The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-10-29
ALL AN ACCIDENT.


II was at the opera. An opcra,glass
had fallen from one of the upper boxes
on the head of a gentleman sitting IN
Now had seen the glass fall had
seen round, white, braceleted arm ana
n ployed hand stretched out to arrest,
as it seemed to me, its descent. lt WAS
all done in moment.
The gentlemen upon whose head the
class had descended had been carried
into the lobby. An ugly wound haa
been inflicted. -,
He was not killed, but gradually re-
viyed, and turned his head toward me-
I knew hint was Stericker.
Then he moved a tremulous hand III
nav direction. He knew me, 1t seemed.
He tried to speak but it was some
time before he could utter any lnIeiH, NJ
GENT sound. AT last we discovered ms
meaning. He had lost something whlch
he desired us, meaning myself ana py'
ISLANDERS, to search for. ,.,.
Search was instituted accordingly
After awhile, very near to the stail he
had occupied, there was picked up-a
glass eye -, oaouoru of
his glass eye, but something else was
missing and that was so founa-a
cur;ous. looking stud; it was not pear
evactlv, 1t was of an oblong shape
milky white, and semi.transpar,eIint, IL
q handsome setting Of brllllants'
Stericker expressed great satisfaction
in a rather incoherent way, thaC Ih.
stud had been found. He clearly prlHeC
# was a nasty shock to q fellow
said Stericker, not long alter this, as W.
talked the matter over. ,,,
I ouite agreed that it must have boel
uorv nasty shock--a most unfortunat
,, accident. At this he laughed fa'he
wildly. - 1a. COLL
that" be said. 80. =, ooo
!, dent?" ,,.o,, .hot
~ "Rnt 7 saw the glass fall, " L saio.
"You mean that you saw hef l''r'"
= '' "Sowq Who ?" | demanded, "ncol
~ sciorsly adopting the intcrfoga'iV0S I
II Hamlet.
" "Arabella ..,;a win,
o T thought him wandering, IN his MIN,
knew nothing of Arabella, cot'l
It not remember that had ever enconn .i
- cred, out of works of felton, any wom'
~ of that name. And thence l came
" - osk myself what, alter all did L real
" know of Stericker himself? In true
RI. it was very little. ,,.,o
~ at was Arabellas doing, OF course
W. be continued, 81 know that very we
a, T know the opera,glass, for the matt
III of that. ought to. | gave 1t TO hel
ST. Where had first met Sterlcker
Ids nv no means clear. I am almost G
es, tain that I was never formally int
'ay dnced to him. But | had seen him
ms. various places upon numberless oc
sions, until l seemed to have acqal,
nuite habit of seeing him. so at
the thing was becoming quite aosur'
i, there was no help for it but to recogl
'no him as an acquaintance, ut any II
NY Finding each other so frequently lace
WE we face in the same place, beneath the SO
'ao ao' roof, and even at the same table, y"
ess could we do, eventually, but laugh
1l nod and say, "What you her
'an 'nn And then we shook hands. ,..,
es, es,, Still I protest that ! knew little
',a. eat him beyond what he told me. -,
!': us' And now had occurred this accideh
'il- the opera. house, confirming as 1t "
as NV NV acnnalptance with Stericker,
IL coverting it almost into friendsl
pe He expressed great gratitude Tor
10" assistance 7 had rendered him, althou
Inn lm' in truth, it had been little enough.
,on ,,an again and again lie thanked me,
poh npesently, his wounded head nay
Wh. s, heen skillfully dealt with and rene
.hat 1at by the application Of strips OF p pas =,
lna Ina, fonnd myself at his lodgings in q
,reo moon street, sitting in an easy ci
GER amokino a cigar and drinking a tenn
1ihg onco mixture of brandy and Wa
.nr' iaS' Until then l had never really ku
ar,,o @ where Stericker lived. L.,
anne land Won saw her throw down
un- onera. glass ?" he raid, returning 10
'lsll- i snbiect of the accident. | CORE
'kes, him had seen no such thing.
aced nun; nt nv ,ov much attention to
rib. ne uiu no' p"'
"Aud how did she look? II
some, of course. She was always
.;o tboneh she certainly is not now nj
an..S S 60 Young as when first met her
anu .La loved her. For what could 90
.ract I but love her? ..ro .,or
"There can be no mistake aDot
o, !. attack of love any more than about
you Of the rout. 1 have suffered from
,ntlc' of,;ctions. In my time l have 10y
.xacs' .ca 60, GOOD deal, and I have, in return
an,it' aaO, loved very much indeed. say "
say ! o"t Yan,s. hn.o ,oved and been loved
le l,oi cap repeated, "and, don't MIND 10y ow
LAacs' @ 7 have in my time lllted anu =,
oman, oman lifted" He said this with u IN
Exact Don Giovanni air, that ! though I1a
" go, ,t,r,, objectionable, "AraDeila