Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-09-22
Gales aud Sketfhes.
OR FOURTH At PLYMOUTH.

| let's STAY IN the city as We Always nave
every year since my remembrance, drive
out after dinner amid! a shower of torpe-
does, fire crackers. and everything else
that will explode. and brighten Dolly, 60
down to the common in the evening in
that tremendous crush for the fireworks.
| saw. Ned let US betake ourselves to some
rural district. quite out OF the way. and
by the sea. If we can hit on such place,
we'll go the week before. aud settle for a
few weeks. before Newport or Saratoga.
Well take plenty of good reading; you
your fish pole, and | worsted and crochet
hook. and we'll make life happy. Have
YOU thought? Somewhere away from
dress and people"
Away from dress and people. don't
know. Sis
But you always know. You are equal
to anything"
The North Pole, then"
"Oh, Ned ~
1.-The South Poler'
"How can YOU p
But you ask for place where fashion
and people we're not know of nowhere
else, unless mention the moon"
II have it! Ancient Plymouth-Cape
Cod"
Historic ground. Birthplace of ma
ton; but do you suppose fashion has not
foothold? and where's your hotel with
out people?"
you are the most exasperating brother
ever knew"
Probably. since I'm all you ever had. :"
We'll. it's settled. We shall go to
Plymouth the week before the Fourth
I'm sick and tired OF city life, the Hudson,
mountains, Niagara, in fact everywhere
| We been before. though / suppose we
must jaunt around to some of those places
before the seasons over. Mamma, YOU
know" and little sigh escaped.
Yes, Sis But you shall have your
wish. Wen 90 to Plymouth" and with
this he kissed his sister. lovely girl OF
10 years, and bounded lightly down the
steps OF his stately city home.
Ned and Susie Wilton were the only
children of the late Christopher Wilton,
ESQ a man of much wealth and position.
Years before their her had died, and a
second came to preside. Then the stately
mansion became rallylng place for pride
and fashion, tor the second Mrs. Wilton was
no more nor less than woman of the
world. Susie shone, and her star not yet
10 its zenith, was bright and clear. but the
hollowness she was easy to discern; fash
ionable life held little for her ; it had never
been anything to Ned, and these two
were more and more drawn together
Besides, the little sigh Ned noticed, and
the wish to get away from everywhere
had cause, and lie, bless his heart,
understood without being told. Susie'-
happiness was his first pleasure, dearer
to his heart than his own, and though no
word had been spoken, he knew that John
Seymour and she mad 'broken off," and
that European steamer. months before,
hadtaken him to the Old World. "And now
she says, Plymouth, Cape Cod. Bless
the child. she shall go But does she ex.
pect to get away from herself thereP And
JohnP Well" he unused, 81 suppose they
know. But | know John Seymour
through and through. We were in col
lege together, have travelled together
since; been like brothers. / know he
is true as steel, but set as the rocks and
a will of iron, yet have trusted him al.
ways. trust him still. But Susie Oh
well, we fellows that never had an affair
of the heart, how can we know p'' And
the door OF his down town office was
reached, and he disappeared, this aristo.
cratic young man with the world at his
feet, for which he cared little, and half
the handsome maidens, or | might say
all (with few exceptions), in the same
place, for which he cared less; and tar
away across the Atlantic, pacing his room
with troubled brow and anxious counte-
nance, was John Seymour, the one to
whom Susie Wilton had promised her love
less than year before, and whose be-
trothal ring had circled her finger. But SEN
sitive natures-and they were both that
are quick to resent, and without word
of explanation. though he thought suffi-
cent cause had been given, he left his
home in a large eastern city, and the next
steamer bore him to his present destina
ton. The voyage had given him time for
reelection, the consequence of which cul-
minated, as he now paced the room, in
the expression;
"What a consumate fool have been -
And Susie-bright. irrepressible. ire
sistable. was in doubt and misery with a
terrible wound in her heart. Bravelv was
she doing battle. Ned knew. He could
understand without being told. The Que
thing she dreaded and abhorred was the
fashionable world, Away-away from it
was her desire. especially on this gala
day. birthday of the nation, for oh how
faithful was memory. Distinctly did she
recall where and how the last anniversary
was spent. 1t had been one of the happi-
est days in her life, and now-how differ.
ent She would not stay in the city. and
she would be bright and cheerful and
crowd down the bitter heartache She
would be brave and mamma should no,
suspect. and-detiant Susie that she was
should never, never wed her TO the hand
some count whose praises she was ever
sounding.
Away to the shores of sandy Cape Cod
"people" never came. There she would
go, and with Ned. dearest and truest OF
brothers-forget.
SNVhat happened and how she forgot y
or remembered. we will let Susie's Jour
nal tell:
july Here we are nicely settled in
Plymouth "Ancient Plymouth, Cape
Cod" told Ned when planned the
Journey, but find it is not on the cape al
all, though lying adjacent, as the next
county in Barnstable. which just embrac
es Cape Cod. And how delightful it is
here. Here is the ocean, never failing
source of strength and admiration; fair and
large in its calm content, for have never
seen its fury.
The town is indeed ancient" it being
one of the first settled in the New World.
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