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her d2r.as TIE LII aad siaszr, 80 1 n4vs
good reason fsr believing tE@t the more 10
saw her the more surely be became eoa-
vi8cec HAT s1e w4s hls fate. 48a th4t 40
eo1id not ~ia her "a s1y conventional ssAy
Bat lzst s1-L = ~ IL co2l1at thinz Hs
VAS good deal plzxlea, DIT by 10 0ea1s
hepeless He Te41zea that sic Eust know
tcat DC loved asr sad tae fact tA4t such
xao~secgs Cd rot induce her - rsouT hlA
lie n inLerpretsa Ia rs favor. T. seemed 4s
clear as II I'D been ~ Cape Aaa th4t 10
Eaa was preferred before him
Vel, s-cR were the circumstances when,
enc evening Ia gae nrst week IA A4y, ns
came over frcaa New \ 0rx and accom- panied
Eer ~ a meeting CT q reading aad dramatic
club. brocklyn las a number Of such or
CARNATIONS, you Know During tie evening
juliet was asked 10 read something, and
consented, after little urging, 10 do 50 A
volume of Hood l4y on the table beside her.
She Is beautiful reader, AID gave the
poe IN which she selected with ininitAble
spirit had the pleasure of listening 10 her
and Vas charmed Being q newspaper man,
and newspaper men knowing every thing.
you are doubtless familiar with the poem
IL Is tho sollloqgy Of = diseonteated d4ulsel.
who has discovered. or thinks she Las dis
covered, that romance has vanished from
the earth. Every verse, and there are .
good many OF them, ends with her sigh:
There's no romance IN tastI
As Julie. was reading II occurred 10 Richard
that the poem Ma meant for him Before
ste Z al flashed a dazzling plan OF win ning
her flashed upon him, and tho more he
thought II over the batter IL pleased him
30 IS 10 oade juliet adleu that evening Ia
said ~ her: Miss -, l thoroughly APP
prove OF the sentiments Of the poem which
you read, and have determined 10 do what
l can, IN my own poor way, 10 revive tho
spirit OF romance. Hereafter, when you
permit me the honor OF coming 10 see you,
shall use neither the conventional ferry
boat nor the prosaic bridge. l saaIl cross
the East river as Leander used To cross the
Hellespont when he wentcaIling upon Hero
"If Juliet had not been so thoroughly en-
amored OF romance this speech Of Richards
must have struck her as Just shade
funny. AS IL was she was immensely de-
lighted.
"'How perfectly loyelyr she exclaimed
when Richard had uRfolded his new
scheme OF romantic. IL not rapid transit.
'Leander has always been one OF M
heroes. How true and strong must have
been his love for Hero TO inspire him for
her sake 10 brave the mad currents or the
Hellespont night after night. You must
admit, Mr.. --, that the figure which that
dauatloss youth presents to ones fancy is
infinitely more winning than that OF the
modern young gentleman who is trans
ported 10 his lady-love hanging TO the strap
OF a car or crushed in the motley crowd of a
ferry boat
"'I don't believe Richard replied, that
Leander ever would have been equal 10 the
feat if he hadn't been sure that Hero cared
for him You may well believe there was
light in Richards eyes "a be spoke that
was not 10 be mistaken. IL was as though he
had declared. If you don't love me or won't
! love me, Juliet, then / shall only be able 10
drown as / come swimming TO you through
the East river But il you love me the
swimming Of dozen East rivers to reach
your side would be an easy task
"'Of course Hero cared for him. an
swered Juliet, with her eyes firmly fixed on
/ the brave deserve the fair, and 1 imagine
that they generally get their deserts Then
her eyes came down from the chandelier
4 and met his a moment And fired by their
tender glances / am sure that Richard felt
/ equal TO swimming the entire three-quar-
/ ters of the earth's surface, which, If l re-
member my geography correctly, is all
water. And so you understand why il hap
pened that YOU saw my young friend in the
East river this evening. Since the 1lth Of
I May, when he had this conversation with
juliet, he has come over 10 see her fire.
/ Quently and every time he has svum over
from New York. Her home is on the Heights
I Just over the water, not far from - street.
! After leaving the river q quick run Of
/ three minutes brings him to the garden in
| the rear of the house. Ia the garden is a
bit OF an arOor which he has appropriated
and turned into a dressing room. Heenters
ii a dripping norman; he emcrges in even
| ing dress, with a flower in his buttOnhole,
and greets Juliet, whom he finds waiting
for him Just beyond on the broad piazza.
"well. that's about all there is to tell
/ Her mother and she go abroad in the fall
and our uug friends, in accordance with
juliet conception OF the romantic propri-
/ cites, are to be married at Rome next
/ Christmas Eve. / asked her the other day
why she chose that time and place She
replied that Italy was the laud Of romance,
and that Rome was the Queen Of Italy, and
that Christmas Eve was the loveliest eve in
the calendar. just now she Is wild about
fslconry and Richard has promised her 10
devote a portion of their honeymoon 20
teaching her to hunt with a hawk. Then,
Of course. she will have her portrait painted
with a falcon on her wrist perhauS Won reat
the other day in the Brooklyn Eagle an ac-
count OF correspondence which was being
carried on by a Brooklyn belle and her New
York lover by means Of carrier pigeons. No
names were mentioned. but happen To
know that Juliet and Richard were the per
sons referred TO. be himself told me OF the
origin OF the correspondence. A few weeks
ago, ia course Of fervent protest against
the prossic, Juliet quoted 20 him a vei 90
from that poem Of Hood OF which / spoke
think can give you the lines. Let's see:
"OfIsht guitar can not boast
He never sere1s AIDES.
n writes and sends u b tie post
He c0esn't orfbe tae maids,
No stealth. 10 hempeu lsdder-no.
He comes with loud rsf-tas
That startles all Of Bedford Ro--
There no romance IA thstl'
''The result was that Richard concluded
that instead Of sending it By the post he
would organize romantic carrier-pigeo
service
Sach. in substance, were the facts of thl.
interesting episode Of New York and
Brooklyn life which obtained from Mrs
. and which. with her kind permis-
sion. are printed in the Tribune. Naturally
asked her bow she came 20 know 40 much
- n. s-afr Sra repiinf that she had