Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-28


Ernest Vance.
One year morrr she sighed.
My DEAR said a voice at her e
bow.
'Oh! How you started me father
My dear, | have sad news 70
yon'
pray, what sad news can yol
have for me-, iatller!'
Before tell you I shall ask Vol
again if you will not marry S .,encel
prake.'
Father, ask me to do anything
shan that. cannot marry tha
J. shorritl, idle, br,illlesssmalls -! -.
8 - Her. father sighed sand II ale
7; .nesSso dis Gilt ~ ere VISIT,
si Lr!
ssllat rs as on i: can, sGher IS
q .lnleaiis simply tllit-iornveSear
Z all.my investments nave turned
/ 0utbadly, that I am-np to my ear
in debt, allti.lllat unless you MARI,
Spencer Drake within the mex
nlLety days | shall be bankrupt Ill
:Ipurse and in character
Bat what has Spencer Drake
got to do with your debts?' asked
the young woniau with fearful calm
ness.
why, his father is my heaviest
intorser. He holds S5OO,OO0 WORTH
of my paper. IL Will mature in the
next four months, and [ CAN'T re-
deem it, THAT'S what am meal,
CeleStinc.'
'Celestine was visiblv shocked
at this disclosure, buJ her answer
was calm and decisive.
Il love you; | hate Spencer Drake.
And | woul,l not marry him TO
save your and my fortune from the
whirlpool Of disaster. l hate the
man.
The crash came. 1t was Il great
surprise to everybody aud several
small firms Welt down with tic
Orman Bank. The wreck OF Or
nal's business was complete; ev
crything WAS swept AWAY.
Mrs. Orlnan was FRUSTRATED by
the blow, and Celestine WAS com.
Dclled to remain With her all The.
lime. She lonScd to go out in the
cruel world and help by Ter efOr;s
to assist her father, but she could
not leave her mother. Her father
never rcproached her by any word,
but Ceestiue knew that she had
panied him deeply and that he
blamed her largely for the disaster
which had borne HIM to the earth.
During the long, long year tile
OimAu family suffered tile illrest
poverty. The Old man had the
hardest possible time OF it TO keep
his wife and daughter in food ami
clothing and pay tho expensive
doctors he was compelled to have
attend his invalid vile
AsllleSlaytlrew near when Fir.
nest Vance mad promised TO lel urn
to her, Celeslne's spirits rose to
he highest pitch. She bad nor
told her father aud mother about
II, because Ec might hot come.
When The hight arrived the
three members OF the family sat
in a spare roou in which there was
scarcely any furniture. y dim
light threw weird shadows Oh tb-
wall. Mrs. Ornan sat i'll an arm
chair with her eyes closed and her
hands crossed OH her lap. Mr.. Or
man leaned his head upuu awrlllng
desk, for his heart was bedvy with
multiplied mlstouuneS and dlsap
pointnenls. He ws,s discouraged.
Celestlne WAS intensely nervous
There WAS no color in her cheeks,
but her eyes Shown with terrible
earleSillesS ana expectancy. THIS
had been true of her all day. She
sat up by the window that looked
upon the street. aud 1t Wis III
o'clock before the window WAS SLu.
ard curtains drawn. Her heart
began to fall; hope sweet hope.
winch had given her courage thro'
six long years, began to vanish.
III lie shonld not COME, all will
be lost lndeed!' she sighed aud she
could not restrain the tears
which welicd from her full heart.
AS the clock struck IL Mrs. Or
m;ln began TO gather her Things
ABOUT her to retire. Celestine camr
" assist her. The father still rested
his tired and perpleXed head upon
the desk. Celestne had glveII III
the watch and banished the h0pt
and lonsel to reach her own little
room, where she might weep her
self into iorgeJiuiness of her penl
up grirfand crushing tlisappoint
mlent
Then the little bell rang!
MIR. Ornan started up and ex
claimed, what's thai? hut, without
waiting for an answer, went to Jllt
door. Iu few moments he re
turned. A tall, clean shaven mai
followed him.
SIR. Vance, said he.
CelestIne uttered d wild Shrek
and as she fell upon the bosom Of
her returned lover she lost con
>ciousnesS fur Il moment. Her joy
WAS too great. The anxiety hat
told upon her. WAell the meeting
calDe she WAS not strong ennugL
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