The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-27

nay, it would be wronging myself to hold
you on for years, hoping. against hope. till
the best part of your life lad been lost
tC you, and the roses had faded from your
Mary, God only knows the pain with
Which l give you upi Your image has
been before me ever since l left the school
where we parted ON the last day Of the
boy, to fight my way in the world. And
when you SO kindly gave me your GOD
speed l went out to my task as bravely
as ever went belted knight to win honor
OF his lady's favor. l knew, even then,
what you were to me; but l trust 1 had
honor enough not to try to commit you,
you who were so much above me in sta
ton, to any words which might seem to
might not be Indifferent to me. But when
| seemed to be in d, sure way to rise in
the world; when 1 came back to DulltoWn
and found you so much loyelier than had
ever dreamed Of, ana, better still, as true
and as good as you we're fair, / felt that
such good fortune was beyond my de-
SertS-that it could not be that q poor
widows son was the chosen lover of such
q, one as my Mary! It was too good to
hope or believe. and 1 fear it was better
than L deserved; for the fates have but
given me a view of the Promised Land
to hide it again in clouds where no ray OF
light can penetrate.
Dear Mary, you are free. Forget me
aL s be b happy or remember mo me as one
your happiness, cannot deceive you with
vain hopes into wasting your youth wait
ing for me-
Your ruined and hopeless bankrupt
JOHN BROWN.
This he reads with many a "hemn and
has to wipe his glasses two or three times,
because either his Indignation or some
other feeling is getting away with
him. Then closing the letter and sealing
it carefully, that his much abused daugh-
ter may not suspect that it has been tam
pered with, he sits down and in cold blood
writes to the lover of that daughter let
ter, of which the following is copy:
Dulltown, Blank County State OF -
John Brown, Esq:
Dear Sir: Having found out-no matter
how, but not from my natural daugh-
ter-that you and she nave conSpired to
rob me of the one treasure [ value in this
world; but also that You. a. cO-conspiratUr
as aforesaid, have acted what the world
might call an honorable part therein; now
two are so silly as to like each other and
as | find you to be a bright and honorable
young fellow, you have my full consent
to marry whenever you choose, with an
cid mans blessing to boot. But / make
it one of the conditions precedent, that If
you will so into your dirty manufacturing
business, it shall be in this country. where
l can live near you and still attend to my
business.
n. B.-My daughter shall receive a
check for one hundred thousand dollars
on the day of her marriage, which l hope
viii be soon for I want to see the roses
bloom in those pretty cheeks again before
Christmas.
p. S.-You thought you were very clev-
er, didn't You? Why, bless your silly
hearts, [ knew all about it ages ago! So,
come home, Johnny, and I'll have the fat
ted calf hung up by the heels, ready for
the prodigals return.
{ Your future father-in-law,
THOMAS VAN GOULD.
/ And thus ended the Romance of Dull
toWn'--or rather there it began in reali-
ty, for q jollier and more perfectly happy
family than the Van Gould-Brown connec-
ton would be hard to find in this world
Of bank failures, mail robberies, and gen
eral ''cussedness. Long may they
WaVer'