Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-17
ApyEHTURKs OF An AMERICAN
CEGEBs.

CGGE8s.
Expeditions Exwinten and / were
plsymates IN boyhood, chums at college
where We we're the terror Of the oonsl
and bosom friends when, at the close OF
our collegiate course, We entered on the
battle feld Of life. Exwinton was of
old Puritan descent, whence he inner
it'd his remarkable Christian name:
and, putting the first syllables of his
two names together, his friends usually
houored him with the soubfiquet of
aOld Double T." Shortly after the
completion of his studies he vent to
England on business for his father;
and there, while ostensibly engaged in
sterner duties, he found time for that
which, ever since the nightingales sang
70 the Eden roses, has, somehow or
other, crept into the lives of most peo-
DIE. In short, he wooed and won a
pretty blue-eyed English girl, May Raw-
don by name. A sweet, sonsie May
blossom she was; fair and gentle. yet
full of mischief, and gifted with keen
appreciation for frolic--just the one
70 suit frank hearted, ahectionate Old
Double X. May was protected by the
slightest shadow Of guardianship, that
of an infrm old aunt, almost IN her
doAsoe. and when EYvintou offered the
hocoeoe ~ his brave. manly heart. lit
tis Nav fe,t that 10 nestle under the
vin0 ~ q GOOD mans love was inf
nitslv bettsr than the lonely life she
hsS h;thsrto led Money was scarce
-;th The voun0 coupIe: and. besides
ths4. their feelinos we're in favor of a
0n;st vsdliuS: "a thew agreed that,
Sh~nsvar the event should come OF, il
~ Ia he the ouieteat of all possible
s1sira, and therefore, the Register Office
80 - be the place where the marriage
Won vere 10 be EXCHANGED.
Thsv we're standing Ia the shadow OF
Tia vindov curtain one evening. Erwin
ton's ann round the tipy waist of his
iittIe Nav. while the old aunt obligingly
dozed in her easy chair by the cosy fire
s;de
"Nov. Nav said Exwinton, 81 must
be IN America by Christmas; and can't
a. -ithomt INV wife: 20 tell me where
a.. Rsoistsr Once is' and ri GET mar
ri~a tonorrow.n
.Indaad. lint Won WON'T poutsd Nav.
81 Am not 10 be taken by storm in that
nav. You Americana are 50 grand since
Won OF EnoIsnd r. nav the Alabama
oiaiuss. chat Won don't know bot the Old
Gomntrv h one of your own States. You
nav come the Yankee dodge over Glad
s1one. but Won can't over me- and Nav
foseed her chris viifuIly.
"Rut inst hear reasOn. - said the Young
An,ericen: NV EnQlish rosebud, yous
IittIa rnorfh vssn,t neant 10 talk poli-
fins' vhich Won don,t understand. be-
sides; or Won would know that it Is much
hstSer to oema over and ia an AMERICAN
citizsn thsn - sfav here TO pay taxes
fnr fhoae eame AIa6ama claims. which
hava heen "a CranefulIv vielded an "a
our Rfaru and Htrinea nv vour dear did
Enoiand. And Won needn,t he 20 aore
on the point be added, laughing; .for
Won kn0v n In not Iike aendino property
ant a. the famiiy: Won are not navino
n 20 4 foreion power. but only lust
handin0 q fev doIlars IN your Uncle
Sam 10 taxa oara of for Won. Till Won
have leaned A little more prudence in
money afYairs.n
oval. 90 back 70 America replied
Nav. "and wait for me faitIfulIy two
years. Maybe then I'll yield TO your
hons sor I SsvorsbIs Grant IS ~ the and y
mn period. / want 10 see IL an Amer
ioan can be faithful "a we'll "a brave
ma cute.
"Nov. NAV, pleaded Exwiuton. won
shall NOT put me Of with BRIGHT speech-
- Won aauoy Creature: Won oouldn,t
have the heart To keep me- waiting ali
thaf time. Come. INV pet. do promise
10 be nv wife At onoe. let me take
Won back with ma 10 nav father and
mothsr: thev will love Won as their own
daughter"
But Nav had plenty of vomau,s Dig
nifty as we'll as supsrabundance Of wo-
lover 3 ssts Of msspv . sns rs ss Of the
eyenino until he roee 10 leave when his
dark oyee looked reproachfully into hers
e he said:
"You don't love me. then. Nav! You
don't care 10 be- NV wife-to be- all the
vorld Ia ~e9n
The little witch dimuled misohievous.
"; then, meeting the psined look in her
lovers oyes, her woman's heart relsnted,
and. LAYING her cheek softly aoainst his
arm. abe whispered:
Ex, you may have me when You can
!" But what sort of an answer In that ?.
said Exwinton, bending down 70 look
at the sveet }aoe: then. cstching the
faieod 10 his. he exclaimed. ~ ALI fiji
taIs ,on a. 49,, yo M v warS T~dv Nv, SI' .na
the ART thlnr tomorrow m6rnino mi Or
20 this Famous Reoister ofiice. INT T
have never had anvthinu n Al With an
EnCl;.S -add;rs ms. t III m w ~. VII ILL., ~
mnsf A ana ~hcra tha osss~a - y
AM the mischiaf dancad hacL into
NAYS hriOhf evss AZ she d;ssna.n sJ
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