New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-15

said Betsy, 81 can promise you aft
er the ring is on. What possessed
you to smash yourself up so? But
ashanti refuse you. It's money
makes the mare go, says the old
song"
1T may be, said Harold. But
let the mare stand still for me, then.
| / quite decline to fulfill the engage
ment. So, madame; you have the
| fortune without any incum brance in
my person =
And a good radiance of bad rub
bish, say |, = cried Betsy. s.There
are better fish in the sea than you
or women would be poorly off.
You're going, eh? Well, the sooner
the better. Miss Smith ring the bell. .
Elsie arose and touched the bell.
But now that the deed was done
and her object attained, she felt
dreadfully ashamed of herself.
Certainly a more unhappy and sin
gular object than this before her
could not well be imagined.
Indeed, compassionate as was her
heart she felt that his appearance
was not only painful, but almost
ludlcrous, but all the more should
he have been tenderly used.
Why had she played this childish
prank, and allowed vulgar woman
to insult him in her presence?
And this gentleman for hideous as
he was, he was a gentleman by
breeding as we'll as by birth-how
would be henceforth think of her?
He would always believe that she
had uttered those rude words-she.
and none other
And as he left the room she followed
him and the servant who had an
swered the bell retired at her nod
and left the two together in the long
hall, where they could hear. the long,
and violent explosions of laughter
with which Betsy was now filling the
drawing room.
''Mr. Harrington said Elsie, her
face crimsoning as she spoke, II can
not let you go without word of ex-
PLANTATION. II have been SO grieved
that you should be insulted. [ never
meant
My dear young lady, you have
nothing to do with it, and my feel
lngs are not in the least hurt" re-
piled the young man. "Who could
care for anything person like the
woman we have just left could say?
But | am amazed that she should be
Miss Seabright. [ know she is a lady
by birth. [ understood thatshe was
beautiful and gentle .
ooh, Mr.. HarringtonW cried Elsie,
q have been such a foolish GIRL She
is not Miss Seabright. lit was
a ridiculous stratlgem of mine I
hated the idea of a. betrothal to a
stranger, and I desired that you
should take the initiative in breaking
off the match. But believe me, had
no knowledge of your infrmities,
which could be only a subject for
sympathy to me, and beg you to
forgive me for placing that coarse
woman in position in which she
could insult you. Prove it by re-
naming with me until can offer you
some refreshments after your long
Journey
The young man bowed, looked at
her a moment and then replied.
frankly:
Madam, 1 quite appreciate your
motives, and entirely forgive you.
am pleased to accept your invita-
ton
1t was the custom in we'll arrang-
ed houses at that day to send guests
to their room awhile before dinner.
! Accordingly, Miss Seabright order
ed a servant to show Mr. Harrington
4 to an apartment on the upper floor
and retired to her own room to
dress for dinner.
| len minutes after her entrance in
to this apartment a.servant brought
her large bundle and a small note
"a bundle several feet long and a
note a few inches square. She open
ed the note first and read these
words:
/ Ny Dear Miss Seabright, I have
q confession to make. I,also, before
j met you, had resolved that you
should be the one to decline the con
dition of our fathers wills, intending
atterWard to give you back your
share OF the property. Consequent
ly | set about devising a scheme, and
reading my schoolday letters it oc-
Cured to me that no one ever went
through SO many accidents quite I'M
scathed and unmarried before. 4
knew that few chose to marry a
very hldeous man; consequently ]
concocted a disguise which | fancied
would make me repugnant to the
least particular of the fair sex.
Allow me to lay at your feet my
crutches. which I never needed thank
heaven; my hump, which was a feath-
er pillow; the skull cap, which did not
hide bald pate, and all my badges
and patches The vermillion which
adorned my nose | removed with a
little water, and though / obtained
my invitation to dinner under false