Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15
AN UNSOPHISTICATED GIRL.

They mad known each other only
three weeks, but they were as we'll
acquainted as people get, sometimes,
in that space Of time, at the seashore.
| For three weeks spent at a summer re-
| sort afford illimitable opportunities for
a congenial man and woman to be to-
| gether.
| She was beautiful, charming, the or
| phaned daughter of a Chicago manu-
facturer, possessed of 100000 in her
own right, and she was but % years
of age. She ought not to have been at
| Cape May unchaperoned and attended
only by her maid, but she was, for she
was willful, and since coming of age
did exactly as she pleased.
He, also, was handsome and charm
ing and young, but while her family
history was known to him, as to all the
world, she knew absolutely nothing of
his except what he had told her him.
self; that his name was Willoughby,
his native city Philadelphia, and his
} profession law. That was unfair.
They were sitting on the sand to-
gether at about o'clock in the after
noon, an hour when the beach is prac-
tically given up to nurses and their
charges, for the rest of the world is
taking it's daily nap.
Maud" said he, eve are pretty
we'll acquainted, aren't we?"
YES" said she, "but who told you
you might call me 'Maud'?"
Nobody" he answered, 'but hope
you won't mind"
Maud said nothing.
I'VE know each other better than
we should had we met in ordinary
ways in town for three whole years,
and l like you better than any girl
that | ever knew.
Again Maud said nothing. Her face
was turned away from him and she
seemed to be watching her dimpled
fingers which were playing with the
white sand.
In fact" continued Willoughby, "I
love you, Maud-will you be my wife?"
"Mr Willoughby." exclaimed the
girl, turning around and looking her
know what you are saying?"
Yes" replied the young man, II am
asking a great deal, but | think you
are not Indifferent to me-you like me,
don't you? And l had so much rather
that you promise yourself to me now
than at some future time. l am going
away from here tomorrow and so are
you, and it would make me happy to
know that when l sought you in your
far away home l might claim you as
mine"
you must give me a little time to
think" said Miss Hammond, slowly.
GO away and leave me now [ will
answer you tomorrow before you go.
You take the o'clock train, don't
you? So do L.
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AS Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Willough-
by they left Cape May the next day,
going no farther than to quaint Old
Cape May court house, where they
spent delightfully."- happy honeymoon
Of week. The day that they were to
1CCuI y W I1S WOI1u, do Luty 0dL dL
breakfast together, the husband said
with much feeling:
My darling, shall never forget the
trust that you have reposed in me.
You took me for myself, knowing alb
solutely nothing about me. l might
have been after your money! scoun-
drel, a wretch, an unprincipled adven-
| turer. Ny unsophisticated little wife,
how l love you"
Charles" replied Mrs. Willoughby,
you do me injustice. Am l not my
| fathers daughter? will confess, even
| if you love me less for it-and you
ought not to. The afternoon that you
proposed l telegraphed to my lawyer
Mr.. Perkins happened to be in Phila
| delphia-and had him find out all
about you. How could the heir Of an
! old Philadelphia family, the son of a
millionaire, marry me for my money!"