San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31
REAL LIFE ROMANCE.

REAL LIFE ROMANCE.
Lovers United After Being Separated
For Twenty-six Years.
The heart that has truly loved never
forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
| AS the sunflower turns to her god when
he sets
The same look that she turned when
he rose.
The beautiful poem was not all a
phantasy. Now and then in real life
faithful heart is found that
Can love as the angels may.
With the depth of heaven twixt you.
Twenty-six years ago there lived n
beautiful young girl named Ellen +.
Massey. She was betrothed to young
man named George w. Lee. For some
reason the engagement was broken.
Mr.. Lee left the town and the state.
He did not even bid his mother good
bye. He went to New Mexico and
!. Arizona, and the world of his sweet
heart knew no more of him than if he
were dead.
His mother, a woman of strong af-
fections, mOurned continually for her
son. She had married again, but there
were no children. George was her
only child, and her heart was we'll
nigh broken. From her house to Gill
lespie, ILL.,, the mother often sent out
letters to towns far away, where she
had heard that some one lived who
might De her son. His absence was
| unexplained to her, and dark fears
haunted her. But one day the young
girl, Miss Massey, began to long for
some message from her vanished lover.
She had no acquaintance with his fam
lily, but she ventured to write a letter
to Mrs. Robinson, his mother. She of
fered the grief stricken mother her
friendship and share of sympathy In
the absence of her son. A meeting fol
lowed and before long MissMassey was
a frequent visitor at the old farm. But
no word was received as to the where
1 abouts of the one for whose sake the
friendship was begun.
Time hung heavily ON the young girls
hands and three years after the en-
gagenent was broken she began work
as compositor on the Globe-Demo-
GRAFT. Her sweet, gentle ways had n
great influence in sOftening the man
ners of the men who hadworked be-
fore without any companionship. but
their own Many one of them would
have been glad to marry Miss Massey.
and more than one printer had very
unpleasant feeling around his heart
when Miss Massey quietly told him
that she would marry nobody as long
as she lived. For twenty-three years
she continued in the compOsitors de-
partment, doing her work well and
gaining beauty with the gray, hairs
that appeared among her dark tresses.
She spent her vacations often with
Mrs. Robinson and they talked of
| George as one who had died.
| Seven years ago Mr.. Lee came back
from the west and settled in Ottawa,
Ill. He supposed that his old sweet
heart had married long ago, and some
how he did not care to renew any or
| his old ties now that she was lost to
him. But about two months ago his
conscience smote him and he went to
see his mother, at Gillespie. There was
one thought in his mind. He did not
know that his mother had ever met his
sweetheart, but he resolved to confide
| in her and find out, IL he could, at least
whether Miss Massey was alive or
dead. He asked his mother timidly If
she had ever heard Of such a person"
The mother was waiting her opportun-
| ity and was happy to tell him all about
| II, to tell him that his sweetheart was
alive, that she was true to him and
had waited for him twenty-three years.
| There was train from Gillespie to
st. Louis which left in an hours time.
Mr.. Lee took that train. The elevator
boy at the Globe-Democrat took his
card to Miss Massey, with request
that she would grant him permission
| to call, and Mr.. Lee waited outside the
door 'twixt hope and fear. He did not
dare to look upon her face, nor did she
trust herself then to meet him, but
with trembling hand wrote her street
| number on the card and sent it back.
She finished her work somehow, but
she sang and her eyes shone like stars
and every one was puzzled
So last Tuesday they were married
at Belleville by the Rev. J. w. Flint,
and yesterday the wedding was an
nounced. and when the bride came to
settle all her business she received a
grand ovation. They Will leave today
for Gillespie, to spend Christmas and
next Wednesday they will go to their
own little home in Ottawa.-Globe-
Democrat