Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-05-30
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 80, 1868.

saw of the girl the more I was in love with
her. Madly, desperately in love. For the
first aud only time in my life, the idea of
work occurred to me as possibility.
thought that l could work for her. OF
those evenings in the MUSHROOM those
drives over the still, country roads those
after breakfast chats never did see any
body so bewitching as was Susy in her
morning wrappers.
As you may imagine, was making small
progress in the good graces of Miss Ellis,
the heiress But there came one day letter.
This letter was a dun. 1t was not to be
paid in scraps from the opera, or in Susy's
soft whispers. l shut myself up whole
afternoon, and decided to win Miss Ella.
That was o rainy EVENING" miserable
evening. How we'll remember it When
we came into the drawing room Susy made
place for me beside her, but crossed over
to Miss Ellis. Miss Ellis looked first fut-
tered and then pleased. She talked very
we'll. She was just the person whom
should have liked to engage as governess
for my children when became a familyman.
She played chess, also-played it very well.
| / did not wish to be too precipitate; so, in
the morning, went out again with Susy.
She rallied me about my sudden devotion
for Miss Ellis.
"She is highly cultivated lady" I an.
swered, grayely, land has brilliant mind I;
and !, you know, am French in my tastes
l always prefer cleverness to beauty"
Susy's cheeks were suddenly suffused
with warm, rich blush and once or twice
afterward caught her looking at me with
an odd expression-half sad, half inquiring.
In the afternoon, was again in attend
ance on Miss Ellis. Others rallied me, as
Susy had done, and made the same an
swer: was struck by Miss Ellis clever
ness.
Poor little Susy How she used to look
at me with eyes SO full of such innocent as.
| constituent and reproach. 1t was hard not
to go to her, but 1 knew my only safety was
| In sticking close to Miss Ellis.
Another letter came from the city. A
savage letter. / must have money at once,
and as | could not see Abe long enough to
explain, / wrote him note thus:
| DEAR ABE II am coming on finely with the Ellis
on the strength of her fifty thousand, lend me S2j
am desperately hard up; but on the day of my
marriage shall pay up all debts, and then go hang
myself: L think never was SO wretohed in my
| life. Yours. GEORGE.
That afternoon sat in the drawing. room
I meditating gloomily. had received moth
ing from Abe, who had gone to town in the
FIRST train. had spent the morning with
Miss Ellis, and began to see that, excellent
unoffending woman that she was, l could
bate her mortally. And Susy had looked
so lovely. She was just angry enough now
to make her piquante. While / was thus
thinking entered the objects of my thoughts
-Aliss Ellis and Susy. Susy held note in
her hand, which was handed to me.
"By some strange mistake" she said
"shis note was handed to me. and read it
while trying to understand it. AS have
read it, l may as well remark, on Miss Ellis
| account. that you are laboring under a mis-
take. The $4,000 of which you speak is
mine and you will not need to hang your
| self, as Miss Ellis has never had any inten.
tion of changing her name"
stared stupidity ct the note. 1t was my
note to Abe Dundas. Thinking of Susy at
the time, had directed it to Miss Susan
Lacy. And susy, my Susy, was the heiress.
And she married Abe Dundas. And l am
not married yet and am more elegant and
more in debt than ever. Will any woman,
in want of a stylish husband, have me9