The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-10-02
.TheLaWyer'S ElOpement.
IINfOU shan't have my
W daughterr' SAID old Felix
GYSo Foster, bringing his fist

j young man. on Snan nave HeI
'At least you'll tell me why" il
sisted Babbit Bloom, the young Law
yer's clerk, who had just made appli
cation for the old mans only daugh
:. ter. what do you know agains
i me, sir?'
,s "For the matter of that. nothin
e IN particular" replied old Fell
3 Foster.
0 "But I'm a solid man myself.
S have made money and want to la.
that money in warm nest. Nov
ifI give my girl to poor fellow
like you, when she comes in 70
what I'll leave her, you'll spend i
instead of doubling it. Besides
2 you're too young-not six anC
twenty. And there's my old friend
Frisbie, five and fifty, owns his
block Of houses and a hundred acre
farm, factory, and forty workmen's
! cottages. You ought to have sense
enough to see that he is the man
for Agatha, not you.''
"But if Agatha likes me best?"
pleaded young Bloom.
"Stuff and nonsensei She'll like
who l tell her," replied Mr.. Foster,
whose grammar was not his strong
point "And as I've an appoint
ment or two, I'll say goodbye to
you, young man."
At this hint Mr.. Bloom bowed
himself out of the great contractor s
office. He intended to have Agatha
Foster. He did not care for her
fortune, but he knew she hated the
suitor whom her father favored.
'Elope with me, Agatha" he
pleaded-not on his knees, because
that style of wooing is quite out of
fashion, but under the side window
of her fathers house before that
gentleman came in to tea. "Elope
with me. We are both of age. Let
us defy everybody"
81 suppose pa would come round
in time," said Agatha; "but I can
not go without my things. 1 have
a very nice wardrobe, and lots of
jewelry and things, and L want to
be married decently; but how can 1
do it, when all day long, from the
time pa goes out, old James Davids,
his watchman, sits on the front
steps, pledged to lock me up in my
room if l step foot outside the door,
and to let no one in? There all day
and in the hall at night, immovably
on guard"
''Is hep said the lawyers clerk,
co.. e4i liz Of Il 1,
ladylove he kissed his hand and ran
away.
"Mind you, Davids," said Felix
Foster, as he buttoned his overcoat
in the hall, ''mind you; don't desert
your post. No going out,no coming
in. That girl of mine has got no
mother, and I've got to be both pa
rents to her. Don't let so much as
a letter be carried in at the door,"
''No, your honor; not whilst I'm
alive" said Davids.
But alas! who can calculate upon
circumstances?
Solemn James Davids, sitting all |
day in the hall chair with club in
his hand, the object of detestation
of all the female servants, opened |
the door on crack to all applicants,
slipping letters into his own pock-
cts, and keeping the house free
from intruders, thought himself in
vulnerable; but his weak spot has
been discovered by his enemy. It
was bad boy. At five o'clock
ring came to the door. Another
and another followed.
''It's a boy as runs and hides
said Davids, peering up
and down the street. ''The next
ring I'll catch him." and he waited
with his back against the door and
his club grasped in both hands.
The ring came; out bolted Davids;
down the streets; peered into doors;
found no one and was about to re-
turn to the house, when a hand
caught his coat and collar. "Helpr
rOared a voice. "Help! Thieves
Policep'
LET me be-" shouted Davids.
What do you catch hold of me
for?"
You've got my pocket-boal .
cried the young man. eff Won
haven't thrown it away. I missed
t as you ran past me. Officer
his to a policeman who had speedi-
J arrived, 81 want tins man arrest
"a, I've lost my pocket-book.
Ana - 30 amid protestations, prayers
and cries, that respectable old per-
son, James Davids, was pushed,
pulled and dragged to the nearest
3tationhouse, followed by a crowd |
Of ragamufins, and there locked up
for the night.
And that young mon who had
Ost his pocket-book, and who was
to appear against him the next
morning, looked suspicioualy like a
young lawyers clerk, Babbit Bloom,
who, OF course, knew that one
against whom charge was made
must be arrested, even if he was
able to prove himself entirely inno-
cent next day.
And who came to the door in a
coupe half an hour after but this
same young Bloom; and got into it
but Agatha Foster; and where did
they drive but to the minister's,
where they were married. |,
And Betsy Jane, and Sarah, and
Ellen Maria all helped to carry ,
down the trunks, bags and parcels
with which the wagon, that came
very soon after the coupe, was heav- ,
ly loaded, so that when, at seven
o'clock, old Mr.. Foster rang at his ,
own bell, Betsy Jane opened
the door, meek faced and tidy, ,
while all the other servants listened
at the foot of the kitchen stairs.
where's David'sF" asked Mr..
Foster. I
please, sir, a policeman arrested
him while ann for ,nicIrinn q rrnntln .