Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-12-24
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THE RIVALS.
A Story for Christmas.

"Hush up!'
Cant do it, old fellow anything to
oblige you but that. Must tell some
body, or I'll burst"
"Well, what about her %
"What about her!
Why, man, she is mine own,
And as rich in having such jewel
AS twenty seas if all their sands were pearl
Their water nectar, and the rock pure gold. > !"
Good gracious w
Sorry you don't like Shakespeare
"'And they no sooner looked but they
loved no sooner loved but sighed ; NJ sooner
sighed but they asked one another the reason :
no sooner knew the reason but they sought
the remedy, and in these degrees have they
made pair of stairs TO marriage.
And now, my sweetly sympathetic friend,
you know all about it,"
"What fool you are, Harry p
81 say, Joe, if there is any medal
awarded for politeness at that university
of yours, you'll be sure to get it, She's
just the sweetest, dearest
IF there's any more of that to come,
would you mind retiring to your own
room p
Joe, you're beast You never saw
such a darling in all your life.
As Harry dashed out of the room, Joe
sat musng He believed that it was
little Mabel of whom Harry spoke, and
notwithstanding his words and rough
manner to the young graduate, his heart
was glad He had seen the attachment
spring up between the two, and rejoiced
at it.
A little later he was undeceived, and
he sought the boy whom he loved so
much.
Harry. is Alice Remson The girl of
whom you were telling me to-night?"
"Of course she is. Sweet little Ally !!
There couldn't be two like her in the
world Why, you don't know her, do
you 2"
Il know of her."
''Then you must know that she's the
sweetest, dearest little | forget. I'm
an awful bore, Joe; / know it,
"Shc is two years older than you
are"
"Y-e.s."
"And woman is older than a man at
the same age. Alice Remson is twenty
FIVE"
"Well? You don't intend to tell me
that woman is decrepit at twenty-five,
do you :"
"Alice Remson was a belle in New
York society before you had enteted
college"
"What of it?
81 have story to tell you tonight,
Harry, VIII you try and listen patient
ly, and not hate me when have fin
ished? Shake hands once more, will you
You may not be willing to do so when
| have done, j" and Joes strong hand in
closed Harry's more delicate one for
moment in its firm grasp. Harry was
startled by the quivering, uncertain tone
in Joe's voice and the gentle way in
which he laid his hand back on the bed
when he ceased holding it.
did you ever hear of Charley
Howard ?"
Eyes, / think 50. The man who was
found drowned in the bay. wasn't him ?
There was a great fuss about it in the
papers. was in the country then, you
know
Charley Howard was some thing like
you, Harry, frank, open, and noble
hearted, generous and aGectionate. I'm
like you, he was poor, relying entirely
upon bis own exertions for living, and
working hard as a clerk in the banking
house of Huntley & Co. Wherever
Charley went he was favorite. He met
Alice Remson for the first time at Mr..
Huntley's; but, after that, not a week
passed that he did not spend one or
more evenings at her side At balls,
parties, or receptions Charley was her
constant attendant; be was her escort at
the opera he walked with her in the
and later in the day rode with
her in the Park. Their names were al
ways coupled together in the current
gossip Of drawing-rooms, and people