The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-11
WAS IT AN ELOPEMENT7
TIFF CONSPTRATOES.

''Why, Harry, you look blue tonight!
What's up?''
"Blue ? Well, guess you'd look a
kind of deep indigo, # you were IN my
fix. am blue and with faint hope
that you may be able to reduce the in
tensity OF the shade, I came round to
bore you"
''Much obliged! If there is anything
in the way of dry goods, trimmings, rib
bons-"
Come, now, stop your chaf! I am
serious, Tom, downright serious to
night-the matter is serious imminent,
to use reportorial expression-and I
want to consult you, If you promise not
to ridicule everything I say
''All right! friend of my early days.
Behold the bosom ready to receive the
sacred confidence of the love-lorn
youth.
''Pshaw ~
''Hold Let us do this thing en- reqle
There; you take that chair And I
will place mine thus. beside yours.
Now we viii exchange bows, thus and
take cur seats, side by side, plum up to
the foot-hghts, and you will commence,
Five and twenty years"
'Therel" exclaimed Harry Caverly,
snatching up his hat, and making strides
to the door, II knew couldn't get any
satisfaction from your COMPOUNDED tri-
fling; SO I'll say goodnight
stop, old fellowl Don't 90 away
mad. [ assure you I'll be as solemn as
a man with dead mother-in-law. But
that's the way that sort of thing is done
In the theatre, and you know my taste
lies shat way. Don't got"
every well, Tom Bubbles; I won't
go if you viii only listen to me quietly"
by the nine gods I swear. Now
take the easy-chair and let us have sweet
counsel together
Caverly placed his hat once more upon
the table, and threw himself with
doleful sigh into the gigantic Turkish
armchair before the blazing log fire.
Tom settled himself luxuriously on the
lounge at the side, and throwing his
head back on the cushions, simply ex-
claimed: ''Begin !"
s'You know Madge Bane?'
81 should think I had heard little of
her-just leetle. From you, think
but [ may be mistaken. Madge Bane,
the sSylish-looking, long haired beauty.
Lives with her uncle down at Montrose
twenty minutes by ail-twenty-four
trains daily. Lives in grim old stone
house, situated in the middle of an en-
closure, surrounded by high brick walls.
Uncle-a dastardly old villain-is her
guardian, and don't favor the advances
OF certain person who shall be name
less Am [ on the track?"
Eyes, OF course. But [ wish you
wouldn't go on in that strain. pom nv
word, Tom, I want your advice Groom
ISOLATION, or whatever you my choose to
call it,
''Wel, don't ask LIE any questions,
and shan't interrupt again.
81 don't know that I ever told YOU.
Tom, how far that affair between Madpe
and myself has gone. But, to make
long story short, we were engaged last
spring"
''What Are you serious, Harry
Caverlys" exclaimed Tom, Jumping up
excitedly. ''Engaged?"
Eyes, Tom, engaged" replied Harry,
rather lugubriously.
MY dear old fellow returned the
other, grasping his friends hand and
shaking 1T with honest pleasure, ''if YOU
had told me that Snag & Burlap propos-
ed taking me into partnership, YOU
could not have given me greater happi-
ness. Allow me to con-
Eyes, but hold on bit. Don't do
that vet
"'Um %
just SIT down, now, like a good fell
low
''But why this dismal air? A beauti-
full bride and bag full of ducats. A
life Of
''When you get through"
"Oh l forgot-no questions! am
all attention. Proceed, Romeo."
so u
least the strong suspicion of this, that
induced old Bane to-to-a-''
''Tell you to clear out i; yes ?"
''But Notwithstanding his interdict
we have met frequently since and, be-
sides, have been able to keep up clan
destine correspondence.
Shocking depravity."
'Her father, it seems, was queer