Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1888 — MARRIED FOR LOVE [ARTICLE]

MARRIED FOR LOVE

It was audacious that a poor bookkeeper like Charles Hemmenway should aspire to the hand of old Walters’ daughter, but that he should continue his attentions even after his firm had failed and he was out of employment seemed most reprehensible. Emily’s father forbade him the house Her parents were very anxious that she should marry John Warton, a man of money, but so far the young lady bad indignantly refused to do so. The time came at last for the lovers to separate, and Emily told Charles of John Warton’s proposal and vowed that she would never become his wife. ’•You fed this way tonight, dear Emily, but sooner or later your family will prevail. It is only a question of time. Sooner or later you will become his wife though he is 20 years your senior.” “How can you suggest such a possibil ity?” she said warmly. “I know it is at this moment disgusting, and you may experience astonishment at these words, dear Emily, but you will not forget them. I predict it; though it burns my heart to give this thought an utterance. I will be true to you under all circumstances! And now, farewelll until we may meet under more promising auspices. ” lie kissed her, embraced her, and left her amid tears. And within five days young Hemmenway took passage in a brig hound for the West Indies. After a delay of four months he found a situation in a shipping house, where he succeeded very handsomely in business for a time. He then went to Valparaiso, where he was still more fortunate, and where ha remained seme years. The above events occurred in 1856 and ’57. No communication passed between the parties for a long period. Emily reached her 22d birthday, and finally made John “eternally happy,” so he declared, by becoming Mrs. Wharton. Charles Hemmenway’s prophecy was thus fulfilled. Emily ha 1 never heard one word from her former ardent lover from the night he left New York. And so even years passed. Emily had been a wedded wife five years, and was the mother of two lovely children. John Wafton died and left Emily heir to his handsome property. The blooming widow went to reside upon a quiet estate situated on the Hudson river. One morning in the early summer of 1864 Mrs. Emily Warton was ■ returning | from a visit to her children, who were at school in New York. She sat alone in a seat in one of the cars, upon a train which ran from New York city up the banks of the Hudson river. A gentleman, apparently 32 or 33 years of age, though someweat older in fact, entered the car and took the unoccupied seat beside her. The gentleman was a stranger, and hp did not observe her troubled countenance for a moment. Mrs. Warton thought she recognized him, however, and she threw aside her veil to see what might be the effect. As she turned toward him he started, peered into her sac e, put out his hand, and earnestly exclaimed: “Emily, is it you?” “Charles ilemmenway." responded the fair widow, “is it possible you have returned alive?” And the two old friends were quickly in pleasant converse. Charles was still a bachelor, and he felt as strongly devoted to his “dear Emily” as when, in the old, bright days, they lived only in and for each other. We will not enlarge upon the details of the succeeding interview between the now supremely happy lovers. Each was now, master and mistress of their own fortunes. And three months elapsed only from this happy meeting when Emily Warton became Mrs. Charles Hemmenway, and today they are living in the midst' of plenty and happiness, upon their elegant estate on the banks of the Hudson river.