The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-03-30
The Bridal Tour.

aye, father. We love each other
dearly, Alcibiades and I. And he is do
ing extremely we'll, too, he tells me. He
is, as you doubtless know, a law
clark"
ga clark, my child? What is CLARKE
perhaps 1 should have said clerk,
father" said Theodosia Tumsuden, flush
ing slightly at her fathers ignorance;
"perhaps YOU would have understood me
better; but at Mills Seminary, where
they have inculcated into my mind the
purest principles of religion, together
with French, music and drawing, we
were always hidden to say "clark." 1t
is the English fashion and more elegant. "
"Be it so, my child" said Tumsuden,
fondly, always talk in the most high
tonedest fashion. Show your brung-up
wherever you go. But this young fellow
is clerk, you say?"
HE is more," said Theodosia, che is a
barrister. He has been permitted to
practice in the police court and before
the justices of the peace, and he ekes out
his income by other pursuits.
"And what other pursuits?" asked her
father.
''He sweeps out and washes the win
dows for his employers" said Theodosia,
with brilliant blush, "but, oh, father,
he loves me SOL"
"There, there, daughter, " said Thomas
Tumsuden, strangely moved, ''do not
weep. peddled peanuts myself when l
was poor boy. He is good and worthy
youth, as I was. He shall have you for
his bride. Go, my child-go and pre-
pare your trosu. Never mind the cost"
With light and joyous step Theo-
dosia Tumsuden put on her sealskin and
sailed out shopping
Did she use up four or five dry goods
clerks that afternoon? All, you know not
Theodosia
She used up six.
The nuptials were the most genteel,
gorgeous, and magnificent that ever
transpired in this locality. The bride
was the most beautiful, the groom finer
specimen of manlness than ever before
known. The ladies' dresses were per-
fectly elegant, and the wearers we're all
lovely. 1t was, in short, the regular
wedding.
Thomas Tumsuden gave his daughter
diamond necklace, ten dia-
mond rings, a diamond tiara, and check
for fifty thousand dollars. To Alcibi-
AIDES he gave his blessing.
But it was ali in the family.
The young couple started on their
bridal tour amid the congratulations of
friends. When they were alone
together, Theodosia spoke:
"Alcibiades," she murmured, "let us
not make the usual trip through the
usual interior towns; I would be far
away from the kind though inquisitive
eyes of those who know and love me, on
this, my wedding-tour. Let US journey
far toward the Morning Land, Alcibiades
even to the East"
Gust as you say, my darling" replied
Alcibiades.
He let her have her own way. Hus-
bands always do.
On bridal tours.
Two months have flown.
'.Tumsuden," said friend to him one
day, "did you know that your daughter
and her husband were back ?"
"No," said T. Tumsuden, hurridly. II
thought they were still in the country"
'No. I saw them to-day in a poor
quarter Vi tno cIty, anu SncJ OosaA AoSNe.
very wretched."
'sWhere did you see them~
Stevenson street, near first"
In five minutes T. Tumsuden was at
the indicated place. It was q tenement
house. As he mounted the rickety stairs
and saw the squalid children playing on
them, his heart grew sick within him.
He reached door pointed out to him by
q frowsy urchin. He knocked.
''Come in" said . faint but still ia
miliar voice.
He entered. What q sight for Q
fathers eye ! A bare and cheerless
room, unexpected, furnitureless-noth-
ing in it but trunk. Upon this sat his
daughter and her husband, with features
pinched for lack of food. Between them
lay what was evidently their frugal meal
"a bologna sausage and four crackers.
Where be their diamonds now, ha, ha
and their fifty thousand dollars?
All, where
Tumsuden advanced and opened the
trunk. It was empty. But these words,
printed on . label, scared themselves
into his brain Fifth Avenue Hotel. "
Thomas Tumsudsn had long been
threatened with apoplexy. He fell
heavily to the floor, with dull thud.
They had been 70 New York.
Charles Reade tells as that the late
Justice Leist, while an attorneys clerk,
wrote his practice" which became q
manual for attorneys counsel and
iudQes. and nt the same time he was q