Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-29

1t may have been a trile, but it wa
enough to make me sWoon. Or perhap
/ 1 sWOOned out Of downright vexation a
the man.
/ When I recovered he was gone. By
and-by, when Belle and I were alone
! We rOOmed tOgether-I asked her Wha
/ Dir. Harrison said and did when
| tainted,
"He said" Belle answered. s.lav bel
on her back and leave her alone.
Is that all he said p
No, not quite. Some one brought the
I Hour and salt, and he put 1t on your fin
ger, and said, There tie a rag around it. 81
A ragi
I should certainly hate this young man.
| After that he became such an object OF
| interest to me that could scarcely keep
my mind of him an hour at time.
was not long In learning something OF
has history. 1t seems that a love adventure
had sent him on cruise round the world
when he was boy Of sixteen, both parents
being dead. He had been absentfrom his
native country four years without inter-
rupti0n, and on his return had decided to
60 to the academy a short time, to correct
certain lacks in his education. This ez-
planned why a man of his advanced age
should be attending schOOl-fOr he was
tWenty-one if he was a day, Belle assured
me. l myself was about seventeen. I
was the only female student of German at
the academy, and 1t was on that account
that Mr.. Harrison manifested some de-
gree of interest IN me. / suppose for he
was almost enthusiastic In his admiration
Of that SCHOLARSHIP tongue. So l saw a
good deal Of him, after all.
The following winter. at a party at
Mrs. Sands in Sandford, one bitter cold
night, [ CHANGED to be alone with nellie
Wells one moment In an upper chamber
which was used as a cloak room for the
lady guests. There was furious fire in
the stove, and its sides were red hot
Nellie was very pretty girl but rather
dull. She wore dress Of some gauZy
fabric, and going too near the stove it
took fire. l ran out of the room, scream
ing at the top Of my voice
Mr.. Harrison! Mr.. Harrison Oh,
Mr.. Harrison
He came quickly into the hall; saw
me was up stairs with bound as I was
running back into the room, he went
past me, pushing me aside rather rudely,
and took in all with quick glance Nell
lie hauled a quilt from a bed that was
in the room, and was trying to stife the
flames He threw her on the floor, roll
led her over and over ia the quilt like a
mummy, and extinguished the flames
very badly burned, after all and her
face was not touched by the flames, so
that she remained as pretty as ever.
Remarkably sensible girl, said Mr..
Harrison afterward, to group that clus-
tered about him in the parlor Most
girls would have rushed headloBg into
the hall, screaming like'-he looked at
me- like mad, he added, with quiet
smile. IF / ever marry, said he, (which
probably never shall, 1 shall marry
sensible WOman-a woman WhU would not
eatup a scream if our youngest should
fall into tub of hot water, but pull the
child out as quickly as possible, and send
for doctor"
Somehow, I was vain enough to think
this sarcastic speech was intended to re-
buke me. [ knew l should certainly
scream in a such a case. It was my
nature.
AS for that poor Nellie Wells, I hated
her, and almost wished that it had been
my own dress that had caught fre-only
[ should have burned to death before Mr..
Harrison would have come and wrapped
me in a quilt and hugged me.
From that day forward some oVerpoW-
eTing influence was at work upon me. /
struggled hard after that cool manner IN
danger which Mr.. Harrison possessed In
SO eminent a degree. l even ventUTed, IN
the pursuit Of perfection, to ask him how
he could do it.
Il suppose" said he, sit is because I
naturally have such an extreme terror of
danger in every shape-such lively sym
pathy with those In peFil-that l feel
very strongly the necessity for being calm
when others are excited. I think that
whatever excuse lady may have for los
ing her Wits-aud that is, at the best, very
little-a man has no excuse whatever
I always try to keep my wits about me-.
ITO be calm, then, said I, with the
Withering irony co mmOn to girls of from
fourteen, zone only needs to have his wits
about him.
Exactly" said he; "or to change the
sex, her wits about her.
Just as" I added, "the secret Of
wealth is to get money"
And to keep 1t, said he.
On one thing I was fully determined
he should never hear me scream again.
However, he left the school soon after !;
and [ did likewise In about six months.
had effected a great change in myself
before l met him again.
II.
1t was in the summer of the year which
saw me pass my twentieth birthday, that
we met at Niagara Falls. He was there
with his cousin, my dear friend Belle
Harrison, and [ with my sister and
mother.
On certain day we were all taking a
walk on Goat Island, when mother drop
ped her parasol, and it slid down the bank
some fifteen or twenty feet, and out of
reach. Mr.. Harrison descended the ban K
after it; but though he used proper eau
ton, his foot slipped on the treaeherous
soil, as he was returning, and he slid very
rapidly down to the very verge of the
precipice. | expected nothing else than
to see him 20 over, and be dashed to
pieces on the rocks hundred feet below
but though the three other ladies scream
ed loudly / did not. You see l was pretty
we'll drilled by this time. However, as
| Mr. Harrison neared the edge of the pre-
| cipice, he threw out his right hand-still
| holding the parasol in the left-and seiz-
| ed the upturned roots of a tree which
| leaned over the ehasm. The tree shook
violently under the sudden shock, and
/ the roots began to tear away from the
| thin soil slowly and steadily, under the
/ influence of this supperadded weight. In
few minutes more it would give way,
and then Mr.. Harrison would be killed
/ [ knew my face was pale, and l was ter
Eribly frightened but L leaned forward
and spoke to him
Tell me what to do"
! "Take all the ladies shaWls, skirts, and
any other articles of dress that you can
| spare, and which are strong; cut them in
wide, strong strips tie them firmly to-
| gether and make a rope.
/ 1 Obeyed as calmly as L knew he would
have done, but none the less expeditions
| ly on that account, be very sure. lie
continued speaking at intervals while
| was doing his bidding and he spoke as