The Arizona sentinel., 1890-07-05
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 serSitv as Am Ati,or and rbe other a travelling ta1esplaa for a NcF York wholesale hardware house, whcae route extends through Michigan aud rarts of Canada. Ono day last Hc~E thc New Yorker arrived in Detroit late ju tAe afternoon, and, Of oa1r=4, Immediately started Tna'.,;sg 52e ro2n35 If tA2 retail hardware dealers, H-ith tie laudaole purpose of sollin.; each 2 good stock for the winter beivre the r,y7oS r5:tativc of any rival house sbogld put i,G an appear ance. He had hoped D cal O.. t',e o5- ject of his aGcctio1.s in t,?, cvcaiar, but business was gco6, and eight o'clock found him busy trying to i1dace 8 Woodward avenue dealer to take six dozen axes, focr dozen griEGstones and & half car-load of wooden paiis. At this stage of the pr0cctdings a younger brother of tho yornr lady dropped in to buy new iack-knife, and mentioned casually that the Ann Arbor professor. was up at the house. It instantly oc- cured to the enterprising hardware and cutlery salesman that the professor had come for no other purpose than to lay his heart at the feet of the young lady he himself adored. For moment +hnrn s-- 5,a aiS s.-aaET h,1f he speedily Co: control cf himself and decided that ho could not possibly leave the store, as the d3aler was inst on the point of deciding 10 take the pails. But the thought of giving ap the lady who had been for months constantly in his mind. waking and sleeping, was un- bearsble. light suddenly dawned on him. HandiEg the dealer circular ex- plsining the merits of his new double bladed chopping-knivcs, he requested the use of the merchants telephone for five minutes, st-Tpcd to it land rang up Che central office.
 A moment later the telcphone-bell at the residence of the young lady rang sharp and decisive. The professor had been there for an hour talking pleasant ly of the grand educational work they were doing il the department of fossil ology at Ann Arbor. When the bell rang. the l2ay's father being absent Che was phy8ician), she excused herself and went into the adjoining room to an- swer it. The professor heard her step 10 the telephone and say ''Yes, make 8 short pause and say "Yes" again. Then there was short pause and he heard her say: "Why-why-really, this is sudden" Then thcrc was still longer pause and he heard her say "Ycs," soft ly, then Goodbye" and she hung up the receiver and came back into the room. The professor moved closer to the fire and remarked that it was chil- ly evening, and he thought it was going to snow, and then resumed his talk about the great work at the university. Fifteen minutes later there was ring at the front door-bcn. The lady an- swered it and district messenger boy handed her plain gold ring, which she slipped on her finger and returned to the parlor. Miss s-," said the pro- lessor, five minutes later, I want to ask you an important question this evening. Excuse me for putting it bluntly, but will you be my wife2" But we need go 10 further with this. Two minutes aatsr the professor went down the front steps, shook his fist st the telephone wire and took the s:45 train for Ann Arbor.