The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-02-18
A BROKEN LOVE.
BY NEs. 4. e BAEE

One fine morning in the spring. ten
years ago, there came up to ny room
with my French rolls and chocolate q
dainty little pink note. vas certainly
astonished in 3 mild way at is early sd-
vent, but ! knew the writer, and was by
no means seriously curious
ELLEN Is in some dreadful distress about
scme dressmzker, or exercised about hel
spring shopping I said, and it car
wait, for I am particular about feS
things, and a calm, deliberate breskfast
Is one Of them.
% laid the note aside and took up the
morning paper. Having finished boih
breakfast and newspaper, ! took Up E.
lens note with that feeling Of reluctance
with which We come back from great
emotions to the small, selfish concerns Of
our oEn everyday life
The note, for once, was full Of real, ear
nest feeling, and reused both nv sympa-
thy and curiosity, though il contained
only these few lines
DEAR SARAH Come 70 me AZ once I
am in great troublezbout Alice.
IOurs, etc,
ELLEx TEAvEES.
About Alice
speeulsted noW with very grave in
teres, Alice Traveen was very dear TO
me, and dressed myself in haste, and
went at once 70 relieve the curiosity that
had nov become anxiety.
found Ellen nursing her trouble in
the most elegant Of morning dresses, snd
with the most dismal Of faces. Yet some
how the tone and atmosphere Of the
house had quite dispeIled the fears that
had hurried both my hands and my fees
for the last hour, for / heard Alice taking
her singing lesson, and Maud had kissed
me in the hall with ali her usual Joyous
abandon.
Some love affair, now decided, and
was not wrong.
Ellen Was feeling herself to be the most
injured and miserable Of mothers Alice
had ilzd lNv s,iEs4s, al .lsd raarily reius-
ed the ehsnce OF becoming Mrs- Van So
gen, and accepted the modest destiny thai
. Young captain Of artillery could give
her.
And, my dear sarah, he IS under or
ders to Join the army now, and be and
Alice want to be married al once. and the
girl has not dress dt 10 be seen, and
there Is no time 20 arrange anything de-
Gently and. upon the whole, It Is the
most dreadful affair
and what does William say about Il .
She looked ST me Indignantly
Now, Sarah, what do you expect Il a
( William would say You know hoE fui
+ Of dreams and croohets he always Is III
saws. of course, Let the young ones hav'
their way that young Eldridge Is a IKE
nobIe-hearted fellow and that any dres
1 Alice has is nice enough 10 be marrlec
! in"
@Wen, Ellen. think myself that youni
Eldridze is in every wAy Alics's equal
the family Is certainly $ very essimabl
one
@Oh. dear ne. Sarah that i not th'
question. Sack Eldridge Is poor : l don
care for family, and that kind Of non
sense. Van Solgen is rich and has an 6
tablishment, and everything respectable
/ Nancy Alice Trzveen following the druu
in baggage wagon And William neve
viii see these things in proper light
don't see what can be Done 70 save AliC
If vou 20 against her, too.
Nv dear Ellen, 1 am not against ii
child YOU know how dearly love he
I Bot this Van S0lgen had a very bad nam
about his first wife
! His fms wife Why, Sarah, she ha
not 3 particle Of style How could ma
I respect a woman who neiiker knew ho
a dinner OF a lady ought 10 be dressed
II. under such circumstances, be lost D
temper, think he ought 10 be excuse
for II Nov, Alice knows how . maj
age both cooks and dressmakers an
between you and me, my dear, they mai
age the world.
= have heard, too, that with al b
wealth this Van 50 gen Is really vei
stingy-
Stinzv And he has got the deare
little cottage Al Newport, and the me
establishment in the city. think il Is
shame for people 70 say such thing
Two such houses SIS Van Solgen OIL
ought certainly 70 cover 8 multitude
sins"
But two houses can't make the chi
happy if she does not love the man"
Then she is very unreasonable, 81
she ought TO be made TO behave hs
self
And 50 she was. Poor Jack EldTid
went of the next week to MS corps. loo
ing dark and hopeless enough and 4
ice came oftener than ever % see me, Al
sept and complained pzssionzsely al 4
. and Jacks disappointment. respect
and sympsthized with her Twenty yea
before had had my own little dreaB
love which had not come true ;, and ;,
was cutie able 10 speak with authority
is uncertainty and instability.
Then SIS the simmer rpened, / ws
70 my pleasant Jersey farm. and |
Traveens went to Saratoga With vi
subtle tsct Ellen laid her plains, and y
what patient, indonitAble industry 5
worked them. know not; bat the
bronght her reward. For Though j
less and indigerent about many grl
things, she was eonsummste tz1iei
where fashion or worldly advaneem'
was in question; 30 l was by no mel
: surprised when Rad II the papers
> announcement Of the contemplated z
= rage between Arthur Van Solgen a
: Alice Reid Trsveen-
= Not surprised, but stin very sorry a