Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-05-13

From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free frcss.
"What want to know" said whitehead
ed young man Of twenty, as he stood before
the sergeant in charge Of the Central station
yesterday; 'what came here for was to get
some advice"
''Proceed,' said the sergeant
:'You know Nancy Thompson, don't you: Z"
''Never heard of her."
.'Well, she's widder, over forty years old,
and I've been boarding there"
"Yes?"
''And were engag ged to be married.
"Whew," whistled the officer.
Il don't blame you," continued the young
man in broken voice. 'Tm only twenty
and she's forty, but man can't always tell
when he's going to make u fool of himself.
':And you fell in love?"
II did that, and as soon as we get through
talking I'm going out to hire some one to
kick me over to Canada and back. Yes, sir,
fell dead in loye--loyed q woman of over
forty
'sAnd what followed:''
"What folered? Why, what alters fol-
lows? I'm human, same anybody else, aud
when love love like locomotive on a
down grade. What do you think l did in
inst si2 weeks bv the watch? Went to the
theatrce sixteen times, out sleigh-riding twelve
| and took her out to eat oysters ten or eleven
times, Fact. sir, cost me durn near $2OO.
| s.But it was all for love" replied the SER
gcant.
II thought so; and what else did l do !?
Bought her $40 watch, a $40 bracelet, So
ring, s. set of jewelry, a new dress, aud
gave her $5 gold piece with hole in it.!
| Yes. sir; drew $500 from the bank, every
red I had-and used it all up on her
"And then:"
ssShe purtended to love back, and when
squozc her hand she smiled and smiled and
looked heaps of love ut me. Shed lean on
nv arm, talk about Cupid, and get 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 as the
Bengal tiger does around lamb
'.Did she break the engagement
'Last night, said the young man, swallow
ing the lump in his throat, "she told me she
had been trifling with me all along She said
she was engaged to another man, and she
could never be more than sister to me!
tell you, sergeant, you could have knocked
me down with a strawi bracva UP ~fte- .
while and called her a hypocrite,. when she
called me white-headed idiot, and the board
ers threw me out of doors. Five hundred
dollars gone, and I'm wrecked man.
| Lie OleW HIS uOsC anu N1FCtA AAo y S'' "A'N
continued: :.
II don't want to drown myself; the water:
awful cold, and perhaps can get over this
want them presents back, and III go tt
Muskegon and try and forget her. 1t ha:
wrenched me all to pieces, and can never
love again. Were you ever shook, sergeant :
''No, never
':Then you don't know the anguish, thu
gripping around the heart: 1t cuts IKE
knife, and all can think of is being laid ou
in coffin, my right hand holding bunch o.
roses and my left resting on my heart
''You are young; you may outgrow IT,;
81 may-l may; but it's so awful sudden
and hits so hard that feel as if I'd faller
from house. Go to the house, sergeant
and see if you can get them things back. Il
I'm alive I'll be around again tomorrow, ane
if don't como you may keep the things fo1
your kindness. I'm white-headed, but I'm
tender hearted, and 1 want to retire behlnc
some barn and sit down and think"
And he retired.