Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-01
THE OLERGYNIAN'S DAUGHTER


There goes such a girl as l should
: like to MARRY said Robert Leighton
to himself, as he turned to watch
Marian MARYLAND driving a benevolent
looking old pony and a pastoral
phaeton up the village street.
The pony had a right to look benev-I
client, and the phaeton pastoral for
they We're the property of Marian's
father, the Rev. DR.. Thomas MARYLAND. |
and they had carried him upon his |
daily visits among his parishioners of
Edgetield for nearly twenty wears. |
just now they were carrying him and
his daughter, a beautiful, dark-eyed. |
broWn-haired girl, who had returned
from a four years course at a board |
Ing school, on their first ride together
the morning after her arrival.
''Who was that, papa? 2" asked Mar
ian of her father
THAT was Robert Leighton, a very
worthy young man, and full of prom |
Use, I'm told. He came here onIv a |
few months ago, with very fiattering
letters OF introduction and recOmmen-
datlon. He mingles very little with
the people, but from what | have seen
of him, | think him charming ger
tleman.
Papa, why is it that we don't hear
from Cousin Jack?'
why is it that you don't, rather"
replied her father, laughing. LAS for
me, L have heard from him but two or
three times since he sailed away from
Portsmouth on his cruise three years
ago, while you-how often have youI
heard? Every week, until lately?''
But Marian was only half satisfied.
and the drive ended in grave SILENCE.
L never knew a young man so full
OF plety and good thoughts as Mr.
leighton said DR.. MARYLAND, enthus-
laStlcally. He knows nearly as much
OF theology, too, as though he had
studied for orders, and the way he an
nlhllateS the false doctrines would do
anyone's heart good. Don't you think
so, Marian?'
Il never noticed that Mr.. Leighton
was most excellent young man. and
L am sure | wish he was far from
here said Marian, somewhat coldly.
Marian, | am surprised at you. HeI
! is a most excellent young man, and Ii
am sure if you wished to maryland.
Of course, l wouldn't urge YOU to do
that for you have been my chief COM
Tort since your poor mother died
f0nrs icsr1
[ would rather have for a son-in-law.
Marian said nothing, but her fathers
words were not without a deep i'm
| preston on her.
Hello! Dick Bennett, where did
you come FROM" shouted Harry
| Davis, reporter on the Eagle, and gen
eral good fellow about town, as he saw
a well-dressed gentleman approaching
| him.
I'm living up in the country now. as
! quiet as a Judge, and came down here
to have little fun and see life once
more. What run are you doing at
present."
Same old grind" said Davis, grimIy.
Admiralty in the afternoon. l just
came from there now. Look there
! there's the biggest lot of news I've had
for month";" and the reporter showed
a note book half full of hieroglvpbic
! scrawls.
/ Let me see it moment" said Ben
nett. 'fBy the way, won't you take
something for the sake of old times?
/ iS,
book, he led the way into a small and
| dirty saloon around a corner in a side
street.
At II O'Clock that night a drunken
reporter reeled into the office of the
Eagle and unsteadily transcribed a lot
of notes.
In the matter in the next mornings
issue appeared the following para
graph:
| Word was received at the Ad-
miralty yesterday of the suicide of
:, Second Lieut.. John H. Langdon, of
: the ship Esmeralda, now on the China
: station. 1t is said that Langd0n was
= discovered in the act of stealing money
from a fellow-officer, and the disgrace
: drove him to take his life
with all my heart, I deeply regret
: being the bearer Of such sad and pain.
full news" said Leighton, two days
later, as he laid a copy Of the Eagle
l before Marian's father Il shave
learned from your daughter Of the high
esteem in which you held this IN,
{ fortunate young man, and, though ]
l. thought it to be my duty to inform
you of his lamentable death, I would
{ have given anything if 1 could have
spared you this pain. I deemed il
Il l. best to break the news to you rather