The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-01-26
4 TUG ELOPEM ENT.

IL Is Only AItoT lnuCn consideration
and weighing of the matter that | am
able to force myself to the point of tell.
ing the truth about tho marriage aud
attempt at elopement which preceded
the ceremony. And the determination
to explain tho matter briefly but fully
Is made simply i'll justice to Patience
and her father, Samuel Il. Yelnik, Esq,
president of the Mogul mines and half
dozen other great financial concerns,
for now | can afford both to pity him
and laugh at him.
Furthermore the newspapers publish
ed such ridiculous stories at the time
that they really made us all ashamed
| telling, MS they did, how | chartered "A
steam yacht and snatehed Patience from
her fathers arms and carried her away
to sea ON the palatal craft ON which
clergyman WAS awaiting us. and of the
demands Mr. IelnilS made upon the
navy department to send warship aft
er us, and how he nearly succeeded be
cause of immense contributions Ia the
presidential campaign fund.
OF course only tho Observation-Disclosures
papers printed this last stuff, for il was
pure stuff and nonsense. Nevertheless
the wild stories were sent all over the
country. and | have even seen cabled
dispatches which were printed about
Thorn i'll one or two journals of London
and Paris. And naturally, rs YOU can
understand, all this WAS very Disagree.
able
We'll, to begin with, lid think
great deal of patiencc-there's no uso
Ill denying tacts-and | had been half
i'll love with hor from boyhood, During
the last year had been with her moro
than usual, seeing her ut home or on
the links of the Country club and at
various teas and club fctcs
And by sheer accident, assure you,
I snout liz. ..--------- -. a.
Lake Champlain. making studies for
two or three rather ambitious paintings,
to be finished when cold weather came
and Patience was there, too. with her
deep brown eyes and wayy hair and
superb presence | know this sounds
like oXtraNaeant description. but it il
accurate, for Patience is one 81 thu
finest specimens Of young Wumanhund
have ever socn, thanks to inheritance
and wheeling and tennis and golf and
boating She was visiting II cousin at
Port kent--a brunette with red lips
and white teeth and the very mischief
dancing IN her cyes-and naturally
Miss Elaim was interested in helping
along love a..air-for where is the girl
who wouldn't be?
don know how it happened, but
in some way old Moneybags Yclnik
heard of the situation and appeared
suddenly ono evening at the residence
of Miss claim + parents. At the timo
his train from New York arrived Pa
thence and | were strolling along tho
shore Of Champlain in the moonlight,
I'll confess, and when we returned to
tho Elaim home, some time after 10
o'clock, we found the callous hearted
old fellow tramping up and down tho
veranda, smoking furiously and strok-
ing his white whiskers In IL manner
TINT BODIED no good for us
lie never spoke to me, never aclnowl-
edged my presence by so much rs
stare. Fact IL, lac utterly ignored me,
and I'll admit that hurt my pride. con
found him Ilo simply took Patience
by the arm and marched her indoors,
and next morning they went to New
York before ! had Il chance to say fare
well. But | was at the station, and as
tho tram pulled out the dear girl called
"Goodby, Fred Don't worry It's
all right
And then her father slammed tho
window and scowled as if he would
like to bite me in half
During tho ensuing xix months |
worked az hard rs | could but mover
did | write to Patience, although / sent
messages to her in Marion claim let
ters and heard from her now and then
through the same medium, so WASH b
really cut Off you see. | came back to
town about the middle Of September,
and "a week later Miss claim arrived at
the Yelnik home in Now Jersey to mako
visit. But Of course old Moneybags
wouldn allow mo to see Patience, and
naturally had too much sense to call,
but tho deprivation was hard in moro
ways than one, as you will understand
presently.
A month dragged by, and the time
was approaching for Marion's visit to
BIO concluded, when ono Saturday after
noon | went aboard ferryboat bound
for Jersey City, whittier | was to take
train for the town where Patience lived,
and on the boat, for the first time i'll
three months, | met Mr.. Yelnik. He
was feeling particularly amiablc, prob
ably because he had managed to freeze
out some business rival in one OF his
great schemes, and no approached me,
saying with grim smile:
How do you do. sir?''
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