The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-07-25

I However, one L. seymour Esterly ap-
reared on the social horizon of the town
with more fine cctheS than the John
MES ever had seen and with an auto
mobile and q debonair air n much
| superciliousness. He was there, he n
nounced, for rest and recreation after a
| strenuous season on the stock market
in Wall street. Need it be recorded how
he swept everything before him? How
mam.nas courted him and papas gave
him little dinners at the club, how
clubs and societies stroo for the
privilege of entertaining ~ as an
honored guest-and how 0ee maidens,
etrotnel and unbetrothed, smiled
.Cn him? Nay, the dullest imagina-
II can see all that.
-len n day the town was startled
IA an eiopement. Yes, sad as it was,
lie had eloped with T. Seymour
ny in most spectacular manner,
wing a dramatic note to Homer that
lie LAT made a great mistake, but had
l;eI both him and herself by recOg-
A. AdCN tAdl lucy WCAO NV
:-tes before it was too late-thanks
, he fact that her true affinity had ap-
cred. And she begged him to forget
.2r unworthy self and to find some
a-idea who could appreciate his good
nd true qualities. AS though she did
lot well know that there never could
De any other woman in his simple hon.
cSt life.
The months sped and strange reports
came regarding the clipping couple. The
nal n was that the Mr.. T. Seymour
-sterly was a common adventurer-in
act valet of a distinguished member of
he stock exchange who while taking a
rip abroad had left his establishment
N the hands of his valet. And the valet
with the curb of had started out in
-earch of adventure with his employers
automobile and clothes and had sue
e in int,aming the magma
-. % The ambitious country belle
I inducing her to elope with
M. All sadder than all it was whis-
ed that he had not married her at
!. and that she was living in miserable
tiers the very creature of his whims.
.icTer Dent had survived the blow
h tbs stOicism which v e had been
rs saving grace. God alone knows
lat it meant to him and the hours of
.ortal agony he suffered, but he made
> sign and plodded on as he ever had.
And one day many, many months
'fter the catastrophe there came to him
f: !etter-oh such a pathetic and hope
ess and tear-stained letter from the
:dy Of his dreams. The end had come.
;he was deserted, alone and without
:'.nds, money or hope. Her own people
lad ccst her of-and she did not blame !
hem. Ter board was paid for the bal
nee of the week. Then she had re-
to end the whole miserable bust J
and let the silent river tell the
tory If 1t would. Only she could no.
% out Of the world without letting
Homer know how keenly she appre-
lated her mistake and how much better
he knew than he. his nobility of char
'cter.
Il am saying these things, not to
c1tify myself nor with any hope of the
she wrote. But | want yo,
know your own worth which you a.
have underestimated and discrec-
led. People in this world are taken oi.
leir W valuation. Since l we..
way from the truest lover ever maide.l
Iad | have seen many men OF all &C
rees, and | want to tell you for yo.s.
wn good that you are better ans
tronger and Drawer than any Of tkei.
Then l am gone I wish you might fol.
i've me for my disloyalty to you-Cc, ],
nows l have suffered enough for i.
md l wish might awaken in you SOM
onceptfon OF your wi power. If yC.
ould appreciate it all success and al
appiness would be yours. All bushes.
uccess would open to you If only yu. /
'Ould demand it-and all womel
'ould lie at your feet If you wor.
ommand instead Of beg. This is tra
My reparation l can make-to awake
on to your W possibilities. 1t i:
oor one, but believe me it is attemptc.
all sincerity and with all the 10
'hich woman can feel toward man ?
intensified a thousand times !e
she knows she has sacrificed t
nd 1t should have all the weight cra
,ice from the grave-because re-
onday l will be numbered with =,
Long and prayerfully did Homer Deaf
ruggle with this letter. 1t rekind.e
! the passion of his first and only loya
I'd he realized all the terrible conse-
fences of her fell. Finally in the cc.r
'ay dawn he threw his meager ward
be into a trunk and wrote a letter K j,
8 employer resigning his position anC