Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-21
CHAPTER \.
TOMS RICHES TAKE WINGS.

TOMS RICHES TAKE WINGS.
When Tom Broxton's two years OF
travel and study on the other side OF
the water had nearly expired, two let
ters crossed each other on the high
seas. One was emphatically and ex-
clusively love letter, ardent, ef-
fusiye, persuasive, boyish If you will.
He had written it to Olivia Matthews
as O concession to his own heart hun
ger. The other was as emphatically
and exclusively a business letter, d.
rect explicit, hard, convincing. Toms
guardian had mailed 1t to him on the
very day he had dispatched his to
Olivia.
Said Thomas in his letter:
Nv Darling ollie-what say to you in this
letter l am quite sure Is already we'll known TO
YOU l love you, and / want to marry you JUST
as soon as practicable after my return to Amer.
ica. What ! mean by practicable you ana
Miss Malvna and the dressmakers Will best un'
derstand
When went to tell you goodby, dear, lew
nights after you were thrown from ahat morse,
YOU were in one Of your exasperating moods and
/ went away feeling prickly and downcast. when
l tried to tell you how loved you, to ask you to
give me some pledge that you would wait Tor me-
YOU laughed in my face, called me silly ooy
and treated me to some Of those superior alrs'
that always made my cheeks tingle as II they had
been boxed.
famed out at you like the unmannerly cub
that was and told you that when next ! spoke
TO YOU OF love you would be reader to listen, all
OF which goes to prove the crudity you charged
me with and the need there was for me to meas
ure myself by other standards You were right
in everything you said to me, my dear little
monitor, and even while | chafed and sulked
went on loving you tremendously.
few more months now, and shall be back
at dear old Broxton Hall to stay. In all my
wandcrings my heart has been stad on 1t and on
Vol. Nv plans for the future have long since
crystallizcd into fixed purpose. They all radiate
about, from. to. for you. my sweet
OF course we want no drones about Just be-
cause my dear father left me comfortably provld-
cd for feel all the more impelled TO emulate
his industry and enterprise. All my studies on
this side have been pursued with an eye single
to become an electrician. The study has taken
an immense hold upon my fancy. and us tins Is
essentially the age OF electricity expect to DO
something along the line OF invention and dis
covery Ny original purpose Of studying law,
with view Of being taken into partnership by
nv guardian he has discouraged from the very
beginning Perhaps he is right in saying that
the bar could we'll dispense with two-thirds 0!
its numbers and still leave good working force
Luckily, my darling, we will not have to wait
for business to be built up. Broxton Hall Is
waiting for its fair mistress. There are jewels
and plate in its strong boxes. all for you' love-
and the fondest Of lovers thrown in.
You would smile, my sweet one, II l were TO
try to tell you half the visions have INDUCED IN
OF YOU as mistress OF Broxton Hall. | have seen
YOU at the head Of the table in the breakfast
room, darling. with the roses my mother planted
wrcathing gorgeous background to your pretty
hair. | have handed you into the old family
coach and taken my seat beside you. while the
old family horses jingled their glittering silver
harness with proud consciousness OF bearing away
the lovclicst, daintcst mortal that ever bore the
name OF Broxton.
ALI, my sweet one. pardon the cxubcrance OF
lovesick yearning for home and you. Some
times such wave OF longing TO hold you in my
arms comes that feel as il could not
complete the term.
Olivia. wait for me. trust me. take good care
of my beloved for me. Heaven has seen tit to
leave me very much alone in my young days
All the love that might have been diffuscd among
father mother, sisters. brothers, has ccntered
about one small. bewdcring little woman con.
centration bcsctting fervor, until wonder how
my heart contain its longing without trans.
porting me to your feet.
don't know that sat down to my desk with
this letter in my mind. have been trying to be
angry with you. What's here set down is never
absent from my heart. ! love you: have always
loved you; | shall always love you. no one but
you. You are the only woman in the world to
me, Olivia. Take good care OF my precious one
until come to claim her for my very own.
You got between me and my thesis today You
haunt my days; you consume my nights. Per.
haps now that have poured out all my love. all
my hopes, all my intentions. | can get back to
the cold, hard duties lying nearest to Inc. Thanks
be to those who went before. dear. we will not
have to wait for anything
Oh, how the months lag! Already begin to
count those that still divide thee and me- Pres
emily it will be weeks. then days. then hours,
then minutes, and will live again. Ny sweet,
good night. Yours and only yours. while life
stirs the pulse Of your devoted slave. T. B.
Olivia. reading this letter through
rapidly-she had an engagement with
Mr.. Westover and Clarence laid SO
much stress on punctuality-smiled