St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-02-03


now you can run away tcih one
Madam, | am gentleman, and man
of fortune, single, unengaged, and
love and adore you. My name is
James j. Smith" Here she jerked
away her hand, but | jumped up and
caught it again for, though she
started from me, it was not start
Of disn! !aasn~n IN the contrary She
blushed, and trembled, and looked
pleased was sure she did-and she
grew more pleased the more l told
her how much | adored her and
when presumed on her growing af.
fection to throw my arm round her
waist, she began to smile and giggle ;
in fact, | thought she was going into
Mysteries, which is a proof of over
powering feeling; when-oh sur
prise and modification she burst
into Mysteries, which is proof of
overpowering feeling when-oh
surprise and modification she
burst into laugh, exclaiming, "Oh!
it is Too ridiculous But pray CO."
she added hastily "for if Susan
should return and find you-'
"No fear of her." l cried, for l
left her safe locked in her room along
with Jimmy. l took care of the
traitoress and her confederate"
"You did !" said the beauty, look
ing astonishmcnt and inquiry. Per-
haps then" she continued hesitating-
ly, "as-as you won't go,-(oh
what an enchanting way of telling me
| might stay! No wonder | kissed
her, but it ,cas a wonder how well she
bore it y as you won't go, perhaps
you will tell me how you came to lock
her up, and who Jimmy is, and how
you got into this house, and this room,
for am very curious, and-and-'
"You have right to know all
about it. 1t was all blundcr, the
happiest, darlingest blundcr that ever
was made. You must know, !
thought this was my own boarding
house, Mrs. E's."
NO." said the beauty, sweetly, it
is Mrs. F.'s."
Il shall love Mrs. F. as long as |
live ! made the mistake the more
readily, because. being bcsct by the
police for knocking down a rascally
fellow, who had insulted me in the
street, Il did not like to tell my
charmcr of the arrest, least she should
conceive some suspicion of me, | at
tempted to get home through by-ways
and the garden gate. Susan let me
in {; she was waiting for that rascal
ly Jimmy, her sweetheart who was to
pretend to conduct you to the cars
"Oh no." said my mistress, al
never heard of Jimmy. Susan was to
take me, aud she was to be dressed in
mems clothcs-you know how l mis-.
took you-what great mistake |
made !"
ooh that it could bc made over
again !" said |, sincerely enough
And then proceeded with the story
as | have already narrated it, expos
ing the schemes and the punishment
such as it was, of Susan, and describ
ing the illusion-thc persuasion of it:
being my own chamber, in my owl
boarding house-undcr which | hac
entered her boudoir "And now my
adored creature" said /, eff clipping
is necessary, let us start forthwith
and we can be married before the
cars start. 'ris but stopping at the
first parsons or magistrates"
But-but," murmurcd my mistress
with the sweets accents, would yo'
really marry mc-without knowing
me p
Il would, l WILL" said I, claspins
her in my arms. IL take you for bet
ter or for worse, believing, for III,
soul tells me it, that you are an an
gel"
"Oh James !" said she meltingly
"dont you bnow me? lam Ellen, littl,
Ellen, cousin Ellen Didn't you &c
fathers letter."
Heavens what a surprising clima!
to the days adventure Was | t
get my namcsake's letters, father hi
debts, and marry his intended wifi
into the bargain? No wonder tn
dear creature should melt so sool
to find in me her supposed cousin ant
destined husband. But how was i
she could be so deceived Certainl,
she must have known her own cousil
and destined husband And what wa
she going to elope for? These ques
tions, and various others, which cam'
crowding into my brain, were, with
out my. asking them, (for, in fact
| was for while spcechless,) ar
swcred by the darling Ellen herself
who, with looks of the most confdini
fondness, as if the matter was no,
quite settled, murmured-
"Aint it strange that we shoul
come together SO, and that we shoul
love, without knowing each other
But how should we, since we hav
never been together since we wei
children? And | thought you ha
red hair, too! How foolish An
when thought you were only Suss
disguised, and wished l had ,ju
such handsome looking person for
sweetheart, l said nothing but II
truth for, indeed, l loved you whe
| thought you were only Susan. Oh
how unhappy | should have been il
, had and how happy am that | d
, not /" And here my dear cousin IN
t cousin, indeed y threw her arms roun
| my neck in the sweetest way imagI'
able. returned the caress, but c:
pressed some of my astonishment b
, echoing her words
, "Run away from me. indeed fro'
: your cousin
"Oh, you know, thought you ha
: red hair, and never could abide re
hair ; and then, father-if you remer
Der father-you know he is SO od
and obstinate. And then that CO
tract"
: Contract ~ said /, what CO
tract?"
"Why. with uncle John, to be sur