The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-08-17

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YES"
A swift radiance intensified the love-
illness of the brides face. "Oh, Wiki
Did he send me a messenger
Suddenly l felt sorry for our we'd
ding party: knew from that moment
1t was a hopeless case l also felt
| wrathful.
$50 this Is a put-up job" accused
her. Don't you think it's pretty
raw to-
"The message: his messagel" she
besought, Then. as | shook my head
she continued: ut wasn't put up.
hadn't seen him or heard from him
Not for months. oh, It's been long 7"
There was. heart-wrenching CULVER
in her voice. Then something told
me he was here. That's the way II
happened with us at the first. So
knew couldn't go through with 1t
with Chester"
| surrendered. "I'll give you the
message when l come back" ! prom
Ised
Come soon,n she whispered,
A sort of well-bred social riot fol-
lowed my return to the church, In
which the coolest figure was the bride
groom. You might know he'd take It
that way and go off dignifiedly TO ia
pan or Jugo- Slavia or somewhere.
which Is exactly what he did
When what was left of wilted Me
got back to the Jermyns' Norrle was
after me instantly,
"Where is he, Vix2"
AT the Pioneers, What are you
going to do about it7''
"Send for him"
ITO come here? The family will
love that -
1.-THE family aren't speaking to me
anyway. Can you blame them?'
"You might at least spare them an
extra scandal. If he comes here now,
the reporters, massed outside, will
catch him and things will be worse
than before, If possible"
Norrie thought that over, not being
wholly beyond reason-yet. "vix,
will you be very good to meY'
mel Id like to beat you to a
frazzlel"
you're a dear" was the singular
Interpretation she put upon this. II
want you 10 GO and see him"
81 don't even know his Internal
name"
calvin Sennett."
(which means nothing 10 me-" said
I, after considering IT,
ut means everything In the world
to me"
"oh, darn IT, I'll go!' Yielded
Calvin Sennett received me with a
matter-of- fact air which did not soothe
my sense of injury.
"Since You had to come back said
7. couldn't you have contrived to get
here earller?"
"SarrY." he returned composedly.
"but Eve only Just landed"
"From where?''
South America. We we're lost In
the wilds."
AT least you might have sent word
ahead"
81 wired yesterday Her parents
must have Intercepted IT,"
"They would" reflected aloud.
Wei. what am here for3"
"The most blessedly sane thing that
ever happened, he averred. THE
other would have been the lunacy.
But II couldn't have happened Not
again" He leaned forward TO mo,
Have you ever heard of Scatcherds-
vllle?"
40. Minor geography isn't my
strong point"
'ReinR vickert I thought Won
probably derived from central New
York It doesn't matter; Scatcherds.
vile has dropped out Of the geogra
phies this half century and more II
doesn't exist except for the dead
That is where Eleanor and viii He
some day."
"The devil YOU will :" said I. startled
! by the calm assumption of the an
nouncement
dyes together The faithful If our
blood, hers and mine, SO hack there
al the last sleep Youll see that II
must he 50 when you know II ALL
And he settled back IN his chair and
spoke
The Deserted Village lies asleep he
4 side q singing stream Years and long
| years ago. before II had lost lis name
| and faded from the activities Of men,
1 there were busy mills there, n group
Of sturdy mansions, cottages, n church
and q brisk street Of stores: there was
labor and ambition and love and
warm hearthstones: until the newly
! projected railroad turned aud passed
/ II by. Then It's life waned The mills
I crumhled, the cottages yielded to the
( slow eneroaehment Of tree and Ivy,
/ the mansions and stores stood empty
( and llfelesg But the church, with its
/ surrounding graveyard still maintains
4 Itself stanch against the years, for
4 the ancient blood that built and loved
4 the place comes back. by gentle fra
/ dition, TO bury It's dead there, even
unto the third and fourth generations
{ lfRAlN alone ElAtN 10 tlf tJtStIlfU ' IL
( lage the transitory semblance Of life
Tiger lilies Of July were swaylng
over the peaceful graves when the
/ stiffness was invaded by the stiff
! mechanlstic and saturnine panopIy oi
a modern burial The cars in the pro.
ccsslon had driven out from the near
est city, 10 bury old Mark Jermyn be
I side the others Of his generation
Through the compulsion Of family
loyalty, Eleanor Jermyn, his great
niece. had been drawn most unwil-
lingly from house party several hun
| bred miles away, where she had been
having highly satisfactory time. AS
she hardly knew Uncle Mark, she was
feeling decidedly peevish over It. But