The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-09-04
A RURAL ROMANCE.

5Acat puiaSH VI susptuse has Deem
lifted from the minds of the people Of
Coalton, Pa, and vicinity by the mar
rage of Anna Colbert, daughter of the
we'll to do village tailor, Benjamin Co
bert, to Anthony Fraley, a prosperous
young builder. The bride is twenty
years old, pretty and vivacious. The
bridegroom is twenty-three. They were
married by Dominic Blackjack on Fri
day morning. At first people refused to
believe it, but when it became known
that the event was an assured fact bust
ness was almost entirely suspended In
the village for half a day, so pleased was
everybody that at last he didn't have to
lie awake nights wondering what pretty
Miss Colbert and her lover would do next
to furnish unusual subjects for gossip.
1t was nor than two years ago that
Miss Colbert and Anthony Fraley be-
came acquainted at a picnic. 1t was o
case of reciprocal love at first sight, and
the young mar began making frequent
calls on Miss Anna at her fathers house.
Papa Colbert had different ideas about
who his daughters lover should be,
however, Fraley then being only jus.
out of his time as a carpenter, with no
visible future, and he soon notified An
thony that he must cease calling on
Anna, and ordered Anna to receive no
further attention from Anthony. Find
ing that nothing could change the old
gentleman's determination, his daughter
apparently obeyed his will and her
lover called ne more.
But that they managed to see or COM
municate with each other was made
manifest a few weeks later, when Miss
Colbert was found missing from her
room n day, and in her place was
a note stating that the dictates Of her
heart were so much stronger than her
desire to obey the commands of her par
ent that she had eloped with Anthony
Fraley and that they had. gone away to
get married. = ~
Now, it had SO happened that a week
Or SO before the elopement Papa Colbert.
had heard that Anthony Fraley had a
rich uncle in Pittsburg from whom the.
young man had, great expectations, and
upon investigating the rumor he had
found it to be based on a very solid foun-
dation. This caused a great change to
come over the schening taiiors views on
the subject of his daughters marital
prospects, and he was on the eEeso of an
~nouncing to her that he had repented of
separating her and her lover and that
they might resume their tender rela-
tions, when the elopement was an
nounced to him in his daughters note.
The tailor was at first very wroth over
the news, and was about to start in pur-
suit of the flying lovers when it sudden
ly occurred to him that. while it pre-
cipitated matters somewhat, it. was a
good thing all round, for it would en-
able him to save his dignity in the mat
ter of the commands he had laid upon
his daughter, and at ths same time fas-
ten the young MAJ and his prospects in
the family at once and save all fear Of
future uncertainty. So he gave up the
idea of pursuit, and went to- his work
with a complaeeney and quiet uncon-
Germ that surprised his neighbors, who
had quickly heard the news and were
making the most Of it. 1.sya=4 =.
Fryburg is eight miles from Coalition,
and thither the clipping couple drove as
fast as the horse Fraley had hired would
carry them, for they expected that An
mas father would be after them in hot
pursuit as soon as he received his daugh-
ter's note. Ashley neared the place for
which they had set out to be married
the girl grew extremely uneasy, but they
reached the village, stopped at a hotel,
where Miss Colbert remained while her
lover went out to hunt up some one who
could marry them, leaving the horse
tied at the post in front of the hotel.
Fraley was a long time in finding any
one who could perform the anxiously
desired ceremony, for one of the two
ministers of the place was officiating at
a funeral, and the other had gone fish
ing, The young man finally found q
justice of the peace, who accompanied
him to the hotel to marry him and the
girl. si sra 9a@ ~
When Fraley and the justice arrived
at the hotel, the former noticed that the
horse and carriage were gone The
young man hurried into the house and
asked what had become of the rig. The
landlord told him that the girl he had
left there had taken the horse and car
rage and driven away, leaving word to
say TO the young man when he came
back that she guessed that she must
have been only in fun, and had gone back
home"
Fraley did not waste anytime in fool
ishness. but hired a horse and carriage
of the landlord, and with the hostler to
drive him started in pursuit of the girl.
The fresh horse overlook the other four
miles out of Fryburg and Miss Colbert
was compelled to stop.
What in the world does this mean,
Annasa exclaimed Fraley.
~Oll, Tony replied Miss Colbert, Il
only meant it in fun; let's wait-r
BIT Tony soon persuaded the tickle
minded girl to turn about and go back.
When they got back TO Fryburg the
young man did not take the chances of
leaving Miss Colbert at the hotel again,
bat drove direct tothe justices office.
He helped her out of the carriage, and
telling her to go in and wait for him, ho
got into the carriage and drove away to-
ward the hotel. He remained away so
long that the girl started out to see what
had become of him. At the hotel she
learned that he had driven past in the
direction from which they had come
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