The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-05-31

| lHc very tcuTS on neT WilSlVu Cneeks
should speak for her. Take her by the
hand, encourage her. give her your en-
tire confidence, and you will sec that
am right. | am aStonished that you
should hcStatem
"Arc youP" they replied in chorus
and had no more desire to argue with
them than they had to discuss the ques.
ton with me, Secretcly | was n little
afraid Of Mrs. Clark myself
One afternoon she came to me in
grievous distress. Her husband had
been killed in street fight ythis time;
in one way or another her children,
with the exception of Rosina, had died
or been killed or had run away. They
had always been as wild as so many
qnails, their being small control over
them from their birth. Only Rosina re-
mained at home in household fallen
imo general decay, apparently not an
unbroken cup, saucer, parlor vase, chair
or sofa on the premises,
"PleaSe tell me what to do?" she beg
ged of me, "Rosina ran away few
days ago with young fellow | had
them brought back. They are at my
house now Please come and see what
you can do with them"
| When reached the house took the
young lover off in room by himself.
ii had no notion of marrying Rosy"
| he explained to me- 81 mean not now
haven't made enough yet to live on.
1t was her idea. She is a mighty bright
| girl you know; looks like her mother
and takes after her 1t was her idea
| sir. She told me she couldn't stand it
at home any longer don't think peo-
pie understand her mother; / don't
Rosy does, and it was her who got me
into the scrape,"
But do you love her? Are you will
ing to marry hcr?' asked of the be-
wildcrcd youth
ooh, YES; Of course" he said in a de-
fant way; "Oh, yes; I'm willing. Idon't
see where the bread and butter is to
come from, but oh, yes, I'll risk it!'
ut was the funniest thingw Rosina
told me when | had her off to herself
Il got out of the back window about
midnight, | had to slide down the roof
of the kitchen, and Rufe he was there
with buggy. | had packed all my
things in trunk and lowered il down
to Rufe with a clothes line before came
down Rufe strapped it on behind the
buggy with the rope, and we started. 1t
was dark as pitch and pouring down
rain. We did not care; Rufe and | liked
it," and she laughed. Shewas as igno-
rant as girl could well be, but was
very pretty and full Of her fun, as her
mother had often told me.
And you got into a creek?n | asked.
Mother told you, did she? 1t was
the funniest thing!" she laughed. 1--WE
did not think about it once, We might
have known the rains would have put
the creek up, but ,cc did not care. Rufe
gave the horse a cut with the whip-no,
he drove and had the whip. | knew
my mother would have Major Prince
after us" AT the mention of the name
the eyes of the poor girl fell to the floor |
and she ceased to laugh. She was not |
sixteen, and ! was puzzled at her sud- |
den seriousness When she lifted her |
eyes to mine saw the color slowly suf- |
fuse her face and neck in u way | could |
not comprehend.
And Major Prince did come after
you thcn?"
"Yes; mother heard US drive off; had
him found and sent him after us as hard
as he could drive | thought | heard
him coming up behind and | gave the
horse a good cut as we drove down into
the bottom. 1t was so dark you couldn't |
see your hand before your face And it |
was so funnyw she laughed. "The |
creek was booming In we went The
creek was swimming. How we got out
! don t know, but we kept on through.
Oh, but | got wet" and she laughed
more merrily than ever. when Rufc
came to look the trunk was gone. The
creek had swept it down stream. Some
body found it next day lodged against |
the brush half mile away. My name |
was on it and they sent it here to-day |
on an oX-cart. It's up stairs now. 1t
was full of water, and you ought to see
the mess my things are in! This is one
OF mothers gowns I've got on" She |
called my attention to it with outspread |
hands, and gave way to her merriment |
like the child she was,
And Major Prince caught youY
"At the house on the other side Of the |
creek. The horse broke the shafts in |
getting out My trunk was gone, there |
was no way to ride. | told Rufe / could
walk if he would, but he said | was too |
wet to walk Yes, the Major brought |
us back in his two-horSe buggy"
And you are willing to marry your
lover?'
Yes that was what we ran away for. |
My mother ran of with a man when she |
was girl. Eliza ran away too, you re-
member She couldn't stand it any |
more than could" and the laughter |
was gone. Her eyes were dry and fierce. |
"No girl could stand it,"
'Stand what?N
She looked AT me suddenly and said |
nothing, only bluShed II don't believe
you know anything about my mother"
she said after awhile. But / was say
ing to myself "Who can know anybody |
or understand anythng?"
There was but one thing to do. |
called in the lover and the mother and
married the runaways doubt if they
could remember moment after u word