Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

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! was left out in the cold, and then Il
occurred 10 me that this was q good
chance 10 find out Dicks secret. fhad
alluded 10 It frequently during the day,
and he had hushed me and put me on
every time. He said, "Wait until
evening"" and thought II was some
plan for a trick or frolic, az he had
showed marvellous ingenuity in such af-
fairs at college. was sure Of some
thing entertaining, and hoped in my
inmost heart that he meant 10 tease
Spenser.
"Come, tell me-" said I. persuasive
| ly, and he laid down his book with a
CLEAN Of fun in his eyes and doubtful
| look about the mouth.
"It's a shame it SHOWS. I'm afraid
| it'll spoil the best Of it, but I've a great
mind 10 tell you. u is agony 10 keep il
to myself. How the rascal has managed
10 keep it up so long ] don't see.
haven't dared 10 look him in the face
to-day. Hallol what's that!"-and l
followed him as he sprang to the win
dow and saw a sleigh just coming up TO
the door. A young lady jumped out
and ran up the steps covered with snow,
while the man drove away toward the
stable. Dick seemed convulsed, and /
thought with joy that the tete-a-tete
would be broken up.
The young lady had come into the
hall, but Dick did not go out to receive
her, and caught me by the arm and
held me fast with very funny express
sion.
The young lady called, "Boys! where
are youPn-but nobody answered; and
then we heard her go into the parlor,
and Dick went 10 join her, dragging me
with him.
The newcomer was Enthusiastically
Miss Alice Hallowell herself, and she
stood just inside the door, the picture of
amazement, looking at the two people
who sat at the further end of the room
Jack Spenser with his volume of
poems open in his hand, and "Miss Hal
lowell" Tor whoever she might beg in a
big easy chair with a fOotstool and O
cushion TO lean against, playing with a
pink rosebud in the most sentimentally
invalid fashion. forgot to tell you that
Spenser had carried "her" bouquet of
roses from Boston.
tom, you wretchl" said Miss Halo
well stamping her foot. " Tom how
dare youP'
Tom, with sweet, tired little smile,
put his hand into the pocket of his dark
blue silk dress, and took out one of his
sisters lace pocket handkerchiefs,
which he held to his eyes, and then rose
slowly and walked down the long parlor
with short steps and a most effective
, sweep OF his long skirts, caricaturing
the young lady whom he had so skill
, fully represented until then. He paused
at the door and said, "Good by, boys" Z"
in his natural voice, which sounded
strangely grum and unladylike.
, 1t was so absurd that even Jack Spen-
ser laughed till he cried, and said he
never had seen any thing so capitally
, done in his life.
, He was very good tempered about it,
and said he had had no suspicion,
r though there had been some things
/ which had surprised him which he had
supposed were owing to /" Miss Halo
| wells" " being so much with her ="
| brothers. We had stood for a minute
, on the piazza before breakfast, and
"she" had made a SNOWFALL and
| thrown it at bird in a most boyish
l fashion. He had thought "her -
= hands rather large, and had come to
the conclusion that the photograph was
! somewhat flattering, though he liked
: "her very much. We all liked him
| all the better for owning up so bravely.
t / do not know whether he bribed Tom
[ to secrecy regarding the conversations
| which had taken place; at any rate
7 that young person had the grace to be
: silent.
: He came downstairs presently, wear
ing his own clOthes-a slender, fair
t haired boy of fifteen, with wonderful
e likeness to bis sister. He was at home
f., on vacation from his boarding-schoOl,
where the chief pleasure had been get,
J. ting up plays, and he had distinguished
e himself in the young ladies' characters
e He had always been capital mimic since
g he was little fellow, and it was
s surprising, after we had seen a little
more of the real Miss Hallowell, to see
! how cleverly he had initiated her ways
a The cold was reality, and had been a
G great help to him-for one could moi
d have any suspicious about his having LOST
S his voice and being obliged to talk in q
/ whisper, when he coughed so much.
l must confess that we found the true
g Miss Alice infinitely more entertaining
/. than the false. The rest of our visit was
Q so merry and we were so charmingly
l. entertained, that we went back to col
# lege the most sorrowful persons imagin
b able, and were homesick at intervals
o for a month. The storm which begaI
n on Sunday was so violent that we wert
s Obliged to stay over until Tuesday, anC
a of course we felt great satisfaction ant
e only wished that it had lasted longer
}, 1t seemed that a friend whom Miss Hal
70 lowell had not seen for long time wa!
a to spend Sunday with another friend
IS who lived ten miles away, anC
is they had persuaded her to stay
= with them until Sunday evening
When the storm came on she had start
1 ed sooner, fearing she might be absen
another night, and dare say not feel
2. ing quite easy at the thought of leaving
e her brothers and their guests to thei
fate. Tom had not gone with his fathe
,, on account of his cold, and when hi
le sisters absence had been decided upoI
d he had laid his plan.
t Jack had not much to say about hi
N society affairs for some time, and final,
d confessed to me that he was sure that
st fellow needed to go into society, but h
IL had rather oyerdone the thing. He ant
i Hallowell and / were fast friend
p through orr college course and are fas
}, friends still. Jack and made othe
4, visits at the Hallowell's, and perhaps
/; is no harm to tell you that he and Mis-
IF Hallowell are engaged and will be mar
a ried in the fall. You see all this hap
4 pened several years ago, and Jack vii
a. be through the law school this year.