Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-07-28
THE LOST LOVE LETTER.
We'll, wonders will never cease p

1t was bright little boudoir, with sea-
green walls'apd carpet of the softest emer
aid velvet, the windows dim with the
branching greenery Of fragrant lemcn trees.
and silky tlack spaniel coiled I'D on the
rug in front of the fire. Miss Melissa
Jones sat in the middle of the room: her
false cnrls stirred by some inward agita
ton, and her forty year cid cheek flushed
with blOum more genuine than she usu-
ally WoIe, while her gypsy like niece, Nell
y Howard q dsrk, brilliant beauty Cf
seventeen, leaned over her shoulder and
eagerly 2arused the open letter that Law in
tho worthy spinster's lap. She it was who
hid made the above remark, to which Aunt
Melissa answered testify:
'WondersS dOu't see anything SO very
wonderful in the matter. II General Plum
er chooses to fail in love with me, can't
help itn
why, aunty, he is only twenty two, and
you are fortyp
Only thirty-nine = calculated Miss Me.
LISA, in rather belligerent tone Of yoi,e
And he is handsc me, and--nnw. auutv
pardon me, but you never pretended to be
beauty!
Miss Melissa's cheek grew scarlet
MIR. Plumer Possibly recognizes the
power of intellectual charms she answer.
ed tartly. .
-,rd more than this, pursued the relent.
less Nelly, everybody supposed the young
man in question to be desperately IN love
with our little Efhe-wbere is she, by the
way? Gone up stairs, l suppose, to cry
over her defaulting cavalier. Well, / shall
counsel her to call pride to her assistance.
But, by the way, aunty, you haven't told
me how and when this epistle arrived
By post or thrO' a messenger?
1T was yesterday evening" she shipper
ed, MIR. P!umer-Gerald, should saw
(N,lly made grmace) called. lie only
stood minute, talking, by the fire. /
supposed, foolish thing that was. his
short stay was ewing tc Efie's being away
from home. Blu. he bad not been gone
Eve minutes before discovered this fuld-
ed paper lying on the floor at my feet
Was it not an exquisite way of proposing
See, he calls me his dearest ONE and
siRns himself my ever devoted slave =
'Fiddlestick, Aunt Melissa = exclaimed
the irreverent Nelly. He only wants
your forty thousand dollars! It's Just i'm
| possible that young man like him can
really have fallen in love with you =
Aunt Melissa rose from the chair with
a cOuntenance of such lowering wrath,
that Miss Nelly wisely remembered the
axiom about discretion being the better
part of valOr, and beat basty retreat, only
stopping once, to laugh, or the stairs -
But her cOuntenauCe changed as she enter.
ed the room where young girl sat, with
her forehead resting on the window ledge,
and her violet eyes sparkling with tears.
Crying, Effel Let me wipe the tears
away, dsrling-he isn't worthy one of
those diamond drops?'
'Oh, Nelly, ! was SO secure in the Ger.
tainty of his Lowell .-.---
Forget him, dearest urged Nelly
Nay, don't sob so piteously-summon up
all the pride there is in your q emile nature,
and meet him in future as coldly as though
he were straugerp
And Efie, through her sobs, faltered
out that she would try. $500.
| Miss Melissa blOsSOmed out that even.
ing like peony, in q gorgeous crimson
silk dress, with gigantic bracelets on her
arms, and sat in state in the parlOr, her
false riDglets glossy with pomatum.
For Gerald's note said he would call
sOOn, to receive his fate from my own lips,
she simpered. as
But, to her indispensable establishment,
Gerald did not call that evening, nor vet
the next? Miss Melissa was puzzled-in
all the novels she had ever read, ahe could
NOT recall any such tardiness on tie part Of
az eager lover. -ss s..f sa
What does it mean, do you suppose p
she asked of Nelly, as she reluctantly turn
ed down the gas ct the close Of the third
evening, and went SLOW ~ up stairs to bed.
/ don'tknOw. ,aunty, Pm sure, returned
the malicious damsel. Perhaps he's like
the boy who has pulled the string of q
shower bath, and lodges back in terror at
hIsloWn boldness. Suppose you send u
committee to bring him to q sense of bis
Situation 7 sr .s Essr.-..s ,t-.szs.
Apnt Melissa slammed the door of her
room witha bang that made the very
P0nCemah 10 the street open his eyes. =
uSiala runners room at the Hotel
was literally blue with cigar smoke--a fact
eaely accounted for When YOU glanced at
the recamoent figure of his room mate and
boon mpanlon, who WIS laziiys watching
the fire and smokinga as If for. a ws0er' II
was pretty eoms full of elegant bache.
loE knick kgacks, only it look ed as Fl a
pair ofwild h0rses might have torn thrau0h
i, and nobody have picked up, things al
forwards. FOr tie flower vases were on
che Door and the ali clippers were ere on 4.
oie' and the boot jack REFINED on he s ras ga
teI, IN companionship with a wash pitcbsr
ana an ODD boot, while the bronze inkstonS