Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-01

"But / told the Judge" said he, look
ing at me deprecatingly through eyes full
Of penitent tears, II told him all the time
that was sure there was something that
l ught to gohaok to the hotel for. So
you see my dear, didn't really forget
you, only that wretehed business was up.
pc-most for the time. But the Judge
talked me out Of this fancy, so off to
Brooklyn | went, and we ate a capital
dinner, (unkindest cut of ally, and smoked
our cigars, and smoOthed out cur whole
case, 50 that old What's his name him
self, couldn't ruffie it up again. 1t was
after midnight by this time, everybody
in the house having gone to bed, so the
Judge himself showed me up to my room.
Just as he was bidding me goodnight he
said, "By the way, Winthrop, why didn't
you bring down that pretty Did Judge
Coates say pretty or was that stroke
inspiration on papa's part0 little daugh-
ter of yours, whom we met last summer
at the White Mountains, to make us q
visit p"
81 am afraid. my child" said poor pa
pa thOughtfully, "that Judge Coates may
think | left him somewhat abruptly, for
of course | came away at once"
Somewhat abruptly, l shonld think.
There he was, still wearing pair of
gaily embroidered slippers which had
been lent to him while his boots were Civ.
en- to the servant for brushing; in his
hand was little gray hat, which he had
snatchcd as he rushed through the dark
hall at Judge Coates; and around his
neck was a weeks accumulation of pock-
ct-handkerchicf of various materials and
and compilations, and-as truly as | live
Judge Coates night-gown (which he had
just handed his guest when he took flight
so mysteriously), all of which, how
ever, made but sorry substitute for the
overcoat he had left behind him. Alto.
gether he was such a bizarre figure as
even New Y ork cannot often show.
One Of my weaknesses is that | cannot
stay vexed, no matter how great the prov
ocation may have been: so | actually
forgave that guilty man, ard sent him tc
his bed to sleep the sleep of the just.
f While we were breakfasting amicably
Together the next morning Judge Coatc,
came in, so anxious was he to learn tn,
fate of his eccentric guest. No sooner
had he uttered his inquiry after his daugh
ter than papa, clutching his hair like {
mailman, AMI rubbing his face, wet with
the moisture Of sudden fright and sorrow
on the borrowed nigbt-gown, shrieked out
"What fool l AMI THAT is the very
thing | told you | ought to go back to thu
hotel after, and then, plunging out Of thu
room and down the staircase, he had un
bolted the street-door and vanished frop
| sight before his host could recover from
his establishment.
t When father reached the ferry anc
' found how long he must wait for boa
D to New York, he fairly raved with fran
/ tic apprehension for me, according to hi
Y own representation, and it is one of tn
marvels of the policing ola great city tina
I he was not seized and locked up as tn
y desperate he certainly looked.
y But to make long story short in th
ending, it all came out screnely after all
/ Judge Coates sent dispatch home abou
e me which brought over his wife and only
: son. the owner of the gray hat, to din
i. with us that night. and take me TO tn
/. opera. The next morning they sent thu
I carriage for me and took me bodily t
their house. where finished my visit tri
n umphantly. As for father, he gave m
daintiest set ofpink coral he could fine
!. at Titfany's as peace-otfering, and a
r long as we remained, trotted after his in
| jured daughter wherever she went In
I deed he was, might say omnipresen
7 and devoted to fault, since Charlie
4 Coates and several of his friends stoo
O ready to relieve his overburdened min,
J. of such a responsibility.
i All pleasant things come to an end an
t my visit was not an exception. 1t wa
d not what my fancy had painted whe
| papa hae propose my going to Ne'
' York. Indeed, it was not New York a
/, all I; but it had been 'treat" of the frs
: quality, and | had hard work to keep tn
tears back when l said goodbye to tn
charming family who had entertained nj
r so delightfully."-.
r As papa had some last business to at
tend to in New York, it was arrange
Q that we should meet in the waiting-roor
4 of the Twenty-seventb Street station
: whittier Charley Coates had promised t
: take me at the proper time.
f On our way over from Brooklyn Char
/ lev laid wager of half dozen of Jugla