The morning call., 1894-07-26

with no Intention of buying. but drawn
through curiosity.
Many others, however, setting their
hearts upon some particular object pic
ture, bracket, lamp in the parlor, the
hall carpet or bedroom draperies, sat
through the entire day waiting to see it
come under the hammer.
Every available space in the house. not
only the chairs. lounges and other proper
places were occupied by these, but the
stairways. tie front steps, tables aud beds
were crowded with patient people.
But nearly the whole day was consumed
In disposing of the furniture, tableware,
ETC.. of the dining-room. Bidding was
prompt and animated, and good figures
were offered for nearly everything.
Three people who might reas soma BILE have
been expected to wander through the
crowd and take a last look at things
familiar TO other days before they passed
into the hands of strangers we're not
there.
They were Walter, Gerald and Emily
Goggin, children of Mr.. Goggin by his
first wife, but who have not been in his
house since almost the advent of the sec
ond wife some fifteen years ago.
There is h bit of romance in the story of
Goggin that is familiar in the circle of
the second wife's close friends. Those
who knew the domestic history of Mr.. and
Mrs. GoggiE Che frs) remember nothing
but succession of days of peace and hap
piness. Their life was so serene that 1t
was almost a proverb. And when Mrs.
Goggin died his and her friends still recall
how he gave himself over to grief that
seemed 10 threaten his reason and did I'M
fit him for business and attack his health.
Under persuasion of his friends and
physician he went abroad. 3And here he
bit of romance enters the story.
He had had an earlier love affair than
that which developed wedding, and the
lady 10 the case was still single and had
not gone beyond the confines OF the old
home in Ireland. Somehow when Goggin
got to travelling in search Of balm for the
void in his life he gravitated back TO the
scenes of his youth.
There is a little pause just there-an
interlude not filled in by the local his
torian-aud then the still grleving family
in San Francisco received shock.
A letter came from Ireland from the
father, only few months away. telling
Emily, the daughter. that she must pre-
pare to receive new mother.
She did prepare and did receive the new
mother shortly after, but she and the other
children, Walter and Gerald, left the
fathers house soon after, not to return
again.
The story of the earlier love and its
consummation after so many years is as 1t
is repeated in the circles of the second
wife's near friends. as stated. ltis not
confirmed by the children named.
"Of course / cannot say absolutely"
said Miss Emily Goggip. speaking Of it
Yesterday, "for / was not born then, but
this | learned from both my father and
mother that they were engaged for sew
eral years before they were married. My
mothers folks at fret did not give their
consent. aud they waited for it. In all
their long life together l never heard my
father say an uukind word 10 my mother,
nor she to him. Ours was as happy a
family until MY mothers death as you
could even imagine. So theirs certainly
must have been love match.
after my mothers death my father
went back to Ireland to visit his mother,
and through his mother he met and mar
ried his second wife. That is as | have
heard il, although believe my stepmother
gave out the im preston among her friends
that it was an old love affair revived.
with regard to our leaving the house
it is simply the common result. My STEP
mother was of very jealous disposition.
could not bear to see my father express