The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-26
Thg 6HKR Man who was shook

"What want to know" said white
headed young man of twenty, as he stood
before the sergeant of the Central Station
yesterday, "What / came here for was to
get some advice"
"Proceed," said the sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thompson, don't
your"
''Never heard of her.
swell, she's wilder, over forty years
old. and I've been boarding there.
eyes"
"And we were engaged to be married. 4"
"Whew! !" whistled the officer.
81 don't blame YOU" continued the
young man in broken voice. I'm only
twenty and she's forty; but man can't
always tell when he's going to make fool
of himself"
"And you fell in love?"
II did that-and as soon as we get
through talking, am going 10 hire some
one to kick me over to Canada and back.
Yes, sir, fell dead in love-loved woman
of over forty"
"And what followed?"
"What follered Why, what alters
follers ? I'm human, same's anybody else,
and when love, love like a locomotive
on a down grade. What do you think
ulu III JUDI OLA WCchb ny tuC watch! NCut
to the theatre sixteen times, had three par
ties, went to three lectures, and took her
out to eat oysters ten or eleven times.
Fact, sir, cost me durn near 5000"
"But it was all for love, replied the ser
geant.
~ thought so and what else did l do /?
Bought her $40 watch, a $40 bracelet, a
$5 ring, ~ set of jewelry, new dress
and gave her 81 gold piece with al hole in
1t Yes, sir drew $500 from the
bank-every red had-and used 1t all up
on her."
Sand then p
"She purtended TO love back, and when
/ squozed her hand she smiled and smiled
and looked. heaps of love at me. She'd
lean on my arm. talk about Cupid, and git
off poetry by the rod, and it was plainly
understood that we were to be married in
June. Oh, she knew her biz, and she slid
around me rs the Bengal tiger does around
lamb"
"Did she break the engagement"
"Last night, said the young man, swal-
lowing the lump in his throat, "she told
me she'd been trifling with me all along.
She said she was engaged to another man,
and she could never be more than a sister
to me / tell you, sergeant you could have
knocked me down with straw braced
up after while and called her hypocrite
when she called me white-headcd idiot,
and the boardcrs threw me out of doors.
Five hundred dollars gone, and | am a
wrecked man.
He blew his nose and wiped his eyes and
continued
81 don't want to drown myself; the
waters awful cold, and perhaps l can get
over this. want them presents back, and
I'll go to Muskegon and try and forget her.
It's wrenched me all to pieces, and | can
never love again. Were you ever shook,
Sergeant"
mo, never"
"Then you don't know the anguish-the
gripping around the heart. Its cuts like a
knife, and all can think of is being laid
out in coffin, my right hand holding a
bunch of roses and my left resting on my
heart"
"You are young, you may outgrow it"
may-I may, but it's SO awful sud
den, and hits 80 hard that feel as II I'd
fallen from house. Go 10 the house, Ser
geant, and see If you can get them things
back. If I'm alive I'll be around again to-
morrow, and If don't come you may keep
the things for your kindness. I'm white
headed, but I'm tender hearted and want
to retire behind some barn and sit down
and think"
And he retired.-DetrOH Free Press.