Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-02-27
A BRIGHTON IDYL.

A BRIGHTON lDIL.
Everybody outside the Office ot
Jonathan Grcysark & CO., East In
dia merchants, of Rood Lane City
knew Mr.. Jonathan Greysark sim
ply as a very well-to do bachelor, OF
five and torty-t'rcsl-iaced, well
dressed, genial, and aftahfe as a
man tolerably well fitted ont with
the good things of this life and nm
hampered hy ties and encumhIan-
ces should he. BIT Mr.. Philip Penn
whose days were passed within the
office, regarded his wealthy and
popular employer flom a some
what different p int of view. MIR.
Penn had by his steadiness and
business knowledge in no snail Gle.
gree helped Jonathan Greysarll to
his env able position in the com
mercial world; lie had served the
house faithfully for upward of
twenty years yet he was still sim
ply a clerk, in which position, DIES
pite frequent prayers and petitions
Mr.. Grcysark was apparently de
lcrmined TO keep him until the
time came for dispensing entirely
with his services. Altogether, poor
Penn'S life WAS by no means a hap
py one. for in addition 10 his COM
mcrcial troubles. he had an eternal
is srinnng domestic skeleton. i'll
The sIal M of Il backyard brother.
who had stood in the frloH'S dock
on charge of extensive forgery,
had passed many years in prison.
and who now could only be kept
quietly IN the background by the
allowance which the unfortunate
Penn made him out of the exceed.
ingIy moderate salary he drew from
the Rood Lame Office. Greysark
knew this, and was also aware that
IL tarEiShed name was an almost
insuperahle bar to his clerks adj
vance in any other line of life; so
he meanly took advantage of the
fact by getting Il most unfair
Amount of work out of Penn, ard
paying him a miserable inadequate
salary Tor it.
Jonathan GrcySark llvedat Brigh-
ton. and came up to town every
on the $40 express. In
this famous train he had acquired
from long usage prrscriptive right
to particular seat i'll Il particular
of particular car
riage, and the guard suffered IL
reductionin his week
~ largess if he allowed stranger
to uSulp Ibis place.
But, the old guard having been
shunted elsewhere, and strange
official WHO knew not Jonat han,
having been substituted, it so hap
lened that one morning Greysark.
his rug on his arm and his paper
in his hand, staggered gravely aud
up to the carriage,
only to tind his particular conpart-
nlcnt-and, in fact, his very scat
occupied. Under ordinary circnm
stances he would lave resented
this understandable intrusion. in an
manner, hut npon
this occasion, as the occupant WAS
a pretty, molestlv dressed girl of
eighteen or lherrabouts, he could
ouly vent his feelings in grunts and
,cnwlS, and bctake himself to an
other seat. Rut when, the next
lie found his place SINH
lally occupied, his position bacaIne
somewhat embarrassing, and only
the girls pleasant face checked au
d,bIe expression of his dlscontent.
Tie same thing occurred the morn
ing after, and the morning after
that, and the young S:45 bucks,
who, of course, regarded the affair
as a capital joke, remarked that the
great man, instead of ramping and
raging away To another carriage,
not only contentedly went into the
same one, put passed a much great.
er part of The hour and quarters
Journey in looking at the girl over
The top of his newspaper titan III
studying he article. In a fort
nights time it was observed that
he handed her cut, carried her lit
tie parcels, aud saw her safely into
an omnibus for the Mansion House;
and in three weeks time it was no
ted that he clatted as easily and
Familiarity with her as II be hai
kllown her for years.
In short, it became very evident
that the wealthy bachelor of Rood
Lane was eEamored Of the young
lady. When his attentions first
became marked she assumed the
proper attitude of unprotected viz
tue and confined her answers to
rather cut monosyllables, butwhen
her feminine perSpicuify assured
her that her admirers behavior
was inspired by the most honor
able of intentions, size unbent and
told him that her name was Phyllis
that she was a studentat the South
KenSington School OF Art, and that
she resided at Brighton withller
aunt.
Miss Phyllis" said Greysark
one morning, as they walked along
the London Bridge platform, sas
some sort OF assurance that L only
entertain the most genuine feelings
of respect and-and admirationfol
YOU, think l should mention thai
my name is GraySark. thai an