The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-03-26
4 ROlEaNTIo sTORY.
An Escapade III High Life in
HE City or New York.

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" than IL tableans has one Of our
society beauties figured, says i New
York correspondent She has be.
c,ne the talk Of the fashionable
part Of town, and as her ercapade
was not di,grecing toller | may AZ.
well be frs. 70 print it. She had
fallen in love with a young gal.
lantoftbe ting, gentleman.
jockey kind. The wooer was assid-
u0us. Eventually the head Of the
girls family intimated to him thS.g
the household desired a little time
for rest and recreation, He was
compelled to cease his visits for
the tins. The DAUGHTER thereupon
conceived the IDEA that the man
whom she adOred vas being abus,
I'd. She wrote to him. He wrote
10 her. Result-one evening, at
.half,past nine O'clock, the beauty
Vf the family went up stairs with
her mother AID a number Of other
ladies' from a dinner party which
was on in the dining room. The
ludics disposed themselves as they
usually do whom waiting for the
men to come up stairs. While tile
elder dozcd and the girls gossiped,
The daughter stole quietly upstairs
to her room. Half an hour later
her maid went down the servants
staircase with two large satchels,
kissed the cook goodbye, stole out
of the basement door, and CLIMBER.
ed with great excitement and con
vulsiveness into u cab which stood
hard by. Ten minutes later the
front door opened softly, and out
stepped the beauty, clad in a tray.
cling dress and carrying a shawl.
The man at tho door did not recog.
nizo her, but as she emerged from
theawniug which led from the trout
door TO the sidewalk, an old coach.
man who had formerly been in the
employ Of her father, but was now
driving for somebody else, recog.
nized her. She stole up with thea.
trical crafliness to the corner,
sprang into the cab where her
maid was already sitting, clasped
both her maids hands and sut
there in AFFECT terror while the
cabman drove them 10 the Grand
Central Depot.
There the lover, wearinga New.
market coat, u tweed hat, a single
glass, a satchal and a big cigar, was
nervOusly walking up and down
the sidewalk. The cab stopped
He opened the door, assisted the
girl toalight and, followed by the
maid, entered the waiting.room.-
They sought the most secluded
corner, sat down, aud gradually
grew pale. The Albany train
would not leave for threc.quarters
fan hour. They become more
nervous. Meanwhile the ex.couch.
man, having nothing TO do, had
wheeled his way around and logged
up the avenue after the cab which
held the mistress and the maid
He saw the girl alight at the depot,
and recognized the man who met
her. lie whipped up his horse.
and went tearing down the avenue
us though going to a fire. When
he got to the house ho called the
foOtman to hold the horse; dashed
up the steps into the house and
down to the dining room, where
the master was telling one of his
after.dinner stories.
a say, sir" he gasped, "she's
gone and done IT."
"she has, eh2 Who is she, and
what did she do it for" as The host,
smiling atTably upon his guests,
and giving them to understand by
a significant wink that he was
about to have some fun with the
coaChmnn.
"Your daughter, sir. Shes run
off with the young gent that wears
the google glass aud rides at all the
races" Thercupon the father shot
from his chair as though a perpen.
dicular battCring ram had been
spllng beneath him, flew up stairs,
stumbled into the carriage, and ar.
rived ten miautes later at the
Grand Central DopU:: He walked
in briskly, took his daugh.pr's arm,
paid the maid on the spot, discha:..g.
ed her, bundled his daughter into
the cab, pulled the gentleman jock
ey's nose returned to his dinner,
and finished his story. So ends the
romance Of the rich young girl,