The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-05-06
TEEN any worthy gentleman who

THAT'S past hoping for, aunty,"
saucily interrupted Kitty. IF you'd
only consent to hear my story out
you'd save yourself a great deal OF
trouble. The reason | refused Mr..
Carisford is that l have accepted his
nephew, Frank Elyi"
Kitty"
is there anything so remarkable in
my preferring one OF my own age to
man old enough to be my father?"
= Mr.. Carisford is only forty"
and that's just twenty years too
much to suit me. Aunt Olivia, | love
Frank, and would not marry Mr..
Carisford If there wasn't another man
in all the world. So there!"
In that case" said Mrs. Hughes
Mortimer, grimly, Il shall send you
back to your mother tomorrow. The
Idea of you marrying a slip of a bank
clerk, without penny, when you have
the alternative OF becoming Cleveland
Carisford's wife,"
Don't be vexed, aunty," pleaded
Kitty, putting up her red mouth for
kiss; Il can't be false to my own ideal
of womanhood. l can't give my hand
to Mr.. Carisford when my heart is
Frank Ely's already"
Great was the establishment of Kit
tvs parents on learning that their
daughter had refused match so de-
sirable in every respect.
The girl must be crazy" said Papa
Price, who had seven young daugh-
tiers to dispose OF.
Mad! Infatuated" echoed Mamma
Price. But we must write to her
She shall not come home here to nut
the same sort of nonsense in her sis
ters' heads!"
So while Aunt Olivia was writing to
her sister that Kitty must go home at
once, Mrs. Price was writing counter
orders that Kitty must on no ac-
count be allowed to return until she
had learned to behave herself"
1t is but justice to the lady to admit
that she did not mean all that her
"oluo lihplltu.
Kitty, however, took it all in ear
nest. So, that very evening, she went
around to little ivy-draped church in
the neighborhood and married Frank
Ely.
MY own dearest!" he murmured.
GOD grant that may prove faithful
to your trust"
When they returned arm-in-arm
from the church, a crowd in Broadway
obstructed their passage
"oh, Frank" cried Kitty, turning
pale, something has happened"
Pair o runaway horses! Old cove
pitched out and killed." said one of
the street Arabs.
Stay here by this drug store AN in
slant, Kitty" said Frank, until l go
and see what the trouble is.
But he had selected an unfortunate
vantage point for the pale and trem-
bling little bride. 1t was Cleveland
Carisford, convulsed in the last agony
of DEATH
Frank Ely joined his young wife
With a troubled face.
" would have given much to spare
you of the sight, dearest" he said.
Your uncle, Frank" she gasped
"My uncle. l always dreaded some
evil result from his unadvised purchase
of that spirited team; but it is too
late, now, for idle regrets"
So Cleveland Carisford's name was
wiped off the list of the living.
singular state Of affair this said
old Mr.. Lissomwell, the lawyer. Car
isford has just burned one will and
was going to execute another this very
Wednesday And in spite of his deadly
quarrel with Frank Ely's father and
mother, the young fellow becomes,
through Carisford's neglect, the sole
heir to all his property. l don't see
how man can be so careless. -
So Frank Ely was rich, and il nocent
Kitty Price had married a great for
tune after all. Aunt Hughes Nor timer
gave her a graat reception, and her
father and mother wrote melting let
ters from the old homestead, hoping,
in honeyed phrase, that dear Kitty
could make it convenient to receive
the whole family very shortly on
visit"
Its strange. isn't it, how circum-
stances alter cases?" said Kitty, laugh
ing.