The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-21
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you know how things stand Yes
Saul, | know; but you can marry me
and I'll be your housekeeper. He
again agreed with me. I then told
him [ could hardly believe him for he
had broken his promise so often, but
he replied to me in so earnest a voice
that | could not help believe him.
'Toots, [ do mean it, SO help me God!'
"We then made arrangements for
the wedding to take place the next
day, and he went down town to order
a bus, and | set my alarm clock SO as
to be up early. | got my dress ready,
took the waist down stairs to Mrs.
Loomis to have her fix the lace on the
neck, and after Clarence got back I
showed it to him and he said it was
nice and asked me to put it on. l did
and he said it looked pretty.
"Next morning / got up and asked
him to hurry up and get ready to go,
but he told me he was not going to go.
[ was so disguised with him that l
would not talk to him any more, even
to ask him why. Well, he went home
then, and the next / saw of him was a
week afterwards. He told the same
old story of being afraid of his father.
| scolded him and told him [ could
never believe him again, but he came
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know how much love you. If you
will go to Chicago I'll come there and
marry you inside of three weeks. I
am going to sell the hotel, and if l
can't I'll hire manager
"He asked me to take my money
and go on and rent house there and
to keep bOarders, and that he would
pay me back. | did not want to in
vest my money there until / knew
whether | was going to live there or
not, and l told him so, and he said to-
me, IN come in two or three weeks,
Toots, so help me God So went to
Chicago and stayed five or six weeks.
heard from him, and finally he asked
me to come to ST. Paul. l stopped at
the Ethiopia. He came to see me and
paid for the rooms. | upbraided him
for not coming to Chicago as he prom
ised. He said his mother was very
i'll and to wait till she got BETTER and
then it would be all right.
''She was sick for year and half,
and during all this time was still in
ST. Paul. / saw Mr.. Saulpaugh few
times, and once or twice he spoke Of
marriage, at the time saying that the
doctors had given his mother up, and
soon after her death he would fulfill
his promise. He wanted to wait a
year, but l would not consent to such
a long time, and we finally agreed on
six months, and in the meantime he
proposed a trip out west for me, he
promising to meet me at Seattle or
| Portland and to have the marriage
take place.
"Well, l started and went to Den
yer, and stayed few days, and then
to Salt Lake City and Sacramento,
and / got sick while in San Diego and
was taken to the hospital and stayed
there three weeks, and when l got
well | went to San Francisco. I
entered into no business while gone,
and corresponded with Saulpaugh.
/ left about the middle of May and
came to ST. Paul. | saw Clarence the
day after l got back. He seemed
affectionate. | was little thinner
and he did not at first recognize me.
He came up in the afternoon and 1
told him all about my trip. He wanted
me to go to New York and start a
boarding house and l agreed, he prom
Using to come in few days and marry
me. He was going to sell the hotel.
/ left with the full belief that he
would come, for he said he was tired
of Mankato, and always did want to
go to New York, and would get
manager for the hotel if he could not
sell it. He told me along about No
vember 30th, 1889, which was prior to
his fathers death, that he had $40, 600
of his own invested in the hotel, and
that he had some lots in Minneapolis
and also some bank stock upon which
he was getting s per cent. interest
this bank stock was worth about
$4,000. Well, | went to New York in
May, 1898. | did not go in any bust
ness there. [ correspondent with Mr.
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