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Show 15 stay there. In October of 1865 she received a letter from Mr. Jacobs, informing her that the "deep devotion he thought he once entertained... he had discovered was but that of friendship. "Did this break my heart?" Ellis asked, "No, indeed! But it inflicted a deep wound to my maiden's pride. I thought it was a punishment for my past misdeeds." After that dull thud, it was logical for Ellis to desire a change of scene. Her father happening to be up for business and soon to return to Mt. Pleasant in Sanpete, Ellis told him she "wanted to go home." Curiously, the day before she was to start south with him in the first part of November, her friend Flora said she had some news for Ellis which she would wait and write about later on. Having arrived in Mt. Pleasant, which seemed to have a school, Ellis enrolled for instruction under Anthon Lund, then "not more than twenty-one or two." She declared him to be "studious" and to possess a "remarkable memory," and to be "one of the smartest men" she ever knew "(of his age)". Besides all this, she "admired him so much for his intelligence and good sense" that she was "ever delighted to be in his company." A rather dramatic event occurred at about this juncture: One morning I slept late as I had been out to a party the previous evening. My sister awoke me by telling me there was a letter. This was not strange for I had many correspondents. ..It was from a Mr. Ashton, only an acquaintance. It contained one sentence that caused my heart to beat...'Mr. Shipp and Miss Eldredge were married last week.' This then was the news Flora had to tell me. Married again! 'Ah, I know now he cares nothing for me. |