The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21
ADELAIDE,S DOUBLE.

The absence of Adelaide Munthrope
had grown into mysterious disappear
ance the evening that Roland Mitchell
dined with the Bullens, and, retiring to his
bed In distant chamber of the Grange,
found himself Unaccountably interested
in the questions and surmise3 started by
the young lady's probable fate or where
abouts He knew Nathan Munthrope,
Adelaide's uncle, well, and had casually
met her in society, making her acquaint-
ance in on rninterested sort Of way, and
regarding her SO indifferently that really
ne could not determine whether he was
In company with her twice or thrice
after introduction. The family was
nothing more to him than merely friends
OF the Bullens-one Of whom had mar
ried his aunt, and younger one, a col
lege chum, was to marry his sister. So
very slight was this bond of union, that
Roland lay awake full two hours, won
dering why his mind should be so en-
gagged with Adelaide Muuthrope's affairs,
and why he should lie awake consider
ing them.
Miss Munthrope was a slightly built,
pale, feeble-looking creature, with q GER
charm of which was large, liquid, blue
eye, almost gray, fringed with long,
black lashes. Her forehead was too
high for a woman, and combing down
her black, wavy hair, to contract its
area, only served to make her angular,
suuken cheeks all the paler by contrast.
She had wonderful self possession, an
lndOmitable viii that never would brook
contradiction, and a fervid imagination,
whose vagarie5 often tended, at once, to
amuse, delight and shock her mother
and the companions of her youth. Her
habits were all precise she was methodi-
cal, taclturn, quiet and determined, and
had knowledge of men and motives,
IT'S and events, far beyond her years.
Ii had become SO generally understood
thai she was cut out for an old maid that
the announcement of her marriage and
departure for Europe gave everybody
the utmost surprise. People in general
thought 1t singular that no hint of mari
tai intention should have got abroad; but
Nathan Munthrope gave such poitive as
surauCes, and rs there were no grounds
for objection, contradiction or dispute.
the matter was acduiesced in for six
whole months. At the end of that time
no word had come from Adelaide to rela
-6iyeS or acquaintances, and Gossip shook
her head, while RumOr let all her tongues
loose at once. This was the situation.
when Roland went up from New York to
the Grange on Saturday afternoon in
January, 1873, and heard the theories
and queries called up By the very sinpu-
Jar aspect OF Miss Munthrope's case.
1t was IL o'clock when Roland retired.
He heard the clock strike l, as he
tried, for the fftieth time, TO discharge
his mind of the gossip's stuff, and then
sat bolt upright in bed.
Luck is against me, or / have eaten
too much dinner said he to himself.
&C In either event, [ wish there was a
fire in the CRATE, OIL that the ghost-voiced
winter wind would stop soughing under
the caves md around the corners. Uohi
there it goes again. OF course that
scratching and tapping is the result
OF those confounded boughs sweeping
against the pane, but the result is as
sleep destroying as though it were a
Yerltable Fox family rapping seance.
LII L only had q cigar, and if I could
only take turn or two across the floor
| wonder what has really become of that
Munthrope girl-oh! dash her and dash
her disappearance. III dress in shake,
or rather succession of 'em with the
thermomef er below zero and the fire out,
and rout Bob BuHen ont for company.
He prepared for his venture. with that
pause, lacking courage, that any warm
blooded Christian, outside EskimoIand
experiences before barring his devoted
legs to the
Joy fang
And churiish ending of the winters wind.
Which, when it bites and blows upon the BODY
is deucedly apt TO raise goose flesh and
swamp good resolutions. In the pause.
the wind being momentarily hushed and
his breath beted, he heard a footstep
coming along Che hall, which ended with
his apartment
''Forestalled, and pleasantly, too, !"
said Roland, aloud. @Come in, don't