Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-07-11
ACCOMAC G. H. VA, SATURDAY JULY Il 1886

conntenancei What is his name
Sile, Patchf And you would have
washed dishes and MIXED COWS FOL
him for the rest Of your life. A
pretty fate that for you"
;, II think you mean Silas Parish,
: said Sylvia "And really he is no.
/. always so ill-tempered looking
You see, he didn't like"-
"Oll, jealous of mel" said the
! young man. "Bnt he was to he
! your fate, | think. Patching his
knees would have been part ol
Your vocation. He had patches on
both, if Pm not.mistaken, when we
met him IN the woods that day"
"But those were working clothes,'
said Sylvia. HE does dress well
/ lon Sundays. And no wonder he
was angry. He used TO come and
jSee me very often, andn-
.sJust as sale, sLsee,n said the
tay cn3sr man. you've done
a5sftii, him, and you'll have done
with all this soon, if you choose
lyon have only to say the word, and
I'VE are off to New York; after that
/ for London, Paris, Vienna; and
wherever you go you'll be the
| Sweetest, and prettiest, and jolliest
l;girl TO be Seen."
cob, Frauk,n cried the girl, "L0w
perfectly splendid! II only father
and mother would CONSENT
''That's not likely" answered the
Eyoung man. ~ think that your re.
(spected father told ME when be
laSt-saw. me that he didn't want
Ecits chapshe didn't know anything
about Hanging around his daughter.
ilNo, my love; YOU and I must run
away. After that we'll talk to the
odd gentleman"
"But motherfn sighed Sylvia.
"Mothers always forgive" SAID
her lover.
1t yet seemed to her that even if
she were forgiven afterward, she
could not take SO terrible II step as
10 run away, and yet how conld she
give up her lover9 This wonderful
creature, who had seemed almost a
visitor from another world had
nawned upon her sight! He knew
her heart and played his cards &C
cordingly.,
SYLVIA" lie said, as the voice of
a clock near by warned the girl that
it was time to go home, "Sylvia,
darling, the time has come when
you must decide between two conrs-
es. Wemust part forever or yon
must be forever mine. l leave this
place forever next Thursday night.
Will you so with met"
ooh, Frank" pante.l Sylvia. ooh,
Frank, how can | GOT Perhaps faith
er would give me to you if You went
and asked him, and people will talk
so i'll run away, and it would be
~ d q wedding .in church
sic she should stand up with me,
and"-
lyon see you don't love me. You
care more for what people say" said
Frank.
"Oh, Frank cried Sylvia. burst
ing into tears. "can't you sec how
drr .ulfully worried am!"
sAnd then came kisses and f1attery
and the girl promised to leave home
with Frank Shaw at9 o'clock on the
next Thursday night.
1t was the hour for the last train;
there could be no effective pursuit
until the next morning, and
'.Thcn you will be mine forever,
SYLVIA" said Frank.
So the girl left her lover and ran
home, as yet not bold enough to
brave a little scoldlng. But she was
not scolded.
You forget we had prayers at
10, didn't You Sylviai" asked the
father.
"Well, practicing hymns does
make the time fly" said the moth
er, and Sylvia's heart throbbed re
morselully.
Utterly under the power of her
foolish fancy for this stranger, AS
he was, Sylvia was vely unhappy
as the days wore on. A decently
brought up girl of the old Puritan
stock does not take kindly to the
breaking Of laws. 1t was delight
FIJI to think Of being Frank Shaw's
wife and living in elegance ever
after, but she would greatly have
preferred toenter that bllsIiul state
through the regular gateway of a
marriage in church with a fine silk
dress, her father anil mother pres
ent and her friends looking on. Once
or twice her heart almost failed her
but, Thursday evening arrived and
the thought that her lover would
he waiting in the lane for her had
the old magnetic influence. She
must go to him, and once with him
she must do as he wllled.
Love and inexperience blinded
her eyes. She believed him a wonder
tul being and an elegant gentleman,
when, in fact he was Il man OF less
than ordinary mind and -vulgarly
ostentatious manners. His big ring
and pin, his dangling chain and
seals, his studs, his brand-new cloth
es, ali imposed upon her. The man
was no more genuine than his dla-
monds. but she believed in both
implicitly.