River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-04-29

brother" to a village entertainment.
In the half-light of the country thea
ter the two conspirators forgot watch
full eyes, and Miss Moxley began to
see light. When they reached the cot
and sister" draw back into comfort
ing shadow, she spoke her mind:
You two young people are entirely
too loving for brother and sister.
What does this mean?"
Then did Miss Whitney utter her
defiance, which has been handed
down in boarding-school annals as a
classic
ut doesn't make any difference,
Miss Moxley, if he isn't my brother.
l might as well tell you that Mr..
Graydon and l are engaged, and /
should think an engaged girl might
be allowed to see the young man she
is going to marry, and don't care
what Miss Ely thinks. Just as soon
as Tom is graduated and papa gives
his consent we intend to be married,
and you needn't speak rudely to Mr..
Graydon, because / invited him to
come myself and told him to say he
was my brother"
The mischief had been done right
under Miss Monkeys eyes. The en-
gagement had been entered into!
Miss Moxley swallowed her chagrin
and put the young man up for the
night, hoping in this way to avoid
scandal in the village, and the next
morning he departed, so his fiancee
said, to join his parents at their home
in Cincinnati and announce their en-
gagement.
But, oddly enough, that very night
several things happened. Several
college youths appeared in Sharon
Springs and put up ct the tiny inn.
The colored butler at Miss Monkeys
retreat for obstreperous schoolgirls
saw the simmer of gold and found a
convenient ladder somewhere about
the place. This he tilted against the
wall of the cottage, just where it
would do the most good, and three
dainty figures, including Miss Whit
ney's slipped down the ladder
Miss Walcott, who led the escapade,
was expelled from Miss Ely's school,
but the parents of Miss Whitney and
Tom Graydon decided that further in
reference was both useless and un-
wise. The engagement was announced
with full consent of both households.
Miss Whitney returned to Miss Elys
school to finish out her term and Mr.
Graydon returned to Harvard, where
he was graduated the following June.
Immediately after his graduation the
two young people slipped quietly away
and were married, wiring later to
their respective parents for the pro-
verbal blessing.
A year later Tom Graydon's father
died and he came into an inheritance
of about $4,000, mere bagatelle
when compared with the fortune
which would be his young wife's, but
he decided to use his fortune in a
most practical way. He bought a
shoe manufacturing business and
DOMINIC overalls and jumper, went
into the leather room to learn the
business from the cellar up.
Sad End of Romance.
From that time on the Graydons
lived quietly in Cincinnati, the young
hunsband diving deeper and deeper
into business. Then suddenly, to the
amazement of friends, Mrs. Graydon
appeared at her fathers home in San
Francisco, denied herself all social
attentions, but did not deny the rumor
that she was filing suit for divorce
on the ground that Mr.. Graydon had
failed to support her. Thus familiar
excuse for divorce covers a matri-
monial tragedy.
Did love wane when the man found
business more fascinating than court
ship, or did the love of excitement,
Unborn in Beryl Whitney Graydon,
make a matrimonial existence seem
tame and fiat?
Now for the other side of the pic
ture.
Vera Siegrist was the grand-daugh.
ter and heiress of DR.. J. J. Lawrence
of patent medicine fame, who built
palace at No. 1880 Fifth avenue, and
held this only grandchild as the apple
OF his eye. Russell F. Hopkins was
millionaire from Atlanta, Ca, sports