Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27

The 10y, 1oye;,isht half bashfully' tenderly
Do not know them? All! love, l was blind
Ere the dainty, ringed hands came over my
And roguish, white arms meier closer can bind
Than the love which once kindled to life
never dies. "
VIII Wallace Harvey.
A BURGLARY AND AN ELOPEMENT
II tell you," cried Arthur Lambert, in
q rage, eff ever catch that sneaking
scoundrel in this house again, I'll break
every bone in his body!"
Rose Lambert laughed derisively.
"Take care that you don't come
off second-best, my valiant brother.
Charles is not sneaking scoundrel,' and
I think that if you come to blows with
him, you would be in danger of being
the greatest sufferer of tho two!"
"l'm not afraid of MIN, nor of all the
Cores who ever sung psalms"
II don't think that Charles was ever
hurt by any psalm-singing. He has not
been to church that know of, since he
gave up preaching It St. Blossom, and
never did like it. Indeed, only wish
he was little more serious"
"He'l be serious enough after I've had
hold of him."
Rose put on highly -quizzical ex-
preston.
'Now, my dear brother, what on earth
is the use Of talking about Charley Gore
in that way? You have forbidden him
the house forty times, you have forbid
den me to see him Just as often, and have
threatened to whip him ever since he
first-6rst began to-pay attention to me.
am quite tired of your clustering, and
kno that it means nothing; so advise
you to put on smiling face, let me have
my own way, and make the best of it."
II have done nothing but talk, so far"
replied the wrathful young man, land
now am going to act. warn you, if
you care anything for Charles Gore, not
to let him come here again; for if I catch
him, shall certainly give him the worst
thrashing any man ever got in this
town."
And off he went, and banged the door
behind him.
The fact was that Charley Gore was
very much in love with Rose Lambert,
and Rose Lambert was very much in love
with Charley Gore; but Arthur Lambert
was tremendously prejudiced against the
young man, and took every possible o.
casion to say bitter things about MIN be-
fore Rose.
OF course this only famed the flame of
OF her love for him. There is nothing
like little wholesome persecution to in
tensify love affair, so the more Arthur
swore his sister shouldn't marry Gore, the
more she declared she would.
As for Gore, he was terribly lazy ftl
low. He had gone into the Church on
leaving college, only because he thought
parsons life an easy one; out sundry
little escapades be INDUCED in during his
clerical experience created great scan
dial about him, and when he came into
his property at his fathers death he found
that even the sli ght labor OF preparing
two sermons week, and making pastor
al visits, fatigued him too much; so he
left the church in st. Blossoms, and re-
tired to his old homestead, Cedar Point,
and settled down in the sweet Incidence
of bachelorhood. He sat in his garden
or on the piazza that overhung the bay,
and smoked and read all the fternoon
for days and days together, until he met
Rose Lambert, when an extraordinary fit
of energy took hold of him, and he rowed
down the bay three miles to her brothers
house every day, and came back in the
evening.
When Arthur Lambert forbade him
the premises, they used to fix upon va
rious secludedlittle hooks along the shore
for trysting-places, and continued to
meet as before. Charley would 90 to the
house too, once in a while; but he was
always liable to discovery. and then there
was an inevitable ''scene" With Arthur.
"I'm not a bit afraid of him, you knew"
said the indolent ex pastor, "but these
scenes are so much trouble to a fellow;
they're too much like work to suit me-
So Rose and he generally preferred to
meet somewhere but of the house, until
Arthur finally set his foot down that they
should not meet at all, and the above con-
versation took place.
That very afternoon Charley rowed
leisurely down the bay, keeping we'll in
ne"r the shore, till he came to a pictur-
esque little spot where two large rocks,
standing at right angles, left sheltered,
Cosey corner, III which primitive sort Of
seat was placed, just long enough for two.
Here he grounded his boat, and spran
ashore.
"She isn't here yet" he soliloquized,
looking at his watch; shut the time is
hardly up"
He had just got the words out of his
mouth when he saw the flutter of shawl
at the corner of the rock, and Rose pre-
sented herself, looking as blooming as
her floral namesake.
Now I'm not going to tell all that they
did and said when they first met, for
most everybody knows from experience
and however nice such meetings are in
real life, they are always little fiat to
read in print. Therefore, shall omit tie
first ten or fifteen minutes conversation,
and 60 at once at what concerns my
story.
"What do you suppose Arthur is going
to do2" asked Rose.sr, Il -.
I'm sure don't know; whip ne, I
suppose"
Eyes; but that's not ALL He is going
to watch me, and if he finds out that we
have met again, he will lock me ur in
my chamber H. r.
NoNeyou Aou MedH IL!
''Yes-so he says"
IT tell you what it is, little maiden
mine, I've got an idea"
"What is it,"
"The sooner we marry, the BETTER"
The little maiden blushed, but didn't
say any thing against the proposition.
This counting under difficulties" con-
tinued Charley, sis hard work, and you
know never had much taste for that. l
had good deal rather marry first, and
do the counting afterward. shall have
more time, and far better opportunities.
In fact, it always seemed; queer TO- me
that men don't make love to their wives
more than they do; they have such glori-
GUS chances! What do you say to our
marriage nows" - = E
Rose hadn't thought of it so soon. She
blushed a good deal, and hesitated agood
deal, but finally concluded that she had
rather get ready in few days and be
married without noise and ceremony,