Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-07-10

Iucnts of his profession before Le
should enter upon active practice male
ham deaf 20 all paternai entreaties Co.
return home until one morning be
waSei up - find that his thick bronze
beard hal developed severa. actually
gray threads.
Consequently. one Gae spring morn
iag al Bhssfield was electrified % see.
Is II passed the quain, old Dayton
Homestead. mod 81. ht;le gilt ~icn
bearing the simple words. DIR Charles
Dayton.
he didn't take" N first. He wore
short coats in di-ect opposition g. all
former ideas OF the professional man s.
dress. AID be dilu't seem 10 remem-
Der anybody whom he had known IL
his youth.
II wasn't because he was proud. he
knew. but he hal been occupied with
graver things during his absence than
remembering VINO was the sister e. his
Suniay-school teacher and who mar
ried the Youngest Of the Barker girls
Bat after year or So Of doun, th-v
began 10 understand him. especially
when his superior skill had sawed ;Ae
darling Of nearly every household H.
town when the Scarletfever threatened
. fill the tiny graveyard oa the edge
OF the hill
DR. Charles. a. they learned O. call
him. has al additional trait IL Dis
favor he knew how 20 neglect each and
every woman Ia Biiss6eld with equal
severity Not thar women enjoy being
neglected. but they always develop "a
sort Of respect for man who doesn't
stoop 70 them. providing he l. cousis-
tent IN his frigidi;y 10 all the women
IL the place.
Al the end Of Eve years two things
had taken place in BNssheld. DE-
Charles was the idol OF the town. and
young Tom. the baby 81 the DAYTON
family, was going 10 celebrate reach
Ing his majority by taking unto himself
a wife
1t was an awful mistake, thought the
whole household when the douuv-
checked Tom stood up IN b!cshinc
bravado on his retgrn from his Junior
year al college, and persisted IA lis
statement that he was never goinl- 10
school again. Fox that fall he was =
become the husband OF the deares, liz.
tie girl IN all the world.
But reason settled upon them. and
the only stipulation Y a. that a little
maiden should come TO-. a visit To- the
family Of her future husband some
time that summer
One morning late III July Miss Dav-
ton and her younger brother set ont
for the East, AMI returned a week lat
er with the tiny lady, who was in a
pretty state OF nervousness at the
strangeness of the situation.
DIR. Charles was out in the country
at the bedside Of IA patient. and when.
after midnight. he stumbled in. drip-
ping, splashed with mud after his long
ride IN the storm AID sick at heart lhis
patient mad died ia spite OF his efforts
he had forgotten all about the expect
ed visitor till he caught sight of a lit
tie sailor hat and pair of crumpled
gloves on the table in the hall.
Ii seemed 20 very odd TO find any
thing SO young, so daintily feminine
IN this s;aid old house that lac stood
long Ia the dimly-hghted ball, absent
ly smoothing out the tiny gloves.
pressing each finger in place and not
ing with an indulgent smile that a
button was missing from the left wrist
DIR. Charles slept badly that night
and awoke with the sun in spite of the
late hours of the night before. Some
way the first thing to come into hi7
mind "a he opened his eyes was thu
rumpled, tiny, buttonless glove in the