The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-08

int colon wers viai>aaln ~ sHss,e. But
thfs, I hed rseecu tos eliev6 eEArward,
~ accid6Gta1. q $3.50
/ aSked lin II lei - s - bsll.
Ia aid ho had. M fLl4'Ad !
m4G1E peart "a she No, toO-Wns there.
hnf she soster fought Thy Of me. IaeD6z
thR neW nut 70 90 In. bnt those walters
1erter run n re q pEfyl1e box. and ]
didn't 81 nScl ehf6ee t6coneinnieW our
'l1Ik shout l2en chse1ts. HI shnt yoss'e
He 6rouSk IL ~ u fsSIeSs and yoGne
women round TO the box TO see me, and he
mAde up . party that night to take ma,
round Wall street and in them stock
B0ards. And the next day he called for
me and tOok nd Md Il dnsesAed about
$500 ia uaNH stoC1S -uhyhe more. You
zee, NO sof1sR sSofPSd ss0ckss You know
/ had ten ahares in the Peacock Copper
Mine, that you was once Secretary Off
But those shares arc not worth cent.
The whole thing exploded ten years ago.
/" ha(l =, my b yDu say So But
thens1 Gdn't kI0wsanI thing more about
Cou1hul5 paw CentraI, 81 the Naphta Gas
light Company, md % 1 thought Il was
: s4ua,eesme 0nfy realized On r..
s.ocks Dougnfs ana kem up outer wan
street. aDou! $4OO better: You see it was
sorter risk, after al, for them Peacock
stocks n'sea come uPP
leeked Into his face; Il swas immeas-
urably serene and commonplace. I began
to be Hide afraid Of the man !; or, rather.
Of my want Of Judgment afthe man, and,
after y few w0td1 We shook hands and
Parted.
1t Has some months before again saw
the MAN from ASolAno. When I did !
found that he had actually become mem
Der OF the Stock Board, and had little
ONCE On Broad street, where he transacted
. falr business. MY remembrance going
back 70 t1e drE night met him, l In
quile4 i he had renewed his acquaintance
win MISS 4. hoered mat she was In
Newport this summer, and 1 ran down
there fur week
And you talked with her about the
baggage checks
"No," he said, seriously; she gave
me q commission to buy some some stocks
for her. You see. I guess them fashn,ble
fel,ers sorter got to runnin her about me,
and 80 she put our acquaintance on Z
square business footing. ] tell you, she's
right peart girl. Did We hear of the &C.
cident that happened to herr!
had not. =
"Well, Won see, abe was out yachting,
and managed through one of those fellen
to get an invite, too. The whole thing
was got up BY man that they say Is 90
ing to marry her, Well. one aftcrnoon
the boom swings round In alittle souaIl
and knocks her overheard. There was an
awful exciement-yOu've heard about IL,
may be?'s
No! But i Jaw It all with Ro-
mancer's instinct IN q flash of poetry. this
poor fellow, debarred through uncouth-
ness from expressing his affection for her,
had at last found his fitting opportunity.
He had
"Thar was an awful row." he went on.
81 ran out on the taffrail, and there a
dozen wards away was that purity creature,
that peart gal and-I-"
;"You jumped for her." l said, hastily.
"No!' he said gravely. 81 let the
other man do the humping. sorter
Elooked on.,' -
stared at him in establishment.
| "No., he went on. seriously. g He
was the man who iumped--that was lust
then his put'-his line Of business. You
see, If had waltzed over the side of that
ship, and cayoorted in. and fiummuxed
round and finally Hoped to the bottom.
that other man would have jumped nat.
eral- like and saved her, and ez he was 90.
| ing to marry hcr ANYWAY. l don't exactly
see where I'd hev been represented IN the
transaction. But don't YOU see. eff. after
he'd: jumped and hadn't got her, he'd
gone down himself, I'd hev had the next
best chance, and the advantage of hevinp
him outer the way. You see. YOU dom
understand mel don't think YOU did in
Californy."
"Then he did save herY,
"Of course. Don't YOU see she was
all right? If he'd. missed her I'd have
Clipped in. Thar warn't no sense in nv
doing his duty onless he failed.n
Somehow the story got out. The Man
from Solano as butt became more popu.
lar than ever, and of course received in.
vitations to burlesoue receptions. and
naturally met great MANY people whom
otherwise he would not have seen. Il
was observed, also, that his S7OO was
steadily growing, and that he seemed to
be, getting on In his business. Certain
California stocks which / lad seen oui.
city inferred in the old DAYS in the tombs
of their fathers, were magically revived
and remember, as one who has seen q
ghost, to nave been shocked as / looked
over the quotations one morning to have
seen the ghostly face of the " Dead Beat
Beach Mining Co." rouged and plas-
tered, looking out from the columns of
began to respect, or suspect, the Man
mated with this incident:
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