The Illegal Marriage — page 243: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. ' 235 to do with it? Stannard, it was the man you saw that evening—that you and Crawford followed.” i “TI knew it was some one, despite your chaff about 1 fel “T sent him,” pursued Hawks, “because he told me you war dying. I believed you war the cause of her death. ‘Tell me, doctor,” he continued, chang- ne to a whining tone of entreaty, “tell me where she 1s.” “Stannard!” said Trippe, turning abruptly to his friend, and not heeding the old man’s question, “you remember little Mary Hawks?” “Very well—that is when a little girl.” “She was only sixteen when she went away from home. Iwas then with my brother in Macon, and was one day walking along the streets when I saw Mary sitting upon some steps, and crying asif her heart was broken. She had a small bundle by her side, and I saw at once that she was in distress. “Karly in that year she had been at school in the city, and I attended her when she was sick. She was known there as Mary Garland.” “It was her mother’s name,” said the old man, with a sob. “Girls are not generous to each other,” continued Trippe, without heeding the interruption, “and fear- ing that the others would ridicule her, Hawks had _the good sense to give her the name that her mother had borne. In a month she was the pet of the college, and [——” Another sob from the old man, turned their atten- tion to him, and they saw that he was crying bitterly. «And I was very fond of her. She went home during the vacation, and the next time that I spoke to her she was sitting upon the street as I have told ou. “T spoke to her gently, and soon gained her story. When at the school a young man had professed love for her; and Mary did not deny her love for him. He followed her home, and, although she would not permit him to come to the house, she met him several times, in a grove, about a mile away. Gomichbooks:.¢o