The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-17
AN INUIDENr OF TRAVEL.
BIZ Nye Has Vision Which the Morning
Dissipates-A hotel Romance and Irl

Springfield Journal

Springfield Journal
Night before last, after had registered at
the hotel and had been assigned 1.-The last
room in the house, use the language of
the hotel clerk went into the dining room
to tea.
After I had regained my confidence among
strangers, and curled myself up in as abIscE
o manner as possible In the presence OF the
head waiter, began to look around me for
an opportunity to beam on some unprotected
female with my sunny smile. 1t Is not my
custom when travelling TO smile on one n
whose heart a hope might spring up 20 bs
dashed to earth by my departure. II / nave
cause pain in this way | did not intend to do
so. / can joke and carry on and have a real
good time, but do not wish to inspire in
any breast o hope which may be blasted, a5,
alas! too soon.
1t was net long before discovered a beau.
tiiul blonde OF the female sex at the farther
end Of the RI ON beneath the chandelier Her
skin seemed to oe of a delicate sea-sheN color,
and her hair was corn-colored. Her clothes,
also, were entirely new. should judge aud
made especially 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 Ievel in her beauty. and
thought she was not insensible to my charms.
Still, she looked at me in a kind Of half
reproachful manner, which gave me the
idea that di0 not know whether it was in
territorial or not.
All that evening she was in my mind.
dreamed that night that 1 swooped down
upon her and carried her away to the ra-
hottest boundaries of the world in special
car. The next morning 1 awoke hungry,
for l didn't eat much supper the evening
before. went down to breakfast waiting
and fooling away my time, hoping that she
would come while l was in the breakfast
room, and l would I'LL myself up with the
beautiful vision and cup OF coffee.
Anon she came. She sailed into the room
with an air of calm disdain, and hauteur,
and such things as that: The head-waiter
waved his hand like self-acting duke in a
thester, and gave her a seat at my table. A
thrill passed through my graceful and deli
cately nodded spinal column, and | laid
down the vulgar sausage which 1 was about
to feed myself when she dawned upon me.
ventuIed to look across the table ct her
in the full glare of the new born day.
(SteIoscopic views of this last sentence will
be forwarded to any address at 81 per glare J
The first thing l discovered was that she
hadn't put her yellow wig on straight. It
was lite higher on one ear than on the
other, which gave her the air OF young
man who was over-monkeyed with the flow
ing bowl. This showed to the casual observer
glimpse OF her own moth eaten sage-brush
hair peeping outSike the faded tail on an
old buffalo robe.
Then knew we never could be more to
each other than friends. Her nose was red,
and she had not bean properly calcimined.
| In the hurry of dressing she had missed her
pose with the powder rag and that oran Se-
meaning, Of course, the nose, not the powder
rsg-loomed up robust and purple in the
chastity waste of check-bones and other
| -osseous formations.
All, " hat q main it gave me to see my beau
| tiful vision fade thus before my eyesl Then
thought how had sAiled upon her tue
evening before, and how, perhaps, new
hope had sprung up in her heart, and 1
| feared that when she knew it was all over be-
tween Us the shock, at her time of life, might
kill her.
1 left my hot pancakes, with the maple
| syrup all over them, and fed. Out into the
din. the hurry and the tireess rush OF thu
mad, mad world, trying to stlfe the memory
| of that broken heart. Should she see These
lines, hope she will not think bitterly OF
me. / still admire her as q well-preserved
ruin, but love in such a case would be hal
low mOckery.