Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-11-27


ing curiosity to see sample of the
night side of Brussels life, and her
husband being as giddy as herself, had
agreed to the scheme. 1t must be ad-
mitted that Mrs. Jennie made up as a
very handsome young man. Her hair
had been cut short before she left
America, and so with hat set jaunt-
lily on her head, and slim little cane,
she made about as good looking young
fellow as you would expect to see in
Brussels or anywhere else. The great
trouble they had when they started
out was to keep from laughing at each
other. They first went to those long
arcades, which are called the galleries
in Brussels. These arcades are bril-
liant sight at night and are frequent
ed by all sorts of people. They were
having great deal of amusement
walking up and down the gallery,
when CHEEKY voice shouted out:
"Why, Ed, is this you ?"
Edward Cooper turned quickly and
the next instant was shaking hands
with an old friend of his, Jim Dowl-
ing, of New York. Mrs. Cooper
stood there in her masquerade costume
looking very pale and agitated. If
she had had as much presence of mind
as she thought she had she would have
fled at the first sound of greeting to
her husband, but she hesitated for a
moment. Cooper colored up great
deal, but shook his friend heartily by
the band. "Well, Jim," he said, II
am very pleased to see you. Allow
me-to er-to er to introduce you
to my friend, John SHEPPARD"
"What did you say the name was p
"Shephard, the Rev. John Shep-
hard, of Philadelphia"
"Im very pleased to meet you, Mr..
Sheppard" said Jim Bowling, cordi-
ally shaking the hand of the alledged
clergyman. 81 suppose that you are
seeing little of life under the guild
ance of my friend Cooper. Now, l
can tell you from experience that you
couldn't have better fellow to show
you around than Ed. / don't know
as it would do to tell your congrega-
tion in Philadelphia just what Coop
er will show you in Brussels or Paris,
but | can assure you from"
"See here" cried Cooper suddenly
interrupting, "when did you come over
jim ?"
"Who, me? l have been over here
for two or three months. Been in
Paris most of the time and took run
through Brussels and am on my way
farther north. Been over here long,
Mr.. Sheppard ?"
mot a great while," answered the
other.
1--WE came over ah-together on the
steamer" said Cooper, brazenly.
ooh, by the way, Ed, heard that
you were married. Is that so 2"
THAT is true" said Cooper trying
to appear at his ease.
"Well, well, declare. Who was
the girl? Rich, eh 2"
"Oh, not so very"
Handsome, Isuppose. I'll bet you
a dollar she was handsome girl any
how, or you wouldn't have married
her. tell you, Mr.. Sheppard, if ever
there was man who had an eye for
beauty in the world it was our
"See here" said Cooper. suddenly
"where-wh-where are you stopping.
"Oh, | am at the old place. Dc
you remember the time we had togeth-
er last? George Washington didn't
we paint the town red. Say, do you
remember that little"
81 was going to say" interrupted
Cooper, "see here, / want to speak to
you moment" and taking Bowling
by the arm he led him of into a cor
ner while he winked at his wife as
much as to say, "now for Heavens
sake escape, while you can"
"Look here, Bowling, this young
fellow I've got here with me now, isn't
like one of us, you know. He is a
good young man. don't want you
to make any allusion to anything that
happened, don't you know. Hes
you see how it is-hes my brother-in-
law, he's my wife's brother"
THE deuce you say, then I've put
my foot right square in it already. /
hear YOU married Jennie Hartly.-
Wasn't that the name? One of the
Hartly girls
Yes, you arc quite correct" stam'
mercd Cooper
"Well, say, there were no boys in
the Harily family that knew of"
"Well, there are no boys, strictly
spesking-no, you are right, but they
had an adopted boy, you know. that
they adopted. Don't you see -"
"Ob, didn't know that. It's years
since | have seen any of the Hartly
family. So they adopted boy, die
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