The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12

presently she, too, pressed Zone
time, and asked that she might be
called for the morning train to Mon
treal.
II.
They had, indeed, parted forever"
Those who part themselves forever,
though, have more or less awkward
habit of meeting, sooner or later
usually the former. The world is small
when we would, or think we would, es-
cape any one human being. It is only
when we say "Good night-I'll see you
tomorrow "Good-bye-we'1 meet
next week. that tomorrow never
comes-that next week is swallowed up
in eternity.
Why these two had parted forever, y
as she said and believed, is quite an
other matter. Perhaps the gentleman
in No As could have explained if he
would. But have nothing now to do
with causes. Effects are about as large
q contract as the majority of us in this
life are able to concern ourselves with.
But to glance once more at the three
rooms in the Down East Hotel in which
we are at this moment Interested:
In No. AZ was an honest, whole
souled-but far from whole-hearted-
young fellow, who could not sleep. He
had not yet compassed the frozen and
pitiless philosophy that sit is better to
have loved and lost than never to have
loved at all. )"
In No. 48 was a treacherous wretch
who was rapidly replacing the quart
bottle as a congenial receptacle for its
fiery contents.
In No. 81 was the pall-like shadow of
the figure that still fingered at the win
dow's side, half lost in the caressing
outline of the curtain, while pale face
was upturned to the cold moonlight,
with sleepless eyes that seemed half
closed in prayer.
A prayer that good old st. Valentine
heard, if it went no higher or farther.
For the morrow was st. Valentines
day, and already was the spell of his
enchantment abroad III the world.
III,
They don't ring midnight bells in the
metropolis of Maine to honor the adj
vent of any saints day, but the clerk
on duty at his principal hotel might
have been pardoned for thinking that
Prof. Widows who in 1876 made
himself noisily known to Centennial
visitors-or some other artist in
chimes, had suddenly materialized, by
the perturbed condition of the an
nunciator. The performer certainly
succeeded in making music for all con-
cerned by his impartial and bewilder-
ing persistency, as he scandalized the
hour and the proprieties by ringing all
the changes on the nine "electric
calls" In rapid succession he gave
80 times for towels" 81 times FIR hot
water SO times for BATH and "a
times for fire. then he displayed an
ardent fancy for ''three of kind by
demanding the contemporaneous APP
pearance of the "press time" bell
boy, ''press 5 times chambermaid,
and ''press 6 times" porter; without
pause he conveyed with resonant dis
tinctness peremptory wish for 20
time" ice water and moment later a
reiteration of a previous hint by press
ing 81 times that more fire was es-
sential to his comfort.
Whereupon at this stage of the pro-
gramme the bald-headed night clerk,
armed with the remains of half-eaten
sandwich and righteous indignation,
rushed angrily to No. 48 parlor floor
to see if by his personal presence he
might happily quell the riot, which by
this time involved in common ruin Of
awkward adjectiyes, elaborate and or
nate eXpletives-and notice that they
would throw up their job in the morn
ing-every last employee who had been
on duty since ten o'clock.
When the clerk, holding his wrath in
check as best he could, sought to ex-
postulate with the incendiary occupant
of the department for ordering anoth-
er fire for his CRATE, which was already
glowing in way to discourage we'll
bred salamander, Mr.. Browne, or the
bibulous wreck of Mr.. Browne, rushed
madly into the hall yelling at the top OF
his voice:
"Firep I'll see if patron of your
seven-by-nine country tavern cans have
fire when he orders fret
Unhappy people in rooms contiguous
to No. AZ, already made nervous by the
succession of noises emanating from it,
now thoroughly aroused by,what in the
otherwise still hours of the night they
naturally thought to be an alarm of
fire, this impression being painfully
intensified by the rushing to the scene
of numerous employees, determined to
stand by the valorous bald-headed
clerk at all hazards, now came pouring
ont into the hall with that large degree
of trepidation and small quantity of
clothes characteristic of hotel patrons
in conflagration at night.
The occupant of No. ~ had not been
asleep-a fact he now regarded as
providential-and it was brief toilet
that he made previous to his prompt
appearance in the hall in response to
the instinct of self-preservation
though he had that self-same night told
himself over and over again that death
was far preferable TO living with Kathy
Eggleston eliminated from life. He
was confronted by score of white,
scared faces, half of them women's, and
his first impulse was:
How many can save-who shall /
save first?'
In No. 81 the occupant had no toilet
to make. She was still standing in the
ghostly moonlight and was the last to
be reused from her numb pain that
made sleep impossible by the commo-
ton outside her door. Asshe joined the
crowd of excited men and hysterical
women, the highly arated and now un-
comfortable Browne was still shrieking
"FireI at the top of his lungs, while
the whole office force were engaged in
trying to drag him downstairs.
Miss Eggleston recognized the strug-
Cling cause of the commotion and shud-