The Portland daily press., 1873-02-01
"a in the business q

$50 there is a papa in the business
eyes GOOD old elbow, too; was trench
dousIv Obliged to me and offered me some
COIN"
81 go riled at that. showed him nv six
shoe er and asked him if he wanted to insult
me, whereupon he apologized like gentle
mar and we all had drink"
Including hel ladyship.''
NO, coniound you, the women folks had
taken her off.
Proceed with papa
We had another drink, and got talking,
ana found out that he was Tom Kemble's
father"
what! Tom that was in our year! That
delicate little fellow you used to make such a
pet of?''
CHATS about it. Poor Tom had petered
out. and the old gentleman and his daughter
had taken trip West"
The family acquaintance facilitated friend
ship?"
81 suppose it helped. At any rate 1 stuck
| to them and went round together, and Nettie
| and Chat, her name, Nettie Kemble) got
nuts, and spoke out to the old man ana
showed HIM my hane, and told him hear1s
were trumps, but that 1 could spot diamonds
if I'd mind. .
'What cards did he call to that?'
s.he to ii me to come up to New York and
ed see about it,
"Provilent paternal. So you came up ac-
eordingly?'
GO. in this morning. Went and got fined
up square, and started right off to Gramercv
| Park"
$50 be received with outstretcbed hands
| and open a.ms?"
missed the post that time. Sent up nv
card but they'd gone to matinee at the
opera"
where yon followed without deiay?'
Straight of. That fellow at the office
| owes me some change, for save him a fifty
Dill and didn't wait tor my staI1ps.''
| Prices are high, but not so bad as fifty"
| II IAN round the house until they wanted
to put me o 1t. Said was mad"
"a conclusion uncharitabe in the extreme,
but pardonable under the Gil cumstances."
"We We're having talk about that when
| go, and l waited to see the crowd pass. and
Jack, when she and her father can along, 1
felt all of heap, and just stood still and
looked right at them, and she looked
straight in my face and never stopped,
and she's forgot me, and I'm going back to
| California to morrow" Here poor Charley
covered his face with his hands and broke
| down.
"Hold on. did you get shaved to-day?
''Pretty much all over.''
cite tonsoral operation may have altered
! your Identity"
He lifted nis face up and CLEAN of hope
flashed over his features. / took down the
| photograph and led him to the glass.
''See there. Look on th,s picture and on
that
I-dop't-think-I shall 60 back to the
Flat To- morrow. What shall do?"
Interval for reflection.
''Was your address on your card ?"
"Yes, st. Nicholas.
Just you stay here ton ght and well have
a chat, and see if they don't call tomorrow
or write Perhaps there is a letter there
now"
SPY Jove, you're right. Let's go and see
right off.
''Do take it quietly. / don't expect any
such thing.
''But | do. VIII you come, for if you won't
I'll 60 alone"
Up he got, and, nolens celens, I was
obliged to accompany him, for feared that
ne might do something rash in his frenzy.
We arrived a, the st. Nicholas, and sure
enough letter awaited him with N. K.
monogramized on the fold. He opened it and
read as follows:
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
Crane cy Square.
MY DEAR Mr.. DEsPARD: I am so glad
| y
saw at the Academy? 1t was not a bit like
you, and yet l think it was. Please call
soon.
Ever yours, NELLIE KEMBLE.
Charlie yelled, ''she signs herself Ever
Yours" and wanted to shout for the crowd.
but happier thought struck him, and before
knew what he was up to he leaped on to
the box of carriage and went up Broadway
in the same style he used to steer his team
among the strlmps and bou'ders of the Cali
fornian wilds. l followed him in another
with the coachman, and in due time found
Charley's trap in charce of an astonished
darkey at the abode Of his lady love-
Icame away then. Below you have the
latest news from the scene of action:
DesDard-Kemble.- the residence of the
brides father, January 16, by Rev. George
Newtown, D. D., Charles Despard, la Of
Green Fat, CAL, to Miss Nellie Kemble, on
| y daughreI of Thomas Kemble, of Gramercy
Park, N. Y.