Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-02
FINALLY.

HHNAtLIs
Never - There Was an uneartblv
and a weird sadness In the tone IN winch
this dissyilabls was uttered. Il nuated
out upon the solemn stiffness of the Oc-
tooer night IN which II fell from the
parted lips of Rosaie,ta Wrinkle, with n
pathetic indis,inctness which reminded
one Of the dying murmur Of the two
minute signal Of fog-horn heard by
the mariner when at least one marine
league distant from one of these helps
to the sailor.
To the casual listener the word ''nev-
er," q uttered on the memorable occa-
s,on referred to. may and probably did
have no peculiar significance. Il might
have been-and We shudder to think Of
tit might have been. we say. An in
terjaculation Of some wandering men,
Der Of disbanded Pinafore troupe, Who
was thus striving TO recall the vanished
past. Il might have been the mode Of
expression adopted by the lady who
keeps the haberdashery, who wished
thereby 20 assure the sewing machine
agent that neither then nor at any fu-
ture time did she wish or did she in
tend TO purchase one, or more. Of his
duplex, patent::elliptic, back stitch, sew
leather equally as well as-the- finest
muslin machines; it might have been
the reply of the female book agent to
the agonized query Of the lawyer in the
fourth story Of the Posr-INTKLLIoEScER
building, Twill you never let up2" but it
was none Of these things.
Ethelbert Tupmau knew too well
what this word never" uttered in Sc
pulchfal tones, meant. 1t meant the
ending, the final, the you-needn' t-think-
that-l-am- going to-make-it up ending
Of Loves Young Dream. Alas,we know
what We are, but We know not what We
shall be. They soy the Owl was the
Baker Daughter.
But We throw no light upon the sub
ject.
To properly understand the situation
it is necessary TO revert for msment to
that unhappy two-dozen- Eastern-fr fried
oysters-in- q l0af-and-caramel episode
in the life of these two young and most
unhappy beings with which our former
narrative closed.
Roaalstta Wrinkle had no. been reared
in the lap of luxury. On the contrary,
her early life, the gushing young thing
was only thirty-twO-had been made
familiar with some of the romantic pri-
vations which 30 pioturesquely illustrate
the lives of people not born heirs to
large domains, Government bonds, and
Central, Southern and Northern Pacific
railroad bonds.
Here let Us stop to drop tear of pity.
II she had been. our readers might have
been been spared the recital Of these
events and We would have earned their
everlasting gratitude.
But We diRress.
Rosaletta thought the matter over AZ
ter Ethelbert left Ostensibly for the Oys-
tiers in the loaf and the caramels. As
the evening wore away into the "wee
short hours ayant the twal" and Ethel
bert did not come she stepped to the
pantry and helped herself literally to
cold corned beef and sauer kraut and
murmured to herself Perhaps the res
taurant is closed or possibly Wilkins
drew him away with the promise OF un-
limited beer. But if Ethelbert Tupman
thinks am going to bed hungry, little
be knows of the domestic economy OF
Chateau Wrinkle"
The morning dawned and still no
SIGNS of Ethelbert. She mentioned the
fact to her father, who, to tell the truth,
| was anxious to get her OF his hands,, as
he wished to marry the widow Dedrick,
whose lots in Laws addition joined his
own, (the same ones that Tupman was
laying fOr).
"What ho, girl said papa Wrinkle.
tart mad? Dost think the youth of to-
day are made of gold, that thou dOst de-
mand oysters and caramels, Be content
with common food as vast Dame Win
kle, thy honest mother, before thee"
R0saletta took the hint. She sat
down at her ebony writing case, and in
dicted note to Ethelbert. She was all
honey and treacle with her pen. Dear
est Ethelbert," she wrote, Il fear me l
didstest ask too much the other eve.
Oysters and caramels, know, are costly
viands. Send me, pray thee, by post,
my sweetest love, the names OF some
common foods that may ask thee when
thou CONTEST again for what will not SO
heavily tax thy purse" And she signed
the missive Ever thine ownliest own"
| She did.
II reached Ethelbert's hands. They
we're moist with the brine Of the pork
barrel, and not wholly free from the
saccharine effiueecence of the molasses
keg. Nevertheless! He raised the per-
fumed billet doux to his lips, and kissed
it with grace and ecstasy which said,
as plain a. plain could be, "Noblesse
oblige."
AZ, tho perversity of fate! The
treachery of man. Ethelbert had not
time to mako out the list. One Of his
friends was near, however, who is the
pOssessor of an amateur printing press.
He ia, however, a blacksmith with types.
Ethelbert asked his friend to set top
head, open faced old Gothic display of
the words ''Some common foods" and
underneath it add a number Of viands,
which he would be able to procure from
his employer at Wholesale rates, freight,
drayage and insurance added.
Now, mark the sequel. Ethelbert
trusted 10 his friend. He took the
printed copy from his hand, and mailed
II as il was TO his adored Rosaletta.
She opened the missive. She knew
the handwriting ON the envelope. She
opened it, We say, and read-oh, per-
fidy! oh, horr0r!-"Some common
fools" The treacherous proprietor of
the amateur printing press had betrayed
his friend.
Rosaletta tainted. Her father
stOrmed. He sent for the hapless Ethel
bert. Hemst him at the door. He was
still anxious to get ROsaletta of of his
| u80O0s no UdSo W Gs1caOokss W. IA
and explain things" He went in and
found Rosaletta somewhat revived. He
asked her, MAY l not be allowed to ex-
plain?" And cold, remorseless, pitiless,
unforgiving rang ont upon the air of the
October night the word with which our
story opens, "Never"'
The moral Of this story is plain. Have
your job printing done at a regular
0ffice.