Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09

who had the room which the girl had
just left saw something shining on the
floor at his feet. He stopped and picked
up a beautiful yellow silk garter with
frosted gold clasps. He drew a long
breath as he looked at the dainty ligature
and vowed to himself that he would
find the owner or die in the attempt.
Nay further, he registered a VOW that
if she proved pretty and fascinating he
would marry her. That night he adj
vertised the garter, and next day ne got
an answer. The identity of the garter
being established the nal called on the
young woman, found her all his fancy
dreamed, made desperate love to her,
and so they were married. One of his
presents to his young vile was a beauti-
full pair of garters.
In q great house standing on a Fifth
avenue corner live two old ladies, four
servantS and a black poodle dog. 1t is
one of the queerest households in New
York. If burglars "cracked'' the
place one of these dark nights they would
get little besides some good old plate
from the sideboard and some small
change out of the dress pockets of the
women. But either one of the little
gray creatures that glides through those
6uuUO"y IOOlUS COulur II uGCSSSlly uS-
manded, draw her check for an even
million. Why is it that these old ladies
live in seclusion and are not included in
the fashionable entertainments OF the
social world? Well, it is simply because
1t is their choice to be otherwise. Their
records are clean and their origin
worthy. But l nave heard a little roman
tic gossip that throws a tender light over
the meek picture that the silent sisters
form together, and perhaps it explains
their preference for the solitude in which
they so persistently exist. Forty years
ago the older of the two was a fair
young woman with a handsome lover.
1t was known then that she was to be an
heiress, and though the young man who
had won her heart was poor, he was Of
excellent birth and breeding, and the
match was thought a good ne. One
night there was a dance in progress at q
house up the Hudson, and the lovers
were in attendance. 1t was summer
time and the sisters had gone out for q
walk in the grounds between the dances.
Passing just outside q summer house
they were compelled to listen to the fol-
lowing conversation:
"Well you may find justification for
yourself in the step you are about TO take,
but it would not be possible for me to
marry a girl / did not love-
"That's very good, - said a voice that
the listening girls instantly recognized,
"but 1 have outgrown all that sort of
thing. l o the younger girl, but it is
the older one who will inherit the bulk of
the old man. 8 money, so it is the old girl
that l marry. Besides / shall always
have the younger one in the house to
amuse myself with"
The two sisters put their arms about
each other and wept together. Then
they walked back to the house without
speaking. Society was astonished a few
days later to hear that the engagement
between the lovers was at an end. For
nan years the sisters lived in Europe,
and then, upon the death of their father,
returned to live in the old home in Fifth
avenue. And there they now remain,
both over sixty years of age, and content
In their own society. They do not leave
the house once in a month, and when
they do it is to walk quietly together IN
some secluded thoroughfare. The only
sign of life about the house is the little
black poodle, who is usually gamboling
over the lawn that surrounds the hand
some residence. CLARA BELLE.