Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-19

talism, and urged her friend to hedge the
silly child about ard keep her out Of ro'
mantle foolishness.
But another letter from Pet showed
that there was no real menace in the
affair of the gambler. 1t read:
DEAREST ELoIsE-I wish you could see
these mountains They are so high thatnoth--
ing grows except a few scraggy pines, and
they are always covered with snow. In the
mornings and evenings there are the most
glorious colors on the peaks rel and blue
and orange, all streaked and clou1ej.
Zone day last week we drove almost to
the summit-Mr and Mrs. Balm, and yonng
man who is superintendent in one of the
mines His name is Bennett, aud his father
owns the mine. Mr.. Bennett is from Yale.
and he sings tenor beautifully. We sang
duets-college songs-going up the slope, and
the others said it was lovely
"Mrs. Balm asked Mr.. Bennett TO go. She
says he is one of the few young men here one
can consent to know. She made Mr.. Balm
put a stop to the flowers. Pm sorry we found
out who sent them. 1t was so romantic, and
of course couldn't refuse them as long as
didn't know how they came.
"Mr. Bennett may take the tenor IN our
choir. 1t would be lovely, for our voices
chord beautifully.
Gould you send me box of tan gloves,
No So, undresse1 kid. Bye. PET.
"P.S.-Mr. Benefits first name is Paul.
He asked, when we were on the mountain
if he mi hit call me Miss Pet. Do you think
it would be any harm;
Don't forget the gloves. r."
Then a later letter contained still
more interesting bits of personal history:
DEAR ELoIsE-It you weren't just the
lovliest sister and not bit old-naidish, I'd
never write you this letter. You see, Pm
awfully happy. Mr.. Bennett has callei
quite often of late. He is the tenor now,
and takes me to choir practice. Mrs. Balm
thought it perfectly proper, and it saves Mr..
Balm traipsing out to fetch me.
Last night Mr. Bennett SAID, as we were
coming home, that it would make him aw-
fully happy if I'd let him call me Pet with
out the Miss. So l said that if it would
really make him happy, he might. 1t was
just at the door. and he grabbe me right in-
to his arms and kissed me before could ex-
plain. didn't mean that he was to mean
anything special, but he said it wouldn't be
worth calling me SO il it didn't II can any
thing special. Then he talked SO lovely and
told me about his mother, and now we are
engaged. That is il you don't mind.
"Mrs. Balm said it mustn't be cslle1 an en-
gagement till we heard from you, but she
has a very high regard for Mr.. Bennett.
Don't you think Paul is pretty Hame9
'Now, you dear old sissy you wouldn't
mind, | know, if you knew how nice and
handsome Paul is. His eyes are blue.
bye. PET"
"Alas for the enevitable!" sighed Miss
Murray, as she laid the letter down.
"Auother Charles-R gambler affair"
But she wrote to Pet that she had o y
a wish for her happiness. But JUS at
present she wanted Pet to listen to a
plan that she had cherished for some
time. 1t was that Pet should spend the
following season with her in foreign
travel. She thought it insdvisable that
young girl should be married with alb
solutely no knowledge of the world.
She wanted to start in few weeks, and
wrote careful directors to Pei about the
journey. They would meet, she said,
in Chicago, and Pet was to answer by
telegraph.
1t was her last card but Pet tele-
graphed, "Ycs.'
Pet awaited her sister, according to
their arrangement, in the hotel drawing
room on Wednesday of the following
week. When Miss Murray arrived, the
pretty girl rushed towards her with out
stretched arms, ignoring all the other
people in the room.
"You're just lovely, Eloise,' Pc.
warmly announced. "Pdul said had
to tell him, you know, about that silly
Charles and Rob-that you were lovely
sister, but he's afraid you are deslgd-
ing person. and-here he is She
produced from somewhere in the room
a tall young man with frank sort OF
face, and a laugh in his eyes. "Hes
going with us to Europe she said.
"We were married this morning. '-Har-
per's Weekly.