Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-04-27

be sure they might be simply anus
ing themselves. as gilded youth were
won't to do. Estelle would never 60
out with me; she had no chaperon, she said.
wondered what my sister-in-law would an
swer should write her to chaperon my land
lady's daughter to Lohengrin, she who chap
eroncd only the very elect, SO to speak.
One evening the conversation drifted into
the subject of marriage. Mr.. Chester and
some others were present, and led the theme.
II would marry tho woman 1 loved, /" said
Mr. Chester, ''if she were beggar, and my
father disinherited me on the spot"
"Beggary signifies nothing" returned an
other Zone would not ask has she n dot,
but has she blue blood"
"An ancestral tree, in short, with more
roots than branches" spoke third. "As
for myself, confess should prefer my wife
to belong to tho impecunious old families
rather than to the nouvenu riche. Poor
Bishop, how his world came down upon him
when he fell in love with shop girl, with
neither blood nor bullion, his mother espe-
ciallyI But Bishop stood to his guns; it must
have taken lot of pluck to weather all he
did from friend and foe."
"You call that plucs" said Chester. II
call it obstinacy, in his case 1t was such
an easy thing for Bishop to fall in love that
he might have pleased his mother and given
UP 'ne sHL
anu "nro uu 9ou 'uinA' "f' al AAoy-
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mean-there may be exceptional shop girls,
who have all the refinement and cultivation,
all the traditions of good breeding, in the
"ofiu' Du' D''nop 1noioo was noI oAo "
'nese' cne was si,npiy De1u'Iui' auu ne was
. rool W aio" nin'oe,l' ~ us "se, W oe
aoou =, ~ w SpoaA' ~ nie'' "sSiA a1'o
""o
qui,e asree VIII you, sne saiu.
Acouio n"'e oi''en 'nJ S'nIue WV WE"
called Bishop A fool-in fact the whole CON.
versation had seemed malapropos to me. and
I want awav with a sense Of defeat. But
how conld tell her that although I might
draw IN. line at the shon pirl marrying a
landlady,s daughter was ouite another affairi
Every dav. to he s,,re. I made up nv mind
that would seek Estelle no more: that the
difficulties in the case were too great tn be
snrmounted hut every dav ali the same.
found me beside her. without self denial
enough to resign the infinite charm of her
presence, and vet too weak of will to accept
all the consequences of such an alliance :"
You will saw that II I coul6 TINS iudpe
and weigh circumstances I was not in love.
But what is it. when all YOUR soul is sat-
urated with thoughts of one being, when you
seem to be not so much yourself as anotherl
The heroine in .sWuthering Heirhtsn asks.
"Do love Heathcliffes am Heathcliffe: -
and SO, am sure, felt with regard to Es-
telle am certain that in time | should
have overcome all obstacles, that the nobil
ity within me would have got the better Of
any meaner qualities; but every mans ma
ture or temperament is in a manner his own
fate. Had l not been quite certain at this
time that | pleased Estelle. in spite of her
gentle hauteur, perhaps should have been
able to overcome my social scruples sooner.
A few weeks later was called away on 'busi
ness, and it was a month or more before I
found it convenient to return. During that
time had written to Estelle more than once.
without, however, receiving any reply. Yet
was cure she was mine; that 1 had only to
speak; and meant to speak at last-to sneak
SO eloquently that she would not remember
the silence had been long.
went first to pay my respects to Mme
Hampton.
~ have been making nv will,n she said.
after a little.
"Your will, madame."
''Yes. have other heirs besides Estelle,
who may dispute it. They will contend that
am-what you may cali crank But I
had method in my madness. beg YOU to
be my executor
~ am at your service, madame
Thank you l leave the pulk of nv
property to Estelle"
''The bulk" / repeated. "You have
found your business remunerativer
She chuckled audibly. 81 have found il
entertaining, enlightening," she answered.
at has paid met Yes. have discovered
who are my friends. must tell YOU that
Estelle is not my daughter"
mot your daughterr'
"Are you Disappointed When her father
died abroad, insolvent, l was at hand. We
were both drinking the waters at some Ger
man spa. Long ako I had been roing to
marry Mr. Douglass, her father"
"Mr Douglassr
"Yes. Does the name offend you, When
he died promised to take Estelle il might
give her my name and money. There was