Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-24
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be alone in strange land more heart.
sick than ever"
"Well, if the want of moneys ALL
cried her honest lover, "that's easily
settled. I'll give you the money to 60
in bang.up style, and"
But here he stopped in Amusement,
for Mrs. Montgomery Montague had
risen from her seat and drawn her small
figure to its fullest height. "Sir, do
not insult me-" she said, with trembling
lips.
Insult you," cried the captain,
springirg to his feet" insult you, my
dear little woman! never dreamed Of
such thing"
"But you offended me-money," she
stammered.
"And I was about Offering you my
hand and heart-that's the way they
put it in the love stories, don't they
Will you marry me, Lillian? and then,
if you choose, we'll go together for the
boy:
Generous manW said the widow, a
tear stealing down her pretty cheek.
" But don't you see"-- that that would
never do? / could never plead for my
child as the wife of Captain Hottop.
1t must be as the widow Of Montgomery
Montague"
"Blessed if you amt right" exclaim.
ed the captain, looking at her admir-
ingly. "Well, promise to marry me
when you return. Do, Lillian. No one
could love you better than IT,
"When returnW
Yes, for surely my promised wife
can accept part of the fortune that will
be all hers when she is really my wife,
without anybody. Darn it, nobody
need e ! k H; :; ", win i'll: you' Lilian?"
"Will what, my precieus?" he asked,
smiling.
"Everything," she answered.; and
turned and fed like bashful girl, after
he had clasped her in his arms and given
her kiss in true sailor fashion.
And by the very next steamer Mrs.
Montgomery Montague started for Eng
land, with a valuable solitaire diamond
engagement ring glittering on her pretty
hand, a check for $500 in her silver
portmonnaie, and many useful and or
namental farewell gifts from the ladies
OF the Spoorer household. The ladies
felt all their old interest in her revive,
now that she had gone away indeed, as
Mrs. Dusenberry Informed the eighty
year old grandfather of the youth who
famed her on the afternoon of Mrs.
Montague's arrival. "She was was
much too lovely, and made me quite
jealous of you, you false man,
And Miss Isabella Spooner hung the
picture Of young Montgomery, THAT
bab]!et fair" in the parlor, and wreathed
it with daisies. " Heaven grant that
we may see thes darling himself soon?"
she said, with piteous emphasis.
But they never did. For couple of
weeks after the widows departure, We'll
'ington Octoper burst in upon them all
as they We're playing croquet on the
lawn, scattering the balls in all direc-
tions.
"Sold, by gracious!" shouted he.
"What?' asked Miss Spooner drop
ping her mallet. A million tierces Of
lard and twice as many pigs. l suppose"
Mrs. Dusenberry, leaning in
an unconscious manner against the
shoulder of her partner.
"She's fraud! Yes,s," continued
the pork merchant.
Who?" they all cried this time.
"The widow, Mrs. montgomery Mon
tague, that is, Mrs. Maria }. Thompson.
Yes-s."
Maria J.--Jane, suppose. A sweet
said Mrs. Dusenberry.
GA fraud, sir! What do you mean,
sir? What do you meant" beloved
Capt. Hottop, as though through a
speaking trumpet, flush overspreading
his weather-brOpzed face.
''Just what I say, captain. Yes-s,"
answered the pork merchant. cit
ought to be the LIST of April-it ought
for, by lingo, there never was such a
sell! The only truth she told was when
she said she was a widow. So she is.
Yes.s. The widow Of Jack Thompson,
celebrated mince and pumpkin pie maker
in Chicago. | met his brother On the
street to-day. He's a pork merchant.
And she never had any children"
"Not q blue'eyed boy?' gasped the
captain.
"Not even blue-eyed boy. Yess!"
said Wellington Octcper.-Harper's