The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
THE POWER OF LOVE.

L.
Mr. Clinton was only young clerk In
the law office Of "Whitson & Brown"
a young man from the country, who
but little while ago had been called
Billy by everybody, and had been sent
out with messages and to the post Of
fee.
But he had improved amazingly, had
lost his local twang, had acquired ele-
CANT manners, managed to dress well
on his small salary, and above all was
very handsome.
'And it is so hard to get gentlemen
to five o'clock tea,' said Mrs. Whitson,
land it makes them so much pleasanter
to have a few, and Billy is SO nice"
So cards We're sent to him, and with,
the old clergyman who was so popular,
and an author who was fond OF being
lionized, and an Englishman who was
on visit to the country, and very
young nephew who looked much older
than he was and could, at least, talk
about base ball. which was all he SEEM
ed to be learning at college, there was
a masculine head or two amongst the
bOnnets.
Miss Guilder, the heiress who, in
costume by Worth, fresh from Paris,
sat next to Mrs. Whitson, remarked
that she had never seen a more intel
lectual face than that of the dark-hAir-
ed young man talking to the lady who
wore violet, and Mrs Whitson said that
he was "a rising young lawyer" and
asked if she might introduce him.
infrO6n0p6
Miss Guilder was very gracious.
She was a tall girl with a nice face,
and clear, pleasant voice.
She had such a sweet smile, Sucn a
lovely manner, she charmed him more
than if she had been merely pretty, and
when next day a card came inviting
him to "little musicale" at her house,
his heart beat with rapture.
To cut long story short, before the
winter was over, Miss Guilder was en-
gagged to Mr. Clinton, and Mr.. Whitson
said to his partner, in the office, that
little Billy" had done good thing for
himself.
No one said Of Esther Guilder that
she had done good thing for herself.
They sighed and said:
: "Well, I hope she'll be happy" or
they laughed and said: "Well, I wonder
how it will turn out" And all because
she had the money.
1t is the penalty an heiress pays for
her wealth, no one will ever believe
that she is married for love.
She knew that very well, but she was
not afraid. In her heart she believed
that VIII Clinton hadfallen in love with
her.
He had not pretended to be rich, he
had spoken Of his early struggles, Of his
old parents.
She fancied them refined old people
living very quietly, and had resolved to
call them mamma" and papa"
One thing she could not have forgiven
him, she thought, belonging to people
who were vulgar, common, ignorant.
But evidently he had aristocratit
blood in his veins, one could see thai
by looking at him, else no matter how
handsome he had been she would have
refused him.
One Of her proverbs was that lit took
three generations to make a gentle
man."
She was thinking this as she drove
out one cold day in warm, comfort
able carriage with fur robes over he
knees, a fur rug for her feet and tn,
fact that it was going to rain Of no i'm
portance whatever.
Suddenly the carriage was brough
to a sudden StOp-the fo0tman jumped
down-a crowd gathered.
Them rich folks don't care who the,
kilp' she heard laundress with bias
ket Of clean linen ON her arm declare
and letting down the window, she cal
ed the coachman.
mo one is killed, ma'am" he said i
reply to her inquiry. "An old lady ha
fallen down-'twarn't my fault" BIZ
still alarmed, Miss Guilders stepped OF
upon the sidewalk.
A little old woman was crying, an OIL
man was brushing the mud from he
dress.
Don't heller lilly Jane" he was sa,
ing, I'm praisin' God you amt killet
Why, you amt hurt nun, be you?
kinder broke the fall"
II guess I'm injured INTERNAL" IL
old lady was saying. 'And I'm jul
sick with fright. Them horses SCENE
to be right atop Of me. The drive
might have waited for an old woman
60 by"
THE young man did his best, h
them horses is spirited" said the hu
band.
Get into the carriage, my friend
said Esther. 'Since my coachman h
been the cause of your wifes fall,
must see whether she is injured. n
doctor lives not far away. We. w
drive there and he will tell us. It W
cost you nothing"
well, since you are SO obliging," sa
the old man, and helped his wife
She was still weeping and tremblin
But having reached the doctors hou
and been carefully examined, she co
sented to believe that she had on
been frightened.
The doctor wrote out prescripti
Ior the quieting of her nerves and tt
Miss Guilder had made up at the ne
drugstore.
''And now" S ehsaid, where shall
take you? shall, Of course, set y
down at your own door,"
We're goin' to ketch a train," So
the old nam. 1.-The Grand Central
our pint of stoppage- we're givi
YOU lots of trouble"
None" Miss 'Guilder averred, a
spoke to her eoachman