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Show A DETERMINED DAUGHTER. A man in Toledo, with a wife and three children, became enamored of an intriguing woman and procured a divorce in an obscure Indiana town. He did not say a word about it at home. One day his oldest daughter received a parcel of patterns from a lady in Indianapolis. It was an old copy of a country newspaper. An advertisement attracted her attention. It was an application for a divorce for her father from her mother. The young lady decided to visit her friend in Indianapolis and to make an excursion to the county where the divorce had been granted. She returned with ample evidence that her mother was living with a divorced man. She showed her father a copy of the advertisement, and told him that she had found out all about him. He walked the floor for a minute, and then turned to his daughter. "I have been a very bad and guilty man," he said, "but it is not too late to make amends. I will go to her and confess all, and undo what I have done." "Confess first to me," said the girl. "It is Miss -, who is the woman in the case is it not?" "It is." "I thought as much. Are you to marry her?" "I was to have married her." "You must not got to mama's yet. She must be your wife before she knows the fearful truth." The young lady was equal to the emergency. The twentieth anniversary of her parents' marriage was close at hand. She invited all their friends and had them married again by the same minister who performed the ceremony twenty years before. She took pains to have her mother's rival present, and remarked to her in a corner: "Papa and mamma are married again as fast as the law can do it. Whether the truth is ever known depends upon you. Papa will never tell it, I am sure, and for mamma's sake I never shall. But it does seem to me, dear, that some other climate would suit your constitution better than this." |