The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-08-20

Percy shy rather than naughty and
Watson began to catch glimpses of
character beneath all that conventional
veil which he had not expected to find.
Of course the wealthy Miss Oromancs
would scorn his further relations. Her
rooms were near his own second floor
apartments she daily, all the season, had
encountered HIM in his walks through I
the long corridor, and must have been
one of the first to learn of his fallen for
tunes. Indeed he half surmised that her /
dressing maid had made special inquiry
into his case, seeing her IN confidential
confab with the floor stewardess and room /
girls So Watson, with reserve or pride
not entertained with others, kept apart
from Miss Oromanes.
On that third evening Of his changed
fortunes, when the Sappho of the Cas-
cades annihiated him, greatly to the
pleasure Of the young 'bloods" around
her, Watson wandered away at length
upon the piazzas; and through the long,
deserted halls, restless, thoughtful, dl-
! gesting the notes which he had been ia
/ king of human nature, and trying to fix
the relative value of man without mon
ey. 1t was the crystalline he was learn
! iug-not the truth In mere solution,
sometimes clear, sometimes Opaque, but
always thin, but the precipitated, hard,
angular clear cut crystals of experience,
mined in unexpected places. Had he
remained upon the second floor, never
would he have obtained the gems, the
mere solution only would have repaid his
keenest search But that migration to
the upper spaces had given him Won
derous lens his horizon was SO lmmeas-
urably extended that barring the fact that
his bill was unpaid, he was the happier,
because wiser for the upward reverse.
Suddenly, in his solitary promenade,
, he confronted the heircss. She was walk
ing arm in arm with young Evans, of hel
''set," in confidential communication il
would appear, else why should they have
been in that long hall alone asked Wat
son, as, with glance, he took in the situa
ton. The meeting was surprise to botf
parties, and the inclination of both mer
=, was to pass without recognition. Evans
indeed, frowned Watson flushed IL
:, anger, and with head erect bore dowl
: and passed his enemies, like suspended
:, or cashiered officer of the line, consciou
: of his soldierly qualities, but equally con
scious of his s'altered circumstances"
: Too high he held his head, in fact, fe
he caught no soft glance from the lady
eye, and trod so firmly upon the trail Q
her elegant evening dress ns to cause
!. perceprible cracking of seams at the Skin
= pieats. Evans turned with a sudde
n singer.
= "Dolt," he Kissed
- Watson passed on, staying to make n
: apology, but he heard the lady say:
&c &c 'Fie, it is nothing;" and he was cor
:. = gcious, too, that she was looking at hi1
- woudcriugly.
;" An hour later Watson was down o
=, the piazzas again, evidently on the que
- for some person, and he found his ma
: ere long Evans was the gentlema
!. wanted. Going up to him Watson said
- MIR. Evans, what was the word yo
20 used at the time l trod on the trail {
= Miss Oromane's dress 2"
j. II said doll, sir and I say it agar
, We have hitherto supposed yon to be
:. gentleman, and now learn that you cal
=, not pay your bills and he laughed, ha
- in scorn and half in humor of the fact s
: opportunely given him to crush anothe
The hot blood few to Watson's face
-. his hands were clenched as if to strike
: by strong effort, he mastered his pa
- sion
- - "Eysns, no gentleman ever would hay
-, uttered that sentence. Only a cowa1
n would fling another's poverty in his fac
= Miss Orcmanes, educated as she has bee
to to give virtue to wealth, might find
M my inability to pay my hotel bill just
tlcatlon tor dropping my acquaintance
- but | doubt if ever she would have cou
=, tenanced incivility. I owe her an ape
}, ogy for my seeming rudeness, and W
give it to her; but you l hold in S
e preme contempt even to exchange wor
- with you. Hereafter do not speak
~, s1s me, for if you do I shall slap your fac
-" even in the presence of ladies'" And t
80 speaker went his way to his attic roo
90 This scene, overheard by several ge
~ tlemen and ladies, soon was the talk
..' the rooms. Evans, being a recoeniz
- leader of a very aristocratic circle, so
- convened others of the set, and Mai
-. Snow was, ere long, summoned to be
-; formed that he must ssclear out Watso
49, Evans offering to pay the delinquen
- bill.
+. And the news few throughout I
5e parlors and promenades that Major Sn
~ was to give Mr.. Robert Watson of Ba
~ more, his walking papers in the mo
.ra. ing
An observer of the scene between t
.sa two gentlemen on the piazza was NJ
a. Oromanes. Having at once retired
on her room to repair the accident to
w veD skirt, the lady donncd another dress, q
,h1a to enjoy half an hour undisturbed, ST
The out upon the pleasant open weat
,ta5 promenade. She was thus witness
, ben what transpired. She, too, retired,
~ evident excitement, to her rooms;
80 when her maid, half an hour !:
"a "a brought the house news that the NJ;
was to clear Watson out in the morni
, ba the heiress, with perfect deliberation,
seyU ? with frightened color in her cheeks,
;ov. clear sparkle in her beautiful eye es,
>, down to her desk and indited the foil
rho. ing note:
most "Major Snow will please take no ac
pack in the matter of the difference betW
nov Mr. Watson and Mr. Evans I overhe
every word that was passed between
that gentlemen, and I fully justify Mr.. Y
ooye son. Were it not an insult to hin
C. D. L., l. e.