The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-08-16
1NSBURG, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST l6 1860.

curls, tucked away under the neatest little
nIght-cap that ever was. She had gathered
the bed-clothes, with a spasmodic jerk. up
about her throat, and with the most rigid.
astonished look, as though doubling wheth-
er she was sleeping or waking, gazed stead
lily in my eyes. Memory serves a man
but little in like cases, but, if my memory
serves me right, it was ! who first spoke.
blurted out with:
Glow came YOU hcre?"
''The figure still stared in speechIess as
tonishment, but in moment, as though
awakened from its stupefaction spoke:-
Are you Charles Morgan
"Hes," /" was my rather subdued reply.
"Well then, Mr.. Morgan said the ig-
ure, by this time speaking as calmly, and
with quite as much dignity as though in
the drawing-roOm, II am May Stevens,
and | was put in this room, after an unex-
pected arrival. Horace had gone over to
a neighbor's, d few mics of, before | got
here, and was not to return until to-day.
That is how / was put in this room"
So here l was, sitting face to face with
this May Stevens, that mythical lady, for
the first meeting with whom | had intend
ed to get up such a superlative toilet! \
nice style Of Introduction, and nice style
Of toilet, And she-she by this time was
rs cold as the 3lst Of December. and sat
looking he right in the eye, as | made a
scrambling explanation OF my being found
in that extraordinary position. 1t was a
lame explanation, wonderfully mixed up
with irrelevant matter, and stammered and
suffered through in way that should
have disgusted any sensible person. She
seemed to be seriously poudering during
the recital, and at It's end, looking at me as
though asking the most simple question in
the world, said:
What to be done?"
"Let me jump out of the window, as I
c amc in, said l in a sickly tone of voice,
for the thought came to me that to achieve
this end [ must make some desperate dis
play Of myself in a style Of costume which
| deprecated. She relieved me instantly
with:
"No, that Will not do, there are people
moving about, and you viii be seen"
/ 1t was my turn now to stammer out:
"What's to be done ~ For | saw that
/ the little hazei-eycd girl was superior to me
in presence Of mind and energy Of action.
/ She did not wait long to answer my qucs-
/ 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 a quiet,
/ busincss-likc manner.
And so | did, under May Stevens COM
mand | buried my intruding head in the
bed-clothes, and kept it well covered until
I heard the retreating footsteps upon the
stairs, which was but a few minutes, tho
/ it seemed an age, and then with dcsper-
ate bound l sprung from the bed, and
/ turned the key on the departed one. 1t
was the quickest dressing l ever made, and
/ I will venture to say that no man ever
sneaked out Of his own apartment more
/ steaIthily than | did.
/ That morning we met-May Stevens and
! lat the breakfast table, in the charac-
ter of the newly-arrived that morning
/ and we were formally introduced, during
/ the ceremony of which we astounded every
one present, and planted thorn of wonder
+ in the sides Of Nettie and Carrie, by burst
/ ing simultaneously into a hearty laugh,
which we have never failed to repeat when
ever the memory Of our first meeting
/ comes up"
''And now, cousin Jane, you have the
whole Story of how | first met my wife. y