Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-12
MISS SCAMPER.

None at the Rappaquab Sulphur
Springs knew who Miss Scamncr
WAS, and few cared to know. She
came. with an old gentleman who
the pair as IS. Sclmper
IIand grand daughter, New York
fOity.n They we're doubtless poor
folks on q holiday. They had no
Servants with them. The old man
I:woreaa suit of rather rusty black.
and histrnnk, an antique leather
jcnnveniency, bore, the letters rs.
ES.ginsbra headed nails. The
Young woman's trunk. Nshe had
|ihnt sone,-was. large enough and of
modern make, bnt it was appar
|ently,not we'll filed, since she had
|:hTit&three dresses all the three
dresses all 1.-The. three weeks she had
|remaineda One Of these. Of rich
|sinaterial,z sheSwore evenings; the
Eotherstwo, sois some fashionable mas.
Etarial, were worn aIternatelyin days.
EtiinA. She had nojewelrys beyond
Essdlllaina gold brooch. Que af,stlles
eligible young men there said that
l"tIle Scamper has one Snnday.go.
to-meetin' anG two work day SHIFTS"
for which his neighbcs should
have kicked him, but 3 dn't.
The eligible young man was
looking for an eligible mate in the
person of Miss Bolsovcr, the great
heircss, whom the society. paper
had said was coming to the
Rappaqnalg though. as she hadn't
Come, the Browns young man of
the society paper labored under a
deluslon. The match making dow
ayers did not fear this modest,
pretty, and well-cultured young
woman, for the ailded youth, who
we're also lying Ill wait for Miss
Bolsovrr, much more giltled, did
not dangle in her train. Indeed
she had no train. Her business
WAS to lonl after her poor grand
father.who was not in good health.
and with whom the waters seemed
to agree. Di,ymns Dodd, who
had Scrappd an acquaintance with
old Scamprr. as the fellows irrev-
erently called hun. seemed to he
her admirpr, but Didvlnus was no.
body. He WAS well-made, fall.
handsome. and Of good address;
hut he WAS only All upper clerk in
a Philadelphia insurance company.
To he sure lie wnuld he snperin-
tendent after January, vice Hig-
gins. retired and superam:uated.
and wcnld then draw salary of
five thousand a year. Bnt no on
knew that. and the possible good
fortune to poor Miss Scampe'; and
had they known, five thousand a
year was no great matter. So the
field was left 60 Miss Scamper and
welcome.
Didymns only hogan paving at
tention 10 Miss Scamper out of
courtesy, and because no one else
did; hut the more he SAW her the
more he liked her, and it ended in
his being badly hit. AS he aud she
were the only impccun;ons people
at tue old mud old fashioned resort
the other visitors counting their
dollars we'll up IN the hundred
thouSands--the matter attracted
attention. and Ivy the way of get
ting both ont of the way Of mar
riageable sons and daughters.
scheming mothers lent the affair
all the quiet encouragement posi-
Bile. And this passed into a more
active nature from two little Incl
dents that occurred about ten days
before The end Of the two months
vacation of Didymus.
There was Mrs. DE- Nyse at the
Springs, who was we'll known as an
amateur vocalist OF merit, and
whose voice, though a little reedy
in the upper notes, had been so
we'll tran. ID as to make her worth
hearing. One evening, when few
were in the parlors, her friends be-
sought her to favor them and so on,
and she expressed her readiness,
but there happened to be no &C
companist. Miss Scam YER who was
chatting near by with Didymus,
looked up, and quietly said, "Per.
haps l can serve you that way,Mrs.
DE Nyse."
aCan you play at sight, MISS
Scamper?" inquired Mrs. De Nyse.
Miss Scamper nodded assent, land
seated herself at the piano forte,
and accompanied the voice with |
such good Judgment that the singer
was delighted.
81 wish 1 could carry you about
with me, my dear" she said. "But
do yon notsinga You surely must"
ga little"
Urged by all around, Miss Scam
per. 10 her own accompaniment.
sang an ara from II TroUatorc.
Her voice proved to be rich so |
prano. of full register, clear as
silver bell, and admirably cuff
yatpd. There WAS a moments
pause when she was done. AS though
not to lose note, and then storm
Of applause.
Here was 4 sensation. Every
body talked Of her method, and
the gilded youth were in raptures.
The mammals conferred and con-
Guided that Miss Scamper was a
member of some church choir, or
attached to some English opera
troupe, who knew But they we're