Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-19
Broadway Umbrella and Trunk Factor,

nature of Clarence along the lines of her own aspirations
 It was a dangerous discovery, and as it came to these two people 1t nearly hoored them.
 The harder they fought the more tense the new situation grew. To the soul of each the commonplace qualities of wife and husband grew more oppressive as they realized in each other the joys of perfect apprecia- tion and perfect fellowship. The end was certain as the multipli- cation table, and finally they gave up the struggle for conventionality and honor and resolved to shatter their vows and their regulations, to give up kindred, associates and home and wreck the structure they had been building since childhood and flee to an unknown country, there to begin a new life in which their mutual love would be ample compensation for all they left.
 Brave in their resolution, but guilty in the consciousness of the great wrong they were doing their loyal con- sorts, the two slipped into 8 close carriage on the evening of the 18th of June. 1899, and were driven rapidly to the depot, where they boarded a train bound for New York. there to sail for European shores, where they had planned to begin their new life.
 In the meantime both John Bedwell and Gracia Cole had felt the widen- ing breach in their respective homes, although neither had the slightest sus- picion of the state of affairs between Clarence Cole and Alice Bedweil. Be- ing thrown together much, Gracia be- gan to take new delight in the so- ciety of the sturdy John Bedwell. She could understand his mental attitude. his plain, everyday talk, his natural human methods, whereas Clarence's ,high-strung. artistic impulses and idealities oppressed and bewildered her. And John, disappointed and pug zled at his failure to understand Alice and weld his life with hers, and resent ing the attitude of inferiority she placed him in, looked with new eyes upon Gracia and realized her surpass- ing beauty. And as he talked more and more to her and found that she understood so thoroughly his thoughts and aspirations. his heart warmed toward her. Finally he awakened with a start to the realization that he loved her and that his love for Alice was dead. And presently she found her own heart had gone out to John. So when the fires of the new love had att tained fever heat both were more ready
 
 for they had not the condescending pity-rather a sting of injured pride. John methodically wound up his busi- ness affairs and looked up a new loca- | tion where he could reestablish him. | self safely, and it came to pass that on | the evening of June 16, 1899, he en- | tered close carriage with Gracia and they were driven rapidly to the depot, where they boarded a train bound for l San Francisco, there to take steamer | for Australia.
 The two trains stood on the same track, the engines heading in opposite directions. Both left at exactly II o'clock. Shortly before that hour the two couples, who had left the same de- pot on their wedding journeys only l two snort years DeloIS, anu WHO were now fleeing from each other, passed through the gate but moment or two apart, boarded the separate trains and were whirled away in opposite direc- l tions as fast as the steam monsters could carry them.
 The strange part of the affair is that neither couple ever knew that the other had eloped, and the friends of both had no suspicion of anything wrong, but wondered deeply at the sudden and mysterious departure of l the four.
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