The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-10-15
miscellaneous.
The Wrong Window.

lie wrong WINDOW.
Sally Dorton was Il pretty girl with Il gren
many pleasant and pretty ways Her grea
weakness was novel-reading, and the absurt
ideas resulting tberefrom. Seth Higgins, al
honest souled fellow, had asked her to be-
come his wife, and she WAS willing, but sht
had one request to make that surprised Seth
it was, that they should elope, and be married
ut would be romantic and exciting" "Lop,
with YOU, Sally p Seth asked. what SHOULD
that be fer? Has your folks got anything
agin me"
NO" replied Sally.
you amt ashamed to take me fore
folks? ~
"No-o-o," replied Sally, slowly She real.
ly liked Seth very much, but was determined
that flavor of the romantic should add liz
dear charm to her wedding.
~ think weddin with all ones kin folks
an frru's an big dinner an all that, i:
incest" said Seth.
Everybody has that, said Sally, petulant
ly. Il don't want to be like everybody else
at will be just like page from a novel,
she said. 81 will be all ready at midnight, and
you must come gailoping up like mad, and
we will steal away and be married, and every.
one will be surprised.
And you must get fathers ladder off the
garden fence, where it hangs all the time and
put it up to my window, and".--
You'd better chain up your dog" said
Seth "If he bit me once I'd kill him dead
! amt goin' to have no hydrofoby."
Yes, yes" said Sally "Ill see that old
Maize is tied up, and-and-Seth, it'd be more
romantic if you elm up the ladder an carry
me down."
Eyes" an more chance of our breakin' our
necks," said Seth. II don't see whatever
possesses you to want to carry on like this,
Sally"
Then leave me Avaunt," cried Sally, in a
highly tragica tone.
Pm not going to avant step" said Seth
"If | could only see some sense in it all |
wouldn't mind. But don't care" he added
recklessly "I'lI do it to please you"
Then Sally was happy. Her life would not
have been lived in vain if it could have a
romance of its own. She had overruled all
OF Seth's objections, and made him consent
against his better judgment, to do as she
wished.
The night agreed upon for the elopement
came and with it a settled rain. Seth was
very respondent, Sally was jubilant. Her
plan was a simple one. They were to ride
to a village twelve miles distant. 1t would
be daylight when they reached this village.
They would be married, and return in time
for dinner. This prosaic ending did not
please Sally greatly, but nothing more exct-
ing could be agreed upon. She would have
liked to have had her father follow them
vowing vengeance, in which case she could
have "defied him to his teeth"
But, as Sally disconsolately said, Father
likes Seth too much to make any fuss
Nevertheless, she decided on pinning note
to her pillow, telling her parents that she
had gone with the'm man she loved" and that
"all pursuit will be vain"
1t was after eleven o'clock when Seth
started for Sally's home. The fire of romance
famed not furiously in his breast. Even
love was at low ebb. He was sorey tempt
ed to give up the whole plan, but was afraid
of Sally's taunts,
He saddled the amazed and unreliable
Lazarus, and took also decrepit old nag
called "Bally."
Sally said she was to ride behind me, cause
! was to be her Lockinvar, or some other big
fool, but, Lockinvar or no Lockinvar, old
Lazarus won't carry double, an we'd both
get hsted into the mud if we tried it,"
1t was midnight, Il dark and dreary mid
night, when Seth reached Farmer Dorton's
farm house. The rain came down in tor
rents, and objects could be seen only by the
flashes of lightning. These were quite frequent
and by them Seth found the ladder at the
place indicated by Sally
Another flash, and he placed it against a
side of the house. No light was visible
Sally thought that darkness would add 10 the
romance of the affair.
There were almost constant peals of thun-
der, and the rain beat furiously against win
dows and doors. Seth knew that Sally could
60, hl.Do ho al,
he had been asked to throw.
He decided TO rap on the window, and tell
her that the elopement mast be postponed,
and that she would get Stopping Wet if she
ventured out. This would show her that he
had kept his word in regard to coming after
her.
He crept slowly up the ladder, and raped
gently on the window with his knuckles.
There was no response. A sudden lull
came, the wind and rain ceased for mo-
ment, prolonged, wave-like glare ofightning
revealed Seth rapping quite vigorously on
the window
"sally Sally p he whispered, shrilly.
A window ten feet from him was thrown
up, and frightened voice said,-
"Setb Seth For pity sake, come away
from ,herel You're at the wrong window |
That's pas roomp'
Seth was about to fa'l OH The ladder when
the window went up with bang, and a
strong hand clutched his neck.
1--WE got ye I've got ye" cried the exct-
ed and angry pa" himself II see We by that
crack O. lightnln'. I'll fix We! No use kick
in that-a-wayl All hal Thar goes the lad
der an now you air done fer p
1t was too true. Poor Seths struggles
had sent the ladder flying from under him,
an hang on till daylight fore I'll let We
drapl" cried Mr.. Dorton. "Pm bound to see
who an what we air. Here, ma, run an tell
the hired man to turn the dog loose, an I'll
call him under this wnder. If this burgler
ever drops into old Majes jaws he'll wisht he
hadn't gone burglerin' round these print
ses."
Explanations rapidly followed, and as Sally
had had sufficient excitement, she consented
to be married in the usual way, and to give
up novel reading, and a fine old-fashioned
wedding brought her career of romantic
dreams to very happy end.
"A certain man who was unjustly sus.
pected of dishonesty, and of whom some one