sta-
tlon 70 button ! Manor was az aye boy
al, a pretty little town about three
miles from the house. IL Z would let
nm Know DyiWnat IRAN snould reacn
Nale ,koyal, ne would pc az me gtatlon {
10 meet me. And ne sald
pless ms GEAR, loving nearI,LtnaU ne
was looking Forward TO IL Win Untold
happlness4 ~ 81 /.
y Ien thin < p seeing FRANCES fd ana
counted the hours. John. until YOU will
comet 5dl 4 ,si,ssi saeM