The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-05-25

I IL hDaihA NC DlEu-AllAa tit NBAh-"
gave me rather shivery feeling as
they dropped so glibly from the doc
tors lips. TO hObble through life q
mere distorted wreck OF q rnan2 No,
on the whole, | had better eat my
heart out here 3 little longer thsn
gnaw il in vain for the rest OF my
life.
] wonder If I am becoming too
much Interested in that girl over
there ? Certainly / watch for hel
eagerly, and count the day blank
when / have not seen her. Nonsense
Ii is only the utter lack of any excite
ment i'm my life which makes me
think of her at all and then the
mystery shout my feelings toward her
keeps up the interest. Only let me
get out once in the great surgihg sea
of New York and mix with other
men, and then Eta may go-it would
be uEgrateful as well as impolite 10
suggest "Jericho" as her goal-she
may go whittier she will.
But suppose, just suppose, the feel
ing shonld not be shaken OFF, Well,
it would be awkward, certainly. But
that is out of the question. am NOR
bid and nervous now; but let me
only regain my full strength once
more, and ait these dreams aud i'm
aginings will vanish like a morning
mist.
The back room il which Eta
oftenest appears is not her bedroom,
evidently. 1t seems to bea sewing
room, study, nursery-a sort Of city
refuge for the odds and ends of house
hold life. Sometimes / see her sitting
at the window and sewing. Some
how think like her best then. Her
little fingers fly in and out so deftly,
with such dainty twists and turns,
which dimples the knuckles and
shows the pretty wrists in hundred
new and graceful attitudes. ] look at
my great clumsy fingers, and laugh
TO myself TO think how miserahly
potter over a single button, and what
miserable botch it is when il Is
sewed on at last. /
Nav 7.-May-day Is safely over. 7
have have been haunted by fear lest
my opposite neighbOrs should be
seized by the "hittingD mania which
pervades New York at this season.
| It gave me rather a shock to realize
WI - q Dldilh AllC W bNliu TIC W LOn
wi hout Eta to watch and speculate
about. OF course it will not last, but
/ just at present it is my only excite
ment, and / feel much the same sort
of interest that ore takes in we'll
constructed novel, or a well-written
and well-acted play. l don't in the
least realize that Eta is real flesh.
and-blood women. She is to me only
an abstraction, study, puzzle, and
/ catch myself wondering, "Hew will
it all come out? What did the au.
thor mean by this % Perhaps if j
really met her face to face, spoke tC
/ her, and heard her answer, it would
all be different; but at present she is
no more real to me than the Undines
and LOreles of the German fairy
tales.
May 12-My siege is nearly over al
last. DIR. Petrie tells me that l may
try the strength of my knee in short
walk with the aid of a stout cane
Thank Heaven don't think I quite
realized before the terrible tedium
and enlH of this long confinement.
A new illustration of, "He tempers
the wind, "etc." / Isuppose. i wonder
1if the prisoner ever realizes all his
misery until the order for his release
is signed, and the prison doors swing
outward to let in the bright sweet
sights and sounds of nature to his
weary eyes. s.i.---
May l9.-I am progressing rapidly.
My knee seems quite restored, though
have not yet discarded my "oaken
staff" Somehow my interest i'm Eta
does not diminish as | thought il
would. While | am 1ut | catch my
self continually wondering, "Whst is
she doing now ? Is my Eta or the
other Eta there >" and the first thing
on my return is 3 rush to the window
to see II / can catch q glimpse Of her.
Philip, my boy, this won't do, you
know. 1t was all very well while
you had nothing else 20 think of, but
it is time for you 10 shake off such
WITNESSES now.
Tom Grant has been here. Tom is
an old friend, hare-brained fellow
enough, hut good and honest and
true. We used to be great ehums, in
the old days, and have never out.
grown the liking. Tom is engaged,
and the engagement Is 80 new thai
the freshness has not yet worn off
He seems in a constant state of won
der over his good luck, and, of course,
is as full of his raptures as boy is Ol
fireworks on the "Glorious Fourth. y
He raves about her hair 0 just wish
he could see Etta's , her eyes. hel
smile, her complexion, her hand INC
daiutier than Etta's, I'll be sworn J
until am sick OF the whole subject,
instead of being fired with the widest
curiosity, as he fondly imagines. He
is going to take me to call on Miss
Laura as soon as feel strong enough
l don't think that will be very soon
If it were Eta, nowI
Nav 24.-It is Eta Here's a jol.
ly 90, as the London gdBSas say
Tom came here yesterday, Bursting
in with his usual free-and-easy man.
ner. OF course his first words were
an inquiry whether would go with
him this evening to see Miss Laura
While hesitated and buBgIed avel
my excuse, he was striding about the
room, examining things, until b'
reached the window, when he stop
ped short with a sudden, "BJ
George ri N,A Hrn
| aOlAE l4ONo rlCI4 AaAAC
! dazed when his castle tdmlJies aboui
his ears, even IL he never realiZsd be
fore that he had castle at all
hsve a vague idea that stood will
my mouth wide open, gasping iik,
a sick salmon, while Tom went on Il
explain that the house exactly in th,
rear was the one where Miss Laur:
VRne lived. ..--
s'YOu must have seen her at III,
, window, my boy" Tom went ON il
; his liveliest manner. ozark eye
J and golden hair, yoG know. o
J course you've seen her; and ism
: she a sumner 81
I.aura-Etta, Etta-Laura; what III,
J il all mean? Tom went drOnIng on
and 1 heard him through a sort O
: confused mist, only waking at his
last words
$50 Pll come for you iO-mOrToV
night, and take yoa round there
; You're to be my best man when ths
2 wedding comes off, you know bu
THAT won't be just YETI ~
5 Now the things that puzzles me i
which Eta shall see when l g,
: there. fits the other Eta, all right
! In the course of time i am quite sur
that can develop a brOtheriy indif
: ference toward her, which will not il
the least inteffere with my friend
: ship for Tom. If my Etta meet us
} thOugh-what then Then tim
must decide, and sufficient unto tn
. day is the evil thereof,p in all con
science, especially when il comes il
J such q shape as this
) May 26.-Eureka The mystery
solved, and what fool have beeI
! never to think OF It before Whel
! Tom and I walked up TO the Vanes