The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-07-14
KANSAS, SATURDAY,

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position. There such surprises, as
without terror. Eeh absolutely deprives
US of the power beech, until the brain
has time to act aa son. Such surprises
do not generate s. ms and faints. They
are expressed by monthed and silent
wonder. This The case with myself
and bed-fellow. az sat upright and star
ed. Right by M e. with her face with
in two feet of my SIN. sat young woman.
not more than seve1Eeen, with great. dark
hazel eyes. and such great masses of brown
curls, tucked away under the neatest little
night cap ever was. She had gathered the
bed clothes with spasmodic jerk. up about
her throat. and with the most rigid, aston
ished look, as though doubling whether she
was sleeping or ualksng gazed steadily in
my eyes. MemSz US 3 man bus little
/ in Ike cases: but II my memory serves me
right, it was who FIRST spoke. blurred
out with:
'How came you here?"
The figure stared still in speechless as
constituent, but in moment, as though
awakened from its stupefaction, spoke:
care you Charles Morgan %
Yes" was my rather subdued answer.
"WeIl, then, Mr.. Morgan" said the fig
ure, by this time speaking as calm. and with
quite as much dignity as though in the
drawing room, Il am May Stevens, and /
was put in this room, after an unexpected
arrival Horace had gone over to neigh
boris, few miles off, before got here, and
was not to return until day. That is how
was put in this ROOM
$50 here l was, setting vis Vis to this
May Stevens, that mythical lady, for the
first meeting with whom had intended to
get up such superlative toilet. A nice
style of introduction and nice style of
toilet And she-she by this time was as
cool as the 31st of December, and sat look
ing me right in the eye, as I made some
scrambling explanation of my being in that
extraordinary position. It was lame ex-
PLANTATION, wonderfully mixed up with irrel
evant matter, and stammered and suffered
through in way that should have disgust
ed any sensible person. She seemed to be
seriously bordering during the recital, and
at its end, looked at me as though asking
the most simple question in the world, said !:
What's to be done?
LET me Jump out of the window, as
came in" said in sickly tone of voice:
for the thought came to me. that to achieve
play of myself in a style of costume which
I deprecated. She relieved me instantly
with
mo. that will not do. there are people
moving about, and you will surely be seen"
''It was my turn now to stammer out:
whats to be done? 90 For saw that the
little hazel-eyed girl was superior to me in
presence of mind and energy of action
She did not wait long to answer my cues
ton.
You must lie still here while I get up.
When I have left the room, you can rise,
dress, and go away at the first opportunity"
was her response, delivered in quiet,
business-like manner.
And 50 l did. under May Stevens CON-
mand. buried my intruding head under
the bed clothes, and kept it well covered
until I heard the retreating footsteps on the
stairs, which was but few minutes, though
it seemed an age, and then with desperate
bound / sprung from the bed, and turned
the key on the departed one. 1t was the
quickest dressing | ever made, and I will
venture to say that no man ever sneaked
out of his own apartment more stealthily
than did.
That morning we met. May Stevens and
l. at the breakfast tablet in the character
of the newly arrived that morning-and
were formally introduced. during the cere-
mony of which we .astonished every one
present, and planted a thorn of wonder in
the sides of Nettie and Carrie. by bursting
simultaneously into hearty laugh. which
we never fail to repeat whenever the memo
ry of our first meeting comes up.
"And now, cousin Jane, you have the
whole story how list met my wife,