The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-09-23
CHAPTER VIII.
LADY RIVALS, WITH THE FooTLrGHTs BE-
TWEEN TWEEN.


! LADY RIVALS, WITH THE FooTLIGHTs BE-
TWEEN THEM.
Percival got his own way, after all, in the
matter of marrying as poor man. Fortune,
Henry Fielding tells us somewhere, never
loes things by halves. Two months after
PercivaIs uncle died, and it was found that,
in spite of his wifes cajoling, he had remem
bered his nephew; and, though the bulk of
his property went to his stepsons, he left Per-
sival the fifteen hundred a year which he had
so long allowed to his father. So Percival
lid not marry as poor man, after all, and
the little mother, had she lived, might have
confessed that sometimes love finds out the
way to fortune too.
Wedding bells come ringing in as my story
nears its end. Sophia Temple is the bride the
sun shines on II is quiet marriage; but
loving eyes are about her and upon her
Seven long years she has waited, and now the
day has dawned that makes her happy. All
Is sunshine. The little wedding feast is full
of pleasantly. Egerton Doolittle makes
speech, in which he assures the company that
ae always maintained, in the face of every
body, that Sophia would find some one to
marry her some day He did not exactly
mean what he said, but that some one would
wa Al - ASi ~ A'' h'' - '-'' NAi~i 'N' -
Jack but there is Jil,-not that he meant
to imply that Sophia was not most charming;
quite the reverse; but still 1t requires fore
sight to say how any given thing VIII turn
out and he always said 80, in S. ite OF every
body; and there the thing was that day,
and nobody could gainsay it. And Goldmoree
hands Sophia solemniy INTO her carriage, ana
ott they go Tor life and love, ana the story Is
told
they come back again and SETTLE IN the
Beeches, which has lam vacant since MIS-
lemple gave II up. Ihey began thelr mar
rled NE WIN every promise OF happiness ana
with the BRIEF sunshine or TINS llle warm and
bright about them May relate one little
hcldenLE
Exactly month after their return nome
Egerton Doollttle came III one morning ana
asked to see Sophia privately; and when ne
was alone WIN her' ana the uoor shuO' ne
drew long playDill out OIL MS pocket
01o,n,, a,noI, o, - TGI' thisn soy . - 0-NO
The hill ornounces tbo+ in q peigbborino
,i+, tho.a IL 10 ~, f,. ,, ,,,,h+ o,tI1, o,,'
forroonco @ of GTbo school for Scandal With
NJ Tonioo,, os C,borlos S,Irface and Mrs.
T'a,,iaro,, o. 7 .ad,, TaazIo
ct eou IL a soTiors tnire, for vo,, sonbio y
E,ortor eoys uTf vo,, IyiiI toi,o INV adyico
as a relative sbo1ld tean Perciyal in tbe
background Won will observe II is on1v for
ono riabt oY,d &C ,,r,,dontioi ,oottor should
l,eor, PorcivoI in tba bacl,gronnJ
Docs sbe, - -, ~
uC,oy,a bo,.e cir - sbe sovs 70 ber b,sbond
n f,o,, Erortor bas conc aDo yo,, COO tbisan
Sbo s6o,,,o him +5o ,,Ia,,hiII and he IooLs
Ii++Ie foolisb ord oonscio,,s
ST want to 600 tba G,onigan Percv y sbe
COW, eVo,, ,,,,,s+ taI,o he fo,. ,,s 10Th +o
soc the Tanigan
s.yop are LASTING So,bis y
ssNaver WINS nnora serions in INV life
must and 7 will sae Mrs TaniganT;
So the abasbed husband has fo take a hoy
and in dre time tbev are WAITING for tbe cur
tain 70 rise
snow which is Mrs Tanioang, sonbia
as,e after tbe NAV has beonn
"Tberen y Percival saws Gin the satin
nv,
Inc Diue Sa.ih dress' ourely THAT Is not
1lrs' LaIlganF nopnla puts very impress
slVe enlpnass ON tnat
es' tnat is she'" Ferclval replies, with
obvious awK"aroness' he reels very much
ashamed OF having admired her' de can see
notnlng IN her now at all
MIS- Lanigan Is not the woman with the
lonB Crain' COpnlh says, resolved 10 ulSDe-