The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-11

and the daughter, and to his astonishrnent
discovered That they had very suddenly
quilted the hotel and had gone to New
YORK city. Within an hour the governor
made arrangements to follow them, When
ne arrived in New York it seemed to him
tnat 1t would be well to take advice, and.
nearing that his friend Thurlow Weed was
In the city, the governor went at once to
MIN and told him the story as it has been
narrated above.
Mr.. Weed said: 1T is your duty to your
self and to the young woman to get an ex-
PLANTATION Of this refusal. Her father evil
IDENTIFY greatly regretted the necessity of
telling you what he did. therefore he can
nave no objection to you personally. AS
you have offered to make his daugh
your wife, it is your right to demand from
him some reason for his refusal. Go at
once to his hotel and have an interview
him.R
The governor lost no time in taking this
ADVICE. he was not able to find the father
OF his betrothed until evening, and when he
called then at the hotel where his father
ceived. but yet with evident sorrow on the
fathers part.
PLEADING LOVES CAUSE.
The governor said to the father that he
felt that it was due him that some explana-
ton should be made OF the abrupt refusal
which the father had given him in Saratoga,
the more especially as it was evidently there
was no personal feeling against him.,
GU are right, governor; there is none.
But you must believe me when tell you
that this marriage can never be. There
are insuperable objections to it."
Ought not to be the judge of that" the
governor asked. lis it matter of her
healths If SO, that is not insuperable, for
Will be as tender of her as her mother could
be-"
mo, it is not that" said the father.
lis it that you have promised to bestow
her upon some one elseg
mot that" said the father, land let me
say that know Of no man whom l could
more greatly rejoice to have as member Of
my family. a son-in-law. than yourself"
Then, for heavens sake, tell me what
this objection Is. If you will do that, and
find that my Judgment is the same as yours.
will bow my head to 1t in sorrow but in
resignation"
"SHE IS YOUR OWN DAUGHTER
well, then, since you insist upon it, I'll
tell you what the reason Is. 1t is this: She
Is your own daughter"
Ihe young governor looked at the father
or his betrothed in amazement wondering
whether by those words an insult was in
tended to be conveyed or whether the man
was of sound mind. He could not speak.
And then the father. going to him and put
said: Now, will tell you what perhaps
you should long ago have known. In your
college days you were betrothed to Mary
-, and you were anxious to marry her
as soon as you graduated. she would not,
but when you found that she was going
away to the south for year or two your
affection overwhelmed you. You took an
excursion with her over the line into New
York state, where you had heard that If a
man and woman say that they are man
and wife in another's presence that utter
ance makes them so.
MARY came to my home. We were very
fond of her, but she had not been there long
before she became unlike herself, for she
seemed sad. And by and by she told my
wife of her engagement and of the excur-
sion to New York, where you and she, in
the presence Of another. called yourselves
man and wife. Such a law has no recog-
milton in my state. but we believed, as Mary
did, that it was binding in New York. Just
before she died she turned to my wife and
said: You will take care of my little girl
will you not! | am confused and worried
about what WAS called our marriage cere-
mony, because it was secret, and have no
evidence Of it. By and by in your own way
you can tell her father"
we'll BIT, continued the IdCneT, we
took that little one and we adopted it as our
own. She has never known that we are not
her father and mother and she never will
unless you tell her. Nor does any one ex-
cepting one or two of our own kin and her
old colored nanny, who will never reveal
the secret Now, governor l have told you.
We have done wrong, perhaps, to keep this
child and to leave you without the knowl-
edge that your betrothed, and. as she al
AnI D. HaI II
you this child. But we felt down our way,
sir, that there would be no belief in this
story Of the New York ceremony, aud for
Mary's sake we took this course. l leave
the rest to you now"
THE STORY ENDS
The young governor never knew exactly
how he Quilted that house, nor did he fully
regain his senses until be was again in the
presence of Thurlow Weed. When Mr..
Weed saw the governor he was Mortified.
His countenauce was livid, his eye wild, and
Mr.. Weed was fearful that he had commit
ted some act of violence. At last. when Mr..
Weed had quoted him somewhat, he col d
the story as he had learned it from the girls
adopted father.
"What shall do? What shall dog he
pleaded.
"There is only one thing now to be done.
You must not reveal this to the girl. You
must not see her, but you must write to her
and say that you recognize her fathers i'm
perative refusal as binding. and that all you
can do is to cherish her memory and be
faithful to your affection during life.
This the young governor did, and he never
saw his daughter, who was also his be-
trothed, again. But when be was an old
man he heard that she had been happily
married and was living in luxury on great
plantation in the far south.
When Mr.. Blaine finished telling this tale
no one spoke, ana Mr.. Blaine, perceiving
that the story had caused such astonishment
as produced silence, simply added: "Gentle-
men, that is not fiction; that is not fict ion;
that is true. Where can it be matched in
romance"
A few days ago the writer in speaking of
this story which Mr.. Blaine told at Wash
ington dinner party to ex-Postmaster Cen
eral James, was surprised to hear Gen. James
say:
"Mr. Blaine was quite right when he said
that this is true story, for onoe heard 1T
from Thurlow Weeds own lips myself"
In JAPAN, when an author is ready TO put
his ideas on paper, he shuts himself in his
study and begins painting at the back Of all
the pages Of his lew book. He uses paper OF
yelowish tint marked with perpendicular and
horizontal blue lines. beautifully orna-
mented ebony plate holds his ink and several
bamboo brushes. which serve as pens.
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