Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-31

maze my pTOpOSItIOu, anu INC Olu SSA-
tleman used language that certainly
didn't belong to a deacon. Then l got
mad, and says l:
Have you anything against my char
acter, Deacon Stackpole." says l, ''or my
prospects,"
No says he; I've looked them up
pretty carefully when guessed what You
were hanging round here for"
Then what is your Objection:" says l.
But he wouldn't have anything to say
to me but No, no, no." and wouldn't
listen to anything l said, so off to find
Mollie crying under an apple tree, for
she'd heard our angry voices
didn't see her the next evening but
one, for found at my boarding house a
long letter from her:
Sam. dear, grandfather is very de
termined, and you'd better not come
over this week.
Its all about those two little boys
you knew in Maine in the poorhouse.
You see, l had an Uncle Tom, who was
grandfather's oldest son. He turned out
to be very wild and great trial to
grandfather, and he nearly broke grand
fathers heart. After awhile he married
an actress, and they went away and new
er were heard of for years.
grandfather is an awfully proud
man. and he was mortified TO death at
the way Uncle Tom had acted. He had
been expelled from the church. and that
was great blow, and finally, when he
brought home his wife. that was the fin
ishing touch.
she was black haired, and she red
dened her cheeks, and she was rather
handsome, but loud talking and not like
grandmother.
GRANDMOTHER tried to bear with her,
but one day she was impudent. and I'm
Gle Tom stood up for her against his
mother. and grandfather got angry and
turned them both out of doors.
I'm three or four years a letter came
to grandmother from Uncle Tom, writ
ten from Name. saying that his wife had
died. and that he was very i'll himself
and didn't expect To live long, and that
he had two little boys whom he had
and grandfather, and that they'd have
to go to the poorhouse if something
wasn't done for them soon, and would
grandmother tell grandfather how mat
tiers stood and how Uncle Tom repented
of what he had done.
Grandmother actually didn't dare to
tell grandfather. though her heart ached
for her boy, so she copied it all down and
sent it to him anonymously. He was as
angry as he could be and cursed Uncle
Toms wife for bringing the name of
Stackpole to the poorhOuse, and Uncle
Tom for being not only bad, but weak
spirited.
IL disowned him when l sent him
from the house he said, and his chill
dren and he may die in the poorhOuse be-
fore I'll raise finger to help them
In about week she saw i'll the news
paper the account of the man found
dead. and his name, Thomas Stackpole,
was found in his pocket.
Grandmother plucked up courage
and pleaded to have the children brought
home, but grandfather wouldn't listen to
her and forbade any one mentioning the
subject again.
He seems to grow worse as time goes
on, so when YOU spoke of your knowing
tw> boys named Stackpole in the poor
house he began to hate you, and he hated
you ever since. That's the only reason
he has for not letting US marry.
Il exclaimed when you told HE their
names, because knew had somewhere
two cousins. Tom and Bile, but l didn't
know then all the story as l have told 1t
to you.
Sam, dear, grandfather is going to
send me to boarding school right away,
so l can't see you"
Then came some tender words from
the dear little girls loving heart, and l
and that at once.
The next day that 1 was in town 1 re-
ceived note from Mollie telling me the
particulars. She was to go to boarding
school 100 miles away the next day Oh
the o'clock train, and her grandfather
was to go with her.
l had been thinking all night over
plan, and resolved to put it into execu-
ton, for as to Mollie's going away SO
far from me it was utterly out of the
question.
First, l wrote a long letter to Mollie,
describing the whole plan and giving her
minute directions as to her part in it.
This dispatched by messenger whom
l could trust, with directions to give il
to Mollie herself.
Then l travelled all over town to get
leave of absence for the next day. was
going to take the next day off anyway
but thought I'd rather get it honestly if
l could.
l got permission for Joe Mcdonald to
run his engine ON my train, and that
suited Inc. l needed locomotive in car
rying out my plan. and of course l know
my own best. The rest of the night l
spent in some necessary carpenter work.
A long day the next was. / obtained
q marriage license, and with that in my
pocket l felt that ! could defy dozen
crossgrained grandfathers.
Early in the afternoon l got up steam
in Al, and it seemed as if the minutes
were hours until o'clock. I'd had to
tell the scheme to my fireman. I'd got
leave for him too.
was getting pretty nervous when we
started out a little before o'clock.
We ran slowly up the road, and then
got on to a side track that extended
alongside the main road about 10 miles
and luckily was just then free from cars.
At last we heard the rumble of the ex-
press in the distance. Then pulled the
throttle, and we began to make a good
speed, so that our gait just equaled that
of the express, and we ran side by side,
first, second, third car.
That was the one had told Mollie to
be in, and ON the farther side. so that her
C%andfakhar ahould NOT aao my anytime