Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-02-08

to do 50, shO felt that something was
due both to me and to herself. Mat
tiers were brought to a crisis by Mrs.
! winston discovering our correspond
ence. A letter E3s had written me-
tel into her mothers hands.
It seems that Mrs. Winston had been
on the watch for such d procedure and
could not imagine how my first letter
could have got into the house without
her knowing It. Ens declined to en-
tighten her. That made the old lsdv
very angry, and there was 4 great COM
motion in the Winston family. OF
course our correspondence was stop
! ped. E1e Was forbidden to write to
or receive letters from me under pain
OF being run OF to Europe. In addi-
uon to the command Mrs. Winston set
spies upon Ehle, and she dared not
post ne single note.
Matters went On In this way for
nearly year. One day a letter came
TO the winston house that excited Eff
he's suspicious. IL was now her turn
10 prZ. The letter bore the business
stamp OF an agent Of a steamship COM
pAny. Efns steamed the envelope.
opened # and read that her mother
hRd engaged passage for two for Ge-
noa. the vessel to sail on the 18th of
February, or Ia about a week.
Here was n revelation. Something
must b done. Something was done.
And this Is the way it was done.
EE4e 4 week before st. Valentines
day went out and bought q supply Of
valentines Tor the children. The same
evening ale addressed a number Of
them, her mother asking why she was
sending them SO early, and she reply
Ing that they were going to distant
places. She addressed and STAMPED
them, managing to retain one. which
she addressed to me. This she gave.
with tie others, to q maid to most
who mailed them without looking at
the addresses.
This WAs the third and last valen-
tine. l received 1t and read that Ellie
was ready 70 walk away with me to
church before the sailing OF the vessel
that "ss 70 take her to foreign parts.
she appointed place Of meeting and
an hour. Indeed, she arranged every
thing to my satisfaction.
But theSe was very little time. The
D ".
Feb. II, and the appointment made
by ES2e to meet me was at dawn the
zane morning. Before any one In the
house was awake she was I'D and
dressed and stealing downstairs. Then
she went out By rear door. I was
at the corner with q carriage. and
when saw her scudding toward me
opened the carriage door, we got In
and were driven away.
l had arranged my part of the elope-
ment and engaged a clergyman to be
up and ready to perform a wedding
ceremony when the cocks were crow
Ing. We found him ready. and in a
Few minutes knot had been tied that
airs. Winston could not unioose. From
the parsons we drove back to the
house. Etle let Us in with a night
key, and We waited TIL her mother
came downstairs to breakfast. Since
she was TO sail that day she was up
early, and when she entered the room
where We were aud saw Us sitting to-
gether her sstonlshmsnt was unbound
ed. EGle said 10 her:
Mother, l AIN OF an age to think
and act for myself. We are married
/ have acted without your knowledge
to save trouble, for knew you would
oppose ne, and I had made up my
mind to choose my own husband"
Well, it was made up IN time. but
not then. Grs. Winston Cancelled her
| passage abroad, and EEie and went
On our wedding trip.
Is IT wcnder that we both apprecl.
cite st. NsleutiEe's day?