RUNS AWAY WITH GUIDE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

RUNS AWAY WITH GUIDE.

Not long ago, however, some slight suspicion was aroused, and an effort was made to break off communication with Starnould. It proved to be a case, however, of absolute infatuation on the part of the girl. Starnould himself also seems to have been in love, and he did not take kindly to the efforts that were made to keep him away from the girl who, with her brother, had been his charge on so many wilderness excursions. He met Mary, who had eluded the watchfulness of parents, and planned an elopement. He told the girl that he was certain her parents -would never consent to their marriage, and that a runaway match was the only alternative. She consented, and they started for Baraga. "When they reached Houghton, Sheriff Willis, apprised of their coming by telegraph, was on the look-out for them. He took both Starnould and his prospective bride to his residence, and then wired to Marquette to the parents to come on immediately. Mr and Mrs Seymour left on the first train, and the scene in the sheriff's parlour "was said by that official to have been pathetic in the extreme.

The result of the affair is that Mary Ledyard Seymour is the wife of Henry Starnould, and is now keeping house for her aged husband in a dwelling that In appearance and size Is in striking contrast with the mansions In which dwelt her aristocratic ancestors, and is stepmother to a number of Starnould's children, who are older than she Is.