Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-25

resisted. But Hugh was OF course
highly pleased with the suggestion.
Then continued Cicclie sup
pose you give me Gvo guineas and I
will call ut tho judges on my way
bacl; 70 the mill and get tho license
and thon advice the mini ,m."
Five g,inensl Hugh was horror
stricken.
IN my town. the girl explained,
ut is tho custom to DO welded BY
license, tho minister reading tho le.
gyl form. In return for this soryic3
the bride crosses his palm with gold,
which goes To- tho podrof the county
and this is said TO bring good luck"
Hugh totterod back TO the house
and wus Como some minutes. When
he reappwicd nt the door the gll
could see he had not fully made up
bis mind 20 part with the money, bu.
he rclsccndel the hill and placed fvo
bright elephant guincas in her
hand.
~ win be in my pow at the church
az 9 o'clock, and viii wait for thoo,n
he said, "and harl;yc, my pretty,
don't speak about this 10 thy sister
until It IS an over. We viii give her
such n pleasant surprise"
with a deep courtesy tho girl
bounded away, and dion There came
TO the old mans faco n look Of Zero.
cious triumph which might truly be
called wolhsh.
Promptly at the hour named Hugh
BuckliH entered hispew and sat down
touwait bis bride. Tho church was
In darkness eavc for single candle
which buruodupon tho reading desk.
He heard voices In the vcsury, and
laughed az ho IMAGINED whnt the
minister and tho widow Moore. tho
carotakcr of the church, were SAYING
about tho approaching marriage.
Hugh waited itseemed an hour, but
CiCelio came not; thon tho voices ion
the ycstry ceased, and tho banging
Of O door started n cuiTont of mir
in the church which put ont the can
die. Tho bridegroom, not at on rel
ishing his position, tried to cropo his
way 10 the ve,try door, and In 80 do
ing made such clnttcr against tho
pcws as TO startlo the widow. who
was about 60 lock up tho church.
Throwing open The vcstry door,
she was almost frightened ont Of hcr
wits By uo figure which met her
eyes. for the darkness and q certain
rapidly growing sense OF something
wrong had rendered his features MS
liyid as those Of a corpse. With n
howl Ike hungry beast he dashed
ut tho church register, and read an
entry, scarcely yet dry, certifying 20
tho marriage Of Cicclio Goodrich and
John W0lby, mgto Of tho whaling
ship Munmukl
Cutliko, he scratched at tho record
with his long hngcrnuils, and would
have destroyed the page had not the
carciakor hurled him aside with tho
strength Of nn Amazon.
just go about thy business and
leave That book alone, she said. "IU'5
nobodys fault but thine own IL thou
art too iato to sec the lovely bride.
with her bunch Of wild astar5 and
her golden glineas for tho POOR,
though its true foil, did say they
We're not to DO wed till the ships got
back from tho whaling trip. What
led thcC 20 the churchl Dost thou
not know that license marriages aro
Golgmuizad In the vosuyp
Hugh had heard enough; he had
not only lost the bride, but hal FUR
nishci tho bridal bouquet aud the
license! He rushed out Of tho place
MS angry an old man as over hol %
public road, nor did the good people
Of Southampton who knew The
whole Story soon after dayhrcala
ever SEQ him again. Whom, some
weeks afterwaid, surprised NJ his
long soclusion, they broke into Tho
yellow brick houGa, 1t was found %
have been vacated some little time
previously, for tie window flowers.
which in his Uga ho had dnshed
upon the flour were dead and dried
up. The horse was gone, likowiso q
farm wagon as Old as its owner Ha
had moved away IA tho night
whittier nO one over discovered. -
Thomas Frost in Pitt burg Bulletin.