Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-01-27


that sounded like the report Of a pocket
pistol
81 knowed you'd come 10 meet me Hiram
i knowed you'd never desert your owr
Malvina, tn say uo,hin' Of the children
Come here, Mary Jane, and Charles Angus
tus. and kiss your own tsther declare
if them new regimenta!s don't make yor
look aS fne as a fiddle | dar say fer il.
shouldn't know'd yc, now't you've got you,
hair and wtiskrrs colored You allus was
sich a slim scnteel tigRer! But you'd ought
to sent me the bounty money, Hirsm--Tl
stick to that if twas the last word cvel
spoke |"
| looked dcspSiring'y round for some one
to free me from this terrible bondage Alas
unkind Fate there was my blue.eyed com
Pcgnoa da coy7gc cohvulsed with prettily
malicious laughter, at the plight was in,
never for one instant imagined that
you were married man, sir" she said de-
murely. Upon my word, it is quite priv
ige to witreSs this sweet little episode o.
domestic affection. Take care--you'.l dror
the baby If you hold it in that sort Of way :
set my teeth tight together and strove tc
wrench nyself away from the cotton gIoved
fingers of the woman who seemed SO deter
mined to appropriate me.
Let go my crRyat, madam |" | SAID
sharply, for she was clingirg TO mo as tn,
vcritable Old Man of the Sea might have
clang to Sinbad 81 am entirely at a los,
to iinagIne what you mean by this very sin
gular condnct. My name is not Hiram
AIN not married-and | never set my eyes
on you before to uight. Let go, say, and
take your baby"
The woman rccoiled step or two and
gaztd iull into my face for the first time
with cry like bafIied tigrcss. 3. ,a.
Land o Goshen +! y she shriekcd, "it is
not l!i'am, after alb the good Tor moth
in, shIitIcSs, mean spcriicd cur amt here to
look artrr his own wife aud children. do
say for't," she aiticulatcd, ferccly clnchina
her muscular fist" knowed Hiram Peck
was mU"n'r'n muscle shell, but didn'l
s'pose he was mean enough to leave me here
i'll the lurch this way l." ... ..
She snatched The baby, broke away from
me. and rushed impetuously towards the
conductor whose distant lantern was slanc.
ing along the platform beyond.
Conductor! | say, conductor we've
woke the wrong passenger That ere fslyi
amt Hiram Peck, no more'n y0u be, and
what on nlrth be goin' to do?
All this time my blue eyed divinity had
been smiling at my dilrmna, in the most
heartIeS' manner; and | was glad to make
a diversion by pCupcing on the couduc,o,
snd blowing him up Tor his absurd mistake
lie apoIog'aed, With asatirical grin on his
lace, and now, SIR he added, suddenly
assuming the brisk business like manner OF
every day life, think the right lady is in
the waiting room-she came or 10 meet Cap.
tam paie."
ihats the name, answered promptly
slender, lady'like ,hing was anxiouS!y
waiting in the laaics apparin..nt, with q
stout IRISH nurse and two delicate infants, o
two and three years Of age. She sprang
forward with bright, "gitatcd face, as Sh,
caught g!inpSo o! my undrcss uniform and
gut buttons,
hcntWood y
And then she drew back disappointed aud
confused.
" Not exactly kentwood, madam" | AN
swrrcd, but his substitute"
Aud then, according to my promise, cx.
p'mncd TIE circumstances OF the care, ac