The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-15
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From the st. Paul Dispatch IL

For some weeks now past a sleek, slim
and smiling book agent enjoyed the hos
FATALITIES of an uptown boarding house.
each week, as Saturday came around,
telling the landlady that remittances
would reach him in3 another week, when
he would liquidatc her bill for said hos
pitalilies. At the end of the fourth
week the estimable lady, who is com
PEELED - support herself and family by
her o"n exertions, and finds economy
and prudence very necessary to accom-
plish the end, found a vacant room on
her hands and a vacant chair at her we'll.
| spread table. Nor was this all she
found on her pantry door, where such &C.
counts are kept, evidence of Indebtedness
to the amount of some twenty eight dol
lars against the missing boarder.
She could not believe that he had left
not to return. He had always been so kind
and ready to render her any assistance
in his power-in fact, displaying an al
most son-like regard for his Iandladv.
He would return; of course he would.
He had been called to Minneapolis for a
day or two, no doubt. And this was
partly true, for soon AFTER the anxious
lady received a nicely addressed envelope.
postmarked at the Falls, on opening
which she recognized the signature of her
| abzent boarder.
"Dcar Ruby" it com menced.
"What in the world DOGS he call me
Ruby for - unused the wondering lady.
''My name is Sarah oh F! a ruby is a
jewel; he calls me jewel-thc insulting
! wretch!''
''Dear Ruby must ask your pardon
for leaving St. Paul without discharging
my obligation to you, and 1 hasten to ex-
plain why did So
swell, guess it's all right, after ALL
said the lady. half aloud.
Il should at least have called upor.
you again before leaving if 1 had not
been called away in such haste. The
fact is, | have had bad luck, and
have lost the entire savings of
years by the California bank
failures. We all see our times
of adversely, and, dear Ruby, know you
will not be so unkind as to accuse me of
premeditated wrong. You cannot be
blind to the fact that I have loved-''
The mean. ugly, impudent rascal!'
screamed the lady. "Here Jane Mary {!
Oh! who would have thought I should
live to be insulted in this mannere Go
and call the police! I'll teach him to
write such letter to woman old
enough to be his mother! - And while
the girls retired behind the door to gigglc
and watch for the denouement. she read ::
'*-have loved you regardless Of your
station in life -
''Injury upon insult!'' moanel the
lady.
''-and I hoped to remain in St.. Paul
through the winter and take care of you,
that you might not be compelled to rely
upon the uncertain whims of heartless
and dissipated world for the means Of
support
Il declare, I shall fly know shall!'
said the worthy woman.
''But [ am dead broke sure, and
there's no use of repining, as you are not
the only sufferer by it: know
ed there still. I have
just written letter to my landlady on
s. street, and will take these two
confessions to the Office together, and free
my mind that much. We si.all meet
again, and will try another bottle of that
champa gne. Your faithful
swell, now, declare. Did l ever sec
anything like it.! He made mistake in
Che address, and this don't belong to me-
and tho 1a,,1lo1x, +ror,, bl;r~ xr;f(, ov,;4.