Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-05-13
Marrying a Mechanic
BY BERTHA BERTON.

bring upon our family. You have
fathers word that if you persist in
marrying Philip Argyle he will dis
own you, and you know he is as fixed
as the hills in his determinations. and
surely, Ruth, you cannot expect me to
recognize you in the position you will
occupy as the wife ola common mechan-
ic. No, indeed, you will have to give
us all up, and you do not consider what
you are sacrifcing.''
Maud Everleigh paused in her walk
up and down the room, and looked an
xiously in her sisters face.
A superb apartment it was, with its
rich drapings, its furnishings of Grim
son and gold, its rare paintings and
marble statuary; the works of art that
indicated highly cultured taste, for
Horace Everleigh was scholar and a
tourist, and his immense wealth had
given HIM the power to crafty his
love for the rare and beautiful, so that
his splendid home was filed with the
accumulations of his travels.
The two daughters, Maud and Ruth.
comprised his family. His wife was
dead; and in his children Mr.. Ever
leigh's interest centered, with fathers
pride.
Talented, accomplished, and beauti-
full, they moved in the most select cir
cles, and their father intended and full
ly expected that,they would sometime
marry men of wealth and high stand
ing.
Maud had her fathers pride, and
with her, ambition, wealth and social
distinction would always take prece-
dence of love.
A beautiful girl she was tall, and
graceful, perfect in form and features,
with hair dark as ravens wing, an
olive tinted face, and eyes whose color
corresponds with her rich southern
beauty.
She looked as if born to command,
and in ler fathers house, as the -eld-
est daughter, her will was law. Even
Ruth was accustomed to submit almost
wholly to her sisters dictation.
But at last had come something that
threatened to jar the peace and happi.
ness of the Everleigh family. Ruth
had presumed to give her love to
young man, who, though poor, was ed
ucated. and destined to make his way
upward, but he was an architect, and
with a strong interest in the trade he
had chosen, wa already making it a
success. Plenty of work and high
wages gave promise Of a competency by
and by. Of excellent character, he
had entree to good society, and at a
friends house Ruth Everleigh had first
met him.
There had been a mutual attraction
and to such there are generally ways
and means of becoming better acquaint-
ed f; their friendship resulting finally
in love and an engagement.
Although Ruth Everleigh knew we'll
her fathers aristocratic notions, she
hoped that through his love for her he
would be induced to consent to their
union. She was mistaken, and the
storm of wrath that was evoked when
Philip Argyle asked permission to wed
the youngest daughter of Mr.. Ever.
leigh seemed enough to awe into sub
mission a girl as quiet and shy as Ruth
Everleigh.
But not so. She had will of her
own, will quite as determined as her
fathers, and there was a scene which
ended in her declaring her firm inten-
ton of marrying the man of her choice
while Mr.. Everleigh threatened to dis
inherit her should she carry out her
resolution.
Then Maud had plead and reasoned,
m owed thereto by her own pride as
much as though love for her sister, but
alike failing, and it was Ruth's last day
at home.
Her trunks We're packed ; her own
personal belongings she might take
her father would give her nothing.
She had chosen between lover and
father, let her go with the one best
able to care for her, Mr.. Everleigh had
said, with a sneer, and he had gone out
of town that he might not yield to any
tenderness at the last moment, for
Ruth was his pet, and stern as he ap
peared, his heart ached at the thought
f.her going.
When all her pleading and reason
ing with her sister had failed. Maud
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