Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-07-16
ANINCIDENT OF TRAVEL
BILL NYE HAS A VISION WHICH ThE
MORNING DlSSlPATES.
\ Hotel Romance aud Its Consequence.
Culor~ seen by Electric Light
VIII Not Look tha Same
by Day.
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Night tefore last, after had registered
al the hotel aud been assigned '',lie last room
in the house, use the language Of the
hotel rierk-l went into the d.ning-rDom TO
tea
After / had regaincd my conGdouce
among strangers, and curled myself Up IN
as abject a manner as possible in the pres
ence of the head waiter, / began 10 lock
around me for an opportunity to
beam on some unprotected woman with
my sunny smile. Ii is not my custom
while travelling TO smile on one in
whose heart a hope might spring up To be
dashed 10 earth by my departure. If have
caused pain in that way / did not intend TO
do 80. can Joke and carry ON and have a
real good time, but | do not wish to inspire
in any breast hope which NAV he blasted,
ah alas, too soon.
IL was not long before | discovered
beautiful blonde Of the female sex at the
farther ED of the room beneath the
chandelier. Her skin seemed 70 be of a
delicate sea-shell color, and her hair was
corn colored. Her clothes also were entirely
new, j should judge, and made especially
for her On her finger She wore "a diamond
ring with perfect ease. She knew Just how
to work that finger in order to get the most
possible glitter out Of her diamond. Every
little while would look ever there and revel
in her beauty. and thought that she was
not entirely insensible 10 my charms. still,
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full manner. which gave NE the idea that
did not know whether it was intentional or
not.
All that evening =, e was in NV mind. |
dreamed that night that | swooped down
upon her and carried her away TO the re-
motest boundaries oi the WorlJ in a special
car. The next morning / awoke hungry,
for | didn't eat much supper the evening
before. | went down 10 breakfast, waiting
and fooling away my time, hoping that she
would come while / was in the breakfast
room, and / would till myself up with the
beautiful vision and CUP OF coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the room
with calm disdain and an air of h0uteur,
and such things as that The head waiter
waved his hand like a acting duke in a
theatre, AMI gave her a seat at my table.
4 thrill passed up through my graceful aud
delicately-molded spinal column, and | laid
down the vulgar sausage which ! was about
to feed myself when she dawBed upon me.
ventured then to look across the table at
her ia the full glare of The new born day.
CStereoscopic views OF this last sentence will
be forwarded 10 any address at 81 per
glare) The 6rst hing that / discovered
was that she hadn't put her yellow wig on
straight Ii was little higher on one ear
than the other, which gave her the air of a
Young man who has overmonkeyed with the
flowing bowl This showed TO the casual
spectator a glimpse of her own moth-eaten,
sage brush hair peeping out like the faded
tail on an old buffalo robe
Then knew that We could never be more
to each other than friends. Her nose was
red also, and she had not been properly kali
somined. In the hurry Of dressing she had
missed her nose with the powder-rag and
that organ-meaning of course, the nose,
not the powder-rag-l up robust and
II Ait Ehd0AtN Na-At VI NA'th eVA's
and other osseous formations.
Ali, what a pain it gave me to see my
beautiful vision fade thus before me eyesl
Then thought how had smiled upon her
the evening before, and how. perhaps,
new hope had sprung up in her heart. and |
feared that when she knew it was all over
between Us the shock, at her time of life.
might kill her.
| left my hot pancakes, with the maple
syrup all over them, and fed. Out into the
din, the hurry and the tireiess rush OF the
mad, mad world, trying to stiHe the memory
of that broken heart. Should she see these
lines hope she will not think bitterly of me.
| still admire her a. a well-preserved ruin,
but love ia such a case would be a hollow
mockery BILL NYE
tEss Tan,