Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-09

within his grasp.
''My dear" said he, "I really must
ask you for little money to liquidate
my bills here, so that we can go home !"
~ would do so with pleasure, my
dear, but am somewhat in the same
as yourself-waiting for a
The remittance she was waiting for
was the one she expected would come
to her better half. She and Stephen ].
were one now.
After few days waiting, the money
question came up again.
"It's rather strange, Celestia, that
you do not receive that remittance,
isn't it?''
swell, to tell you the truth, Stephen
dear, don't think it will come till
yours does!"
If that's the case, it will be long
time coming. I really don't under
stand this business. Haven't you a
few hundred dollars to spare, just now,
here mean, so that we can pay our
bills and be of. The season Is getting
shockingly late?"
81 haven't fifty dollars in the world.
You know L always told you i was
penniless!"
"Yes, bnt--Good heavens! you sure
ly must be jokingl You don't really
mean it? Tell tiie truth don't trifle
with me nowI"
"Trifie! Why should 1? 1t 3 true !!
1 always told you So, anl, Mr.. john
son, Inever tell a lie! | in "a lady,
SIR"
80. horror! Impossible, Impossible!"
"Sir!" Celestia thought only of the
impoSsibility of her being lady.
"Have you no estate at the south ?"
Certainly not-neither at the south
nor at the north, nor at any point of
the compass. But what odds can it
make to you? You knew 1 was poor
when you married mt. You told me
you cared nothing for money-that
you married me for love; and 1 I'M
sure you have so much wealth that it
could make little difference to you
whether l an with nothing or with
million. You have more than enough
for both of us!'' - a9 o. eta-,a.
'I, madam! II hal ha! I have
nothing-positively, absolutely moth
ing! 1 yertold you 1 was worth
anything; on the contrary I told you
distinctly 1 was not rich" u .aas
"You have MT a bank ?'' ~ '<-a 3
tertainly not!'' -. - - ~
Nor block of brown-stone fronts?"
"Not even block of brown stone!"
"Nor warehonse9r f1E + M 81
"Nor'
"Nor store2n
"Notso much as shop!"
"Nor money either?" -.
s'Not a single dollar 1t Is all gone
All goneip Ap Ibgu = IlDlli
30, you wretch! Oh! Oh! You
villainp ~ '7ol 49, ri
s''I am wretch, indeed" Es -
"Don't you dare to joke with me, sir!
Isupposed you were wealthy. Every
body said sol" ea assa s.n
"And everybody said the same about
you. III have a divorce! I've been
deceived" ~ stii3
"So've II III have divorce, toop
go, you scoundrel, o, you robber!'
madame! this language comes with a
very bad grace from fortune-hunting
vixen who has been caught in her own
trap. 1t would be better IL -"
The remainder of this sentence was
utterly extinguished by succession Of
female shiieks that brought Mrs. Mont
gomery, Abel, James, and a host Of
wondering loungers into the room.
How Mr.. Stephen johnson got away
from the village of BalIston,l or how
Celestia and her mother managed to
liquidate their liabilities and retire to
their Southern home, never satisfactor-
ily transpired; but certain it is that
they all disappeared from the theatre
of this little melo-dramatic episode OF
their existence, with considerably di'
minished wardrobe, it is fair to pre-
sumo; and from that day to this neither
Stephen ]. nor Celestia has seen the
other; but each lives in state of mar
ried single blessedness-so far from
each other, and yet SO near-a condi-
ton of things by no means pleasant to
contemplate. =
This tale has moral, but what the
moral is leave to the ingenious read
er to supply at the dictates of his own
imagination. : ''''' ''''.''''