The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-13

he might have an interval Vt rest Susan en-.
Wed the active young person who appeared
as Columbine, and began to think that dane.
pleasure life could afford. But just when
the "comic business" seemed at its height
the green baize dropped upon . tableau Of
which their hero, supporting the columbtne
on his knee with one hand, was the princi.
pal figure, and the pantomime was at an end
Cook had barely time to comment upon the
felt gentle tap upon her shoulder, and
looking round, recognized the friend by
whom she had been introduced to Kiddini.
"You amt going for to stop for the drama
are you? Kiddiai said he'd sent you order,
and he gave me one, too. Liza (the speakers
wife) is outside the boxes, and we're of, be-
cause Kiddini sal he'd come round and have
bit of supper with us. You'd better come
too"
The girls looked at each other, and then be.
gan to comparoopinions. The friends house
was down a news, within q stones throw oil
their masters, and as perhaps (as Susan sug-
gested) the drama might turn out to be a
stupid thing, they decided to leave the thea
ter with their friend. The chief inducement
that there was a probability of Kiddini par
taking of supper with tsem.
Their hopes in this respect were not disap.
pointed. The great man arrived ut their
friends house almost as soon as they did, and
made a very hearty supper, and was more
agreeable and talkative than usual. As if by
| Il preconcertcd movement Susan suddenly
found herself alone with the harlequin, and
ere her friends re-entered the room she had
become engaged" to him. and had promised
to become bis bride in the following July,
six months hence.
How long Kiddini took to declare his passion
is moot point. Susan declared they were not
oil han, hot
confession burst upon her like a bombshell !;
but cook averred that the arrangement took
more than half an hour to settle.
That night Kiddini saw the girls home,
and the sharp ears of the cook detected the
sound of a kiss while she was descending the
area-steps. leaving Susan to follow.
After this occasion more "orders" came,
and Susan found frequent opportunity of
meeting her Otto, whom, as she confidently
informed the trusty cook, "she loved more
and more every time she saw him." at which
sy lpathizing cook would give an approving
smile, and remark: every natural, my dear"
Susan's conscience occasionally smote her
Perks, the grocer, who, cook said, "felt her
conduct much, and was reduced to skelin-
tom" for the little quarrel which had sepa-
rated them had really originated with her,
and though all was over between them. and
she was engaged to another, che could not
bear to think that she had caused him any
suffering. She often fancied she would have
liked to go round to his shop and confess
herself in the wrong, but after consultation
with cook she came to the conclusion that
such course of proceeding might inspire
hopes in the young mans breast which could
never be fulfilled; so she resolved that matters
should remain as they were. Susan was c: q
sensitive nature, and when the remark that
had been made by cook relative to the man
in which porl<a 81 fS lin n
away" required to her memory, it was with
difficulty she could restrain the tears that
dimmed the luster Of her black eyes. She
tried to think that professionally of the
rank of a harlequin was \ much better match
than small grocer, who had to stand behind
his counter from sight in the morning until
ten or eleven O'Clock at night, with scarcely
opportunity to have a comfortable meal dur
ing any portion Of the day. Besides, as cook
| said, kiddini was a gentleman, as anyone
| could see, and with his aristocratic bearing
| and white hands, on one of which a massive
ring shone conspicuously, was tit match
even for one OF their young ladies-alluding
| to the Misses Jobbins, who, perhaps, would
not have felt fiattered by the allusion; still,
GA the other hand (not the harlequin's other
handy, there is time in the life of spinister
when it seems as though she would be will
ing to marry anyone, and it must be con-
fessed this critical period was nigh at hand
Win the Al0ermanS QauSntcfS.
During the early days of their courtship
kiddini was not the most attentive of lovers,
and when tainted Herewith replied that his
arduous exertions at night rendered him al
most unfit for society. However, when he
heard from their mutual friends wife in the
news that he really must pay more attention
to the pretty housemaid or she would rebel,
and when his betrothed in contiiing mo-
ment showed him her savings-bank book in
which she was credited with the possession
of $40, Herr Kiddini's affection received an
impetus, and he became as ardent as could be
wished. After the run of the pantomime his
time was more his own, and, as he informed
Susan, excepting the instruction OF few
daily pupils, he had really nothing to do.
The stunted heritage Of the square was be-
ginning to give signs Of vitality: the trees had
! already put forth their foliage, and troops Of
giggling nurse girls with their infantine
charges were to be seen perambulating The
gravelcd walks, when kiddini one evening,
sitting alone with Susan in the little house
down the news, moodily remarked that the
time was approaching when they were to
seek the hymeneal altar. Of course Susan
blushed and said nothing, which was very
correct and proper. Then Kiddini, in still
more gloomy tones. said that he had had
rather bad spring, inasmuch as some of his
pupils had taken their departure from his
terpsichorean academy without paying for
| the lessons lucy ndu IcCcISCu, aAu NAdes Al
short, he had not the wherewithal to provide
| home.
| This somewhat disconnected Susan, and
| quite unbidden there arose in her mind the
| image of the young grocer and his prosper
GUS business; but Kiddini, who now became
warm on the subject, suggested that II Susan
would lend him go out of her little fund in
the savings bank he would at once provide
home, and they would be married in q month.
Kiddini had no doubts at all about the fu-
ture; he had had ali exceptionally bad spring,
but the autumn might prove quite the re-
verse. This communication did not put Su-
san in very hopeful mood; but sue had
pledged herself to Kiddini, and twas only
right, she thought, that she should assist
him in his adversely. She was not long
making up her mind; and Kiddini, who had
had Infinitely less trouble over the matter
than he imagined he would have, received
the gratifying intelligence that Susan would
at once give notice of the withdraw al OF
G20 from the savings bank, and that the
money should be in his hands In a fortnights
time.
Never had Kiddini manifested SO much af-
fiction for his betrothed as on that evening;
he was the NEST attentive, the most ardent
of lovers, and poor Susan almoet felt in
clined to cry with happiness. She was an
af1ectionate creature, grateful for every word
of tenderness, and tie devotion now mani
tested by her future husband seemed to her
full of the pleasantest augurles. Poor fell
low" she said to cook on returning to her
masters residence, :" am certain he loves
me, and we're it twice the amount he should
have it." In the monetary arrange
ment, however, slight hitch &C.
CURED, inasmuch as Susan had forgotten
that when she entered Alderman Job
bins service that worthy's wife had
introduced her to the savings bank
when she made her first deposit, but
had taken care to have her own name in
serted as trustee for her domestic, whereby
the latter could not withdraw one farthing
without Mrs. Jobbins' consent, verbal Or
written. This had escaped Susan's recollec-
ton until she hunted UP her bank. book and
looked admiringlv at the G4O with which she
was credited. For some reason or other, for
which Susan herself would have found it
difficult to account, she would rather her mis-
tress had known nothing Of this withdrawal,
but there was no help for 1t. So she boldly
asked the consent of Mrs. Jobbins to what
she wished. Great was her surprise when
the Alderman's wife, turning rapidly in her
chair, told Susan that she would do nothing