The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-28

and he was all wrapped up in a cloak
but he was splendid. He had a foreign
accent and a black noustache''
oh" cried Maria, Il love a foreign
accent
And I've promised to run away with
him, tonight" SAID Helen. He says
ma will be sure TO forgive us; and he's
awtully rich. And, oh, how ! feel.
girlsI''
"Of course you do But it will be so
nice" said Maria.
They never have bridesmaids on an
elopement," said Rose-"oh, how I'd
like to go.''
| And while Mrs. White, sitting with "a
dear friend, who also had grown daugh-
tiers, but who kept them at home, con-
graduated herself on dear Helen being
safe at school, this atfectionate daughter,
from whom she had just received d
| charming epistle, corrected by Miss
Minerva and touched up by the writing
| master, was packing her small bundle IN
preparation for flight, aided ana abetted
by the four young ladies to whose ex-
ample she owed so much.
At - of the night she slipped down
stairs with her little parcel in her hand.
All in the house were asleep save the
four friends in the first-class dormitory
! Bridget had left the key in the lock. 1t
was dangerous
! If she were not the first up in the
morning she might lose her place.
Out into the moonlight hurried the
Young girl.
The white beams showed her pretty,
foolish face paid as that of ghost.
She had never set foot in the street
| alone at such an hour before.
A terror seized her-a sense of her
own wickedness.
| IOarhanS she TVnnlH have fI,rpt.6 haal-
/ but that figure in cloak came at that
moment from the shadow of a porch and
seized her by the arm.
"Ah. my own Helen!" said voice
! 1t was Carlos-Princc Carlos-her
own prince.
Romance came to her aid.
She forgot her fears, and entered the
carriage waiting round the corner with
| him.
Away they drove, how far Helen did
not know.
Suddenly the arm that encircled her
was withdrawn, and voice said:
Look here, young woman. No noise.
| I'll choke you if you try to scream
You have your watch and jewelry with
| you, hope, and the money you promised
to coax from your mother. Hand them
| over"
"Oh, it is not my CarIos." cried Helen.
"OH, WHAT snail L QOs'
ut is Carios-at least it is the man
you've been corresponding with" said
| the voice under the hat. But I'm no
prince and no husband for you. Hand
| over the money and jewelry and I'll not
hurt you. | haven't much fancy for a
bread and butter miss, and an idiot who
would run off with man she didn't
know, to boot. Hurry; I'm waiting"
Poor Helen! She felt as though the
end OF the world would be n comfort.
She was ready to die of shame and
modification
But she gave her purse, her watch, and
all her small possessions to the robber,
who, with loud laugh, gathered them
up and jumped out of the carriage, call
ing to the driver:
Take that girl back to the school,
John, will you?"
The driver did as he was told
Miss Helen White stood on the door
step of Miss Minerals seminary again,
but not alone; with her stood the driver
in a furious rage.
He demanded pay, she had no money
He swore he would be paid, and rang
the bell and battered the door until not
only the servants, but Miss Minerva and
four-and-twenty scholars appeared in the
bali and on the stairway in all sorts of
impromptu draperY, and, having decided
that it was neither fire nor murder, open
| ed the door 10 behold Miss White and
her angry companion.
"Pay me-" cried this worthy "You,
missus, that drives the machine, pay me
Here's gent hires me to carry off his
gal and when they falls out and parts, I
looses my fare. Pay meI".
| But Miss Minerva, recognizing her
scholar, darted forwarded, rescued her,
| slammed the door in her face, ordered
the servants to guard it and asked for
explanations.
The explanation ended in swoon on
the part of Miss Minerva, and Mysteries
on that of Miss White.
The next morning Charles stood be-
fore his sister with peculiar expires
! sion on his face
In her lap she held packet of letters
which she had perused
Can 1t be that my daughter would
write and receive such things as these? 81
| shesaid.
MY dear sister," said Charles, "all is
as have stated, and it is well that, on
the part of the gentleman, it was all
| piece of acting. Helen was in earnest,
and has no idea that her letters were
from her uncle.
"That he, in mustache and cloak,
| eloped with her, and wound up the affair
by robbing her; or that the driver was
his old friend Wenter, who has daugk-
tiers of his own, and who promised to
wind up the affair in the most dreadful
manner possible,
| "fou must, however, promise to send
| for Helen tomorrow, and to keep the
| truth of this affair secret, so that it may
be lifelong lesson to her"
| Mrs. White listened.
! She was angry, but she had sense
enough to do IS her brother desired.
| And il was not until Helen was mar
ried that she learned that her love affair,
| elOpement and desertion wero all carried
out by her Nnels Charles, who knew
what the result OF boarding school fir
tatlon might be, and cured his neice by
| giving her bitter lesson, of all DISPOSE
ton to imprudent conduct or foolish SEN
Immortality.