The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-21
LOVES ETERNAL HORSE LAUGH
Peais Forth from the sweet Lips OF a
Cousin OF the GOulds.

Goulds, But since all her fathers money
could not tempt her not to marry the pen
niless man she loved it is probable that
not all of the money of all the Goulds could
have Influenced her against her inclina-
ton Hence this story of an elopement in
nigh life and the probable disinheritment Of
a high-spirited bride.
Even if she has been Gould. Florance
Shrady could not have encountered infiu-
ences better fitted to shape her for high
social career.
Her father, Jacob Shrady, is a very rich
man. He is a lawyer with large prac-
tice, and has accumulated a great deal Of
property. His Office is at No. 80 Nassau
street, his home at No 25 West One Hun
dred and Twentieth street.
1T is d beautiful home-a home of the
rich, surrounded by homes of the rich. Its
master is brothre Of DR.. George F.
Shrady and an uncle of Mrs. Edwin Gould.
His first wife died when his lovely daugh-
ter was a slip Of a girl, and the lawyer
married again.
F'lorance was sent to Mrs. Merrington
school, at Lexington avenue and One Hun
bred and Nineteenth street.
Florance Maud Shrady was finished"
as the Misses Warrington call it, two years
ago; and then her father and step-mother
gave a great party in honor Of her coming
out. At that party, a. notable event in her
life, she first met Albert Nicolls, an eligi-
BILE young man, with excellent prospects,
and a member of the Seventh regiment.
At first sight one would think that the
young malitiaman was going to play a
leading part in this romance, but after
fitting in with a fiurish he fits out again
sadly, and the reader knows him no more.
He became engaged to Miss Shrady, with
the approval of her parents, a year after
her coming out party. For month he
was a parsonage of Importance in her life
Then she dismissed him without a word Of
explanation, and he wandered away from
her sphere, a very disconsolate young
man.
What had happened to their daughter
Mr.. and AIRS. Shrady could not devine at
first. She would not tell them. After a
while, however. they understood She had
met somewhere a young man whom she
liked better than Nicolls. He was not in
her circle. Her parents did not know him.
He belonged in Brooklyn. He was a medi-
cal student. He hadn't cent.
Miss Shrady had invited John b Ryrne,
Jr., to call on her at her fathers home,
and he accepted the invitation with every
symptom of enthusiasm. When her father
catechised her about him she assured him
that young Mr.. Byrne was an exemplary
person, very charming and talanted; that
his father was the clerk of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court in Brook
lyn that he expected to be graduated in
two years, and would Immediately there
after become an illustrious physician;that
well, not to put too fine a point on it,
that she had promised to become Mrs
John B. Byrne, Jr., and meant to keep her
promise.
In response TO all Of which Jacob Shrady
babe young Byrne, with some heat not to
appear at the house again.
Miss Sfhrady appeared to acquiesce to
her fathers Will, but in reality she con-
tinued to meet her sweetheart. On Dec
ember q her father, on his return home
in the evening, found note from her. say
ing that she had gone over to Newark to
spend few days with DR.. and Mrs. Geo.
A. Rogers, Mrs. Rogers was a Miss Mer-
rington, and the lawyer saw nothing
strange in the visit.
Not till last Friday was anything fur
Their heard from Miss Shrady Then she
wrote to her father, telling him that she
was Miss Shrady no longer, but Mrs.
Byrne. And she needed her trunks; also
some money.
Mr.. Shrady was angry enough 70 send
the trunks. and compassionate enough to
send the money. His daughter was real
~ staying with Mrs. Rogers. whose ad-
dress is No. 294 Bank street, Newark So
was her husband Mrs Rogers told the
Journal as much over the telephone last
night
When she left home, Miss Shrady had
been Joined by Byrne, and they had gone
to the house of the Rev. Madison c. Peters,
who had married them.
Mrs. Shrady said last night: I've will
never acknowledge Byrne as our son-in-
law
Like his discarded rival. young Byrne is
a malitiaman. Mis- Shrady's preference
may have been Influenced by the fact that,
though only twenty-one, he was also a real
soldier. A member of Troop Che took part
in the Porto Rico campaign. It is only a
few weeks since he was discharged from
st. Johns Hospital, Brooklyn
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