Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-28

Night before last after I had registered at
the hotel and been assigned 'the last room
in the house. use the language Of the
hotel clerk-I went into the dining room to
tea.
After I had regained my confidence
among strangers and curled myself up In as
sbject q manner as possible in the presence
Of the head waiter, / began to look around
me for an opportunity to beam OF some IN
protected woman with my sunny smile. II
is not my custom while travelling to smile on
one In whose heart q hope might spring up
to be dashed to earth BY my departure. fl
have caused pain in that way / did not in.
tend to do so. lean joke and carry on and
have q real good time, but / do not wish to
inspire into any breast Q hope which may be
blasted, ali, alas too soon.
1t was not long before l discovered q
beautiful blonde Of the female sex at the
farther end Of the room beneath the chan
dslier. Her skin seemed to be of q deli.
cate sea-shel color, and her hair was corn
colored. Her clothes also were EN-.
trely new, l should Judge, and made es.
pecially for her. On her finger she wore @
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 over there
and revel in her beauty, and l thought that
she wa not entirely insensible to my
charms. Still, she looked at me in a kind
of a half r~eproachful manner, which gave
me the idea that l did not know whether it
was intentional or not.
All that evening she was in my mind. l
dreamed that night that / swooped down
upon her and carried her away to the re-
hottest boundaries of the world in a special
car. The next morning | swoke hungry,
for | didn't eat much supper the evening
before. ! went down to breakfast, waiting
and fooling away my time, hoping that she
would come while / was in the breakfast
room, and | would fill myself up with the
beautiful vision and q cup Of coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the
room with calm disdain and an air Of
hauteur, and such things as that. The
head waiter waved his hand like a selfaot.
ing duke in a theatre, and gave her a seat
at my table. A thrill passed up through
my graceful and delicstely nodded spinal
column, and ] layed down the vulgar sau.
sage with which / was about to feed myself
when she dawned upon me.
/ veutured then to look across the table
at her in the full glare OF the newborn day.
(Stereoscopic views OF this last sentence
will be forwarded to any address at 81 per
glare.) The first thing hat l discovered
was that she hadn't put her yellow wig on
straight. 1t was a little higher on one ear
than the other, which gave her the air of q
young man who has overmonkeyed with the
flowing bowl. This showed to the casual
spectator a glimpse OF her moth-esten,
sage brush hair peeping out like the faded
tail on an old buffalo robe.
Then | knew that we could never be more
10 each other than friends. Her nose was
red also, and she had not been properly
zalsonined. In the hurry OF dressing she
bad missed her nose with the powder rag,
and that organ-meaning, of course, the
nose, not the powder rsg-loomed up robust
and purple in the CHASTITY waste ofcheek
bones and other osseous formations.
All, what q pain it gave me to see my
beautiful vision fade thus before my eyes!
Then | thought how | had smiled upon her
the evening before, and how, perhaps, a
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.
II left my hot pancakes, with the maple
syrup all over them, and fed. Out into
the din, the hurry and the ~tireless rush Of
the mad, mad world, trying to stiae the
memory Of that broken heart. Should she
see these lines | hope she will not think bit.
terly OF me. | still admire her as a we'll
preserved ruin, but love in such a case
would be a hollow mockery.
Enod EIucntion.