The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-12-04
MAKING UP.


"Singularp'
81 don't think it is singular"
Fred. Tracy lit his cigar ovel
again, and resumed his faYorite re
lcumbent attitude. His friend Harry
Blake kept on whiting, now and
then casting wondering glances al
this handsome woman hater. After
a moments silence Harry remarked;
"How any man can dislike woman
is. more than I can tell"
"Bah" interrupted Fred; "you
forgot that 1 had a step-mother,
and"
"Was jilted"
''NO, sirP-this with emphasis
"no woman ever Tilted mer'
"But what about your engagement
with Sue Osmond? Something hap.
pened. Whose fault was it-yours
or hers?"
eff you want to know, I'll tell you,
and leave you to judge whose fault
it was. That girl run away with
every bit of sense I had, for brief
period-only brief period. Invoke
up one night to a realization of what
a fool / had been! Of course,
every fellow who is engaged to a
girl supposes he has won perfection.
l did"
"a very foolish thing to suppose,
to begin with"
"Pshaw! You don't know what
you are talking about. For about
six weeks after our engagement ev-
erything was lovely. She was
pretty, fascinating, deucedly intelli-
gent and accomplished; and 1
spared no pains to take her every
where she wanted to go. My team
was kept pretty busy those days, I
tell you. She couldn't ride in a
hired coach; and as for the cars or
stage, why bless your heart! I should
never have dreamed, in any emer-
gency Of suggesting either"
''Do you mean to tell me that Sue
Osmond is such fool as that?"
"She never said anything about
the way she should go; but, don't
you see, I made such an idol of her
that I couldn't bear to feel for q mo-
ment that she had stepped outside
Of her own especial sphere"
"Fiddlesticks"
Gall right. Fall in love yourself,
and then see! Well this was my
manner Of treating her. One even.
ing last winter, I returned from the
Office. 1t was about z o'clock, and
it never rained harder since the del
uge. 1t was a cold, slippery, horri-
BILE night, and Jim Hawkins and
walked straight through the crowd
ed boat, and stood outside the avn
ing. There weren't but two or three
there besides US. l noticed a woman
leaning against the opposite side ot
the window. I saw she had on an
old waterproof cloak, and the hood
was drawn over the hat. Finally
after considerable squirting at the
figure and side face of the woman
Jim said with a nudge:
Don't you know who that is
Fredp
How the mischief should ]
KNOW
"'You ought to if fanybody. TAX
a good look now
"Just then the boat touched tn
Idock. l looked, and as sure as
live there stood Sue Osmond, m.
Ilady love. She drew the hoot
closer over her face, and while l wa
deciding what to do the chain wa
lowered, and Sue was lost anon!
| the crowd"
The man who hesitates,' yOl
know"
eyes 1 know all about it. An hOu
after, I called on Miss Osmond. Sh
was dressed, ready to receive me;
never saw her eyes so bright; Their
was an indefnable glitter all oye
her, and her manner was fascinating
to the last degree. After a Will
said I:
Sue, 1 could have sworn an hOu
ago that saw you on ferrybOatl
"'CouId your she laughed, with
out changing color. "Never sWea
20 personal identity. 1 know a maj
who got into a horrible scrape b.
doing so.'
We'll, it wasn't you, was it, Sue
1 asked.
"'How ridiculousP she answered
and then, with a most unusual tOuc
of defiance in her manner, 'Suppos
it was-what thenP
&" Nothing much,' said 1; 'onl
3 good-by, Miss OsmOndP
: " 'TrulyP said she, in the Gaines
? possible manner.
E +" Yes, truly 1 answered, 'unles
D you can account satisfactorily tc
' lconduct so questionablep
D $50 whatY she asked, growing 8
: white as death.
so questionable" l repeated:
I "'She rose in q white heat Th
e lis what she said:
/ /" "sAbout 7 o'clock this evening
4 crossed the ferry from New York
e Brooklyn, and l refused to give an
e account of the circumstances WhlC
o made such questionable conduct n
q cessary. So good-by, Mr.. Tracy.
!. "What thenp' inquired Harry.
i "Why, sac swept out Of the roo
I like a tragedy queen, and 1 haven
e spoken to her since"
4 Three weeks after. Same rool
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