The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28

am told, offered some gratuity. But I
shall restrict this narrative to the few
facts OF which was personally cognizant
IN the career of this remarkable man.
was at certain entertainment given
IN Paris by the heirs, executors, and
assignees of an admirable man. long
since gathered to his fathers in Pere la
'Chalse, bat whose Shakspeare-ike bust
still looks calmly and benevolently
down on the riotous revelry of absurd
W1ckedness OF which he was, when liv-
ing, the patron saint. The entertain
ment was OF such character that, while
the performers were chiefly women, a
majority OF the spectators were men.
The few exceptions were foreigners
and among them I quickly recognized
my fair ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the Mont
morrises. "Dont thay that you've
theen us here" said the youngest Miss
Montmorris, for it'll only lark. Ith
awfully funny! And that friend of
yourth from Iniian1fy it'll here with
hith daughter" It did not take me
long to find my friend Uncle Joshua's
serious, practical, unsympathetic face
IN the front row of tables and benches.
But beside him, to my utter consterna-
ton, was his shy and modest daughter.
In another moment [ was at his side.
Il really think-I am afraid" [ be-
gan in whisper, that you have made
mistake. don't think you can be
aware of the character of this place.
Your daughter"
KEN here with Miss Montmorris
She's yer. It's all right"
was at my wits end. Happily, at
this moment, Mile. Rochefort, from the
Ord71gie, skipped out in. the quadrille
Immediately before us, caught her light
skirts in either hand, and executed a
pas that lifted the hat from the eyes of
some of the front spectators and pulled
it down over the eyes of others. The
Montmorrises futtered away with a
half-hysterical giggle and half-con-
founded escort. The understanding
Miss Loo, who had been staring at ev-
erything quite indiferently, suddenly
stepped forward, took her fathers arm,
and said, sharply, Come"
| AT this moment a voice in English,
but Enthusiastically belonging to the po-
litest nation in the world, rose from be-
hind the girl, mimickingly. "My
God! it is shocking. I bloosh! Oh,
dammit"
In an instant he was in the hands of
Uncle Joshua" and forced back clam
oring against the railing, his hat smashed
over his foolish, furious face, and half
his shirt and cravat in the old mans
strong grip. Several students rushed
to the rescue of their compatriot, but
one or two Englishmen and half dozen
Americans had managed, in some mys-
ferrous way, to bound into the arena
[ looked hurriedly for Miss Louisa but
she was gone. When we had extracted
the old man from the melee, I asked
him where she was
ooh, [ reckon she's gone off with Sir
Arthur, [ saw him here just as [ pitched
into that darn fool" u
"Sir Arthur"
eyes, an acquaintance O. Loo's."
"She's in my carriage, just outside
interrupted a handsome young fellow,
WILL tuO SuOulCcIS VI SId1G duu Gllo
bushes of a girl. cts all over now,
you know. It was rather foolish lark,
you coming here with her without know
ing-you know-anything about it, you
know. But this way thank you. She's
waiting for you," and in another instant
he and the old man had vanished
Nor did I see him again until he
stepped into the railway carriage with
me on his way to Liverpool. "You see
I'm trav'hn' first class now," he said,
'but goin' home I don't mind a trife
extry expense" "Then you have made
your tour" I asked, "and are success
ful?" "Wal, yes, we saw Switzerland
and Italy, and, if I hedn't been short O
time, we'd hev gone to Egypt. Mebbe
next winter I'll run over again to see
Loo, and do it." "Then your daughter
does not return with you?" contin-
ued, in some astonishment. "Wall, no
she's visiting some of Sir Arthur's
relatives in Kent Sir Arthur is there
perhaps you recollect him." He paused
a moment, looked cautiously around,
and, with the same enjoyment he had
shown on shipboard, said, "Do you re-
member the joke I told you on Loo,
when she was at sea?"
eyes"
"Wen, don't we say anything about it
11oaU. But darn my skin if it doesn't
look like coming true"