Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-06-29

""N 'oonVu, Vuo. upou tho HoDie HlIbu
Avenue. ltwas the fifth anniversary
of the departure of Ernest Vance.
"Onc year more !" she sighed
''My dear, 'isaid a voice at her elbow.
"Oh !! How you startled me, father"
'"My dear. | have sad news for you
PRAY, what sad news can you have
for me, father" v.4,.st
Before | tell you I shall ask you
again if you will not marry Spencer
Drake" .B
"Father, ask me to do anything than
that. | cannot marry that horrd, idle,
brainless man"
Her father sighed, and the paleness
of his cheeks were visibly deepened.
eff you will not marry Spencer Drake
we are ruined =" kiiaO1
"What do you mean, father p
81 mean simply that for five years all
my investments have turned out badly,
that am up to my ears in debt, and that
unless you, marry Spencer Drake within
the next ninety days shall be bank
rupt in purse and in character"
But what has Spencer Drake got to
do with your debts y asked the young
woman with fearful calmness.
"Why. his father is my heaviest in
dorsor. He holds $800,000 worth of
my paper. 1t will mature in the next
four months, and can't redeem it.
That's what mean, Celestine."
Celestine was visibly shocked at this
disclosure, but her answer was calm aud
decisive.
B 81 love you; hate Spencer Drake.
And would not marry him to save yours
and my fortune from the whirlpool of
disaster. hate the man"
The crash came. 1t was great sur
prise to everybody, and several small
firms went down with the Orman bank
'rhe wreck of Orman's business was COM
plcte, everything was swept away.
Mrs. Orman was prostrated by the
blow and Celestine was compelled to re-
main with her all the time. She longed
to go out in the cruel world and help by
her efforts to assist her father, but she
could not leave her mother. Her father
never reproachcd her by any word, but
Celcstne knew that she had panied him
dcenlv and that he blamed her laroelv
for the disaster which had borne him to
the earth.
During the long long yoar the Orman
family suffered the direst poverty. The
old man had the hardest possible time of
it TO keep his wife and daughter in food
md cIothino md nav tho oSnens;ye doe
tors he was comneliod 10 call 10 attend
his invalid wife.
Az tho dov draw near wb6n Ernest
Vance had promised to return to her
CeIest;ne's shirts rose IN tho highest
n;tch She bad not told her father ,nJ
mother about Il n. be might not co,n.
When the hiubt arrived the three
mombors of ,bo family on, IN .nora
room in which there was scarcelv onv
furniture A dim light threw wo;rd
sbadows IN tho wall Mrs Orman s,t
in an arm chair with her ewes closed and
hands crossed IN her Ian M Orm,n
leaned his head upon writing desk for
his heart was heavy with multiplied mis-.
fortunes and disannointment Ho was
d;sconraood Ceiastine was ;n,ens.Iv
no,vous Thore was M color in hcr
checks hnt ber eves abone with terr;bis
enrnos,noss and evnectsncv Th;s has
becn trno of ber ali dav She On, hv
tho w;nJow tbat looked unon tho str.et
and \ ,yoo m n,oIo.L bofnro ,ha ,v;nany
vas abnt and the curtains drawn Uer
heart began n fail. nome sweet bone
which had given her courage tbrougb
s;x lono Years beoan ia vanish
.If he should not coma all will h.
l,st ;ndead y aha s;obsd md aha conld
not restrain tbo hot taars which welled
from her full hear,
a. the clock struck II Mrs Orm,n
beoan to gatbcr her thine, nbont her to
,ot;ro CeIost;oo como IN oss;at her
Tbe father Iii rested bis tired and n.r-
,,iovoJ heod mon ,ho desL coIssl;n.
pad a;ven nm ihe watch and ban;shed
tho home and lonoed 10 reach her avn
i;,,le rpom where sbe m;obt wee, ber.
aaIe M ;n,o forao,r,,lness or hor nan, nm
ar;ef and crnsh;no d;sonno;ntmept
AID ,bon ,ho i;t,Ie baIl ranni
A. 0,man s,ar,aJ nm and a,ol.;ood
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ann;otm m Lod al ~ ,nan non Lo. ~hon H.
meeting came sue was n'' s'rong enoug"
70 sustain H.