The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-11-08
Romance Of
Long Branch.
Recovery of a Lost Ring Ends
a Long arrangement.

tive years eSOS olohS tiAS
many sweet hearts and beaux
seen at Long Branch and admir-.
ed, was a couple from Philadel-
phia. The maid was a rosy
checked blonde of IL the man,
90. good looking, and with a lib.
eral share of worldly goods,
These two were engaged and ex-
pected to be married in the fol.
lowing September. Both were
popular and much sought after
by society, and this fact unavoid
ably deprived them of much of
each others company, which,
while TO their discomfort. added
10 the pleasure of their most de.
voted admirers. The beaux
availed themselves OF every op.
portunlty to pour soft batteries
in her ears, and the girls hover.
ed around him and sushed as
only girls can. The young lady
believed in her lover and his at.
tentions to other girls in social
functions never alarmed her in
the least, But he, having con.
siderable jealousy ia his com.
position, endured a great deal of
mental suffering, lest the one
girl in the world to him should
be won from him. The one OF
which he was most afraid was a
Brooklyn man, extremely bright
and to the fair sex wonderfully
fascinating. That he was charm.
ed with the Quaker city beauty
was proved every day, and the
lover lived in misery.
The sweetheart wore an ex.
quisite diamond ring given by
her lover. But these two spent
almost every morning on the
beach sitting on the sand a pleas.
ure that proved most disastrous
to both. One day the ring was
The girl wept with
true sorrow and said she had
lost it in the sand and an earnest
search followed. tut the ring
vas not found. She was very
over the loss, but he
tor time treated the matter
lightly, promising her another
Immediately upon their return to
own. In The meanwhile, how.
aver. he received an anonymous
communication telling him that
If he glanced at the Brooklyn
mau's hand the ring would be
accounted for. The lover went
in all haste TO seek the man, ard
found him at the depot, saying
good By to his many friends ere
leavihg for home. The moment
he got a glimpse of the well.
known lover he extended his
hand. The former grasped the
but letthe hand fall
as though it was poisson, On it
gllstened a little diamond ring.
the same, he thought that his
sweetheart had worn.
Too shocked to thinl, that
there was a possibility of two
rings resembling, he scribbled a
cool adieu 10 his sweetheart and
left the place. the girl, nearly
broken-hearted, FASTENED away
also, hoping TO tind him and With
the Brookly mites aid prove the
truth. I!ut on reaching home
she found that he had gone else.
where, and heretror,s 10 fnd him
by letters and advertisements
proved fruitless. This furnish.
ed a toothful morsel 10 the Cos.
sips over which their tongues
wag to this day. The girl gave
up all social pleasure and after
a Wilde went out into a small vii.
lage 10 take up a small school,
hoping thereby that this work
would help her TO forget the
great disappointment. And so
she had toiled from that season
TO this. But many VINO see the
little teacher down here on va.
cation little know that she is the
same girl whose engagement was
so suddenly broken five wears
ago.
Her lover wandered F,.D,, ,>lo,,o