Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

1t all happened through y boys
blunder, and because of it four people
were wretchcd for six-month, and
came very near making fools of them
selves for life. 1t takes so little to
make Il fool of a young person i'll
love, you know
Janauschek was playing i'll matt
nee at the Academy of Music, Mil
waukee. She was just finishing her
comedy Of "Come Here,' when my
heroine who sat in the upper row of
the pardnctte circle, not far from the
door, and whom | shall call Jessica
Gray, because it is not her name
turned Il pair of liquid eyes toward
the door for the fortieth time, and
gave q little start Not that she was
very much surprised to see Jack
Wilson (Which is not his name either,
mind you) standing just inside the
door looking over the audience search
ingly with his big eyes-for she had
expected he would come, and had
been watching for him. And there
he was, looking for her. But Just
the moment their eyes met they both
looked in the most Indifferent manner
imaginable, and tried to make it seem
accidental that they had seen each
other at all.
The fact was, Jessica and Jack had
been lovers-not engaged, you know,
but drifting to that point-when they
quarreled. The quarrel was a foolish
one, as such quarrels usually are
yet lovers quarrels have made whole
lives miserable.
Jack called one day and asked Jes-
sica to attend the theater with him
that evening, and Jessica, who had
been going to parties and rides and
plays all the week, said:
ooh. Jack, | would like to 90, but
really | must stay at home tonight
and finish some work | began ages
ago! If | don't stay at home once
in while I'll never accomplish any
thing. SO excuse me this once, and
Pll 90 some other time gladly; and
besides, | have cold, and ought not
to go out"
She smiled very sweetly, and Jack
excused her, and went his way, not
at all unhappy over Jessica's refusal.
But few hours later, when he saw
Bob Brisbow driving his bay nag up
Spring street at break-neck pace,
with Jessica at his side, he felt like
breaking few Commandments, and
both Of their necks.
"W ork to do; cold, indeedw lie
repeated. every fine excuses for the
miserable little tlirt to palm off on
me" And he never went near her
for two weeks. Then one day he
called, but by this time .Jessica was
so angry that she would not see him,
and said mot at home" to the servant
in avoice loud enough for him to
hear, and, lest he had not heard, sat
by the window where he could see
her when he shut the gate. c
"lf he chooses to suspect me Of
meanness and deceit, and never comes
near me for two weeks, he can wait
for his explanation until 1 choose to
make it," thought our highly indig-
nant lady.
The fact was, Carrie Somers, dear
friend Of Jessica's, had received II
telegram calling her to Chicago to the
bedside of Il sister; and she sent Bob
Brisbow, who boarded there, and who
had just come home to tea, to bring
Jessica to assist her in getting ready,
and to say good-by; and that was
how she came to be riding with him.
But Bob was good looking and IA
vorite with the fair ones, and Jack
saw good opening for jealousy.
Well "A week, ten days rolled by,
and those two absurd creatures met
Oh the street and bowed coolly and
went their separate ways as wretched
asneed be, when one word would
have set all right. Jcssica bore it as