Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-13
A MOMENT
OF WEAKNESS.
How a Couple Obtained Consent
to Their Marriage.

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"What on earth are we to do" cried
pretty Lydia Darrell almost tearfully.
II won't marry old Fiebel-Jones-not IL
all the aunts in the world told me to-"
Marry me and defy the old catP'
Yes; that's just what I should like
to do, but one must consider things"
you mean money"
"Yes; mean money. You see II
| Aunt Judith had any rational ground
for objecting to our marriage, IL she
said you drank or were already mar
ried-of course | know you are not
but am supposing case"
Don't you think you might suppose
something n little less uncomplimen-
taryY
mo; certainly not. What does 1t
matter in supposing? Well, then 1t
would be different, and l should feel
that, however wrong she might be, she
really meant well. But when she can
only say that you are one of the most
arrogant opponents OF all the noblest
and purest aspirations of our SEX
which means that she suspects you of
laughing at her bloomers-why, then,
know that it is not me that she is
thinking Of but herself all the time.
And she wants me to marry Fiebel-
Jones because he flatters her to the top
of her bent and calls her pioneer and
all that sort of nonsense"
"Do you think that punching his
head would do any good?"
mo; I'm quite sure it wouldn't or
should have told you to do it long ago.
But, for all that. Aunt Judy can do
what she likes with all my money I'M
til come of age, and If I marry with
out her consent before | am 81 all my
property goes into trust. with her as
trustee, and she can allow me as much
or as little as she likes. If Aunt Judith
were an ordinary aunt. one might ex-
pect that she would come round when
she found out what dear you really
are. But | know she would be only
too delighted to get the money for her
movements and societies, and | should
never get a penny. So we must wait
till am 81"
"If | could only get round her in
some way. If this was in a novel,
there would be dozens of ways.
should drop on her IN railway acci-
dent and soothe her last moments with
my brandy flask"
"You forget that she is teetotaler."
"If you had met as many teetotalers
as have. you wouldn't bet. know
one who simply VOLTS down trifie
that is stiff with brandy and vermuth,
though he wouldn't touch either hon
estly out of a glass. or | might be in
the way when her horses bolted."
"Oh. she doesn't keep any!"
"She would in novel. And ] should
stop them at the risk Of my life, and
she would fall on my neck and call me
her preserver."
II should like to see thatw cried
Lydia, with a delicious trill of laugh
ter.
'Lyddy, you have no imagination"
said Bob Fall, with dignity. 81 am
sure the scene would be most dramat-
ic. especially If Lady Judy happened
to be In boomers. And her remorse
} would be so great that she would give
me her consent written on a visiting
card, or perhaps my shirt cuff, to pre-
vent Mistakes
How can you talk such nonsense!
But You have given me an idea.
Couldn't you save her when she is out
bicycling"
What rrcmt And how am to find
her ar :he right r,omeitT
well. rcaliy should have thought
that man could have arranged all
that In mnute.'
Seems ms II the surest plan would
be to arrange the accident. One might
bribe tramp to attack her and allow
himself to he driven off by one, and
then he wou'n probably blackmail me
for the rest or my life. Or one might
, get generous friend to do the tramp
part In disguise, only can't mt the
present moment think OF any man who
: would he such a jay. Besides. your
Aunt Judy Is just the kind of energetic
female who would insist on seeing the
villain safe In jail after the rescue.
Then should have to give myseif up
TO save MIN. The plan is not so Drill
| liant as 1t seemed at hrst'
mo; 1t isn't; very TAR from 1t. But
listen to me- on Monday Aunt Judy
starts on bicycle ride TO Scotland
alone she wishes TO snow that one