The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-03-13
new home. Because you know, Motif
more, that I'm not rich.n

more, that m not rich"
We parted with a reciprocating squeeze
of the hand, and Charley's bright face
haunted me all day with sort of
reminiscence of what might have hap
pened also to me if hadn't been forty
and five, and with bald spot on the
back part of my head Ispentan evening
with her afterward at the genteel house
where she and her mother-a nice,
bright eyed little woman, the full bloom
rose to correspond with Sophy's budding
oveliness-dwelti in the coziest of apart
ments furnished in dark blue reps, with
turn-up bedstead ingeniously designed
as high-backed sofa, and canaries and
geraniums in the windows. 1t was q
pleasant evening, and would have been
still pleasanter if Charlie and Miss Ad-
rance had not both agreed by mutual
consent to put me and the eXpectant
mother-in-law on the same platform of
old fogyism, and expected us to talk pol
itics, religion, and the last new opera by
the shaded gaslight, while they did the
Romeo and Juliet business on the balco-
ny. dare say they enjoyed it, but it
was rather embarrassing, you see, to
Mamma Adriance and me.
6 It's so kind of you to come" said
Sophy, with gentle pressure of the
hand when L went away. "I am so
glad to welcome Charley's friends"
felt that could cheerfully sit through
another evening of commonplace chit
chat and photograph albums for such
reward as that.
Well, Charley Dresden went away and
as he didn t leave Sophy Adriance in my
care, didn't feel called upon to present
myself at the genteel boarding house,
where the blue reps and turn-up bedstead
made such feeble attempt at deception
and the canaries sung in the south win
dows. ., f-t ...a...ls s-
supposed naturally enough that all
was going right, until one day received
a note from my old friend, Bullion, the
banker, man of sixty, who wears a
wig, spectacles, and counts his income
upon the double figures. Bullion was
going to be married.
"Of course you'll think it a foolish
thing for me to do, "wrote Bullion; ''but
even at sixty man has not entirely
outlived the age of sentiment; and when
once you see Sophy Adriance you will
forgive any seeming inconsistency on
my part
"Sophy Adriance ~ was this the way
poor Charities blue eyed .fdnoee was
serving him while he was abroad trying
to earn little money for her sake? My
heart rebelled against the fickleness of
woman.
went straight to the genteel boarding
house. 1t was possible that might be
misled by a similarity of name although
even that was unlikely.
" Is Miss Adriance at home ?'' asked
of a slatternly servant girl who answer
ell the bell.
"Lor', no, sir. Miss Sophy's spend
ing few weeks with a friend at Scar
borough, she answered.
That was enough. / went home and
enclosed Bullion's letter in another en-
velope, directing it to poor Charley
Dresden's address, Poste Restante, Paris,
adding few lines of my own, wherein L
endeavored to mingle consolation and
philosophy as aptly as possible.
" It's an ungracious thing for me to
do, sending this letter." wrote L, {" but l
believe 1t to be the part of a true friend
to undeceive you as promptly as possi-
BILE. Bullion is millionaire; Sophy is
but fallible woman, after all. Be q
man, Dresden, and remember that she
is not the only woman in the world who
would rather be an old mans darling
than a young mans slave.n
And then 1 wrote, curtly declining to
stand up with old Bullion.
1t was but few days subsequently that
the waiter showed an elegantly dressed
young lady into my room at the hotel. 1
rose in some surprise. Aside from old
aunt Miriam Plat and my laundress, my
lady friends were few. But the instant
she threw up her thick tissue veil REQ
ognized the soft blue eyes and damask
rose cheeks of Sophy Adriance.
=" oh Mr.. Mottimore,n y she cried, pite-
ously, 81 know you won't mind my
coming to you, because you seem exactly
like father to me.'' 1 WINGED little
at this. .'But have received such a
letter from Charley, and as you've
known him a long time, thought per-
hans yor conId axf,lain ~ to mo Nh