The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-14

girls was a proposition too self evident
| to be doubted.
Suddenly 1t flashed across his mind
| that the owners Of these garments had
drowned themselves. He grew pale in
spite Of the heat as he felt that he was
on the brink Of an awful tragedy. The
two girls must have rashly shaken off
| their mortal clothes and thrown them
| selves into the river. Anxious to gain
some clue as to their identity, he hastily
examined one garment after another
and was finally rewarded by finding the
name Of his beloved object. He waited
| no longer, but fed, at the top Of his
speed, for help. He thought 1t possible
| that the girls might yet be resuscitated,
and that, at all events, their bodies
| should be recovered as soon as pos
sible. In order to make sure that his
story should be credited, he thought
fully carried with him the two heaps Of
clothing, and, with the exception Of the
shoes and few small articles which
| dropped from his arms as he ran, he
reached the piazza OF the chief hotel
with his picturesque burden. Loudly
| crying that the two young ladies, whose
names he mentioned, Rad Just been
| drowned In the river, and calling upon
everybody to go and find their bodies,
| he sank exhausted into chair, and be-
came In moment the centre Of
| throng Of excited citizens.
The clerk In the drug store-the new
one at the lower part of the street-hap-
| pened to be present, and being q re-
| zaarkably energetic young man, he at
once proceeded to action. You fell
lows" exclaimed this born leader Of
men, ''get some hot whisky and bar
rel to roll the gals on, and I'll have the
bodies blythe time you get there" he
said, and straight, with dust-devouring
feet, fled towards the river. The rest Of
the male citizens OF Dayton followed
him at slower pace, and reached the
grove fully five minutes after him. As
they reached the outer row Of trees they
were astonished by the energetic drug
clerk, who emerged from the grove and
babe them halt on peril OF their lives.
To the excited and simultaneous CUES
tions, BE they alive yet p and "Have
you got the bodies2" he deigned no i'm
mediate answer, but demanded to know
where that sulphuretted idiot had left
them clothes ?" Learning that the
clothes In question were still at the
hotel, he ordered that every one should
instantly return, and that the clothes
should be brought back to the grove by
some woman. "The gals" he explained.
"are all right, and it's my opinion that
Inc man JnAL SbOlG b0Glr clothes 81 nd
left them soaking in the creek while be
went to set the whole village on them,
deserves lynching."
or course it was unfortunate that Mr.
Buckley mistook O case Of unconven-
tional bathing for suicide, but no one
can deny that he meant well. How was
be to suspect the true nature Of the
AFFAIR." It had never occurred to him
that with the thermometer at 81 degrees
two suffering young ladies might VEN
ture upon the experiment OF bathing in
q sequestered pool. Even II the thought
had come into his mind. he would have
died rather than have investigated the
matter. Believing that the girls had
committed suicide, he took the only
course open to @ humane and bashful
young man, and he expressly says that,
had not the hastry drug clerk discon-
certed his plans, ne would have sent
none but ladies to search for the bodies.
Nevertheless, the two young ladies
have solemnly sworn never to speak to
him to their dying day, and the one
whom he 30 devotedly loved openly
asserts that, had she had o brother,
that cowardly Buckley would never
have dared to insult her clothes. It is
generally thought that she will marry
the energetic drug clerk, and that Mr..
Buckley will never again try to save
any woman, whether young or old, from
a watery grave.