The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-11-13
AQelbert and BtlelriQa
A Lofty Dakota Romance.
A sE ErcH FROM PUCK.
CHAPTER I.

A sE ErCII FROM PUCK.
CHAPTER I.
"You're q good hand and likely
young fellow, but, as things are now,
you can't have her." said Granger W..
In hards cruel, deter
mined sort of way. esWhen you have
three hundred and twenty acres of
Dakota soil, clear of incumberence, as
have previously remarked in reply to
your plant for the too-willing hand Of
the fair Ethelrida, will say: sBless
you, my children; 60 and be happy,
and all that sort of thing; but till then,
young man, it can not be. I have
spoken my spoke"
CHAPTER II.
Adelbert Mayfower bad come West
to go up with the country. Two long,
weary years he had toiled on the broad
Dakota acres of Granger w. Stubble-
field, not that he liked that sort;of out.
door. exercise, but because he loved the
fair and winsome Ethelrida. The first
glance of her eyes had charmed him
the first griddle-cake she had baked
him had thrilled new chord within
him, and caused longing he had
never felt before.
Almost before he knew what was
the matter with him, Adelbert loved
Ethelrida with all the power Of bis
young and ardent nature, and Ethelrida
returned his passion with the legal
Dakota rate OF inte; est.
To Adelbert and Ethelrida, life was
a strange mixture of bliss and pain.
Their two souls had but single
thought, and that thought was 10 wed
but Granger w. Stubberfieid and the
bull.dog objected.
Five times had Adelbert and Ethels
rida attempted to fly away with each
other, but each time their pans had
been frustrated by the cruel parent OF
his crueler coadjutor. When the cruel
parent slept, the bulldog was wide
awake, and cice yers0.
Once the lovers set out toward the
rising moon Gin the dead waist and
middle of the night" bat the bull.dcg g
came up behind Adelbeit, and took
him by the slack of the trousers, and
growled "Halt!" in his own impressive
and peremptory way; and Adelbert
halted. Again, they reached the rail.
road station at the same moment the
cruel parent reached it with Win
chester rifle, and then Adelbert said he
would avoid bloodshed and go back
with Ethelrida.
Granger w. StubbleGeld would have
asked for the resignation of Adelbert,
but Adelbert was good hand and was
working for low wages.
CHAPTER III.
s,Darl;oo r hox,o 81 W rrio6 A delhprf
one day, when only the bull dog was
watching.
"Is it contagious" ?" innoceDtly quer-
ried Ethelrida.
"I mean a plan by which we can
fly; by which we can escape our willy
jailers, aud beyond this suffocating at
mosphere bask perpetual!y in each
others Smiles"
1t was no troub!e at all for AdGibert
to throw off neat little things like that
uPack your clothes and trust in me, .
he continued +: "when flying time
comes, my sweet Ethelrida, you'll heal
me whispering the signal in your shell
like ear"
CHAPTER w.
1t was near noon of sultry day IL
summer, There is no extra charge fol
a sultry day in summer: Ethelrids
Stubblefield was preparing the plair
but substantial midday meal in bel
fathers home, when Adelbert rushed
in with look Of gladness on his face
aud, in voice quivering with intens
excitement, exclaimed:
s.Darling Ethelrida, the time ha
come! The cyclone will be here il
five seconds; let US fly"
And they flew.
| CHAPTER v.
"Dearest, are you perfectly happy?
asked Adelbert, holding Eiheirida clos
to his side, as they were passing owe
the State of Minnesota at the rate {
one hundred and ninety-lwo miles
hour.
"I think so, Adelbert," murmure'
Ethelrids, hovering closer "but
wish / had my trnnk."
"Don't worry about that, darling,
said Adelbert, glancing backwar
through small field-glass he ha
thoughtfulIy provided himself with
.your trunk, the cook and th
piano, are coming on in company fe
miles behind us, and as the trunk hi
, passed through q railway journe
safely, I do not doubt that it will
whole at the end Of this trip"
"Ob, hope so," sighed Ethelridf