Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-04

$50 or $40 better drawing on US for tho bs'a ace,
+ sa,ss Raise the Rickstt girl bust warns
pa pa AXE Ike. 700 frequently of c,Rtecti merry:
ann that W. y'q T Fe mel, and ms5c are the
you go ont. and are careful about yur am lis la
bat T EstsT9 s%ae and a~ay war
g narly forty bg :hels to the acre or SD ply each
ion. With The Pacific Railroad finished and the
oden ase Aa S U s
tant when t.! State will be entirely self-proi &c ny.
dppn soh1
rsverie as yoI think OF your parents so far away.
woods Gods frs. temples--and breathe with us
che infinite pace of solitude. or reflect that loag
on otSers a. oa 9
Do you? We h"p,L1hat Is, your mother ana my;
q nF beg
the society is quite unified for person Of your
abroad and siuice ,bbing is as COMMON as the red
hand OF the assassin. Scarcely day passes that
Consumption is spidemic aud small -poX, too often
has marked the loyeiiest of your sex for his Prey.
sd sRs
daughter Of of the first families has been taken
are paramount the hair Withers and fail outs
the teeth likewise the same. Much as we hope to
expose you to such certain ruin. Your mother
tainted on reaiing your request to visit her. fear
would be fatal. ii you value your parents love
anist this idea from your mind. In few years,
Your AFFEcrIoSATE PARENTS.
Six weeks had elapsed, ami the dutifu an
The guardians, was due. Nevertheless, as the
time approached, some nervousness on the
part of Fleet was manifested by that gentle
to whom all letters addressed to their deceased
friend were delivered. "Nothing from the
Young lady yet, !! suppose, Fleet would say,
spond, quietly. 81 reckon it'll take her about
two weeks to get over her appointment
Then Shss shell e write SEa!ssxlike as motor
red, and then bit his moustache. "YOu don't
think, Captain he asked, with an affected
laugh, that we were little-just a little too
ness replied the Captain graveIy: 'w0men
don't take halfway 'no;' they can't believe
a man means it, he added. 'anv more than
they do Nevertheless. the Captain himself
grew little anxious, and, having to visit
Sacramento, left strict orders with his com
rades that he was to be recalled promptly on
the arrival of Miss Fanny'S reply.
But his visit was not interrupted, and it was
nearly three weeks later that he mounted the
box seat of the Pioneer stage coach to return
to Lagrange. AS he settled him self beside the
mentary epithets, his eye glanced down toward
the wheels, and was attracted by an open let
ter and part of a femal head Obtruded from
the window of the coach. The fair reader had
evidently thus sought to evade the gloom of
the cOach's interior, and possibly the prying
eyes of her fellow passengers, while she perused
it. But why did the Captains withered cheeks
sively clasp the railing by his side? The letter
was in his own handwriting, and had been
mailed to Miss Fanny six weeks before!
1t was impossible. even by the utmost cram
ing, and at the risk of his life, to see anything
more than bit of lace, some artificial flowers,
a front Of blond hair, and the fatal letter. Yet
his guilty conscience ms antly recognized in
these scant facts the formidable presentment
of the deceived orphan Had she discOv-
. cred the trick, and was she now on their
hand? Or was she still in ignorance-an
ignorance which single chance question
and answer now might dispel, amid faint
grew apoplectIc with bewilderment: he dared
not even ask question of the driver, who
was already beginning to survey him with
information if he, the Captain, called this kind
If conduct proper at " his time O. life LET
the gal alone, Rats-dOn'tyOu see it amt love
Ged-a statement that again covered the Cap
tain with guilty bushes. But a sudden jolt of
the vehicle, little shrek, and the futtering
e % ,e IRON
opportunity. To jump from the box to the
road and seize the truant epistle was the work
of amOment. When he approached the coach
to restore it to its fair owner another passen-
had appropriated his own seat on the box, and
thus gave color and reason for his exchange to
ae coach again started Eors sf and captan
Rats fell into the seat beside her. Here was
the supreme moment! With profuse apollo
ca into respectfully diagonal position, 50 as
oppose the narrOwest point of contact with
:ar, and carefully busted his knees and her
Tess softly with his handherehief The shyest
Oldest and most antiquated of duennas would
OF have been discomposed by the submissive
Of ns G nsRer he p Fay Tnc
arge gray eyes on her neighbor, and sat ex-
pectant. But how the Captain improved his
to ns
anne evening to his brother guardians
s, when ,s | saw we was in for it, boys" he
kinder measured the gal sfo ae"1tS sG
see what sort of hand she might hold. But
you couldn't hev told anything by her looks.
nd sor to Of c a1g her
about her own business, nor what she war up
to: And then-wel," continued the captain,
caikilated that this was one o them peculiar
cases that wanted skill and science, and | jist
applied EN-, and In course 1 won. Thets all.
Yes,a said the captain with yawn of stifed
But howg" queried the others eagerly.
We'll" said the Captain lazily, q sorter
opery, the fashions, and po'try, and sich.
Speakin' o. litiratoOr, told her of yarn I'd
read tOtner day IN magazine and then,
kinder keerless and easy, jist up and told
her the whole story about her father and us
and herself, giving her the name of Seraphina,
calling you and Horton Oscar and RoderigO,'
and Fleet GustavuS.' and myself 'RodentiO'
which Is Latin for Rats Well, if l do say it
myself, 1t wasn't no SLOUGH of a story, fur
was kinder clipper and fresh, and the other
passengers was just about as much interested
IS she was Then SOrter looked in her eye,
you know. this way" and Capt. Rats here
achieved a peculiarly Jesuitical leer, "and
said that allowed it wasn't true, and asked
her what she thought about it as story And
she said it might be true and it might not, but
1T was quite interesting. Them's her very
words, gentlemen"
Well go on" said the Colonel eagerly.
That's ALL"
''All air. shrleked the guardians together.
Didn't she say anything else? Didn't
yOu-'
Nary" said the Captain, coo!ly. But it's
all right boys You'll see. y
Horton seized Capt Rats by one shoulder,
and the Colonel grappled the other. For d
few seconds they shook him furiOusly.
Where is she now, you blank, dlank mule?
Answer uS!'
"Why, reckon she's over at the Union Ho
tel with Fleet. forgot to say that he happen
ed accidental to be there when the stage KEN
in: She seemed to be kinder easy and nat'ral
with him, and l."
But before Capt Rats had finished his
speech the two men rose furiOu 'ly and dashed
out OF the room bareheaded. And even as the
Captain sat there, mute and aStOuuded vet