St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-03

placed her in a convent to be educated,
where she remained until his death.
which occurred suddenly six months
previous to the period of our sketch.
After his death Julie became the ward
of her uncle, by the of her fatner's
will. and the period of her educational
course having just closed at the con-
vent. Hubert Meurice, the uncle,
brought her home to his family circle.
Nine. Meurice, it appears, was a schem-
ing calculating woman, and knowing
that Julie would be an heiress, she tried
every way to promote her intimacy with
Her own son, who was an uncouth and
ignorant youth of eighteen years, with
out one attractive point in his char.
aeter.
q. Hubert Meurice, the uncle Of Julie,
was. a sea captain. whose calling car
rled him much away from his home.
During his absence his wife treated
Julie with the utmost tyranny, even
keeping her locked up in her room for
days together, telling her that when she
would consent to marry her son Hubert
she would release her and do all she
GOULD to make her happy. But to this
Julie could not consent. Imprisonment
even was preferable to accepting her
awkward and repulsiye cousin. cr
zone day she overheard conversation
between her aunt and her hopeful son,
wherein the mystery OF her treatment
was solved.
The boy asked his mother what was
the use of bothering and importuning
Julie so.
If she doesn't wish to marry me.
mother, drop the matter. like Julie,
and she would make me nice little
wife, but don't want her against her
Will.'
you are fool,'' said the mother.
"YOu know nothing about the matter.
Her fathers will endows her with a
fortune at her marriage, even if it be at
seventeen. just her present age. At
twenty she receives the fortune at any
rate. Now, don't you see if you marry
her we are all fixed for tife?
''Does Julie know about the money!"
he asked.
''No, of course not"
'.It's little sharp on her," said the
boy.
'.I'm looking out for you," said the
mother.
"Just So" unused the hopeful.
IL ain resolved that she shall marry
you, and that is why keep her locked
up, so that she may not see some
one she would like better. Your
father is expected home next week.
| want you to be married be-
fore he returns. He approves of
it, but is little too delicate about
pressing matters so quickly. [ know
that no time is like the present time, so
| have been making arrangements to
bring this about Immediately. l have
got Protestant clergyman who will
perform the ceremony first, and then
you can be married at any time after
ward in the Catholic church, to make it
valid on her side, for her father was a
Catholic"
This was enough for Julie. She I'M
saw that her aunt would hesitate at
nothing. The poor child feared her be-
yond description, and had yielded to
her in everything save this one purpose
of her marriage with Hubert.
Julie was very gentle girl-one upon
whom her aunt could impose
with impunity. She had no idea of
asserting her rights, much less of stand
ing up for them. But she was thor
oughly frightened now, and resolved to
escape at any cost from the tyranny
which bound her. No fate could be
worse, she thought, than to be compelled
to,tnarry that coarse, vulgar and repul-
Sive creature.
The next day after Julie had heard
this informa ton was Sunday, the gay
est day of the week in Marseilles, and,
fortunately, Julie succeeded in making
heriescape from her aunt's house. Still
undecided where to go, and in her deS-
peration fearing that at any moment
She might be seized and carried back,
she had wandered into the flower mar
ket,i where she came upon us, already
described.
As she explained to Harry afterward,
she was intent only upon escape, and
believed this to be her last chance.
When she saw half dozen young
Americans, who, seemed perfectly re-
spectacle, the idea that positive safety
lay only'in marriage dawned upon her,
and, she actually ran towards US, as we
have related, the moment the thought
developed itself.
Harry became more and more i'm
pressed with jules story as they
walked along, while he was delighted
by her innocent beauty and manifest
refinement. 1t was all like dream.
almost too romantic for truth. Our
''fate" sometimes comes to us in this
singular fashion, he thought. "Ihere
is tide in the affairs of men which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
Suddenly he turned to her and said:
Dare you trust me with your happi-
ness?"
She looked at him thougntfully with
her soft, pleading eyes. Her brain was
very busy; she remembered what
awaited her at home, what had driven
her thence. and. then, in reply to his
sober question, she put both of her
hands into his with childlike trust.
They wandered on. Julie had always
plenty of money III her purse, and they
strolled into little chapel on their
way, where they found young clergy
man. who could not resist their request
to marry them, backed by ten golden
and advising proper delay, he per-
formed the marriage ceremony, aided
by the sexton and his wife, who each re
ceived Napoleon.
As an inducement, Harry had also
told the clergyman that he was just go
ing to sea, and that he must be married
before he sailed, that not even one hour
was to be lost.
S''Perhaps l am saving the girls
HONOR" said the young clergyman, as
he finally consented.
Julie came out of the chapel the wife
or Harry B., who went with her to the
Hotel du Louvre. From here he sent
pressing note to the American consul,
who came to him early the next morn
ing, and by the earnest persuasion of
Harry the consul agreed to take the
young wife to his own house until mat
tiers should be settled as regarded their
future course. In the conSul's house
Julie found pleasant and safe retreat
for the time being.
Whatever might be said with regard
to the propriety of the young folks con-
duct, 1T could not be undone. They were
irrevocably united as husband and wife.
Harry was forced. however, to resign
his commission. By the aid of the con-
sui jules rights in relation to her for
tune under her fathers will were fully
realized, and she came almost immedi-
atefy with her young husband to Amer
lea.
Harry B., by means of proper influ-
ehce, once more entered the navy, the
second time as lieutenant, and now
wears captains epaulets.