The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-28
Chris and Katy's Wedding.
A TROUBLED MEETING AFTER TWELVE YEARS
or SEPARATION.


OF SEPARATION.
Among the strangers In New York last
week was q German named Chris, VINO
emigrated hisher twelve years ago. and had
accumulated handsome little fortune In
Colorado. His visit to the city was TO meet
his KATY, the girl OF his choice, who had
agreed TO wait until he sent for her. She
was among the Storage passengers OF the
steamer Hohenstauier, and Chris, with a
friend. was present when the passcn-
gers trooped out OF the steamer.
Chris looked anxiously among the
throng, and his heart sank, for nowhere
could be seen any one who in the faint
est degree rescmbled his betrothed. But
his friend. who had been on visit TO Ger
many only three or four years ago, had
seen her there, and had better remeIn-
brance of what she really looked Ike,
recognized Katy at once in woman who
eventually discovered him in the crowd
and darted up 10 him with cry OF recoS-
milton. lie turned to the lover beside bin,
cxclaiming in German "Aha! Chris, here
is Katy at last" and brought them face to
face. They both uttered cries OF doubt
and disappointment, and stared in mingled
doubt and pain. Katy could see nothing
in the sturdy, bronzed man OF the
rosy-checked young fellow who had
won her affection and gone from her so long
ago. And he as little could see OF the
pretty maiden OF eighteen years, who in
his remembrance had always been the same.
i'm the tall, thin, and brown woman, with
fiat, battered little brown-straw hat, small
brown-and-red plaid shawl, short skirts,
coarse blue woollen stockings, and heavy
cow-hide shoes, who now stood before him.
Both sprang to one coDclusion-that the
other was a fraud. The friend interiered,
and made reference to events in their early
life, which brought them closer together,
and after a little while Katy was induced
to accompany Chris TO the friends house.
Now, Impotence and affection again TOOK
possession of Chris more rapidly than
Katy gave way TO the reawakening. and he
urged an immediate marriage, to which
she, with some show OF reluctance ana
evidently lingering doubt, consented. The
ceremony was performed by justice OF
the peace. and the rapidity with which he
ratified of the few words in language she
did not understand by no means satisfied
Katy that she was lawfully-marricd wo-
man, and the more she thought about it
the more she became dissatisfied. In a
shriIl, excited voice she declared her belief
name and get the little money that her
father had sent over for her matrimonial
send-off; that she didn't believe this Chris
was her Chris anyhow, and that she was
going right back to Germany on the same
steamer that brought her. In that frame OF
mind she rushed out of the house and
started for the steamer.
The newly-made husband and his friend
4 l.. I'D, 70 int.
hotel i'm order to settle their difficulties, and
a lawyer was brought in to act as media
tor. First they had supper and beer; then
they had cheese and Rhine wine; finally
the bridegroom, in Il moment OF hope and
recklessness, ordered champagne. And
all the while the arguments went on. The
lawyer, working through IN Interpreter,
that Katy might understand, led Chris on
to talk of his old home in the Father
land, and occurrences there in his youth
full days, and thus gradually convinced
her that this was really Chris. TO satisfy
her scruples they offered to get Lutheran
minister and have the ceremony reperf0rm-
ed: but the needless expense involved was \
consideration which her economic mind
readily grasped, and at last, overwhelmed
by argument, she gave up her design OF re-
turning to Germany. Then new trouble
arose. Chris, under the influence OF the
champagne, became excited at the remem-
brance. OF her bitter words Of doubt and
suspicion, and he grew holly indignant.
He SAID she might go back to Germany.
She retortcd angrily, and row worthy of
long-married folks broke forth. After long
pouring of much argumentatiye oil upon
the troubled waters friends soothed the
anger of the couple, and both apologized.
1t was 2 O'Clock in the morning when the
matter was settled, and she started out
with Chris to go the friends house.