The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-03-09

"a Nii'h tltlt you nrelf
"Nou wouldn't-haye-ll.oi me-not to
mourn for you, Tomlr sobbed Mrs. Cassidy.
when l-l-thoaght was dying-I man
nged 10 say-de-de-decpest black there is
"But / didn't want 20 be incurred forr'
said Mr.. Cassidy.
81 didn't put IL on until they found your
sobbed Mrs. Cassidy. lyon looked So dread
ful ! didn't know you, bat you were ldenti-
fed. Jack identified you, and there's the
handsomest shaft over your remainsr
u haven't any rs yeir said Mr. Cassidy
"Why are you herel Why are those strange
people in our housef
Jack sold IL for me- and settled your BUSH
ness up aud brought me here. lie was very.
very good, in my afilictionl1 said Mrs. Cas-
sdy.
''You haven't been in aflictionin said slr.
Cassidy.
Il thought I was. It's al the same thing.
I've been through everything" said Mrs.
Cassidy.
"And you seem 10 thrive on itlr said her
husband angrily. "You're very blooming
widow, indeed. And that busybody, Jack,
has been putting me out Of the way as speed
lily - possible, settling my business selling
my home, indeed And / cablei % YOU
u don't know what you mean by cabling,n
said Mrs Cassidy "But / know that 20 20
of that way was a terrible thing. Without
a word or hint. Tricking me- frightening
me. II you'd been IN OF met with an ncci-
dent-but % go of and never send n word all
this time. can never forgive youn
"Oh.' said Mr. Cassidy. you never got
the caberramT
III its like a telegram, never did, said
Mrs Cassidy why, Tom, have you been
% EuropoN
1--WE been TO England, said Mr. Cassidy.
"You SEQ as I went down the street with the
oyster can heard a carriage behind me and
it sioprel and somebody called me-'Cassi-
dgr stopped 10 was Bliings-you know
BilAngsl Jump in.' says he; want 20 talk
90 you, and I'm ia a hurry.
$50 in jumped. he told me be was going
on board a steanship-iho Spread Eagle-and
that as thered been delay, she'd start about
3 in the morning, and be wanted me % see
him or. Well, Selma couldn't say mo-
Billings is my particular frend-anl / went
with him. Knew you'd excuse me. and went
ON board. and we looked at his state room and
we-had o. bottle ortwo ~ ale anl-well. then
] said must go and he went out of the state
room togota card 20 write his London address
ON and thought Id try whether bis berth
was comfortable, and ] stretched out ou 10.
II bad little blue curtains to b.. that drew up
and down. drew them down.
"Wel. Selma. that's the last knew until
10 was broad day. / walked up 20 find Bill
ings looking al me.
"He had come back and as thecurtains hid
me. supposed Id gone on. Felt angry that
didn't say good-by, went ON deck 90 see the
last of land, and was just going % bed him
SELF There was pretty kettle Of fish; Ia
been carried off, l sent for the captain. lie
was like a rock; inclined TO believe me sort
Of stowaway at first ] rayci. / roared.
made a spectacle of myself before strangers;
but when people understood that left wife
who expected me home boz ten minutes. and
my business at skies and -evens, they COM
rl.si0natci me III we'd met the right steamer
! could have got home; but wedidnt. Iwmt
TO England Good Lord, how wrotchel I've
been bad 60 borrow Billings shirts and
stockings had enough with me 10 pay my
passage back. but bid that cabled instant
ly on arrival and came back by the first
steamer Ahi now / Gnd-well, ] iiud Tn
dead-doad and buried. I'll XIII JACK first,
and then go and drown myself"
But Mrs Cassidy understood nov. She had
taken of her bonnet and veil, and She was
petting lim aud crying over him as il he had
been a baby and begging him % tell her 30
was not an dream And then "a ring az tle
bell And there was Jack with a Grape
around DIS hat and prayer book in bis hand.
Tie took bis blowing up quietly anl
wrote paragraph for next morning papers
while it was going on, heading it.
THE DEAD ALIVE
HAPPY RETURN OF THOMAS CASSIDY.
And he once more took time by the fore
lock
lie unsettled the husine-s; bought back the
house aud furniture. induced the stone mason
90 take back-at ghtreduction-taesh shaft
which marked the grave oi the poor drowned
tramp who had been identified as Mr. Cls-i-
dv. and bad the satisfaction Of restoring bis
friend. Co their oh quarter, as by magic.
Ash so. one evening. as the two sat toecth-
er in their little parlor, Mr. Cassidy said to
bis wife.
"SeHna. we haven't had those oysters yet
If you'll see 20 the frying pan TIL go aud eet
some And ] swear iii not mysteriom.y
disappear this time.'
lie dd not And as they ate the fritiers
Mrs. Cassidy declared that 10 was all exactly
like dream. q horrible dream, that sine
could not bear % think about-Mary Kyle
Dallas in New York Ledger.