The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-12-07
tFor the Cincinnati Star.l
nay WINDOW ROMANCE
BY DARD BEST.

It0ther WIN DurBtou DuJLOn-nOle; SIX
linen collars, five of 'em frayed, one of
'em entirely paste; two duck vests, lin
ings TO both completely fetched loose
as Mark Twain hath it. Monsieur Flo
rian McFlimsey, throw over your purse
and pll go shopping;" and Jack laughed
as he jammed all my poor, rent garments
back into the my dressing-table drawer.
"Its in nv trunk-somewher said
i vaguely, pommeling the mussy pillows
in weak, fretful way. My head was
lhot--likewise my temper; besides was
worried about my wardrobe, for sup
posed, of course, I'd have to invest my
| little dwindling pile OF filthy lucre in some
NEW harness since jacks invoice had
made such pitiful summing up. You
see. l was gay young dog in those
balmy days, in The army, OF course, as all
the other fellows were, since had the mis-
fortune to be the second son Of Lord and
Lady Clanchester, VINO gave me all they
could in bestowing upon me their united
blessings and simple commission.
never got a silver from home, and my
pay went about as fast as did-which
| is an expressive fact. could have -four
ished Notwithstanding all that. if chance
and an ugly beast of jacks hadn't
| thrown me. onto my last resources and a
hot-bed OF pain-tor, to be brief, broke
my leg.
That happened just three weeks be-
| fore Jack rummaged over my WearaDles,
and the reason OF his search was in COM
| pliance with request OF mine TO be got
out OF that tiresome bed and helped into
the back room. where had had a peep
of an open window, with q swaying
green bough beyond, and bit of blue
| rn higher
1 "Oh, never mind" said Jack, at last;
''I'll cover your rags with'this smoking
jacket-smells pretty strong, though, of
the Turklshw
"Botherl Bring it along-I don't mind
it'll A cigar would be lovely, old fellow;
do you think"
"Of course do--sometimes, that is.
Let me get you over TO the window, and
ifyou happen to find"
Thumpl Thumpl Thump!
Jack opened the door trifle, and took
in a bit of pasteboard: 'Gentlemen's
washing aud ironing solicited, ,"
drawled Jack; "'also mending done
without extra charge. Price per dozen,
80 much, SO much-why. here you are,
Clan, and no mistakel Number 1901 So
and-so Terrace-just around the corner,
; boy-shall bundle 'em up and send
LeggsW And, without waiting for any
offi fimative might have felt like giving
him, he tied up The clothes, ran for the
small boy, and, alter giving him sundry
ins tructlons. turned his attention to me.
The rooms which l at that particular
time inhabited were a pair of second
story back ones, into which ! had been
hus lied pell-mell with bloody bones and
: | grimy habiliments, and from which had
never until this day ventured further
than the threshold OF the one whose four
walls alone knew the fullest agony l sui
tered. But to-day Jack, like the sound
brick he was. lifted my huge, wasted car
cass up, tossed me over, and settled me
like bunch of down in an old sleepy
hollow OF a chair close by the open win
dow.
All, heaven, the first glimpse had of
the sweet little greenery that spread out
Its solt foliage before my weary eyesl l
shall never forget the rows Of bright yer-
benas that shone bravely along 10 one
side of the clean, narrow gravel path,
nor the rich plat of some tropicai-leaved
thing whose name j never knew; while
! tall geranium plant, all aDlaze with
fresh pink blossom-clusters, IL linked
with all my lite's romance.
The sun came In and the air, and the
noise OF town and traffic were somehow
swallowed up in delicious reverie set
, 70 living music. What IL was 1 did not
az first realize; but, in the course OF
time, 1 grew conscious of III sic as from
an instrument, and could readily dis
r tinguish the touch oil fingers upon pi-
anO Still it was soft and sweet enough
Lo soothe even my c0nvaleseenU TEN per,
a and should have reveled forever In
dreamy state ii shrill voice had not
scattered all harmony from my ears aud
muscular, gaunt apparition chased all
hna frn fnan-llGt
r then-theRe entered upon my vision an
individual whom l have up to present
writing never yet banished from IL.
4 1t was a tall, awkward, strong indi.
# yidual, with bright-rIbDoned, hign,
9 Frencn cap, and snort, French petit
coal; halr / sbnaid call "like the ravens
wing" only it was glossier and blacker;
g beauy eyes to match; yeilowisn shriv
eled sktn, and a voice that came dis
tinctly up to my window with Tvs cry
Of
"Mar-guer-eetel Manpsel1e Mar-guer
y leetep
v "Oh, Nance, what news-what newsr
:, Queried an eager, glriish voice, SO clost
under my window that i popped bacl
!. my head and sat still as a mole.
|. s'On. qfdndei grdndei We haf, at last
; a close. plIe leeieu chez n0uSi Deur doZ
:, gong, fam Selle--nsass, hetdsf ze nom "a,
ees Wrlted here -
o "Give it to mel Oh, Nance, think o
lit. dear! We shall be rich-.ichV Ant
La little sound OF muffied sobbing cam
uy and mixed itself with the rustlInl
'. leayes at my wiRdow-ledge.
s "ReechI Ha, hal Reech? WIFI al
leetle forsnOon as Eat is goin' tt
: Gomez" And could almost imagine thu
q hoarse bantering only cioaked the teari
Q in the bright black eyes that looked ten
r derly down on the sobbing M'am'Selle
"MdiS, reed de nom OF -
II "Clanchester," came up in soft, tremu
It leus tones; then repeated: "Clanches
O ter-oh, Heaven bless him-our frs
, benefactorV
= sJackl" yelled /. "Jack! say
!, But my friend was gone-departed-an(
!; Gow could l move? Besides, after let
ting off my more supreme astonishmen
in that yell, Iwas quite content to lister
!. and see II / could unravel the profoun(
,. mystery that seemed to me to lie in tht
,f uIterance of my name.
a "Un, deat1, trois, Qadtre, cling, sock viii
= oh cjeJ, more OF hole dan sockl HUT, moi
4 neuf wreestbaHd-touj0grs Won lost, ne
!, falr all de pairl Onze, doase. collatr-pdu
!" vre homnsef I'm, deaI, wescut, sans 6oa
y tons. Qn, deuI -"
70 Great punsI They were invoicing m,