The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-24

at Springfield and takes bOarderS to
help him live. He has q wife and
two or three daughters, and one of the
latter-Gussie Dotze-is eighteen and
q blonde beauty. Among the boarders
were three young men, who occupied
the same room, and all were madly in
love with the girl. They agreed ON the
superb loveliness of Gussie SO we'll that
they quarreled about her every night,
and their lives in that treble-bedded
room were not happy. They could not
decide among themselves which Of
them was best entitled to the girl, and
SO they all resolved to propose at the
first opportunity and trust to luck or
love. OF the three she favored Frank
Harrington, but nothing was settled.
Gussie was not ready to give a positive
answer, but Harrington had the best of
the three. Now the Colonel particu-
larly hated those three boarders for
their marked attentions to Gussie. In
fact he hated all Gussie's lovers, and
swOre vengeance ON them In a lump.
Beside the three inside the house, she
had few outsiders. Whenever the
Colonel found an outsider there chst-
ting with Gussie in the parlor, the Wis
itor soon shot himself out the door, and
sometimes scaled the fence without
waiting to open the gate. The Colonel
was the worst cruel father that ever
had q manageable daughter At length
Gussie got tired of the tyranny, and
Gussie's mother took sides with her
against the old man. The mother
liked Harrington, and that settled it.
The Colonel found Gussie and Harring-
ton in the parlor one evening, and told
the latter with many 0aths and impre-
cations that if he ever caught him talk
ing to his daughter again he would wipe
the floor with him until he was corpse.
Then Harrington prepared to leave his
clearinghouse in a fit of anger and
disgust at his treatment, but Gussie and
her mother got round him and pre-
vailed upon him to stay. After this
Harrington and Gussie stole meet
ings outside, and one of the rejected
room-mates told the Colonel what
was going on, who sometimes made
night excursions with a revolver
and baseball bat, looking for the
lovers. He never found them and was
never quite satisfied about those clan
destine meetings, but he kept his cruel
eye on Gussie, and the rejected ROOM
mate helped him watch. Gussie out
witted them. She cleaned up the lodg-
ing-room, and Harrington had given
her the key to his big trunk. She
adroitly slipped her clothes in the
trunk piece after piece until there was
trunk full. Then Harrington re-
solved on leaving, and Gussie and her
mother did not object this time-and
the Colonel could not. Harrington
took his trunk to the depot to watch
the chances. He had already procured
a marriage license and had It in his
pocket. The only thing to do was to
get Gussie to the depot in the nick OF
time for the train. A midnight train
was selected, and Gussie made it. The
rejected roommate was on watch and
discovered the plot. He appraised the
Colonel of the elopement. The train
was just getting under full Roadway
when the Colonel arrived at the depot
with his revolver and club. At Me-
chanicsburg the Rev. Joshua Knight
boarded the train accidentally, and not
by arrangement. Harrington knew the
minister. He had his license to get
married. Gussie said Eyes" The
minister agreed to tie the nuptial knot,
and to prevent accidents Gussie D0tze
and Frank Harrington were fast mar
ried while going at the rate of forty
miles an hour. The happy couple got
off at Marysville, where Harrington'a
parents live. The young mans moth
er had previously told him to be sure
he was right and then 60 ahead. and
she was daily expecting visitors; SO the
young people were not exactly sur
prise party. At last accounts the Col
onel had not followed the couple with
his revolver and club.-Miss0Msi Re-
publican.