The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-23

cial man, and likes show, quite different
person from poor John Stenhouse; who
would have spent evening after evening by
his own fireside with his books or his IL
ano -playing-he was the finest musician
l ever knew, and bulls a chamber organ
with his own very hands. | have it still,
| for he left il to me when he went abroad.
Why did he 60 abroadI'
IN tell you, at least SO far as / know,
for he was very communicative up to a
certain point, and then he ceased, and held
his tongue entirely, and | couldn't pump
him, you know. Besides, If 1 came within
a mile of the subject, the look of his face
frightened me. lie was terribly in love
with Emily Kendall.
Its bad thing TO be terribly in love,
and not at all conducive to the comfort of
society,"" observed Mrs. Smiles, sententi-
ously; but Mrs. knowle was too full of her
own remembrances to reply.
"0h, what day that was, when, after
John Stenhouse's letter, down came Mr..
Kendall to Liverpool after his daugh-
ter. Oh, the daily storms We lived in
morning, noon and night-tbe interviews
in our dining-room and In the poor little
| things bedroom, for she took to her bed
! the very first day. How We argued and
reasoned, and comforted, and ADVISED, |
and my good man, for we t, 1t to those two
young people Just as If they were our own
| children; and we wondered, with an amaze
ment that childless people often feel when
they see how other people throw away their
blessings, what could have possessed the
old father to see his only daughter almost
dying before him, and 90 on killing her,
for her own good, lie said; but, as every
body else said, Just for his own pride and
vexation ut thwarted authority. Money,
/ to-, xuau nj rnnt of oil
John Stenhouse had been in the position of
John Bowerbank, Mr.. Kendall would have
gone down on his knees and worshiped him;
| know he would. AS it was, he Just kicked
him out of doors"
"That was rather uneentlemanly."
II don't mean literally. Mr. Ken
dal is never that. Besides, lie had
his own credit TO keep up; he had
always borne the character of be-
ing the best of fathers, as perhaps he had
been till this happened. We are all of US
very perfect creatures SO long as we are
not tried. Gracious me- when / looked
to- day at that stately, handsome old gem
tleman, who, when he was asked, Who
giveth this woman 10 be married 10 this
MANI looked SO smilir9ly and benignanu,
and remember what I've seen him look
like It's queer world, a very queer
world, my dear"
Mrs. Smiles agreed; she generally
agreed i'll everything with everybody at the
time.
well, the poor young fellow was dis
missed. OF course there was no help for
it, the girl being under age, the father had
the law i'll his own hands. Nothing short
of an elopement, which no honorable man
like John Stenhouse would ever have
dreamed of, could have saved poor Emily.
And then her money her detestable
money as her lover called it more than
once. Every bit of honest pride in him
was CALLED and stung 10 the quick. Her
father thinks, all the world will think, that
l wanted her for her money, he used to
say; and sometimes this feeling was SO
strong in him that | fancied he was half
inclined to draw back and give her up. But
| told him not to be such a coward for it
was cowardice; fear Of the wi ked tongues
and not Of the good ones. Nobody who
saw sweet Emily Kendall and honest John
| Stenhouse would have doubted that they
were marrying for loye-real love. But,
my dear, I'm growing terribly long winded,
and it's nearly two o'clock, and they were
to leave at half-past, the bridegroom and
the bride. Oh dear me, and once we
! planned her travelling dress that she was to
so away in with poor dear John!"
| Here Mrs. Knowle became unintelligi-
| BILE, and Mrs. Smiles fidgeted little; for,
| despite her inter est in the love tale, she
was beginning to want her lunch.