Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22
A TEXAS ROMANCE.
ROBERT PEEL RESCuES MISS
MEYERS JUST IN TIME.
She Was About 10 Marry Anolhor--A Texas
Romance Proving Truth 10 Be
Stranger Than Fiction.

Holly Springs. Miss, Jan. IA young
drummer from Holly Springs who tfaN
cls for san Antonio house, and whose
territory lies Along the border of
Texas. tells the following story Of how
he helped To make Mr. Robert Peel Of
Kyle Tex, happy by uniting him with
his sweetheart, Miss Carrie Meyers of
Seguin, from whom Mr. Peel had been
separated boy q lovers quarrel The
drummer arranged the details for their
meeting, aud successfully engineered q
runaway marriage.
The story is most interesting one and
had best be told Ia the drummerB
Language. IL rs as follows;
II WAS sitting Ia my room nc the hotel
in a small Toxins town, whom Mr.. Peel,
whom had not seen for some timct
burst eXCtrdly iu. ana without giving
any explanation told me 20 pack my
traps. saw from his manner that
could offer NO satisfactory excuse aud ne
would do anything for him I ut once
got my things together and set out with
him, We boarded a train az he directed
md as soon az u started he pulled a
telegram from bis pocket aud showed it
10 me. lt read
i am going 10 be married at O'Clock
Wednesday night ] still love you. Save
me-
THE message was s0gned Carrie Mcy-
ers asked MIR Feel for some eXpluna-
ton, and lac told me that he and Miss
Meyers had long been Ia love with each
other anu were enguged 10 be married,
WHOM lovers quarrel took place aud
they We're separated.
soon after our quarrel he con.
uuued, she promised 10 marry another
man, and their wedding IA 60 occur TO.
night ! just reviewed the telegram
showed YOU and Of course had 90 try
and stop the wedding 1 want to marry
her myself, and knowing that | would be-
Obliged 10 steal her away from the In.
tended bridegroom, ! thought ! hnd better
get some assistance. heard you were
IN town, and knew you would be Just the
man 20 help me-
This explanation was cminontly sutis
factory, and / resolved 20 80 an I could
% help the two swncthcnfts. We only
arrived Boz, SnEuin AN hour before the
ceremony WAS 20 take place, and / set
out 10 the home of the bnde-t0~be, Waa
cordially received by her father and sOOn
hnd nn opportunity Oi seeing Miss
Meyers. ! told her OF Mr. peelR pr,~-
once IN the town and his wish 10 marry
her nt once. With u wOman'H rtady Wit
she instructed me- 10 bring him 70 the
snmmerrbouas In her yard as once aud
She would meet us there.
II found the impatient lover uH. quickly
as pJsuhle, anu hiring carriage wa
were soon on the appointed spot Miss
Meyers inot as aa she promised she
would aud we three az once got into tho
enrriuge and drove 60 d hotel a mapis-
trate WAS secured aud the lovers WIRE
soon united Ia the bonds of matrin0ny
After The ceremony had been performed
we caught "a train and left Sagliin
"Ihe greatest cocfusion rpiened Ia the
house when Miss Meyers, absonce was
discovered Her father knew 81 her love
for Mr. Peel and thought, when he found
out That she was missing that she had
ended her lifG rather than marry another
man. he hnally learned the truth, and
as the preacher who had been cuaged 20
perform the rites which had been No un.
cSpectedly brDken on by the nbht1ce OF
the expected bride intefceded for the run
away couple, be fOrsaye them.
Fihe Wouid-be bridegroom was also
brought 20 lend bis forgiveness 10 his
missing sweetheart and tho marriage
feast was turned into banquet The
/ day AFTER the marriage was 90 have beea
performed the disappointed bridegroom
met Ar, Feel aud bis bride az tho town
IA which they We're stopping aud mag
nanlmOusly f0rgeYe them.
'lle events ] Ielssed through were
most exciting and ! VIII remember them
llways.'