The Arizona sentinel., 1876-03-18
"Same Old Story" :"


 ner yesterday he found a lady awaiting him. She had a half fierce, half -sorrOWful look, and as the captain hung up his overcoat he said to himself that some one had been killing that wOman's On- ly cat, or the boys had been club. ping her boss goat.
 You wanted to see me?" he asked as he sat down.
 She leaned forward until her sharp nose almost touched his check and whispered:
 "I did :"
 "Has your husband been abus. ing youw he inquired.
 "NO; Ihaven't any husband it's the same old story" she whiS- pered.
 "What old story?"
 "Breach of promise"
 Let's see u' unused the captain, "didn't you have a similar com- pIaint about three month agoY
 1T did," she answered.
 "And a similar one about three months before that ?"
 "I did 1 told you it was the same old story. Now, let me be- gin at the beginning and tell the story right through, and then see if you don't think I ought to have help from the poIice."
 "Well, be brief"
 "Don't tell a heart t-broken Wo- man to be brief," she said, and then wiping her eyes she began |: "A year ago now 1 was in love. I was a promised bride. I was happy. In the midst of my hap. pineSs the base rascal married 8 girl in Windsor"
 "That's No. 1 :" said the captain.
 "YeS. that's No. l. l was brO- ken-hearted, but 1 loved again. He seemed like nice man, and we were to go to Port Huron and live in grand stple, and deep six servants and all that. He turned out to be a liar and a wretch. He borrowed $15ofme and ran away!"
 "That's No. g." said the captain, as she stopped to adjust her false teeth.
 'I loved again." she sighed. cts curious how often people can love. 1 didn't let him know that 1 loved him until 1 found he was worthy, and he said he didn't know what love was until he saw me. He went down to Toledo to see his dying uncle, and he never came back. He wrote me, though wrote me that he could never marry woman with a cork foot. Some one had deceived him. haven't a cork foot at all. I was going to take poison, but 1 didn't. l was going to find him and shoot him, but l concluded that @ man who would find fault about a cork foot would be @ mean husband, and so 1 let him gO."
 And now for No. f." said the captain.
 Turned out like all the rest" she replied, with quivering chin. "I loved him, and ne loved me, and all was bliss until yesterday. Then 1 found out that he hadn't money enough to board him a week, and when I began to ques- tiOn him he grew mad and. start ed for Chicago"
 "And what do you want me to dO?" asked the officer as she bent her head and s0bbed.
 "Oh! 1 don't know! It seems hard that 1 should haXe to bear all this, while other woman don't have any trouble at all How long-hOW long, captain. can a woman stand such conduct before the grave will hide her ?"
 'It's hard," he sighed.
 Ut wears on me, captain. 1 can't be loving all the time. Pm getting old, and I want to settle down and know where I am. it disturbs my peace of mind to love a fat man, then a tall man, and then a short man, and be wonder ing whether we will have a cook and upstairs girl, or whether we will make the cook do all the work"
 "lt's very wrong," he said.
 "lf they want to marry me why don't they marry?" she sobbed, drawing on her gloves.
 The echoes had a mournful sound as they answered:
 "Why don't they ?"-D8trOI