Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-09
RINK ROMANCE
The Tale of a Professor Who Captured
 All Hearts.

I All Hearts.
 The Cincinnati Sun publishes this story of
 8 skating rink: Early in the spring the
 rink manager here discharged the instructor for appropriating funds to his own use. l They didn't exactly discharge him, but they
 asked him to resign, and he very gracefully
 did so. Then the managers of the rink were | in quandary as to some one who could fill
 the bill we'll as the departed, and were about to engage a local skater, when letter
 came postnarked from some city in Ohio, I for l get the name of it, stating that first professor of decided skatorial ability desired l {, situation, and would come at very short l notice, having heard that the rink was with out an instructor.
 The rink people thought they might as
 well try this person, so they telegraphed: | "Come at once; will pay expenses and m ake arrangements when you arrive" The next evening the new professor ar | rived at the rink. He was an exceedingly
 smooth article, especially as to his face, and was nattily dressed in the latest sporting cos tume-pleated jacket, tight pantaloons and | all. The only objection the manager had to him was that he was too youthful looking l too boyish, you know. Well, they took him out on the floor and introduced him that night, and before 10 o'clock every girl in the 1 house was crazy to skate with the new in- structor.
 He grew ill popularity; was the talk of the l town-so modest, so nice, so polite and gentlenan1y, yet such an intelligent talker they said; and the rink-stricken maidens ] actually quarrelled among themselves as to who should skate the grand march with him which, by the way, he could head off in style that was perfectly stunning. Thus matters went on smoothly for awhile. | The new professor took apartments at fashionable boarding house, and succeeded in ingratiating himself with the best people in the city, but no one could ever get out of hiT1,o info fn onfn ! where he came from, what he was before he I became professor of skating, or anything that would throw light on his past life. One night was sitting in the ticket office of the rink adjoining the skateroom, reading. The evening was over, and the last of the ! throng were just filing out when I saw ! through the glass window looking out to the door fine looking young man enter the ! rink, followed by large, elderly gentleman, elegantly dressed, beaver hat, spectacles, l gray beard, nice looking old chap, but with an anxious, careworn look on his face. The two passed into the now darkened rink, and 1 heard one of them ask the manager, who ! was just putting on his coat to leave, where the young professor was. The manager told him he was in the skateroom preparing to go home. This apartment was separated from the one in which was sitting by thin par tition door, and could hear the professor rummaging around among the skates, evil dently searching for something. Presently the other door opened quietly and some one stepped inside the skateroom. It was fully minute before another sound was heard, and then mans deep voice said something like this:
 'tOh, my daughter. You have nearly grieved me to death And to think that should find you at last in such place as this, and in such garbl"
 Then the whole thing flashed upon me in a moment, the skating rink official went on, and at once recognized the feminine soft ness in the professors voice as she said, half pleadingly, half defantly:
 '1I will not go home with you on your con- ditions. I will stay here first and earn my own living"
 few low, reassuring words from the younger man of the party, who now spoke for the first time. That seemed to settle it, and 8 moment later the three went out together and entered carriage at the door. That was the last we heard of the girl professor.
 Glow do know it was woman7 Be- cause I received letter from her only few days ago, in which she explained the whole mystery and asked my forgiveness for 1eav- saying that she had run away because her father had insisted on her marrying a man | whom she did not love-"
 "And that was her father who came for l herr" interrupted the writer.
 "Yes"
 'tAnd who was the other mani"
 f:That was her real lover"
 fAnd the old gentleman had consenteda" |
 ttThat's just the extent of it."
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