The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23

would have learnt it five rninutes after you
had been in the room with her.
BY this time, Miss Peyton was warmly
shaking hands with Annette, while Con-
stance introduced Philip TO Hilds and Rob
ert Harbut
II owe you both so much" Philip said.
Constance has told me how great your
kindness has been to her. Indeed, don't
know what she would have done if it had
not been for You BOTH
After a general conversation for some
time, Constance drew Robert Harbut
aside.
Mr.. Harhut, want to add my obliga-
tions to you by asking you TO get this sent
down TO the Bath papers. Philip knows
nothing about 1t, and have written it my
self. You know how ih-natured people are,
and although we know how false it is, there
are people who might say that Philip mar
ried me to keep Corbyn Court So have
written this. | wish you would look
through it and alter anything that YOU
think badly worried, AMI put il into the best
shape, and send it down as from yourself"
II shall be glad to do so. Mrs. Clitheroe.
| think your idea a very good one, aud | will
see that it is carried out"
Bath was two days later astonished by q
paragraph which appeared in the various
local papers.
"a ROMANTIC MARRIAGE, Truth
was solemnized on the 2lst of June at Sgd
ney, New South Wales, which will come as
surprise to Bath and its neighborhood
| Upon that day Mr.. Philip Citheroe was
united in marriage to Miss Constance Cor
byn, only daughter and heiress of the late
| Mr. Algernon Corbyn, of Corbyn Court
To our readers 1t will be- matter of news
that Mr.. Corbyn was married. but the
event took place nineteen years ago, during
| his fathers lifetime. His wife dying in
childbirth at st. Malo, in France, Mr.. Cor
| byn thought 1t better for various reasons
not to make the marriage public until his
daughter was of an age to take her place as
his heiress at Corbyn Court. She was most
carefully brought up and educated abroad,
and Mr.. Corbyn was actually ON his way to
fetch her home when the sad accident oc.
CARED which terminated his life. Some
| evidence as to the marriage being found by
| Mr.. Clitheroe among the late Mr.. Corbyn's
| papers, he devoted himself to the search for
legal proofs of the marriage that would
place his cousin in her proper position as
mistress of Corbyn Court. Finding that
one of the witnesses to the ceremony was
alive in Australia, Mr.. Clitheroe deter
mined himself co go out there to obtain the
requisite proofs. leaving before he started
deed with his lawyer assigning his life in
| terest in the Corbyn estates to his cousin,
and stating that he was morally certain
that a marriage had been duly solemnized
between her mother and his uncle.
"Unknown to him, Miss Corbyn was her.
self going out to Australia with the same
object, under the charge of the lady by
whom she had been brought up. This cir
cumstance was, however, known to Mr.
| Clitheroe's lawyer, who conceived the
happy idea that it would bring about by
far the most pleasant termination Of the
business were the two young. people to
come together, and it was upon his advice
that MIR. ClltherCe took a passage on board
being DESTROYS that the matter should
be kept private until their inves-
LEGATIONS were concluded, took their pas
sages under assumed names. The desired
result was attained Mr.. Clitheroe fell in
love with Miss Corbyn without having the
slightest idea that he was her cousin, and
the terrible wreck of the Alden, which will
be fresh upon the memory of our readers,
brought the affair to climax. The Mr..
Brown, who So distinguished himself In the
conflict with the mutineers in the open boat
was Mr.. Clitheroe, and among the ladies
who owed their lives to his bravery was his
cousin.
Tho advertisement duly took place,
and Mr.. Clitheroe and Miss Corbyn found
that their marriage settled the question Of
the ownership of Corbyn court without fur
Their trouble. Their search for the witness
of the marriage proved successful, and it
was found to have taken place at the parish
church, Folkstone, being duly recorded in
the register Of that church.
Our readers will agree with US that a
stranger and more romantic marriage sell
dom came about, and Mr.. and Mrs. Clithe-
roe are alike to be congratulated upon an
event which, it must be admitted, ives of
all others the most suitable aud salts
factory. We understand that Mr.. Clithe-
roe and his wife will shortly come down to
take possession Of Corbyn Court"
Tho same post that took down this notice
for the newspapers carried letter from
Philip Clitheroe to his mother. Ii was the
joint production of himself and Constance,
this being necessitated by the fact that ne
had written and torn up a dozen letters and
given the task up as hopeless, when she
came to his assistance. 1t was short and to
the point:
"MY DEAR MoTHER-Your letter to Con-
stance came duly to. hand. We both
start as if the last six months had
been wiped out. We both know that what
you did was done for your love Of me, and
Constance is quite Of opinion that this would
Justify almost anything When we meet
therefore, let there be no allusion to the
past, certainly no allusion will ever be made
TO it by either of U.s. Happily ! shall
Sblll 10 JJlDb OWHei VI
Court though not In the manner
you had thought, and everything
has turned out for the very best, and ia
deed Constance asserts that it could never
have come about had it not been that we
were both driven by circumstances to go
out to Australia. We intend to come down
this day week to Corbyn Court, and both
sincerely hope that we shall find you there
to welcome us. We shall be accompanied
by Miss Peyton, Miss Leicester and Mr..
Harbut, who have very greatly befriended
Constance, and their preseuce will help to
smooth away any little stiffness that might
otherwise attend our meeting"
There was, however, no stiffness beyond
that natural to her in the manner in which
Mrs. Clitheroe received her son and his
wife on their arrival at Corbyn court. She
had during the previous week received the
warm congratulations OF her numerous
acduaintences, and had led them to believe,
without absolutely saying so. that she had
| from the first been aware OF her brothers
marriage, and that everything had turned
out precisely as she had anticipated
MY greatest regret in the affair Is that
think it probable that my son will take
the name Of Corbyn. 1t is, OF course, an
older one in the country than our own, but
it will nevertheless be a matter of regret TO
me that the heir 60 my husbands estates
should not bear his name, but perhaps that
difficulty may be got over hereafter"
| Notwithstanding the manner OF their re-
aar,fioy1 Miss Payfou aynrasea1 tn h1r netca