The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-01-18

troveFsy, MIR. Sprlgglns, SAID the old
man. As man of honor you will
certainly offer to release my daughter
from her engagement. OF course, if
she does not accept your offer of free
dom, as the best thing under the cir
cumstances, / shall have nothing to
say. Good day, Mr.. Spriggins, am
in somewhat of hurry
E In hurry, is he p muttered SprIg-
gins, as his intended father-in-law dis
appeared from view. Seems to me
everybody is in a hurry now that
meets me. Ali understands. The
sickly smile, the furry and hurry,
means simply that they want to drop
me from their list of friends. Well,
they, shall be accommodated. But
there is one friend that .sticketh closer
than brother, she will not desert
me. There's great consolation in that.
So saying, he hastened TO see her,
He found her in tears. For the first
time since engaged in trying his ex-
pertinent, he felt like very mean man.
He would have confessed at once
what a great liar he had been making
of himself, had not the confession
been rather awkward undertaking.
You have, no doubt, learned. said
he, : that have met with a sudden
reverse of foatune. Your father tells
me that the only honorable course for
me is to offer to release you from your
engagement. And while doing so,
permit me to say, that if, after being
released from your engagement with
Spriggins, the rich man, yonE will
plight your faith to him as a poor man
/ shall be the happiest being on earth.
/ want to be an honorable man, and
so give you your freedom. aoa
Miss Dulcina sobbed convulsively,
but finally succeeded in speaking so
as to be understood. $50
You are very kind, Mr., Spriggins,
she said. i am very sorry that our
engagement must be broken off, for 1
did like you so we'll
And so the hopes that Mr.. Spriggins
had 6entertained were dashed to, the
gr@hnd. His Dulcina liked him very
well, but liked his money better and
so when she imagined that was gone,
she too, left him. Without another,
word he strobe from her presence,
different, but by no means a happy
man.. o a fr =
$50. SOP he muttered. The, en-
gagement on her part has been a mere
matter of money, l am as good. and
a good deal WISER g.si zo.s. s@a4t =.
You are right said he to me-.
This world is a hnmbugl There is.
not man or woman among all my
friends, that's worth a pinch of shuff.
But I'll be revengedi / have a plan in
my head that will spite old Smith de-
al 53s5f ,rl5....9e +
Mr.. Spriggins seemed TO have been
struck with new thought, He left
me abruptly, and / saw him no more
for several days. Meantime the news
was spread around that Spriggins was
not insolvent-that it was all a hoax
The next time / saw him he told me
with sort of malicious pleasure, that
he had got about even with his friends
Said he, know of an investment
that will pay, without doubt, at least
fifty per cent. [ called on Mr.. Smith
and explained the thing to him. He
was highly pleased, and. offered to go
into the affair. But said ], you are
ercessicely short I've called on the
rest with like result, and now I'm
Y 5sas.s tF.ss.a.e ta.7,. 8
Mr.. Spriggins laughed, hut twas
rather disagreeable laugh. IS e.i 81
met, said he, the father of her
whom once intended to marry He
was very friendly, but l told him +
was in a hurry, and couldn't stop, to
talk, my time being too: precious :
And every time. those false-hearted
friends smile on me so pleasantly, /
pass on, and tell them Pm in, a hurry..h
suppose Mr.. Spriggins has had hiso
revenge, but he is a very sad man
now.o He is ) an old bachelor, and
vows that girls care more about money
than good, true heart. He says. too,
that the love stories scattered over the
country are without any foundation in
real life. Poor Spriggins He .;has
learned at great cost the truth that ~
Where ignorance is bliss, tits folly to be wise