Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-19
LOVES YOUNG DREAM
IS REJUVENATED AT
BRINK OF THE GRAVE
"BEFO THE WAH" LOVERS MEET AGAIN
Each Has Waited Lifetime for the Other and
Now, Old, Poverty tricken and Paralyzed,
They Are Brought Together in Ward
at the County Hospital

Daniel and Nina grew to understand
instinctively that the other loved them.
Daniels visits to the mansion for food
and drink grew most obviously fire.
quent. When Mina's father would
leave the house she would signal with
her handkerchief to the soldier watch
ing yearningly from the fort, and he
would meet her at hole they had cut
In the thicket hedge. Here they would
talk for hours, until the bugle from
the fort was blown, or until Mina's
father came home from the fields.
AvengIng Father Sees
These meetings of the lovers con-
tinued for a long time and no one was
the wiser. One day, however, Mina's
father came upon them unexpectedly.
The blue suit OF the soldier was like
red flag flung at an angered bull to
the staunch southerner, and he made
dash for Daniel that was intended
to frighten the young soldier from the
premises. But he stood still and caught
the old man as he came upon him and
held him firmly.
With all the dignity and wrath that
, youth can command he said severely:
"As you are the father of the young
woman whom 1 love / will spare you,
but let me warn you that were 1t not
for her you would soon be sleeping
with your fatnerS.
This warning did not seem to cause
the old southerner much concern, how
ever, and when he had been released
he whipped out q huge revolver and
told the young soldier that if he ever
was found upon his premises again or
talking with his daughter he would
shoot him.
AS Daniel was unarmed, and the
glare in the Southerner's eyes was not
pleasing, he departed, but not hope
less.
The secret meetings of the lovers
soon were resumed, and their cup Of
happiness seemed filled to the brim.
But all was soon to end, as most good
things do.
Father Again Interferes
One day in the midst of a very in-
teresting scene between the sweet
hearts, the girl suddenly screamed and
hurried toward her home. The young
man turned apprehensively and beheld
the old Southerner stealing upon him
with a long glittering knife held high
in his hand.
Daniels first impulse was to stand
his ground and fight like a man, but
as he was without even so much as
the better part of valor, and he dived
for the hole in the hedge. He was
about half way through when the old
man reached him and cold chills
triclxled uncomfortably down his back
as he expected to be halved by his
enemy. But when his exit was only
assisted by shove that precipitate6
him down the high embankment be.
low the hedge, he was thankful, ano
did not mind his bruises.
Although the lovers had clandestine
meetings after that they were very sell
dom and brief, and the two were
| parted a short time later when Daniel
was called away to battle with his
| regiment.
He returned to the home of his
sweetheart when the war had ended,
but found the mansion razed to the
ground. 1t had been destroyed by
northern soldiers, the residents in that
vicinity said, and the old man and his
daughter had been killed.
Daniels grief was intense, and he
then vowed to live a life of celibacy
and eternal devotion to the memory Of
Nina.
A few months ago Daniel was taken
to the county hospital in Los Angeles
a paralytic and a pauper.
Old sweethearts Meet
One day little white-haired, with
cred woman was brought into his
WdAog hiAd AlO Wucll ne D6nelQ
her face-her eyes seemed to bring
back to him all the sweetness that had
been of the love that was now a pain.
The woman saw Daniel, and when
their eyes met the same smile lighted
her features that he remembered SO
well from the day he received the
cider from the girl with the brown
hair at the old southern mansion.
"Mina!"-"Daniel!" each cried sim
ultaneously.
When the nurse had wheeled their
chairs together, Daniel covered his lit
tie sweetheart's face with kisses as he
had Often done in the days gone by,
and they cried and laughed together.
"They told me you were dead, Nina
and have grieved for you all these
years." said Daniel, softly.
mo, we left home before the house
was burned. Father took me away
to keep me from marrying YOU"
"And did you ever marry Mina?"
''Never. Daniel"
The engagement of these aged low
ers has not yet been announced. May
hap the Styx river ferryman will be
the person who makes them one