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I was born September 30th, 1877, at Westfield, Indiana. My parents were both ministers in the Society of Friends, and I can not remember When I first began to pray, for my mother taught me to go to God with everything, even when a very small child. When I was five and a half years of age we moved to Walnut Ridge, Indiana, where there was a Friends' meeting of more than ordinary size and activity.
Aunt Julia had favored his suit and Mrs. Westfield had given him to understand that it was time Hermia married. But the fact remained that Hermia had not accepted him. His insistence had always provoked and still provoked one of two moods either resentment or mockery. She either dismissed him in a dudgeon or cajoled him with elusive banter. Why was he so impatient? There was plenty of time?
Early on the Saturday morning following the chief of police, who was likewise the whole of the day police force in the town of Westfield, nine miles from the place where the collision occurred, heard a peculiar, strangely weak knocking at the front door of his cottage, where he also had his office.
By the old system the letter would, in all probability, have gone to Albany post-office for distribution, thence either to New Haven, Connecticut, or Westfield, Massachusetts, for the same purpose, losing trains at each place waiting to be distributed, and consuming fully, or more, than sixty-four instead of sixteen hours.
Westfield could not hesitate. There was no retreat. In a space of time shorter than it takes to write this sentence, he was standing before the young bride, struggling manfully for the mastery over himself. This was only partial not complete. Anna, on the contrary, exhibited very few, if any signs of disturbance.
Read in Cambridgeport to-night, and Newburyport to-morrow night." Two weeks later, upon receipt of a letter from her husband, in which he fears he has not long to live, she writes from Westfield, Mass: "I have never had a greater trial than being forced to stay away from you now.
To his attractions the maiden was by no means insensible. But Westfield had a prior claim upon her heart she admired the former, but loved the latter unacknowledged to herself. Immediately on his arrival at New Orleans, Westfield wrote to Anna, but did not speak of the true nature of his feelings. The letter touched upon all subjects but the one nearest to his heart.
If Peggy Westfield had come back this year it would have been all well and good, but to put a perfect stranger in that room is a pure and simple outrage. Why we haven't even an idea what she's like, or whether she'll be congenial, or nice, or or anything. Why couldn't she have given us one of the girls we know?" stormed Sally.
" 15 *Honesdale, Pa. " 31 Mankato, Kan. " 16 Carbondale, Pa. En route to next date on " 17 Montrose, Pa. circuit. " 18 Tunkhannock, Pa. Aug. 3 Westfield, Pa. " 19 Nanticoke, Pa. " 4 Galston, Pa. " 20 Stroudsburg, Pa. " 5 Port Alleghany, Pa. " 21 Newton, N. J. " 6 Wellsville, N. Y. " 22 *Newton, N. J. " 7 Bath, N. Y. " 23 Hackettstown, N. J. " 8 *Bath, N. Y. " 24 New Hope, Pa.
Miller's face was pale, and his lip quivered as he said this. "Seriously, my friend," replied the other, "if you do not know that Westfield was a suitor to your wife, and only made known his love to her after you had offered her your hand, it is time that you did know it. I thought you were aware of this." "No, I never dreamed of such a thing. Surely it cannot be true."
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