Middletown transcript., 1893-10-07

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| 81 suppose" she said atlength ''that
we will have to get married." !"
"Well, I should think so."
"We can't go on this way always-il
wouldn't be proper, and besides
"Of course we can't"
"But our parentsl'
Eyes that's the trouble. +"
Lillian regarded her companion with
some scorn.
81 should think, being man, you
could suggest some plan," she said.
'Oh, I can," said Arthur, rapidly.
II had one all thought out. / will 90
away from here and get place to
work somewhere, and when I get a
little money saved ]. will come back and
carry you away"
''And have me leave my motherP"
"Why, of course" !"
Lillian regarded her companion now
with almost infinite scorn.
"That is just like man'n she said.
"Don't you see that that would never
do. We must find some way to get
their consent"
SIT can't be done.'
''Let me think" said Lillian, again
assuming the judicial air. ''If we
could find some way get them to agree
but that is not possible"
"Quite impossible" observed Arthur.
"Don't interrupt" said Lillian,
severely. "You have failed, Arthur,
and everything depends on me, now, SO
let me think without being disturbed.
You are not-O, Arthur, Arthur 1
have itl''
"What?n
1.-THE way to get their consent"
swell, tell me about it,.
She told him. and between them they
constructed deep, dark plot. It was
put into execution almost at once.
Arthur waited until after dinner,
and then he sought an interview with
his father in the library. The old gen.
tleman sat down behind his big desk
and Arthur went over and took up
vantage ground before the open fire.
place.
''Father," said Arthur, ''I have
something to tell you that am afraid
will displease you, but, I suppose, it is
best to get it over. Father, I have
asked Lillian Dodge to be my wife and
she has given her consent.n
Judge Berkeley regarded his son in
silence for moment. Then he
pounded the desk and said he was as
founded at the young mans auda-
city.
He was going on to say more but
Arthur interrupted him quite calmly
according to instructions issued by
Miss Dodge.
"But Mrs. Dodge" he said, ''has
said that no daughter of hers shall ever
marry your son."
The old man paused with his fist in
the air and then laid it down very
quietly.
"And why not, I should like to
know?"
.'She did not say why. She ordered
her daughter never to speak to me.''
The old gentleman got up and began
to pace back and forth across the
library.
$50 she says you can't have her
daughter, does shep She thinks her
daughter is too good for my son2 Well
we shall see, we shall see. guess we
can show her who is good enough and
who isn't, the old vixenl Her daugh-
ter is too good for my son, indeedI I'll
show herl
.And Arthur, my boy" pausing and
putting his hand on the young man IS
shoulder, "Arthur you just cheer up,
and don't be afraid. You shall have
that girl, or my name is not Josiah
Berkley. Why, it's outrageousl The
old henl You are worth dozen of
hor doll-faced daughtersl''
"Father!'
Don't interupe me. / am going to
see that woman. I havn't darkened
those doors since long before old Silas
Dodge died, but I'll go now and I'll
make her own that my son is good
enough and rich enough and well-born
enough to marry her daughter or any
woman's daughter.
Arthur escaped and left the old man
alons with his wrath.
The Judge arrayed himself in, his
best attire, put on his newest gloves,
and took in his hand a gold cane, which
he carried and which was presented to
him by the bar at the time of his re-
tirement from the bench.
Meanwhile another scene bad been
enacted in the Dodge mansion.
When Mrs. Dodge returned from her
drive she found very fearful Lillias
atretchsd out In utter desolation on