Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-07-10
Washington Adventure
Advice of a False Friend-Mr. West
moreland's Jealousy.

handsome young man, to his
friend, Percy Beers, who. was
slightly older than he, and about
whose personal appearance there
was nothing striking except his
eyes, whose expression was sim
gularIy sinister and mischievous
$50 You are sure, Percy, that
Janet Walden has promised Ed
ward Bowker to marry him?"
"Sure! Why, James, Ed Bow
ker's having his wedding-clothes
made at Monsieur Bouville's mer-
chant-tailor shop ON Pcnnsylva-
MIA agenne, and he has told his
aunt, Mrs. Brooks, to write to
her son William to come home
from Cincinnati by the last Of
this month,so that he may be Eds
groomsman. Go to Bouville's
and find it out for yourself if you
disbelieve. But you ought to
know that / am your friend, and
don't want you to make q. foel
of yourself by running, as you
do, after a girl who is secretly
engaged TO another man. Give
her the cold shoulder, James, be-
fore it is too late; that's my adj
vice, and you'll find it is good
advice. / have an idea that she
is still leading you to believe
that she'll marry you in order to
deceive her mother, who likes you
better than Ed Bowker. Her
and Eds game probably is to
get married without her mothers
knowledge, and tell her only when
it is too late. In what a fine
predicament you would find your
self in that event, James? Why,
you'd be the laughing-stock of
the whole cityl'' aa eniiuo
Westrnoreland made an ex-
cuse to leave Beers, to be alone.
No sooner had he departed than
he gave full vent to his Jealous
rage. His face was almost liyid,
and his handsome face became
distorted as he hissed to-himself:
"The false, treacherous Great
ure, she has made me believe she
loved me, and / bestowed upon
her all the affections of my ar
dent heart, and now she prefers
to me a fellow whom | know to
be my inferior in every respect!
All, but to think that I'd allow
myself to be treated in this in
famous manner! How little she
knows of what stuff am madel
She shall never become his wife
even if l have to kill hel'!'l' E r
The more he reflected upon the
disclosure which Percy Beers
had made to him, the mere in
tense became his fury. He pass
ed a horrible, sleeple S, night, and
the most diab0lical schemes to
prevent Janet Walden from mar
rying Ed Bowker constantly pc
Cured to him.
When he left his couch hext
morning he resolved to ascertain
whether Beers had told him the
truth, and then strike a terrible
blow at the girl he had loved so
we'll, and whom he now hated
with almost fcrocious energy.
He dropped into NJ. Bouville's
tailol-shop, on Pennsylvania av-
enue, and ordered a new suit.
While the obsequious Frcnch-
man took his measure, Mr. West
moreland said, earelessly. A'0 y
II have been told that Mr.. Ed
Bowker has ordered his wedding
suit of you. Is it true?' ,.-,,.
"Ah, yes, sin, it is true =
'Do you know what lady Mr..
Bowker is to many?"
Eyes, sir; Miss Janet--Miss
Janet-let me see, sir; Miss JAN
ct"
''Walden?" suggested he.
"Yes, sir; Miss Janet Wall
den," replied the Frenchman.
Had Westmoreland inquired
who told Nj. Bouville that, he
would have learned that no ether
than Percy Beers had been his
informant. But he did not. put
the question, and left the shop
fully convinced that Janet was
to become Ed Bowker's wife.
He directed his steps to the
fine brown-stone house, where
Miss Walden was living with
her mother, the widow off veal
thy banker. ls sa,
The young lady had risen that
morning with a headache, and,
in consequence, she was a little
feverish and nervous when Mr..
Westmoreland entered the room
where she and her mother were
seated. After a few remarks on
Indifferent subjects, on which the
young man succeeded in hiding
the bitter feelings that filled his
heart, he fixed his eyes intently
upon the young lady and said to
her:
"Janet, dear, will it be agree
able to you if we get married be-
fore the last of this month";"
'sOh, James, yon must not
tease me about that yet. ] do
not feel we'll TO day, as / told yon