A ROMANCE OF THE FAR WEST.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 178, 4 January 1875, Page 3

A ROMANCE OF THE FAR WEST.

The Detroit Post records how that four years ago a bright, intelligent, but not pretty looking young miss, left a homeless and penniless orphan by the death of her father, came to that city and procured employment as a waiter girl at a well-known second class hotel. One day, at dinner time, there strode into the dining room a tall, broad-shouldered, bronzed and bearded man, who was evidently from the far West. There was the unmistakable air of a plainsman about him ; evidently one of the better sort. He seated himself at the table served by the girl in question, and watched her movements very closely. At supper on the second day after his arrival he remained at table until it was nearly deserted, and then as he was about rising he addressed the girl in courteous terms saying that he desired an interview, as he had information of importance to comimmicate. She replied that she would see him in the ladies’ parlour, at a later hour. She did so, and was not a little surprised at receiving an offer of marriage. He stated that he was a resident of the grazing districts of California, owned a large stock ranche and was a wealthy man. He was on his way East to visit his aged parents, who resided in Massachusetts, and stopped in Detroit to see the city, had met her, was pleased with her appearance, and thought it would be for her advantage to quit her present employment and become the wife of a ranchman. There was an honesty and sincerity in the man’s voice as he made his declaration that convinced the girl that he was in earnest. She replied that she would consider his proposition and give him an answer at the breakfast table. During the night she thought the matter over seriously, and when in the morning she took her eccentric lover’s order, and he asked in a low tone, “Are you going to California ?” she replied “Yes,” and then went for beefsteak and potatoes. That was the extent of the courtship. The next afternoon the pair were married at the residence of a clergyman, and left for the east by the evening train. Of course the few acquaintances of the bride who were aware of the circumstances of her marriage wei e all positive that she had acted rashly, and predicted all manner of troubles and trials for her. From the hour of her departure, however, none of them have ever heard a word from her; but from the fact that the happiest-looking wife and mother to be seen riding about the city, a curly-headed boy in her arms, and the gentleman who ‘ ‘ told her something to her advantage ” by her side, was the waiter-girl who “ married in haste” but did not repent at leisure, it may safely be assured that the predictions did not come true.