The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-08

between us, for we walked off together
for several squares AS [ complained o.
severe pain in my eyes from the blow
\ had received, my companion said,
hope Mr.. Hume, you will pardon my re-
cent rude persistency in my fancied en-
gagement with our fair acquaintance, and
/ let us be good friends out of sympathy
for the denoaen1eHt AS we arr here at my
hotel, let us enter and drink TO the good
fortune of MIR. De Stultus.'
Il gladly accepted the invitation, ard
we were enjoying pleasant converse
ton, when a loud noise was heard In the
street MINGLED with cry of distress.
suddenly starting to our feet, we rush
ed forth to render assistance. Helen Van
Horn, was covered with mud, but happily
more frightened than hurt, De Stultus
was also in wretched plight, but too
much engrossed, as might be expected
from such creature, with his own mis-
haps to give the least attention to his as
soc;ate in misfortune, whom he left to
struggle to her feet unaided, and to make
her way to the sidewalk, where he. re
cent visitors met her, and where she hys.
terically explained how n huge truck,
against which De Stultus' carriage was
carelessly driven, had left them stranded
in the muddy street, fortune telY and mar.
velously, However, without broken bones
"Churchill called carriage and we es.
corted the wrecked demoisezle back to her
residence, at the door of which we con.
graduated her upon her lucky esoape,and
bid her good night s..
"My new friend then proposed that we
should drive at ouce to the opera, where
he hoped we might meet party of his
friends, to whom he would be pleased tc
Introduce me, and in whose society we
would find solace for our disappointment
in regard to Miss Van Horn. I assented
Church1lPs friends were met as he had
promised, and among than were two beau
tiful sisters, SO attractive that they speed
ly drove all thoughts Of a, merely hand
some girl, superficial and spoiled, like
Helen Van Horn, out of the head Of
Churchill AS we'll as my own. A charm
ing evening at the opera ripened into &
serious attachment on the parS Of Church
i'll and myself for these sisters, which
ended in our marriage, and no enc evel
had juster reason for saying:
There's divinity that shapes our ends,
| Rough heW them how we WILL
than have. And now you know why
did not marry Miss Van Horn, and alst
how two men, for moment about to b.
made enemies through the reckless, un
scrupulous coquetry Of an inferior woman
by a happy stroke of fortune becam
friends and brothers.
GAS for Helen Van Horn, she still live
in single blesssdness, and upon the mem
DRY Of her many conquesta, finding he
chief qualification for some years past, il
recounting the various eligible offers zht
had refused including always Churchill
and myself among her rejected suitors. A
heavy speculation into which De Stultu
had been beguiled about the time of Mis-
Van Horns triple engagements for th'
same evening, resulted SO disastrously fo
him that her doors were at once rigidll
closed upon that admirer, who disappear
ed like a quenched meteor from society
Meanwhile occurred the death Of old Mr.
Van Horn, which, as have said, left th
daughter no other attraction than mer'
physical beauty, that had now become 81
azse that it ceased to please marriagebl
men, and she was no longer able to max
three engagements for one evening.
Oilers has indeed been a life of lost OBJ
portunitiss."