Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-15

all her influence, which was incalculable.
The end of IL was that he was accepted.
They were TO be married in month, and
| Alexander left town to make his ar
rangoments. The same day that no left,
Frank Lenorme learned for tho fist time
of the engagement He went to
n Aetitia's house in q state near frenzy.
They tried in vain to prevent his seeing
her. He forced his way to her, fell on
his knees, cried and raved, sworo he
would do any thing, agree to any thing,
il she would only marry him. Their
children should be Catholics, every one
of them, and he himself, If she said the
word, would join the church. But in
this crisis she showed the mysterious
strength that only women-and only a
| few women-possess; and whore they
| get it from, God knows! She told him
that it was now too late. Alexander
was to enter tho Catholic communion on
the day of their wedding; she had
| promised herself to him, and she could
not, now, commit the dishonor of break
ing her word-no, not even for the
heaven of becoming Franks wife.
"Lenorme became actually distracted,
and Letitia was obliged to part from
him almost by force. But day after day
he came back. with wild entreaties and
| implorings, till she had to refuse to see
him at ALI and, at length, when she
heard his step, she would fall into a
swoon, and remain unconscious for
| hours. She had some tendency, no
doubt, to disease of the heart. Her
physician told Frank that If he did not
| restrain himself he would kill her. She
| recovered her strength in time for the
wedding-day; but Franks friends had to
lock him up, to prevent him from inter
rupting the ceremony She was mar
| ried and left New Orleans with her hus-
band, for six months absence.
"a day or two after their return,
Frank being in his office, one of his fell
low-clerks suddenly called to him:
Quick, Lenorme, look here! Here's
pretty sightP
Frank came to the window just as
Letitia passed, leaning on her husbands
arm. Frank was a sturdy fellow, phys
ically, and as brave as lion; but at that
spectacle he instantly dropped, where he
stood, in dead faint. i am telling you
simple facts" added the Colonel, look
ing up; 81 am not exeggerating in the
least; but | want you to realize how
violent the emotions of the Louisiana
creole were. Such things would be i'm
possible in this latitude.
"And this was just before the war. In
April of 1861 Sumter fell; and year
later Porter and Farragut took New Or
leans. The garrison, few thousand
men only, commanded by General Low
ell, were previously withdrawn from
the city, and Alexander's regiment with
them. Alexander found himself in
difficult predicament. He owned
house in New Orleans, and had kept his
wife there, for he had not believed that
the Federal forces would be able to
capture the city. He now could feel no
ease to leave her where she was-for her
father and mother had previously be-
taken themselves to Galveston. He
would gladly have sent her thither,
could he have found any one to take
charge of her on the journey. In this
emergency, when hours were as valuable
as ordinary years, he met Lenorme
limping across Congo Square. He had
been among the defenders of Fort jack
son, and had been slightly wounded in
the leg. The two men had been ac-
quainted with each other, and always
respected each others character; but
they had not spoken since Alexander's
marriage. But here, as 1 say, was an
emergency, and Alexander took a reso-
luton which, strange as it may seem to
you, was characteristic of the Southern
nature, and creditable to the manhood
both of Lenorme and of himself. He
addressed the latter, explained briefly
the situation, and then asked Lenorme
(who had not as yet enrolled himself
among the volunteers, and was, there
fore, free to go where he liked) whether
he would undertake to convey Mrs.
Alexander to Galveston.
"'I know we were rivals, Frank he
added but trust you all the more on
that account"
Frank turned pale, and his eyes
sparkled, and it was some time before he
spoke. AT last he said:
"'Is there no other way?
"None, and there is but an hodf to
decide
every well; I'll co.
"As it happened, Alexander had a
plan of sending his wife to England, and
with that end in view had obtained
Bank of England notes to the amount of
about fifty thousand dollars. These he
made over to Lenorme, who concealed
them about his person. When Letitla
was apprised of the plan of sending her
to Galveston under her former lovers
escort, she was much agitated, and at
first refused to go; but finally she sud-
denly became calm and consented.
Frank had information of small, swift
vessel lying in Timbatier bay, about
fifty miles southwest of New Orleans,
and his design was to get Letitia on
board this ship and pay the skipper his
price to take them to Galveston, trip
of some three hundred miles. He OBJ
tanned two good horses, and he and Le-
titia-she being in mans clothes
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