The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-22

AireaQy LON ldQ uedru lHe udHS put
up at the parish church for the first
time of asking ''if any man know just
cause or imped1ment" or sm-
pediment indeed! When no two young
people ever loved each other more
truly, and when they had a thousand
year and house in Russell Square!
[mpediment? when Providence, work
ing through Uncle Joseph, had actually
prepared the way, carpeted the stair
case, so to speak. and arranged that the
course of true love should run smooth
Iy, sweetly, swiftly between the most
lovely banks of honeysuckle, rose and
sweetbrier. Happy Tom! happy Kath-
arine! They lived only to fix the day,
and to buy few pretty dresses, and to
arrange for simple wedding where
there would be no breakfast, because
the bride had no cousins to ask-this
you will Immediately Understandable
to arrange, in Difference to each other,
where they would go for the honey
moon. Should it be Paris, with gayety
and theatres, or should it be the sea-
side. where they could wander hand in
hand over the sands, and listen to the
quiet waves tapping the shore, and
watch the soft moonlight lying over
the waters? I think it would have
been Paris, because the season was
what we humorously call early spring,
when asparagus is exhibited in the
shops, and by the seaside the east wind
burrows the moonlighted waters, and
causeth goose-fesh to those who wan
der along the sands.
Katharine followed the romantic call
ing Of daily governess. Owing to GER
tain defects in her education, which
had been fragmentary and subject to
Interruptions, she was quite the old
fashioned daily governess, and not in
the least like the young lady of Girton.
In fact, am afraid she knew nothing
that Girton girl calls knowledge. She
therefore gave lessons in those families
which can not afford the High School
they call it mixed; you may mix al
most everything but girls-and are far,
far above the Board school in gentility,
but cannot afford the modern certificat-
ed governess.
She was the daughter of gentleman.
Mr.. Willoughby Capel never allowed
the world to forget that he was a gen.
tleman; there was no mistake possible
about the fact. Indeed, it was more
than an accident Of birth; it was pro-
fession. He dressed, spoke, and played
up to that sacred calling; he did moth
ing; he despised all men who work. I
wish indeed that it were possible to
dwell upon the life of this eminent
gentleman. It must suffice, however,
that he rose at II, and took his cup of
tea and his finger of toast in his bed
room while he dressed; he performed
this function slowly and thoughtfully,
attred in magnificent dressing gown;
he sailed forth, when his toilet was
complete, at about noon, and returned
at midnight regularly.
There was no difficulty about money.
The weekly bills were always paid,
but Katharine very well understood
that if she wanted any money for her.
self she must get it without asking
her father, who wanted all there was
for. himself. Consequently, while he
took his simple dinner of slice of sal
mon and the joint with a pint of St.
Estephe at the club, and played his
whist for shilling points, his daughter
went out every day teaching the re.
spectacle Emptage family, and in the
evening studied at the Birkbeck Insti-
tute, or worked at home, trying to fill
up some of the cracks and gaps and
holes in her education. One regrets to
note that after her engagement to Tom
there came sad falling off in her
thirst for knowledge. History ceased
to have attractions for her, she was 10
longer haunted by the Rule of Three,
and she troubled herself no longer as
to the boundaries of Tibet. 'Tis ever
thus. When love the conqueror shows
his rosy cheeks and his dimpled chin,
the muses. suddenly lose their good
looks. 1t is most surprising to see the
change which then comes over the poor
things. They become wan and hag-
gard; they put on spectaces; their hair
falls off; they are fain to hide their
or anything; Apollo smiles, they rush
away shrieking, and nobody misses
them.
'Sir," said Mr.. WilInusnby Capel,
when To- sought his consent, "as my
, lighter has no fortune, 1 have no
right to object, though I should have
preferred for my son-in-law, 1 con-
fess, an independent gentleman, such
as myself, or at least one who was
making a livelihood by a recognized
profession, such as the bar or the
church. 1 am glad, however to think
that when 1 am gone my child will be
in good hands"
he saIG when l am gone" with con-
ventional solemnity, having no desire to
go or any expectation of going. The
verb to go, used in this sense, is not
disa greeable, because a personal appli-
cation is never made. Yet Mr.. Will
loughby Capel had to go-only a fort
night later he had to go in the most un-
expected manner. 1t seemed that he
had heart disease, and he fell down
dead in his room.
Katharine thus became an orphan.
Uncles and aunts and cousins she must
have had somewhere, but she knew
nothing of them. She had understood
when quite child that she was never
to ask her father about her family.
Some there are who would cheerfully
surrender all their cousins. Katharine,
who never had any, did not greatly de-
plore their loss; but at this juncture
even Tom could not replace the lost
cousins, because Tom, you see, knew
no more than herself about her fathers
property, and there was not scrap Of
paper to show what this was, where
situated, or whence derived.
1t really was strange thing; not q
single scrap Of paper with SO much as
a note to show who were the deceased