Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-19

did not once turn to look back.
He gave his shoulders a shrug
compressed his lips, uttered
cynical "humph!" and turned tC
finish his work.
"Let 1t be sOlp he nuttered. when
he was through perhaps that | had
found woman after my own heart
Amid this world of wealth and
fashion she, too, has lost her soul
Let Der co."
He aYOIded her thereafter. he
did not seek to catch her eye for a
bow OF recognition, When she en-
tered a drawiDg-room where he
was, he would go out by another.
But be was more than eyer in the
company OF Ned Whitaker. Ned
In passing to and fro between Miss
Ellsworth aud hlm, served as a
sort of link between them.
"You are cynical fellow SAID
Need, one day. "Wby DON'T yOn
take people as they are? You will
End good enough in them.
"But they won't take me as /
am. Tha; is the tIOuhle.D
"PooI. You see yourself that she
allowed no other suitOrs to accom-
pany her. Don't you see she Is
alone or with the other girls the
most of the timer
"IIer heart is full of Vanity''
"PshaW! she Is trained to luxu-
rIous notions, that's all"
Mainwell'S trunk was awaiting
him and the stage, outside on the
piazza, ,at he tlme this con veTsatiOn
was going on. On his tIunk was
his initials, G. NJ. Miss Ellsworth,
passing that way, saw the initials
not 10y chance, for she had been
very busy scluJinizipg the trunk
that lay together IN a plle-and
when size saw The initials she start
ed and turned pale. She recovered
herself and withdrew with her
companion a little way, and then
stood still and watched. Presently
MAXWELL came out with Ned on
the piazza. He CHANGED to turn his
eyes toward her, and their eyes
met-met Tor the first time sihce
she left him While he was at work
upon the lock. She did uOt luIn
away her ewes. She bowed. He
lifted his hat. The ice was broken
He approached her TO bid her good
bye.
What the conversation was tha'
enSued betH eeD the two when leil
alone, b, means OF Ned's ingenuity
in splrltlDg away the rest of the
company is unknown save the fol-
lowing:
But l am a locksmith," said
Mr.. Maxwell.
''NO matter"
care you willing to live as the
wife of one who with his hands
earns his daily breadW
II am willing to undergo any
thing to be with you. ] have sui
fered enough. DUNG these las,
few days 1 have learned what it Is
TO despair OF beng united to the
one | love-"
"But your mOther-yOur father"
"Unless | am willing to leave ali
for your sake, am not worthy CT
you"
"But then tie loss of wealth, OF
position. of the surroundings ol
refinement"
"DO not say anything more about
Int, | am willing to leave III for y Oul
sake. | am weary of being without
YOU"
Would you be willing to become
NY wife this day, this bOuT9 You
father and mother might otherwise
put obstacles in our way"
81 am willing this hour. thii
minute.n
"They don't know my position
in life"
. "They still think that you ar
wealthy-as l did,
J. "COme, then, We will 90 Onr wal
wi Ned and become before th'
t world what We are now i'll spIit
j. husband and wife, and then d
} once take the cars for the hone
have for yOu--a home which, th,
. lOwly, Will make you happy"
"Whither you 90 | will go.'
They were married in a q ie
J, way in the little watering plac
chapel, with the wicked Ned cou
i niViDg at tue mischief: The mex
e ram sped with them to the city
III will show you TIT shop y eT
d I work." said Mr.. Maxwell, whe
I the carriage they took at the depC
/. In the city had drawn up befoI