The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-01
L TlLB On TWO MISERS
by Edgar Fawcett.
IcoPYRIoHT 1871
lCoPTHIoHT, 1871 z
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TO f,flnQ MS DeeJh Win WTaJn at ms
nnclc's heartless behavior and to say OF
that gentleman the very bitterest things.
He said these things to 4 person whom
he had not mentioned in his letter.
That person was his young wife, Mar
thu, whom he had married just before
shaking the dust Of Charleston from his
feet. Their union had been an elopement,
and they were now living on some
what slender legacy which Martha had
inherited when child. Her father and
several relatives were all furious at her
for having married Stanfeld. They
admitted that he was gentleman, but
declared that his family was broken
down, and that a daughter of the
naughty house of Rollaston should
never have chosen so ineligible a
lord. These Rallastons were then what
we call leading people in Charleston,
which at that time was a town filed
with fashionable pretension.
But Martha had made her choice, and
though she felt sure that it would al
ways be sneerngly regarded by her
kindred as an imprudence alike desper-
ate and objectionable she soothed her
perturbed soul with thoughts of how
she had won the husband of her maid
emily choice. Trouble now seemed low
ering in gloomiest threat over the for
tunes of the young pair. Before long
Martha'slegacy would be spent to its last
dollar, Asst was she and Stanfeld were
living in rather inferior apartments on
Catharine street. What was to be done?
They had come from Charleston with
tho hope of ultimately and perhaps
promptly winning Van Doren over.
But here, rs it were, the old fellow in
visibly scoffed at them, fortressed in
such impsegnable manner against their
approaches that he might as well have
been the emperor of China once and for
all.
They told you he drove abroad in
his own carnage" said Martha, one
day. If were you, Alfred, I'd just
stop it and insist on spea king with
him"
Those words of his wife, as after
wards remembered by Stanfeld, were
fraught with queer prophetic humor.
For n few days after the strange eeea-
sion came to him Of indeed stopping"
Mr. Van Dorcn's carriage.
II all happened like flash, rs such
things are so won't to happen. One
morning Stanfeld was strolling on
broadway when he saw the clumsy
though somewhat uristocratic convey
anee of his uncle come trunneling along
past Rector street. lie had no idea who
owned the vehicle with itscoclzaded driv-
Grand two ponderous roans, though he
had seen il several times before during
strolls, Already, however, he
had heard, rs we know, that mis- rich
uncle committed the monstrous New
York extravaganza of driving out in
his own couch. Then, again, the cynic
tidlngs bad drifted to him that Mvnd-
herst Van Doren would never have
dreamed of setting up for himself this
private equipage if he had not become
q martyr to rheumatism. ''Not govt,
not bit of it" Stsnfeld's informant
had added; "he's altogether too plain a
liver for that, y
And row, as the slow, massive car
riagG passed him, Stanfield glanced with
n it and discerned, though somewhat
-;tintiy, a thin, htrtt-faced man leaning I
against It's back cushions. just after
his glimpse Of his unknown uncle had
been offered him he started as he per-
'eived large dray, drawn by two mad
Tened runaway horses, come dashing up
he street. At first there seemed no
LANCER to Mr.. Van Doren's carriage,
hongh the coaehman brought it to an
-brupt standstill and watched the hur-
ying bulk with anxious eyes. As it
ped nearer, however, the headlong reg
.larity OF its progress changed. The
river was gone, having rashly Jumped
rom his scat some little time ago. The
orses now began plunging course and
eVcral other wagons narrowly es-
aped collision. Not so Mr.. Van Doren's
ehicle. Towards that the wild crea-
arcs now swerved, and in another in
tant they We're rearing furiously and
ct still galloping onward, with their
wn wheels locked in the heavy yellow
mes. 1t was n horrible moment for
tanheld. Young, strong, with urgently
umane impulses, he saw the carriage
the old man violently overturned ana
10 eoachman flung from his boy. Thero
no doubt that he now acted with
olendid promptness and courage, for
a trice he had darted, fleet of foot,
tier the whole hurtled comminpiement
horses and woodwork. The Van
oren team had not yet taken FRIGHT
nd We're pulling stolidly against their
'rrified brothers. This gave StanGeld
chance, and he leaped with great dar-
g and nimbleness upon the shafts of
le dragging coach. Still greater was
IS act in springing thence upon the
'ay itself. He happened to have a
rye elasp-lznife in his pocket, me-
ento of shooting trip in the South
lrotina wilderness, taken but a short
me before his romantic marriage. He
membcred afterwards that while pet.
ng himself over the dashboard of the
ay, and elinging to it with one hand
he cut the traces with the other. IL
lshed through his mind how he was
most giving his life one chance out of
'enty. But few lunges of that stout
eel blade SO fur unfettered the furious !
rises that within the next twenty Sec
DIS they had quite rid themselves of
cry restriction and were scampering
town with 2 new and horrid libertyyS !