Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-15

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JUSTIN, MOWER COU
Another card was successfully depos.
tied.
Flushed with success, he made ready to
leave the fourth and last card. He put
on his cap and beaver, gathered up the
hats, and rang again.
All was silent.
Another ringing peal.
A step was heard far inside the house.
1t came nearer and nearer, and faally the
door was unbolted. Jack was about to
ask the same question as before, when he
saw thatthe professor himself was before
him. He had just presence of mind enough
to say Good evening".
"Good evening, Slr. -" said the
professor, not recognizing one Of his own
immediate pupils.
"Mavnard,' said Jack gasningly, re.
membering his collarless condition,
"Ah! Mr.. Maynard, l am glad to zee
you; my niece and have just returned
from the concert and you will pardon our
rumpled appearance 80
Jack stepped into the entry. The pro-
fessor looked little astonished at the fur
gloves on such an occasion, but said moth.
ing, aid led the way to tie parlor. A
young lady was standing with her back
towards them - they entered. -. no.
My niece, Miss Hast inge, Mr.. May
nard," said the professor.
She looked at him wondoringly, AZ he
stood there, top-boots, cape, fur gloves, and
all, with very pale face and very rumpled
hair.
Tho conversation which followed must
have been striking one. Jacks ideas
could only be kept together by the most
intense effort, and he constantly contradict
ed himeeif, and confused them, mixing all
the topics Of conversation in the unfatho,.-
able muddle. He tried to give reason
for coming on that special occasion, and
made weak failure. The embarrassment
grew more and more intense ON both
sides, till the professor, plying him for
what he supposed was bis bashfulness, and
seeing how uncomfortable he looked,
said
"Mr Maynard, that cape must be very
wsrm. Do take it. off," .
In his embarrassment, he touched the
upper button, and it gave way, revealing
the collarless void below. At the same
instant the hats, which were only held up
by the pressure Of the caps, fell On the
floor.
How he got out Of that parlor he could
never clearly tell. But somehow or other,
be did, and walked slowly towards home.
The moonlight looked very differently to
him now. The shifting clouds became
troops Of laughing goblina He thought
Of the cold moonlight falling on the ice in
the far north, asd wishing that be was
buried q mile deepin those lifeless regions.
He thought it wasn't SO strange, after I'LL,
that Victor Hugo should have made his
hero wait the rising tide, and wondered II
he could fud suitable place in the
Charles, whereon to sit and wait like a
happy oblivion.
Reaching his room, th.. fellows were all
eager to hear his story.
:" Did you leave the cards ?"
GALL but one; and here it is.'
He felt in his pocket, and looked blank.
II was not there it had fallen with the
cape on that parlor floor, and he had left
it there.
Word by word they got tho whole
story out of him. They laughed till thew
could laugh no more; they rolled aboa:
the floor in ecstasies of mirth; but he sat
silent and motionless. At last they saw
how deeply it had cut him, and left him.
To no very happy reflections. To be
sure, he had broken no law; but the pref.
ty element of the business kept anpovinp
him more and moro. How could he ever
hold up his head in Cambridge after this?
He sat late into the night. Bob left him
sitting there, silent and motionlesS, look.
ing as if he had seen the Gorgon's head
The next morning Bob called out
"Jack!"
"Ycs."
Il hope it doesn't trouble you. It's all
imagination, you know"
my child, never sit ON your parent
when he's down."
! lie dida't dare to walk about Cambridge
for fortnight. At the end of that time
he ventured out. 1t was dull, cherries.
afternoon. The trees kept up slow drip
ping, and the sidewalks were damp and
slippery; The leaden sky cast q gloon
over oil the lanscape, that accorded vel
with his mood. He was thinking that he
wasa useless member of society, that hi'
lite would always be dull and ordinary
and that he might just a. we'll stop tryica
to make anything Of HIMSELF when ht
turned corner and came full IN Mis-
Hastings.
He didn't expect her to recognize hin,
and was resolved to pass her withou,
noticing tho cut; but she stopped ant
spoke to him. o.-3s
:" Is this yours 2" said she, handing hin
the card he had dropped. ".
at is;" and flushed at the cruelty, ht
was hurrying on, but she stopped hin
again. -
"He didn't see it. picked it up ani
kept it. I saw through the whole thing.
never pitied any one 40 much in my life
You must have ielt awfolly. Come ant
see me at the De Vriee."
lie was 90 overcome at the sudden re
vulsion, that he took her hand and kisset
it, right in the street. Nobody noticed It
except q very small girl on the other side
who said Oh, my! =" and crossed over t
get better view of further proceedings
Of course, he had 10 apologize tor th,
rudeness and explain all about it at once
They walked slowly up the street, and jus
as they reached = little eminence, tn,
leaden sky broke into great riffs before
thom in the west and q food of igh
glowed on the far-otf, snowy hills an
threw crimson veil over all the sky.
How beautiful the view ISL said she
Yes" said he, looking right in her face
What lovely flush the sunset throw
on it."
What else he said is not recorded. Blu
Bob said that when he came in that nigh
abe was 50 happy that if you stood hin
on his bea d he'd have walked of withou
knowing it.
Discomforts Of Railway Travel in India
Railway travelling by the third clas
in India is attended with an amount O
Inconvenience and discomfort almos
equal to what one experiences in tn,
street cars in New York city, if we ma,
Judge from the account given of it b;
q HindOO correspondent of the Madra
Mail which we find in the Pail NAL
Gazette. The writer uses the Englisl
language not much more intelligibl,
than Robert Browning, but we can in
terpret his meaning even in the dark
ness he describes. This passenger
failing to find room in other depart
ments of q train from Erod, was obfige>
to take his seat in a third-class car
riage, Sin which," he says, II hav
found Mohammedan passengers en-
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