Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-12-03
else and she couldn't go back ON the
dear old man. and there we was.

Them cases where two young hearts
Is beaten together and some old cur
mudgeOn of father or a mother or
both opposes 'em, don't have no sym
pSthies. seems mighty hard I've never
been so worked up over anything In
my life as | was over that Lillian
was as sorriful about it as L. She
wouldn't marry me in spite of her
father, and she wouldn't run away
with me. l only had one evenin' in
the week with her. and the rest of the
time | was thinkin' that another fell
Ter was tryin' to git her away from me.
THE whole lot of us was affected by
the gal. The other five fellers, not
KNOWN that I'd got ahead of 'em,
went on maxim their calls, and didn't
doubt that every one of 'em was tryin'
to git the gal. for when a man sets his
heart on a gal he won't let her alone.
We'd all been good friends before the
parSOn and his daughter came among
us. and now. instead of his maxim us
better, he'd made us worse. Every one
of us was ready to put lead into every
other one.
"At last l told Lillian l couldn't
stand the racket any longer and she
part with me forever or she NUT mar
ry me in spite Of her father, or she
must run away with me.
"This broke her all up. She said
she couldn't part with me nohow, she
dare not defy her father. and the only
thing she would think of dom was
to run away and be married som'rs
else. She asked me how we was goin'
to git on for a Twin l told her not
to worry about that; I'd been washin'
for gold all summer and hadn't any
way to spend money in such a place,
so l had saved nearly all of it. l had
enough gold to make up $1,000 or ST.
200. This seemed to make her feel
easier, and by a good deal O. coaxin'
l at last got her promise to elope.
| 81 proposed to light out when it was
dark. walk down the road and take
the stage for Denver when it came
along. She didn't seem to like this
| plan very much; she said she'd sound
| ed her father about her marryin' me
! and since then he'd been mighty sus-
! picious of her. She'd told him that
she must so down to Denver to do
some shoppin, and the old man had
consented to have her go. I could fol
low her there in few days.
81 agreed to this plan, but there was
hitch. She said she couldn't be mar
ried without a trussoo. If she waited
for me to come and buy it for her it
| - Io4 e. Jof4
the creek her father would suspect
somepin and we'd have to light out of
! Denver on my arrival there. / asked
her why she couldn't buy the trussoo
before I came, and she said she hadn' t
any money and her father would give
her only enough to buy few things.
He was dead against the sinfulness of
vain decoration of the body. l fixed
it all right by tellin' her that / would
give her the money for the trussoo
and asked her how, much it would cost
She said She didn't know; the best
way would be for her to carry the dust
with her, sDend what was necessary
and we'd have the rest when | got
there in cash ready to pay our ex-
penses to the east. She said she must
be economical, for we'd need all we
had to begin life together after we was
married
when the day came around for Lii
Hans departure on her supposed shop
pin trip she was nightly broken up.
She said | wasn't to see her off, but
go right on with my daily work. And
so l did. 1t seemed to me that every
man besides myself had somepin on
his mind that day. | reckoned some
of 'em would be waitin' for the stage
to say goodby to her. But every man
went on washin' gold. If any one said
anything about Lillian's trip to Den
yer nobody seemed to notice it. or il
for the old mans Sunday exercises,
or somepin like that.
LILLIAN and | had agreed that she
was to have three days to buy the
trussoo. and l was to go down on the
third day after she left us. The frs
mornin after she'd gone / heard some
one say: I wonder what's become o
, the parson? His cabins deserted
pricked up my ears at this. If he hat
) suspected the real object of his daugh
ters goin' to Denver and had gone
after her the game was up. And i
the game was up where was the dus
) | had given her? l tell you l felt on
: easy
Before noon l heard one of the mel
5 say to another: she socked the who'll
] six, all except me. l backed out a
} the last minute This was too much
and l asked what he was talkin' about
! He told me that the gal had taken tn
: money Of five different men to buy
2 trussoo with. Her father had likel
0 joined her. and together they had lief
+ for parts unknown"
= The speaker turned from his story t
Il his pan. which he rocked in a mela1
e choly fashion. but presently concluded
l. eft all came from SEEM gal alOn