Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04

00adeYs wefs pleasant and
congenial, and I liked them all, but
there was one young fellow in whom
had taken an especial interest. He
was an industrious, wide awake young
doctor who had won his way to his
then enviable position, both in his
profession and in society, by dint of q
dogged perseverance which had finally
overcome all prejudice against him
caused by lack of family, money and
influential friends, and had lifted him
to the high notch he was occupying
when first knew him.
"Our most intimate friends in
Omaha were people named Malsbury.
Mr.. Malsbury had formerly been
closely associated with my husband in
business, and mother was slightly re-
lated to him through marriage, SO
there were several reasons for the deep
friendship existing between us. There
were three children in their family
a son and two daughters, the youngest
of whom was bright, good-looking
girl of about twenty-one. Ny dsugh-
ter Jennie was several years her
junior, and in the beginning of the
acquaintance she conceived for her
one Of those violent attachments which
very young girls are apt to form for
some one of their own sex. Frequent
visits were inte4 changed, hardly a
week passing without Rose Malsbury
spending two or three days with my
daughter and vice versa.
''My favorite, the doctor-I won't
give his name, for he is a still we'll
known practitioner-g gradually learned
to care for her, and before the end of
his first year with me they had be-
come engaged. The engagement was
announced in January and the we'd
ding was to take place IL June. But
the latter part OF May was marked by
irregular upheaval of sentiment. There
was bitter quarrel, which had it's orr
gin in an unreasonable but unconquer-
sblc jealousy which had always been
prominent in her disposition, and the
consequence was the engagement was
declared off. The doctor went away
for short vacation few days before
the time that had been set for tbe we'd
ding, and Rose took advantage of his
absence to make us another three days.
visit.
''She went home, I remember, on a
Friday evening. The next day the
people who had been occupying my
third-story alcove went to New York
aud left me with ore vacant room on
my hands. Times were pretty hard,
and, wishing to get q tenant as soon as
possible, I advertised in a Sunday
paper, thing I seldom do, for it is apt
to bring in all sorts and conditions of
people. The first person to call in
answer to my advertisement was a
young widow. She came early Mon
day morning, and as she seemed to
find nothing Objectionable either about
the room or the price, I let her take
it, and she promised to move in that
evening. She was bookkeeper and
stenog1apher in some down town
wholesale house, she said, and would
not be around again till Z o'clock. She
was dressed in deed mourning and was
heavily yelled, and did not see her
face till that night.
"The doctor had come sooner than
he mad expected to, and he, my daugh
ter Jennie and myself were still ling
ering at the table when she came down
for her late dinner. / can't describe
the feeling that came over me when I
got my irst good look at her. She
was wearing glasses and had her hair
dressed in peculiar style, but aside
from those two distinctions she was as
much like Rose Malsbury as if she we're
q flesh and blood creation that had
been suddenly materislized from that
young lady's wrath. The resemblance
was almost supernatural, and could
see that both Jennie and the doctor
were srestly affected by ii. 1t was i'm.