Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-14

tennis and waltzing, barrel-organ tunes
and afternoon tea parties, she was con-
sumed by desire to sacrifice her life
and her little fortune on the shrine of
q genius.
Paul Vaughan was the nearest ap-
proach to anything in that direction
which she had ever met, and she
promptly fell in love with him.
She insisted upon receiving piano
forte lessons from him, desire which
her indulgent aunt gratifed, with the
result that in three weeks time, moved
out Of himself by the lovely Edith's
sympathetic appreciation of his work
and his aims, Paul Vaughan informed
her that she was his ideal-the only
woman for whom he had ever enter
tanned any feeling warmer than
aesthetic admiration.
The result of this declaration was
that his pupil at once dropped from the
music stool into his arms, and that
Miss Brandon, senior, entering mop
portunely at that moment, her niece
announced her intention of marrying
no one else but her dreamy-eyed music
master; and conventional Bayswater
wedding, with white brocade, Brussels
lace, Buszard's cake, six bridesmaids,
two pages, and gifts of checks, but
ter-knives, paper-cutters, candlesticks.
and volumes of Tennyson bound in
morocco leather, together with
honeymoon trip to Norway, followed
in due course with bewildering rapidi-
ty.
Edith's aunt and guardian, pleas
ant-tempered and sensible old maid,
disapproved of the whole thing
Paul is genius" she said, land
geniuses oughtn't to marry. Look at
Carlyle"
AS the sage of Chelsea had been dead
some years that was impossible. But
looking at Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Vaughan
they seemed happy enough.
Miss Brandon still maintained that
all this was q mistake. Edith ought
by rights to have married Harry Deni.
son, good-looking young stock broker,
who for three years had been so much
in love with her as to be uncomfortable
when in her society.
Edith wants lot of affection and
attention." Miss Brandon said, land
Paul, with his head full of fgu.es and
major fifths, won't be able to give 1t.
She won't let hi m go on giving music
lessons, because she is jealous of him.
Consequently, with all necessity for
mere money-gru bling removed, he will
be more devoted to his Art-with big
A-and less devoted to anything else
than ever And in time even a woman
tires of all give and no take In the mat
ter of affection"
Miss Brandon was not far wrong.
AT the end of year of matrimony
Edith and Paul had fragile, gray
eyed infant, upon whom the father
gazed wonderingly, and in whose
honor he composed charming rhap'
sody, in the invention of which he en-.
tirely forgot the subject, and was both
annoyed and troubled by the "infant
seraph's" squeals.
AT the end of a second year the gray
eyea infant faded out of this world
altogether in the course of some
prosaic childish ailment, and beautiful
Edith nearly broke her heart in dry
eyed agony
Paul was more easily consoled He
wrote requiem upon the babys
death, which greatly increased his
fame The subject, moreover, sug-
pested to him a cantata on the "Judg-
meut of Solomon" upon which he at
once set to work with an ar lists
fcrvor, while poor Edith, her lovely
face aud figure wasted by grief, betoob
herself every day to that little green
crave among the Surrey hills, beside