New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-13
A SEASHORE ROMANCE.

and we sat and discussed terrestrial
events on the half-moon gallery of the
Casino. The latest society on dit, the
clever playing of the Englishmen in the
international polo game, the yachting
gossip of the day, and various other
subjects passed in review in the
thread OF conversation, when, after
moments pause, he remarked: s"The
story in the Herald of the mysterious
woman in the cab on Bellevue avenue,
who tried to get a note to a gentle
man, made me think of the various
episodes occurring nearly every day
which rarely come to the surface to
form a topic for the gossips. For
that matter, in these times it is as.
tonishing that so little comes out
under the sunlight. don't refer to
mere chronique scandaleuse here in
Newport, but to the domestic dramas,
the heart burnings resulting from
acts really sufficient to cause pain
thegale of wind that may rage beneath
smiling face and the strdggle that
goes on from one morning to The next
to attain something which ought to
be possible, but which isn't in the or
der of things. Perhaps l was in
q brown study when you came along.
Well, so was, and I'll tell you what
| was thinking about. I can't order
bottle to fill up the chinks, for they
are too virtuous here to sell wine.
Gin the first place, do you remem-
Der that girl pointed out the other
day-the one we saw on the avenue?"
'Of course l remember her. She
was pretty enough. You said you
would tell me about her later"
Pretty, indeed, she appeared, with
her faxen hair, her large Dresden
china blue eyes, and the under side of
a pink hydrangea flower combina-
ton of her cheeks. She wore piqu-
ant white gown and big hat with
nearly a foot of brim, and the youth
as well as the oldsters had their fill of
staring as she went by in the carriage.
Oh, yes, remember her very WELL
"Well, I'll tell you her story. She
is Miss -, and She only came here
for a few days flyer to visit some of
her acquaintance. She is passing
the summer at another resort. She
is twenty, believe. She didn't look
1t, did she? henever looked her years.
When she was only twelve she had
the manners and appearance of six
teen When she was just fourteen she
was a-but | anticipate.
'.Her near relatives live in New
York, you see. and the girl used to re-
ceive private instruction from O. gov
erness, 60 to the dancing class, and
take her exercise on the avenue like
other chicks. In the staff of servants
there was q clean limbed young En-
glishman whom some one OF the
family picked up across the water.
He had red cheeks and good face,
and he possessed something OF an
education, so that he was not a mere
stable boy. His place was on the box
with the coachman. He wore tops
pulled up high over his shapely legs,
and his livery was snugtitting, with its
bright buttons and the cockade on the
side of his hat. When the little miss
stepped out OF the coupe the trim
+footman stood beside the open door.
1t was not long before the two caught
one another casting sleeps glances,
and the little girl was not averse to
turning her big blue optics on the
dark ones OF her attendant. During
the autumn, after the family came
back, Missy used to ride on her pony,
and Henry, the footman, rode behind
her On a decorous cob. Perhaps it
was lonely for the child-she was but
just fourteen, don't you see? At any
rate, there was before long a change OF
the conventional equestrian positions
OF mistress and groom, and the park
policemen sometimes saw the two not
only riding side by side, bat they wit
messed other little familiarities which
might have made them stare if park
policemen had not gotten over being
surprised.
Swell, things progressed until final.
Ely, one fine afternoon, it was arranged
THAT Missy should take run up the
Hudson to pass few days with q
friend ot the family. So she was com
fortably seated in train at Forty
second street, and she started ON her
short journey.
t:started, said. TWAS the strang-
est thing in the world that the
same morning Henry should have
received notice that some of his
friends in the old country had arrived
and wished to see him very much.
Therefore he asked for a day of He
WAS a family favorite and he GOT it.
When the train left the station Henry
was in the smoking car. Before Miss
Blue Eyes reached the point up the
noad where she was to disembark
Mr.. Footman was seated beside
her-he was out of suniform-and in
stead Of getting off thepair went on to
Poughkeepsie, where they arrived just
IN time to catch a TRAM going back to
New York. They took it, and that
evening the:pr oppressive young lady had
pslt 0a heroldest looks and manner, SO
as to lead theclergymantto whom they
applied to behave that she was ofmar-
riageabie years. She didn't 20 up the
Hudson to pay her visit Mntil the fol-