The Red Cloud chief., 1877-09-20
The Course of True Love.

The Course Of True Love.
In spite of all that has been done in
the last fifty years toward improving
the channel, the course of true love is
uncertain in places. An incident indi-
cative of this, although somewhat out
of the usual line, occurred in Danbury
recently. There were two suitOrs for a
young moman's affections. Number
one was first acquainted with her. and
had kept pretty steady company with
her through the past month, when num-
Der two appeared. The latter very
sOOn got the best hold, and this became
apparent 10 the former. The young
lady gave herself up to number n
until the day after the Fourth, when
she suddenly and rather strangely
veered about to the stranger, who is
now in town learning the jewelry bust
ness. Number one was forgotten as
easily apparently as if he had been an
old debt. 1t was the night of the fifth
that this change in feeling dawHed up
on him (; he had purchased a quart of
new apples, and taken them to her
house. There was company present on
his arrival, and he requested to see her
privately in the hall. She complied
with a reluctance that struck him as
being singular.
"Here is something for you Julia" he
whispered extending the package.
She colored slightly, as she said, 81
cannot take it, thank you."1 q
But you don't know what it is" he
urged, 1T is a quart of new apples, just
come into market"
She made no move.
"Why, Julia take, them. They won't
hurt you. They are ripe"
mo, l mustn't" she persisted, keep
ing her eyes cast down.
"Why mott" he pleaded. "You don't
think l would bring 'em up here if l
thought they would hurt you, do your"
She moved uneasily, but said moth.
ing,
Julia" he began In a broken voice,
don't you believe me when l tell you
they r ripe?"
She did not answer.
Gan it be possible" he continued in
a voice of pain, that you believe that l
would try to make you sick? That Id
bring you anything up here that would
upset yOuy"
"The company are waiting, and l
must 60 back to them" she said. speak
ing in a constrained tone, and reaching
out to the handle of the parlor door.
"YOu won't take themy" He was
very white, and his voice trembled
with suppressed passion.
NO"
"Then I'll 60 home and eat every gol-
darned one of them before l touch my
bed, if they kill me deader than Collar"
and with this ferOcious threat he
bounced out of the mouse.
Whether he did as he promised is not
known, but as he was around on the
street next day, it is more than likely
that wiser thoughts prevailed.
That afternoon he started for her
house, to see if the dreadful thing was
true that the jeweler, whom he desig-
mated by the prefix of pole legs" had
really supplanted him. AS he neared
the house he saw, with anger, that the
jeweler was there, paying crOquet with
Julia. The sight maddened him. For
a moment he looked at them, with
clenched hands, then hurried away,
with a CLEAN in his eye that denoted a
storm. In a quarter of an hour he was
again approaching the place. He had
both hands in the pockets of his sack,
as if he was holding on to something
valuable. The dapper young jeweler
was still in the game with the fair
young Julia, and their laughing re-
marks grated distastefully upon his
ear. Julia looked up and saw him, and
a frown covered her face. He saw it
and understood its import at once. His
own face grew black with wrath. He
turned to her.
Julia, have you given me up for this
cuss p he savagely inquired.
"What do you mean by such language
as that ?" she angrily demanded.
While the party thus i%ndelicately in.
dictated stared at the newcomer as if
he doubted his own existence.
Just what 1 say" retorted the dis
carded one.
We'll. the quicker you leave this yard
the better you'll please me-" was the
spiteful rejOinder from the fair one.
Then it's true. it's true" he howled
in a vOiceO f anguish. "She has left me
for old pole legs Oh,"-this with a
sudden reverse of tsne, as the name
brought up a realization of the hated
presence-"YOu are the one that done
it. are you?" turning in rage upon his
rival. You are the scoundrel that left
me to buy her things for a whole month
to get her sweetened up for you, and
then you come in an take her to your
self! Where were you on the Fourth ?"
he screamed with bitter sarcasm.
why didn't you show yourself when
tho~n $1,000