Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-15
THE WYDESWARTHS.
Where and How We Formed
 Their Acquaintance.

Where and How We Formed
 Their Acquaintance.
 We were very plain people, Mrs. Crumple- horn and I'm Mr. Crump mplehorn-when the death of distant relative made us un- expectedly rich.
 Now I'm not going to be mean enough to put the blame of what follows on Mrs. Crumplehorn. The dodge of husbands lay ing their sins at their wives doors began at a very early stage of the worlds history, and small good it did the man that tried it first-and served him right, too-if he tuds our " federal head and representative I'll just tell my story, if you please, leaving the question of who's to blame to take care of itself.
 We hardly came into possession of our fortune-certainly hadn't begun to feel at home in it-when the season at Saratoga opened, and Mrs. Crumplehorn said we must go there, as every body that was any body did that it was expected of us-by lrhom, l don't remember that she stated; in short, that there was "no getting out of it." l really didn't sec that there was, and so we went
 We found a crowd of people there, none of
 
 ciable they were Why, when Mrs Crum- plehorn, just to be civil. asked lady where she had bought the stuff in her dress, and how much it had cost yard, she received for an answer such stare as made the cold chills run over her, and, to use her own expression, "came near giving her turn"
 ''Hops' to people that don't dance, games to people that can't play them and iostling people one doesn't know, are very tlresome modes of killing time. In two days had had enough of it, and Mrs. Crum- plehorn expressed herself satisfied in three.
 We had just concluded to set fashionable opinion at defiance, and go home and take things comfortable, when, as luck would have It, we made the acquaintance Of Gen eral and Mrs. Wydeswarth; and so agreed ble did it prove that our purpose of speedy departure was at once reconsidered, and promptly dismissed.
 During our stay, which was prolonged several weeks, the General and myself, similarly his lady and Mrs Crumplehorn, were inseparably They were very enter taining and agreeable couple, quite up to the highest notch of fashion, but not in the least proud. Why, bless youl the General thought no more of walking arm in arm with me, and thought it no more liberty to be invited to drink champagne at my ex- pense, than his aristocratic wife dld to be offered-and to accept, too-Mrs. Crumple- horn finest diamond ring as a marriage anniversary present, of the advent of which happy occasion she took care to give Mrs. | C. private and confidential notice. l When the time came for going, we had | become so attached to our new friends that we gave them a cordial invitation to pay us an early visit, which they promised to do. | While the two ladies were taking an af- fectionate leave, crying and kissing one another by turns, the General took me aside, and disclosed the fact that, owing to ! the miscarriage of an expected remittance, he found himself little short of funds. If could accommodate him with-say five hundred dollars-it would relieve him from present embarrassment and he would re- turn it the following week, when he and Mrs. w. came to pay their promised visit
 I was deeply affected at this mark of confidence, and at once handed over the amount, and after another pathetic scene between Mrs. W. and Mrs. C., we tore our selves away.
 ! Punctual to the day our distinguished guests arrived, and right glad we were to see them. Our country home had seemed dull since our return, mainly owing, no doupt, to the absence of the dear friends to whose society we had grown accustomed
 The General was captivated with our rural abode. He thought of building just such house himself; and nothing would do but must slow him over the premises which did-pointing out every nook, corner and apartment, with a conscious pride which my friends praises served Tn no way to abate.
 The first furry over, we were just getting cleverly settled down, and beginning to en- joy ourselves in earnest, when an event occurred to mar our pleasure.
 The house was entered by burglars one night, and ransacked from top to bottom Our own loss, though by no means trifiins thousand dollars in money-we could have grinned and borne; but Mrs. Wydeswarth'! diamonds-we had never seen them, bu they must have been splendid-and the Gen erals pocketbook, fat with untold green backs, that was what crushed us.
 "Never mind, my dear fellow," said thu General, with the fortitude of hero; '' my chief regret is on your account.
 will compel me to defer payment of tha little loan few days longer On the whole
 I'm rather glad didn't think of returning
 sooner, though, as the loss would thel
 lave been UOluS.
 begged him not to think of such trif1e
 and when offered to replenlsh his purs
 till another remittance came, he slapped m
 on the back and called me a trump
 On Mrs. Crumplehorn's birthday, whicl
 followed close upon the burglary, Mrs Wydeswarth insisted on her acceptance o
 q magnificent breastpin, which had some how escaped the vigilance of the robbers
 Mrs. c. would have declined the gift, coul
 she have done so without wounding he
 friends feelings; but it was manifest ss
 couldn't, so sDe took it.
 K Just then the General put letter in h 'f wife's hand.
 o1 "How provokingl'' the latter exclaime d when she had read it.
 D. "What my lifes"
 3: "Why, that Fanny Fftz Blodgitt shoul just at thls time, take it into her head is get married, and insist on my being presen ,f in fultillment of a promise we made eaC ! other at school.n
 "It is a little inconvenient," said u }. General, gravely.
 1T There's no help for it. I must give