The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-08-07

Bob calling our house his boarding
house.
After supper Bob went up to his room
and smoked a cigar, and afterward came
down in a more social hulnor In ac
cordance with previous arrangement
| he and Lizzie sat down to practice an in
strumentaI duet.
sat in the parlor reading, and so long
as the music ran smoothly on, I paid nc
Eattention to it; but suddenly there was Q
discord, and then it ceased.
ssYou made mistake there said Bob,
pointing to the music.
"No, it was you," said Lizzie, and
there is where it was" pointing at one
of the hieroglyphics with which compos-
ers disfgure paper.
II beg PARDON said Bob ''but 1
could not have made such mistak as
[ am quite familiar with the piece.
| played it with Miss Peterson the other
evening, and she made the same mistake
you did-only she saw it when pointed
it out"
"Oh, yes, she would see that black
was white, if you pointed it out. What
has Miss Peterson to do with me %
@.I surely thought that you and I had
lived long enough in the same house and
were sufficiently intimate-if not friendly
to allow me to differ with you some
times, and even to quote authority in
support of my own opinion when it was
at variance with yours"
"Whatever friendly relations there
were need not continue You have
chosen to define your position in the
house as that of mere boarder, aud, as
such, had no right to flout another young
lady in my face, and claim that because
she made mistake, I must have done
SO, too. You talk queerly about this
music, anyhow. If you are as familiar
with the piece as you pretend, why did
you practice it? L know you are not
right about that mistake, and I don't be-
Iieye you think you are, yourself"
If man had given Bob Carver the
lie SO directly, [ suppose he would have
knocked him down. AS it was, he jump
ed up, without word, and went to his
room.
Lizzie played several very lively airs
with great animation, and was as merry
as a bird until she went to bed
Her apparent triumph over the matter
angered me, and bluntly told her she
had been ill-natured and unlady- like
whereupon she informed me that sschild-
rem should be seen and not heard"
At breakfast, next morning, all of us
had apparently recovered our good humor,
but there was something forced about
Bob's gayety-I noticed that he and Liz
zie said nothing to each other. When
he left, he said he would not be back to
supper. Gle always dined down town
As this was not altogether unusual, no
one but myself appeared to notice it, ex-
cept Clara, who looked at Lizzie with
sort of "I told you so'' glance.
Bob came home late that evening, and
we did not see him until next morning.
At breakfast Lizzie seemed about to say
something to him, once, but did not do So
Father, mother, and Clara went to
church. Bob and I concluded not to 90,
and it was Lizzie's turn to stay at home
and superintend the preparations for din
ner
We are accustomed to eating good
dinners on Sunday, as it was the only
time we could all eat that meal together
and take our time at it. We all enjoyed
those Sunday dinners keenly.
Just before the folks started to church,
Clara and Lizzie were talking earnestly
together, and Clara said, eyes, you ought
to do it, and do it at once" I gave no
heed to the words then, but afterward
knew what they referred to.
Father had sort of half library, half
Office, up stairs, and there Bob and
went; he to smoke and I to read.
After we had been there short time,
Lizzie tapped at the door and walked in.
I asked her if she would have a cigar, to
which she made no reply, but walked
directly toward Bob, who involuntarily
got up to meet her.
I saw that they were about to make up
their quarrel; but as I had been present |