Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-07-28

OuSy Oh L req IldZelUOii. was tuOI
oughly discussed. Cecilia had sur
missed for some time that Eva re-
garded Edward with some favor, and
the acknowledgement that she now
received confirmed her suspicious.
Meanwhile, Fred Hazelton, speed
ing swiftly away from l., was
also in mental torment, caused by
his conversation with Edward on the
railroad platform. 1t seems he had
been playing part, too, and that
the whole intent of his part of the
conversation was to discover the
sentiments with which Edward re
garded Cecilia Englebourn. The re-
suit was most a9gravating; he felt
confident he had got possession of
Edwards cleverly guarded secret.
He now beheld in him rival, and a
most dangerous one, too. He had
often heard that Edward and Cecilia
were unusually intimate, and he
tortured himself by imagining his
own case hopeless, and the prize in
possession of his schoolfellow. He
remembered how enthusiastically he
had defended Cecilia, and how he
had condemned the really superior
beauty of Eva Walsingham.
Meanwhile, that lady believed she
had made discovery. 1t was that
the position occupied by herself and
Edward was the exact counterpart of
the one occupied by Cecilia and
Fred: in other words, that Cupid.
sly Cupid, had sent his shafts sim
ultaneously through four hearts, and
that Cecilia's and Fred's were two of
them.
Accordingly, when Fred returned
to L, week after, Eva soon
found a favorable opportunity, and
accused him bluntly of harboring
such sentiments toward her friend.
OF course Fred acknowledged his
fault. Men in love always make a
point of making as great fools of
themselves as possible on every occa-
sion.
This was all that Eva desired, and
she was again closeted with her
friend, whose mind she had long
known on the subject There was
such hearty merriment at this secret
confession of the two girls--more
than the occasion would seem to war
rant.
"Oh, isn't it funny?" exclaimed
Cecilia. laughing. ED jealous of
Fred, and Fred jealous Of Ed It's
too comical for anything"
Its just like a novel;" returned
Eva by the way, Cecilia, have you
seen my new novelT'
Cecilia had not seen Eva's new
novel; so it was brought, and the
two girls were soon pouring over its
interesting pages.
They had been reading for some
time when Cecilia dropped her side
of the book and sprang to her feet,
clapping her hands and. laughing
immoderately.
'Oh, Eva, Eva! I've found it!'
Found what?"
Eva was surprised at her friends
enthusiasm.
"Found just what we want to tor
ment the boys with---a duel Just
think of it A duel, in which nobody
is hurt, of course. Oh. won't it be
funnyw
Eva expressed her convictions that
it would be very funny, and then the
two geniuses put their heads to-
gether, concocting a scheme that
would certainly succeed in torment
ing poor, confding Edward and his
doubling rival to an almost unlimited
degree. What this plan was 1 do
not think it necessary to tell 1t is
sufficient to say. that it was com
complete success, driving the boys
nearly to distraction, and resulted in
Edward Logan's..sending a challenge
to his schoolfellow, Fred Hazelton,
to meet him in mortal combat at
sunrise on the following day, by the
railroad bridge near the village of
L.. 1t was afterward agreed that
the weapons should be pistols, and
that the principals should be unat-
tended by seconds or doctors.
Another result of the conference
was proposal by Edward to Eva to
be united to him in matrimony.
Eva agreed to meet him a short
distance from the bridge by L., to
give him an answer personally.
Fred Hazelton had also proposed
to Cecilia, who had agreed to meet
him by the same railroad bridge, to
give him an answer.
Fred was despondent.
II might as we'll know my fate,"
he soliloquized, though I expect to
be rejected, for am certain that
Ed Logan is before me-"
If Fred was Respondent, Edward
was infinitely more so.
II expect to be refused" he NUT
tered. "I'll warrant Fred has
mortgage on her, and if he has, he
has foreclosed long before this"
Altogether, the morning had every
appearance of being a lively occa
sion, and the girls were in ecstasy.
OF course the first thing that Ed
ward did after challenging Fred was
to uuburden himself to his confiden-
tial friend, Cecilia, and of course
that person was properly shocked
and terrified, and by vehement pro-
testations and many tears, succeeded
in convincing him that murder was
not what he wanted TO indulge in. So
Ed promised to put no bullet in his
pistol.
While Ed and Cecilia had been
occupied in this manner. Eva had
purlCined the terrible weapOn t. be