Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-10

| but she doesn't know he had been inyeig-
led INTO the engagement before he knew
what he was about-Maud gets as mad as the
! deuce, denounces him as a radical abolition
| list, or some other abomination in the sight
of gods and men, and rushing into the house,
slams the door with bang which tells him
he'd as well stand up to the engagement with
| the other girl
| Tredethlyn's heart is now reached with
hagnies untold" and he determines to seek
forgetfulness in some foreign country. A
thing Of that sort, you know, can never be
found any where near home. He instantly
writes check for money enough to set up
a national bank, hands it to gentleman who
happens to be taking an airing in the neigh
borhood, tells him to turn it over to Maud or
old man Hillary, and rushes off in the d.
rection Of the nearest office where they sell
railroad tickets for Dover.
In the next act We discover that the old
gentlemen was so forcibly struck by the
check, with admiration for the character Of
Tredethlyn-that he wanted him for SON.
in-law, which he has accordingly become,
and that he and his wife are getting on finely.
Maud doesn't seem 10 love him much, but
he loves her hard enough for both, which
answers every purpose. There must be
certain quantity of love in every family, and
it doesn't make any difference whether it is
done by the wife or tie husband, Just so it is
done
But Lowther, who does more Of the loving
than is naturally required CT him, takes it
into his head to Kill of Tredethlyn, by lead
ing him into all sorts of d ;ssipation, in order
to marry his rich widow. lie accordingly
takes him around to all the places where
they retail Red Jacket Bitters and other dis
guised samples Of cheap whisky, and soon
makes a regular topper of him. He also at
tempts to starve him to death by exacting
from him a solemn prom.le to board week
at the Battle House, and this diabolical
scheme would inevitably succeed, did not
the intrudent victim "corner" in an oyster
saloon at the end Of the second day.
In the mean time, Tredethleyn has found
his dis.lherit- i cousin, whoge husband had
deserted her not long after their marriage,
leaving her nothing but a promising infant.
Having found her, he buys her a neat cottage.
and sets her to keeping house on her own
hook. Which is kind of him. Her name
is the lovely one of Susan. Sue requests
Tredethlyn, rs a particular favor, not to tell
his wife anything about it just yet, and ne
says he won't. But Lowther finds out the
secret and turns it over to Maud, with all the
necessary embellishments, and thereby raises
a deuce of row in the family; for that ex-
emplary woman at once puts herself under
the influences of that celebrated monster with
the emerald optics who is said to furnish
himself with the picked pork on which he
subsists, and blows her husband up dread |
fully. True to his promise, Tredethlyn still |
withholds the fact that Susan is only his |
cousin, and when Maud comes down upon
him a little heavier than usual, he considers |
she does not love him, and takes leave of |
her forever, determined to quit the country. |
Lowther now thiks he has dead sure thing |
Of it.
The next act-which you will be glad to
hear is the last-opens with the melancholy |
intelligence that the vessel in which Frede- |
thlyn sailed for some far nepenthean shore |
was burned at sea, and that all on board per- |
ished. Maud appears in widows weeds and |
tears, and every body thinks her quite as
lovely in customary sCits of solemn black" |
as she was in the gaudiest calico. Such is
the power OF native beauty. Lowther now
comes in with another declaration of love- !
but just before Fredethlyn goes aboard the |
Inflated ship, he steps around to the club |
one evening, having found out Lowther's |
rascality, and hOrsewhips that gentleman in
the presence of quite number of astonished |
ther believing Fredethlyn fairly out of the |
way, again makes love TO Maud, and while he |
is in the act of urging his suit, and the boxes |
are beginning to wonder "was ever woman
in such humor wooed?-was ever woman in
such humor won?" when Fredethlyn walks
into thereon, with very little disappearance |
of a man who has been recently burnt at |
sea. Every body is very much surprised to |
see him, of course and the FIRST impression
on the part of the audience is that he had |
himself insured to the FIJI amount before !
going aboard the ship, and has been refund
ed by the underwriters. Maud cries "me |
husbandw Frelethlyn exclaims "ma w;fcr' |
and they instantly collide Ike couple of |
express trains going at the rate of forty miles |
an hour. After an aEectionate hug, which |
makes all the boys feel as If they would like |
to be an actor, Fredethlyn turns and winds |
up Lowther with few pointed remarks, ard |
shows him the door, which, if no had not |
been utterly astounded, he would probably |
have discovered by his own cxer,ioHs several !
minutes before. Susan now comes in with |
her husband, who has become a;l.amed of !
himself and promises % be a good husband,
and in the midst OF an unusual quantity of |
domestic happiness, the CERTAIN falls, and the |
house empties itself pretty much as houses
do when somebody has "hollered fire"
On reading the above / find it far less en-
tertaining than thought it would be, and |
1 am sorry now l wasted so much time in |
writing it.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRICKS.
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