Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-02-28
KIDNAPPED.

KIDNAPPED.
WI are high caste and enlightened
race, liad. infant marriage 10 very shock
frL aaa tho Consequences ara aonlatimns
peculiar, but, nevertheless, the Hindoo
notion-whioh is the continental notion,
which is the aboriginal notion--of ar
ranging marriages irrespective of the
personal inclinations OF the married is
sound. Think for minute, and you
will zee that il must be "a less, of
course, you believe In ''afiinities in
which oaso you had better not read this
tale. How can a man who has never
married; who cannot be trusted to pick
up at sight moderately sound horse
whose head is hot and upset with visions
Of domestic felicity. go about the choos-
ing Of wife? He cannot see straight or
think straight IL he tries. and the same
disadvantages exist In the case Of girl &
fancies. But when mature, married and
discreet people arrange match between
q boy and girl, they do IL sensibly,
with view to the future.
Properly speaking government should
establish matrimonial department
efficiently Differed, with jury OF ma
irons, a Judge of the chief court. senior
chaplain and an awful warning in tho
shape Of love match that has gone
wrong chained TO the trees in the court
yard, All marriages should be made
through the department, which might
be subordinate to the educational de-
partment, under the same penalty as
that attaching to the transfer Of land
without stamped document. But gov
eminent won't take suggestions 1t pre-
tends that it is too busy. However, l
will put my notion on record and ex.
plain the example that illustrates the
theory.
Once upon time there was good
young mana first class officer In his
own departmental man with career
before him and, possibly. ak O. |. Il.
ut the end Of IL. All his superiors spoke
we'll of him, because he knew how to
hold his tongue and his pen at the proper
times. There are today only ! men In
India who POSSESS this secret. and they
have all, with one exception, attained
great honor and enormous incomes.
This good young man was quiet and
self contained, too old for his years by
far which always carries it's own pun
iEhment Had a mbaltern, or a tea
fss.:siVa .s4sisthDts ~ aayiUiy who r,isi
Joys dfs and has no care for tomorrow
done what he tried TO do not q soul
would have cared But when Peythroppe
Ill.
quiet, hard working, young Peythroppe
fell there was futter through five
departments.
The manner of his fall was in this
way He met Miss Castries--D' Cas-
tries it was originally, but the family
dropped the ID for administrative rea-
sons---and no fell in love with her even
more energetically than he worked. I'm
derstand clearly that there was not n
breath Of word to be said against Miss
Castries--not shadow Of breath She
was good and very lovely--possesse
what innocent people at home call a
Spanish" complexion, with thick blue
black hair growing low down on tho
forehead into Widows peak" and
big violet eyes under eyebrows as black
and az straight az the borders Of ga
zette extraordinary" when big man
dies. But-but--but-- Well, she was
very sweet girl and very pious, but for
many reasons she was impossible.
Quite so. All good mammas know what
"impossible" means. 1t was obviously
absurd that Peythroppe should marry
her. The little opal tinted onyx at the
L., a., ,,,l Ia nj ,laE,
ly as print. Further, marriage with
Miss Castrios meant marriage with sew
eral other Castries-Honorary Lieuten
ant Castries, her papa, Mrs. Eulalie Cas-
tries, her mamma, and all the ramifloa-
tions of the Castries family, on incomes
ranging from no to 40 rupees month.
and their wives and connections again.
1t would have been cheaper for Pey-
tbroppe to have assaulted commission
or with dog whip, or to have burned
the records Of deputy commissioner 8
office, than 10 have contracted All alli-
ance with tho Castries. II would have
weighted his after career less--eyen I'M
der government which never forgets
and never forgives. Everybody SAW this
but Peythroppe. He was going TO marry
Miss Castries, he was--being Of age and
drawing a good income--and woe be-
tide the house that would not afterward
receive Mrs Virginie Saulez Peythroppe
with the Difference due to her husband q
rank. That was Peytbroppe's ultima
tum, and any remonstrance drove him
| frantic.
These sudden madnesses most affiict
/ h. ed Tk.,
but will tell you Of that later on You
cannot account for the mania except un
der theory directly contradicting the
one about the place wherein marriages
are made Peytbroppe was bnrningly
anxious to put milestone round his
neck at the outset Of his career, and ar
gument had not the least effect on him.
He was going TO marry Miss Castries,
and the business was his own business.
He would thank you to keep your ad
vice to yourself With man in this con
dition, mere words only fix him in his
purpose. OF course he cannot see that
marriage ont here does not concern the
individual, but the government the serves.
Do you remember Mrs. Hauksbee,
the most wonderful woman in India
She saved Plufies from Mrs. Reiver,
won Tarrion his appointment in the for.
eign Office and was defeated In open fielt
by Mrs. Cusack- Bremmil She heard o.
the lamentable condition Of Peythroppe
and her brain struck out the plan tina
saved him. She had the wisdom Of tn
serpent, the logical conference Of tn
man. the fearlessness of the child an'
the triple intuition Of the woman. New
emo, Bever-ss long as tonga bucket
down the Scion dip or the couples g
a-riding at the back Of Summer Hi
will there be such genius as Mrs
Hauksbee. She attended the consultation
Of three men on Peythroppe's case, ant
she stood up with the lash Of her ridinl