The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-04-17

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" How is this ?" When l surprised you
on the sofa, where you appeared to me,
to be asleep, were you then meditating
suicide ?''
"Yes; and i was just thinking
whether / should finish the matter at
once, while there was company in the
house, or wait until they had retired.
believe should have done it at once, in
order that my poor sister, surrounded as
she is by friends at the moment, might
be saved from contemplating the horrid
spectacle that i was preparing for her.
Go, then, and give me back my pistols"
The tall, strong, and very fair young
man put into his pocket the pistol that
up to this time he had held in his hand.
"They are of little WORTH" remarked
Frederick, "and 1 trust you will not
take from me the only ameans that 1
possess of escaping from disgrace and
despair"
I" You are good-natured fool, said
the stranger, putting his hand into the
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looking for his gloves, which were pure,
spotless, and of the latest fashion. 1t
must be said of Mr.. Ikey Samuels, that
he had a very handsome face, remark
ably fine figure, and that he was very
neatly dressed, with two exceptions
! his shirt was not of the whitest, and he
had no gloves. He remedied the first
defect by buttoning his well made coat
up to the chin and, for the second. he
availed himself Of the gloves of Freder-
ick, which fitted him precisely. He
also, ii must be owned, took with him
the gentleman's s hat, and then arranging
his fair silky hair on his white forehead,
he left the room with the eappearancs, the
bow, and the manner of an exquisite.
"Where are you going ?" exclaimed
Frederick. my pistols, in the name
of Heaven or, at least, unloose me.''
" You shall see me almost immediate
ly," was the answer of Ikey Samuels, as
he closed the doors carefully behind
him.
Itwould appear that, under his present
circumstances, all that Mr.. Ikey Sam
house as he had entered it, and regret
ting that he had tried to despoil his
neighbor of his goods, and failed in do
ing so. This would have been the pro-
ceedihg of a common ordinary and vul-
gar thief; but Samuels was no such
thing; for he was one Of those eXtraor-
dinary beings, who thought as little OF
doing bad action as a good one. He
had not taken pair of French gloves
to exhibit them at the Regents Circus
at one O'Clock in the morning. He went
straight to the drawing room he raped
gently with his gfoved hand on the door
and then entered the apartment. AS he
did so, he perceived Miss BrOokes stand
ing up, Mrs. Chantry about to place q
shawl upon her shoulders, and Mr.. Will
liams about to offer her his arm.
CT beg your pardon, ladies'" said
Samuels, perfectly unembarrassed; "but
presume l have the honor of address
ing Miss Brookes."
" Yes," replied the lady; "but sup
pose, sir, your business is with my
brother"
eyes, yes; with Mr.. Frederick
Brookes 1 have most important business
to transact"
But then, sir, it is so very late.''
Yes, Miss Brookes; but it is so very
pressing, and it concerns him as much
as you, and this gentleman as well a.
this lady, for you are all the friends O
Mr.. Brookes." ="
This commencement Of the converse
ton certainly surprised and agitatec
them aIl-ensuing, as it did, at such ,
time of night, and from an entire stran
ger, whose name they did not know
since he had not been announced. They
seated themselves again, and Mr.. vii
liams continued the conversation b.
saying:
"You have had, sir, business to d.
with Mr.. Brookes ?'
"Oh, yes, very tritling matter, and
never saw him in all my life, but once,
ITO whom have 1 the honor of ad
dressing myself?n
TO Ikey Samuels, who has just don
great service to every one present"
"What to me too, sirY" said Mrs
Chantry, with the confidence Of a prett
young widow,
4" Yes, madam, to you also, if, as
, suppose, II Is YOU that Mr., Brookes wa