Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-08


standing we could come to would be mar
/ riage, and that Il would have to be quick
| lie said Meet me next Tuesday At 6th
street and Girard avenue and well hx
things up"
The next Tuesday afternoon Aunt Ella
and / met Ed at 9Th street and Girard
avenue. Ed was cross and that made me
cry.
'I'n marry her In three weeks" he said
~ we keep 1t secret for two years"
My aunt didn't want this, but she said
she'd agree for the name. Then Ed said
that he and ] would take a little walk
and arrange things, and 80 my aunt
left us.
AFRAID OF HIS MANNER.
couldn't get used to Ed He wasn't
the same and somehow always felt
strange with him. After Aunt Ella had
gone, he began TO put on a poor mouth.
lie said he didn't know how in the name
Of God he was going to keep anyone.
And then he put his arm around me and
said he knew n doctor who would fix
things up and get US both out Of this
scrape EDS manner made me afraid.
1t didn't seem possible that a girl could
be so scared OF man she loved.
wouldn't go with him and that seemed
to make him mad. He left me and I
went right back to Aunt Ella and told
her / was so frightened.
Aunt Ella decided to tell dad that night.
She said the affair was getting too big !
for women to handle. l afterward found |
Jut that when Aunt Ella told my father |
She made him promise that he wouldn't |
3ay anything to upset me. And So though /
knew that dad knew, and he knew that /
knew, he didn't say word. but he
couldn't keep his sorrow out OF his eyes,
ust the same
The next morning my father went down
10 Hauptfuhrer's to see Ed. He wasn't
here, but he left word for him TO come
~ to our place as soon as he came In.
At o'clock Ed came, My father didn't
waste words.
What are you going to do about ths?"
ie said,
Ed didn't look at dad. but said some
hing about not having money enough to
,eep me, and not being of age. My father
aid that didn't matter; he should have
hought OF those things before; now he'd
ave TO marry me right away.
Ed said, DO you want n minister or a
Dad was excited. lie said he didn't
are a zip at this stage Of the game. Ed
ad Just come UP from the dairy He
aid his clothes weren't nt to 70 in town
i
nd get washed up. Dad didn't want to
i him go.
Have heart" Ed begged. GIVE me .
day or two to fix my books up" ,
wished then that | was dead :
Dad said;
But you didn't have heart when you ,
lined my little girl, and no matter what :
'u do she'll have to pay the most" :
Ed pleaded to be allowed to 20 home | !,
# Is minutes to see his father Dad =
ways was kind-hearted. He let him :
}. Ed never came back.
AVOIDED MEETING IDA. t
rhe next day dad went down to Haupt- o
hrer's again. Eds father asked him ?
hat the matter was. Dad told him and ;,
r. Hauptfuhrer sympathized with him.
2 said, They ought really to marry, .,
It think of the cat-and-dog life they'd -
re II they dld." l couldn't understand II
~ when ED had said he loved me 81
d I loved him.
Cd was upstairs and his father couldn't y
{ him to come down, so after waiting
ound a little while dad came home dis o.
Iraged. a
\ whole week passed and Ed didn't d
me near me. On the following Tues On
Y l was almost desperate, and so [ cl
He'd him up and tried TO coax him into
ing good to me, / asked him to come u
yn to the house. He said he wouldn't NJ
II, but that he would meet me outside III
1t night II / came alone. / met him 10
It night. He came In his fathers au- &C
mobile and had another fellow with
n. / almost died OF shame when Ed M
gan talking about our trouble before m
5 other man, But Ed SAID 1t didn't II
tier. that he knew all about IT, He 9!
gged me to get in the automobile be- of
Use he said 1t wouldn't do for us to be ar
n talking there. had never been ner- Ms
IS before, but somehow I was afraid
go. Ed got so cross, though, that a.
to get in After we'd been gone for -
'ut 10 minutes the other fellow took ~
tie of white stuff out of his pocket w W
Drink this tonight. little girl" he said, III,
I'd tomorrow I'll meet you and give you =,
lething else that'l help you and Ed M NJ
by Kidding you of the disgrace" Pu
took the bottle of white stuff from VI m
!. 1t looked like water, but I was Ge
aid TO take II, The next day the other IIt T
Z met me again and gave me bottle 1T JT
big black pills. He acted so secret N
ut 1t that my heart almost stood still Sa
as afraid to do what they wanted me
and so l took both OF the bottles to I.'
IT Ella, She screamed when she saw ~. ~.
n and the next thing 1 knew they a, !,
Ed arrested.
never wnnted him to be arrested, God a. Sr
ws, for I think of him still. i,rl ,nl
Ia Riehls own story will be concluded I'm -, =
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