Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-26
NO- 25OT'

-On my f0CuEu GO the uAka, &uU Just eS entered the ante-room, almost dazzled 1 with the full blaze of light, I saw my lost love approaching me; [ did not notice her partner, who immediately disappeared to get her some tea, but greeting her eaOer- ly, and pouring out apologies for my non- l appearance before, solicited the honor of dance. To my astouishment, she re- ceived me as if she had never seen me be- fore, and regretted in the orthodox young lady styA her inability to confer on me the desired favor, as she was unfortu- nately engaged for the rest of the even- ing. Just then her partner returned, bear- ing g cup of tea, and to my astonishment accostea me with ''Hallol Charliel how are you?" and there was my twin brother, whom l thought safe at Montreal, dres- sed in the rife brigade uniform, and evil dently carrying on Irritation with my love-
 'Why, when did you come, and why thus got up" questioned, having re- tion.
 'Too long a story to tell you now, old fellow" he replied, and murmuring some thing about ''Iost my uggage-borrow- l ed your coat-rather lark, ," rushed for ward to relieve Miss Duval of her empty cup, and taking her upon his arm again in another minute, had disappeared from the room, leaving me in Q state of mind in which mystifcation, anger, and aston- lshment struggled for the mastery. h. deed, l began Co fancy that the fumes of MT. Fanshaw's cl@et had turned my brain. and l betook myself to distant part of | the garden to collect my scattered senses. The fresh night air had the desired effect. and aH became as clear as day. My brother. who was always mp to some lark | o1 T Iso.1,k in mystifying people with our extraordi- nary resemblance, had borrowed my uni form for that purpose, and had certainly succeeded with poor Marguerite. It was not pleasant idea to think of the mis- takes she might be guilty of in taking him for me. It was evidently impossible to enllghten her respecting the delusion she was under, and with laugh at so ridicu- lous dilemma, determined to go to her parents and explain the matter to them. l found my little friend Ennice doing wallfower betweeh her father and moth- CT, looking rather disconsolate, and being received with one of her prettiess smiles, l carried her off, nothing 10th, to dance a quadrille which was just being formed near us. As luck would have it, her sis ter and my brother, were vis-a-vis, and Marguerite, when she saw us, colored up ! SO oLo 1OOtS O1 ucE uH1F. Euu1C0 IOOkeQ puzzled, and kept on glancing from one to the other. ''That's my twin brother. Miss Eunice," said at last, ''isn't he | like me?"
 ''Oh!' she exclaimed ''I neverI'-her astonishment drawing forth her most na. sal pronunciation. ''Why did you never tell us2'' And he is in the brigade too."
 ''No, he is not; he is in the guards;but | lost his clothes and borrowed my uni form
 ''BUt does Marguerite know? She takes him for you, l really do believe, for that gentleman met us at the door and laughed and said, 'Punctual, do really ! declare.'"
 ''And what did he say. asked, be- | ginning to smell rat.
 "Oh, something smart about such an lnducement, you know,' and then Mar guerite thanked him for her flowers, and, oh! what deceiver he must bel He said, ''They were the best he could get" l saw it all now, and was furious; when the dance was over, which walked through like one in dream, for was al most motionless with anger, took Eu- nlce for little walk and told her what suspected; then scrawling note to Mar guerite on piece of an old letter, explain ing the trick of which she and I had been the victims, l gave it to the little sister to give her. This sMe promised, and hay ing restored her to her parents, I went of to the barracks to prepare tremendous burst of wrath against my brother and his colleagues, Johnstone and Hood, who where evidently in the plot had been caught in trap, purposely prevented from proposing by Johnstone, purposely detained from keeping my appointment kAI A~x my brother. need not trouble my read CTS with my note to Marguerite in detail; 1t was merely exposing the trick, and I concluded by offering her my heart, which assured her had been her exclusive prop- city for any number of weeks and months. When l woke from my troubled sleep the following morning found 6 note awaiting me, not from Marguerite, as it was as follows:-
 Respected Sir-My daughter desires me to express the deep sense she has of the extreme and unmerited honor you have done her in offering her your hand, but l she feals that with your habits of mn punctuality she could never be happy with you, and although far from being mercenary, she feels that she is not one who could exist without the amenities of 1 life-that Is to say, on love alone. She 
 come temporarily attached to you, sir be- lieying you to be one who could bestow on her the position her beauty should gain for her. She finds she has been de- ceived, and that your brother is the fu- ture possessor of the title she had reason to fancy would have been yours. Sir, she feels sure that, such being the case, you will resign all pretentions to her hand. entirely endorse my daughters sentiments, and beg to subscribe myself.
 Your obedient servant,
 1 ALFONSO DUvAL. [ My brother was most agreeably aston ished at his hearty welcome, when he ap- peared in the course of the morning, look 1 ing, to do him justice, extremely like naughty boy. I handed him the elegant effusion above described, and on master l ing it's contents he laughed till I was fear ful of the consequences. He then, by my request, told me the whole story-how he had received frantic note from John stone, relative to my foolhardy determi- nation to fall into the trap laid for me, | how he had run dswn to Agnesville, and he, Hood and Johnstone, had laid their heads together to save me.
 | Knowing that was supposed by the Duval family to be the eldest son and AOiA' "ii0J @t @tL1ut5Cos '!t~s' Ao oitOuAu pSHSon- ate me until he had become sufficiently acquainted with Marguerite to find out which way the land lay. In the course of the evening he had quietly told her l that l was the younger son, and that he had personated me in older to make the acquaintance of one whose beauty was of worldwide renown. So well did he do this, and with such extraordinary tact, that he was immediately forgiven, and Mademoiselle Duval turned the whole battery of her charms on him, as repre- senting the older son. She fattered her self she had succeeded so we'll that, with out hesitation, she gave me my conge. need hardly say it was 8 case of the bitter bit, and that my brother departed and WAS never more seen bv the lovely eyes of