The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-27
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other Eastern family, found it easier
to remain there than to return.
So they settled themselves in {
cosy fiat and Prof. Brown began {
tour of prospecting.
He had wanted to found a college
in the first place, but that idea, with
the bank account, was thing of the
past. Next he turned his attention
to the already founded colleges, but
they had no room for him his sys-
| tenn of teaching being SO different
from theirs.
Then it was he met Edward Jack.
son, the proprietor of Chicago's lead
ing paper. In the course of their
cor sation Mr.. Jackson limited that
he d an editor. Prof. Brown
hs nut finally offered his SER
V - were gladly accepted.
To o4n.--.a ne admitted the position
would pay him far better than his
Eastern professorship had done.
It came about SO naturally, the at
tachment between the cultured Bos-
ton girl and the educated Chicago
man. "You are like one of us, "
Lillian said to him, land we can not
help liking you. Indeed,' she con-
tinued, not noticing the glad light
that sprang into his eyes, I do not
feel altogether at home out here. I
fear / repel the good people. You
Westerners are different, you do
things in such a hurry you fairly
plunge"
"A long speech for you to- make,
Lillian" Prof. Brown said, pleasant
ly. You must have loosened her
tongue, Jackson, for she has been
very quiet lately.
From that time on Edward Jack
son was regular caller. The three
of them talked, planned and wrote
for the advancement of the paper.
"Lillian's suggestions are of untold
value to me-" Edward said one even
ing to her father. Prof. Brown no.
ticed how easily her named slipped
from che lips or tIiS man fss vv1sss.z lzs
felt the greatest respect, and he smil-
ed. "I would be quite willing to
give her happiness into his keeping, "
he thought.
Before many months more the pa
rental blessing was sought, and it was
readily given.
The young people had so much in
common the union gave promise of
more harmony than usually exists,
even in the happiest marriages.
Lillian had always been sensible
girl, of rather distant and cold ma
ture, so had grown into womanship
without the usual and almost inevita-
BILE love affairs of youth.
While her first passion had not
spent itself, neither was the wooing
at twenty-five in a fair way to
arouse it.
Edward was calm and dignihed
always. What fires smou1dered with
in were met with strong resistance,
and his fiance could complain of moth
| ing to wound her sensitive maiden
hood. He was man who consider
ed another man a brute and beast to
allow his hand to tremble in the clasp
of pure woman's. Quite as he would
have asked the time of day, he asked
Lillian to set the day of their mar
riage.
Unhesitatingly she said June. That
was in April and they had been en-
gagged since Christmas.
Edward bowed low over the beau-
tiful white hand, and raised it to his
lips.
"In June, Lillian, you will be my
wife, you have made be very happy. "
His honest blue eyes spoke more than
his lips.
"I love you, Edward" Lillian ex-
claimed impulsively. She longed to
throw her arms around his neck, but
dare not. If only she had done so he
would have taken her in his arms and
for the first time she would have felt
the throbbing of her stately lover S
big, warm heart.
But she turned away quickly and
called his attention to the morning
edition of their hopes and pride.
In June they were married, and
Chicago's hospitable doors were
thrown open to the handsome couple.
"The Western men are delightful, y
Lillian wrote to Boston friend whom
she was urging to pay her visit.
"They are not wild and woolly by
any means, but they do impress one
as being a trife fierce at times. y
Already she had fallen into the free
dom of Western speech, and the Bos
ton friend wondered vaguely what
being fierce" meant. Lillian, her.
self, hardly realized the meaning oi
it-then.
X X x x x x x
He bent lower over the high-bret
face. Lillian, my love, my own
are you sure you love me?
"As sure as there is heaven above
and hell somewhere, she answered
so family the bold, handsome mar
could scarcely hear the words.
She lay passively in his arms, hel
eyes half closed, and lost in a delici
Gus semi mi-ccnsciousness.
1t was the first time they had eve
been alone. During all the Ions
months before when Edward Jack
sons head reporter had come to maxi
his evenings reports, Lillian had lis
tened in rapture to the melodiou
voice which fell on her ears like soft
est music, singing strange, weir'
song, and breathing of something nev
and different, a world filled with I'm
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