Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-01-06

QOn U mink tNcI icit tuc botio'y " i""S ~
abruptly before. Nothing In the world
mean t6e N, Y. World-could have induced
me to go back and apologize for tearing my
sell away.
As intimated, my engagements were
now limited to two How happy could be
with either, if t'other dear charmer possessed
S75. 600. likewisely, and wanted TO be woed
and won for herself alone!
It was now time to bring things to crisis
possibly n cry-sis-and take qpe for better
or worse. It would be ''worse and worse
If took the wrong one.
The Chinese problem and the Dalmatian
question were mere A, B, G, alongside the
quandry was in Of choosing tho disguised
chambermaid.
Finally a little incidcn. occurred which
satisfied me who was not the heiress. one
evening colored individual inserted MS
curly head in my room, and said
"NIan down stairs, sab, wants to see you,
sah."
s.Show the gentleman up, Samuel"
stNo gemmen, sab only man.
I went down TO see the man. He was In
the bar-room. Il don't practice going into
bar-rooms ssto see man.D This man was
six foot Fcnian, and carried formidable
looking shilalah. Anger was in his eye, and
an unpleasant odor Of whisky and onions
in his breath. He button-holed aud led ne
out the room. Looking me square in the
ewes, he asked:
sis it d. Dadd yer name is p.
| q. Washington could not tell lie. But
was George ever placed in predicament
| like ths?-was he ever confronted py
Celtic giant, with a ferocious countenance
and still more ferocious club, who plled
him with perplexing conundrnms shouid
rather think not 49,, -,
had left the place, never, never more to re-
turn.
s.None NV yer shenanigan now,' quoth
theviant. ..isn't it yerser that's him p and
lie swung his shilalah uncomfortably near
nv Roman nose. / again assured him was
altogether another person.
us we'll fur yet that yes not him, said he,
ssor be the the howly st. Pathrick "a crack
the head o We wild this bit Nv shtick! The
dirty spalpeen, to be akin me sishter Mag
ret to marry i'm, an he coortin' dozen
other lasses Wurra bad luck to him J.
lie left. And 1t has vexed me more than
little since that l did not chastise him on
the spot There is but one reason why
did not--and it is not necessary to name H.
His sister! Maggie his sister
She was not the heiress, then, certainly.
Flow. Though his appearance on the stage
prevented me putting my foot in it. had
fully intended to marry Maggie, char
named Jones wanted her, but she preferred
. me. now concluded to let Jones have her
There was but one more chambermaid LETT
and SHE acas the $4,000 heiress beyond ,
doubt. JSaie was the girl for me. ('Sallie
was some OF ler name, by the way.) AS WI
were already ser gagged" we decided to en-
ter the matrimonial state instanter.
"Theres many a slip 'twixt the cup ant
the lip," and ''the best laid plans of mic
and men gang aft aglee," and all that sort
thing, you know.
| didn't marry Sallle. Something con
vinced me that she was not the heiress ate
all.
On the morning of the day our wedding
was to take place, l read in a local pape
this personal item -
"a PRlze.-we understand that young lad
, named Maggie N, worth $4,000, has bee
pmployed for some weeks in gentleman
family in this place, us chambcrmaid. Mis-
n entered service as u domestic IN cog
to speak, for the purpose OF being wooeo ap
won for herself alone and we learn Mr -
! worthy young IN IN of Jacksonville, will lead ht
:, to the hymenia altar next week. He Will secul
:, prize,
That ''worhy young man of Jacksonville
y was Jones. knew it was Jones. He use
d to meet Maggie on tire street, promenad
4 with her, buy her gum drops, cream choc'
" lates, and other epsia-breeding goodies
And he was going to marry "Magret u
hercss, when ''it might heen"-but it wi
, do no good to grieve over it, What has bee
is, and will be again.
'. And the six-footcr-was he her brother
IL methnks hear you ask. ~
n No more than you are. IL was litt
a ruse the heress adopted to ascertain If 81
- was loved for herself alone. He was h
u brother ad interim or pro tenn, as 1t were.
!, The giant called on Jones, too, with IL
n same threats and same shialah; nut Jon,
l. didn't trighten worth cent. He just pitc
ir ed the Fenian down stairs, and went {
d with his wooing.
lam sorry now, very sorry, that did n
1t do the same.
s Yours, b. DApp.