The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-21
ON THE BeAvERklLL's BANKS.

a George Schuyler belonged 10 New York
Hy. Perhaps the name tells that and enough said
Helen Ganzevoort also belonged 70 New York
family. and here again speaks itself
Georges branch Of Schuyler family poor
Helen's branch the Ganzevoort family rich
The parents OF both these young people been
The stanchest kind of friends since they had been old
enough 70 know what friendship meant. and friends
had the ancestors been for generations back the
the sturnp-egged Peter George Schuyler was
years older than Helen GanzeFoort- There was
enough OF the Dutch idea left George make
him dutiful son as enough of the same
Dutch in Helen TO make her dutifu daughter.
George SCHUYLER had brought up believe that
one day he must marry Helen Ganzevoort. and Helen
Canzevoort had brought to believe that one
day she must marry George Schuyler.
The Schuylers were rich. has been said and
when George 10 instead of being sent TO college
he was shipped West TO see if he could pick up
fortune Helen was at II old, and she
did not keenly an at the parng with her pros
pctive husahnd must be confessed that George
didn't many when he said good-uy 10 TINS
plain little girl with hair in pigtails-
George Schuyler went TO San Francisco, and there
in the course Of years ne did manage TO pick up
what the farmer calls tidy bit OF money George
went east twice during his San Francisco stay. bat
both times Helen was abroad They wrote
r. each other once every three months. and while
there wasn't line affection in the letters on either
side there was them to show that each felt
that the old marriage arrangement made by the par
ents still held good.
George SCHUYLER was y years His income
ING that he wouldn't nave to 90 the bureau drawer
every morning TO ind his wife's purse George was
going back 10 take that he hadn't seen in nine
barely possible that ne oldh ieel
~ erlv comfortable at the prospect As matter Of
fact George Schuyler liked bachelorhood No woman
ever as vet had stirred his pulse His gun and his
rod were more to him than all the women in the
world But George had been getting letters from his
aged parents said that it time ne came east
and went wooing earnest He wrote that he would
start in week that -4sw he was TO step for
nOidfr andO on he
that ideal trout stream stumbes down the south
ern slope Catskils on its way to the Delaware
cogs SCHUYLER took his fly hook and his split bam-
boo rod on the first morning after ms "rr''di a. s
friends wilderness lodge and started out to whp the
+rean, for specled beauties He in wadlng boots
hin high and down the stream he went cropping Ms
coachman lure the surface OF every poor where
locked as though a might Turk
Luck was only fair and the sun was se''ihs nls"'
Trout don't like of the midday sun and they
keep away the surface, no matter no" tenp'ihe
tbe rnorssl offered for consumption George Schuyler
- bi,ips about reeng in going back to the lodge
when suddenly at a place the Beaverkh broadened
he saw country girl. in a calico dress ana suhoohhe''
sitting the waters edge She was listening % 'i'e
song of brown thrasher that fitting on low tree top
US oiring forth his medley the benefit Of his sun
bonneted friend
George SCHUYLER stopped in midstream He did not
wish 70 disturb the which the listening
GIRL seemed so intent He stopped, but slipped on round
stone and splashed the water which was calm ana sun
i,.st there The thrasher into the tncket IKE
a flash and the girl turned her head Just as quickly
T.or,e SCHUYLER saw a face under shadow of the
huge country bonnet that was much more than pretty
and which had which men rightly call character
George fsherman's cap off in an instant Good
mornings are allowable in the wilderness without the
formalty of introduction
u am Just about TO stop fishing and back to the
ledge friend Mr. Payson Can you tell me If there
is a shorter path than the stream itself?
THE bir nodded brightly Yes she said you can
take the trail through the tamaracks 1t begins just
here" Then the girl turned her attention more
the thrasher who symptoms of being will
ing his solo again
schuyler thanked the girl courteousy and after reel
ing in started along the trail indicated When
he reached his James Payson's lodge the first
thing Jim in the name OF all that's lovely
who is your sunbonneted neighbor with voice like
oubblng spring and like those Of the girls in old
Terricks poems?
Jim Payson laughed you must have run across old
Ckeney's daughter five hundred rocky
acres with little house them Mary is his only
daughter put through Vassar and made quite
tho lady OF her. She is beauty and no mistake Hit
you time Ell. old man?
Schuyler colored little and said We'll exactly
hit. Jim 1 must not be hit know. but the girl is
attractive mistake"
That evening Payson asked his guest he would
not like to so and call old Cheney. There
hesitency falling with the proposal They found
old Cheney the porch smoking his pipe. He a
fellow Of the farmer type he
admitted it hard wringing from the stony
Catsk slope yet he said he wouldn't give his noun
land the continent Then George Schuyler met Mary
Cheney. Jim Payson did the Introducing Schuyler
This mountain flower al that he had expected
glimpse that he had beauty morning
The girl refinement itself Schuyler looked
at the old fellow sitting in the porch putting
cntedy at his corncob he wondered how this slip
could have such parent stem.
Well. its better make it short George Schuyler
STAYED week and then fingered two lie
to New York that he enjoying the fishing. So he
was for about an hour every morning one dav ne
brought himself with a round thought q
his duty Ganzevo0rt
He knew in his heart that he loved this girl the
mountain side who had voice one of the yecries
that every day sunset.
That night he went &c Mary Cheney and told her an
He know somehow that the girl grown love him
as he had grown % love her They stood porch
locking down onto ths far-on valley. twilight
and the veeres and the vesper sparrops singing
~ eryvThere He told her chdhoods engagement
to Helen Ganzevoor i not seen her since she we.
y years old he said she nothing for me.
cennot she doesn't know The whole thing was
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