The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-23

| from seven to ten every evening Your deS
liIt.e dagghters piano playing Is quite won
| fultRrown demon. / should have thought far
less an imp OF her years, could have created
| trive that sue should pursue it during the
| daytime, instead Of between the hours afore-
sac. you would lay me under an eternal OBJ.
Awaiting your kind consens. for which
| thank you beforehand,
II am yours truly.
CHARLES JONES'
| was in such a state of anxiety and
excitement-theh ideous cannonade con-
! tinuing all this time, without one in
stGnts cessation-that 1 wrote upon
the envelope, Bearer waits" and
bade my messenger bring back the an
swer. Itscame quickly enough, but put
an end to my suspense only to substi-
tute for it an agony of despair. 1t was,
| as l guessed in q moment from the
handwriting, all sloping like the ears
| of donkey in a state of obstinacy, the
female Brown who addressed roe, as
follows:
''DEAR SIR: My husband is from home;
/ but your application is one which L have no
/ hesitation in answering in his name in the
/ marx, urging no legal claim whatever, and
you must forgive me for adding that your re-
| for my daughter to pursue her musical stud
/ les except between seven and ten. to which
M.
| Yours truly,
Late as it was, clapped on my hat,
repaired TO the hOuse-agent of whom
/ had purchased Eden Lodge, and pro-
cured from him an advertisements
/ board, which L stuck up on pole in
| front of the house that very night.
This villa residence to be sold, with
! immediate possession. No reasonable
| offer will be refused
After that / walked about the streets
| till ten O'Clock and returned home a
| little cOmfOrted. My wife assured me
| that the noise had ceased precisely at
that hour; but the echoes of it seemed
to be still ringing through the house.
/ felt that / was on the brink of a
nervous fever, and wrote to my en-
| plOyers to say that my return to bust
ness must for the present be uncertain.
l intended to stop at home de dc IN
diem (until seven O'clOck), so as to
miss no chance of any one calling to
bid for it, till that house was disposed
of.
The very next morning a card was
sent in tn me with Mr. Joseph PlumIin
on it. He was a podgy, red faced
man of by no means aristOcratic APP
pearance; but i welcomed him as if ne
had been one of the royal family. His
manner was curt in the extreme; but
thought he looked an honest man, and
the city side of my character assured
me, at the first glance, that he was the
sort of person who means business.
- see this house is to SELL he said
Il am a builder, and know when a
| house is worth buying. If we can come
to terms, 1 mean TO buy Eden Lodge.
Now what do you want for it?''
1 mentioned the sum had fixed up
on as a reasonable one; but, in truth, l
would gladly have taken half the
money rather than not have got the
place off my hands.
TOO mucht' he said, shaking his
solid head. ''TOo much by a hundred
pounds.
If had been q Frenchman, I should
have got up and kissed him on both
cheeks; being an Englishman with half
my time devoted to the main chance),
l concealed my JOY, and shook my head
almost as resolutCly as he had done.
The house is cheap" l said, ''at the
sum l have put upon il"
mo doubt it is. 1 know that as well
as you; indeed, a deal BETTER" he an
swered coolly. "But a man don't put
with immediate possession on his no.
tice-board unless he has reasons for
wanting TO quit. Now, look here, l
am man of action. Il am sorry to
say, he used an aspirate.) am al
ways for settling matters off the reel.
/ Will split the difference between us,
and give you your money, less fifty
pounds sterling. I'll draw you check
for it. if you like, this very moment.
And he actually produced from his
breast pocket large and greasy check
book, and threw it open. like a front
door.
MY dear sir" answered, with
effusiOn, "there is no need to be so pre-
cipitate; a letter from your lawyer to-
morrow will be quite sufficient; but, on
the terms you mention, the house is
yours. "
by immediate possession 1 under
stand that can come in at once" pur-
sued Mr.. Plumlin. Say in a weekP'
1 nodded assent. l could hardly pre-
vent myself from saying: Come this
evening"" which would have been fatal,
indeed. If he had heard that piano
the bargain would surely have been off
at once. felt that, since he was com
ing to live in the house himself, | was
about to take his money under false
ing forward to "a homer Still, tie
that my first duty was to myself; and
performed it.
Having made inquiries about Mr..
Plumlin which convinced me of his
sOlvency, 1 went out that very day to
look for new house, and fortunately
found one-this time, you may be sure,
"a detached residence" Within the
week we had shifted" bag and bag
gage, to my intense relief. Every
night in the meantime was made
hideOus by that dread vi child's piano
1 should have thought nothing could
have been worse than her tunes, but
the serpent of Paradise Row mad more
terrible things in store. On alternate
nights she played her scales.
II.
Six months afterward, on getting into
an omnibus on my way home from
the town, 1 found myself next neighbor
to Mr.. Plumlin. He recognized me at
once, though, in any case, think 1
should have spoken to him. One always
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