Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-07-26

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Valley into Santa Barbara, and for the
first half hour after the event they
met no one.
1t was what the inhabitants of the
Channel City call a ''genuine Santa
Barbara day." The sun shone warm
and bright, and soft perfumed
breeze came out of the west. There
was June in the air, although the cal
endar was set for mid-winter. The
birds sang in the trees above them,
the squirrels chirped from the hill
side, and their horses, wandering al
times from the road, sank to the knee
in waving sea of flowers.
"First of all," she said, breaking
the silence of o whole minute, "you
must tell my father"
Certainly" said the young man.
"Who's afraid?'
''You have never seen papa do the
role of the cruel parent" said the
girl; che can be quite dragon. As
you are kinsman, however"
ga fifth cousin" cried the young
man, with laugh.
"Woll, fifth cousins are better than
nothing, aren't they?"
"Truly how else should we be here
to-day?"
Then the young man added with
peculiar and significant emphasis:
81 am inclined to pride myself on
that little scheme"
The girl brought her horse to a
sudden stop and turned her clear
brown eyes, half opened under their
long lashes, upon her companion.
"That little scheme" she repeated,
slowly. 81 don't understand"
The young man laughed uneasily.
"Why, Catherine" said he, "you
don't mean that you have believed in
the entertaining fiction about our
great-great-et-cetera-grandfather?
"Old Ebenezer Strong?" exclaimed
the girl. ''How dare you call him
fictitious, when ! saw his portrait at
my own grandfather's."
"As your ancestor, my dear one, he
is an undoubted reality-but rs mine,
I regret to say, he is merely q tigment
of your worthy fathers imagination.
In short-I would fain break it TO
you as gently Us possible-we are not
fifth cousins at oil, but just plain cr.
dinary-"
"Not fifth cousins!"
''No, darling; and if you are going
to faint, please fall on this side. with
your head right here on my shoul-
der"
81 won't! Wretched boy, how
could you deceive poor papa 500"
81 didn't deceive him. He deceived
himself. From the very beginning OF
our acquaintance he seemed determ-
ined to locate me somewhere on the
Weston family tree, and YOU aided
and abetted him in the attempt"
Richard Strong. how can you'll"
II have sweet and gentle disposi-
tion and when he asked me il l was
not descended from Ebenezer Strong,
OF West Brighton Centre, and you
looked at me so appealingly-"
II didn't any such thing!"
"Why shouldn't I assent? / have
doubtless had several hundred ances.
tors named Strong, and I took the
chances that some one of them re-
joiced in the prenomen of Ebenezer
1t is just the sort of name that my
forbears were given to putting upoI
themselves"
"You may laugh, il it pleases you.
said the girl. severely, "but il papa
had known you were not relative we
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He generally disapproves Of the East
ern people who spend the winter q,
the hotel.
''if you really feel that / have beer
guilty of false pretenses," said th,
young man, drawing his horse little
nearer, suppose we begin all ovel
again. I"
keep your distance. sir p ex
claimed the girl, steering for the op