Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-01
A MISAPPREHENSION.

Adelbert Dangleboy and Gertrude
Giggletitter were threading their way
toward the Giggletitter mansion,
through the moonbathed suburbs of the
city, says the Burlington Free Press. 1t
was soft night in spring, and the ice
cream saloon, once more alluring its un-
wary victims from among the dispensing
worshipers of Thalia, had detained
their innocent footsteps until the great
hands of the city clocks already shad-
owed the hour of midnight
Still, as the lovers turned their faces
homeward, the dreamy quiet of the
night, the witching spell of the moon
light, and the fullness of their own
hearts, with the regions adjacent there
to, forbade unseemly haste, and attuned
their footsteps to kind of adagio stroll,
with variations from the straight
course(
At length they turned into street
shimmering with long lines of unlaid
water pipes, awaiting the operations OF
one of the city gangs. For few
minutes they stopped to admire the ef-
feet of the moonlight on the great black
cylinders, stretching away until they
melted into vista of golden mists and
tool carts.
Suddenly Gertrude Giggletitter started
and grasped Adelbert's arm tightly.
Adelbert looked up quickly. A stalwart
figure was walking swiftly down the
avenue toward item, breasting the
moonlight as ships prov breasts the
incoming tide at is papal" exclaimed
Gertrude, with a convulsive shudder.
"What shall we do? You know he has
positively forbidden our meeting again.
You must hide somewherel will face
him alone. He is so short sighted, am
sure he does not see us yet. Hide, Adel-
bertl-here crawl into one of these pipesl
That is right-thank heaven, my darling
is safe.
Just as Adelbert Dangleboy's coat
tails had disappeared within the long
sepulchral pipe the pedestrian whose
rapid approach had startled the lovers
came abreast of the trembling girl and
stopped in amaze.
aMiss Giggletitterl What are you do
ing here at this time of the highland
alonel"
Heavensl 1t was Richard Clawtail,
rival suitori
Gertrude stammered, snickered, and
burst into tears, and sitting down on the
pipe in which Adelbert Dangleboy was
now hopelessly entombed, buried her face
in her hands. Richard Clawtail sat
down beside her and succeeded in en-
gaging one of her hands. 1t was an old
trick of his, but was as far as his en-
gagment with Gertrude Giggletitter had
now succeeded in going.
@If you won't tell me why you are
here all alone at midnight, he said
tenderly, for his throat was still raw
from the effects of la grippe, ayou will
certainly permit me to remain by you
as your protector, or, better still, allow
me to escort you homer"
What could Gertrude Giggletitter say :?
She could not give away the dear ad-
mirer wedged fast in the water pipe.
That would be too humiliating triumph
on the hated rival. Neither could she
in consistency object to the rivals
courteous offer of protection. For she
realized that circumstances had indeed
placed her in very compromising
situation Poor, innocent unsuspect-
ing loversl How suddenly had tickle
fortune brought them into tight quarters
tight for Gertrude. and very, very
tight for poor Adelberti
Miss Giggletitter meditated upon the
situation for few moments. Then-for
she felt the pipe begin to vibrate beneath
them with Adelbert Dangleboy's frantic
effort to release himself-she rose and
said sweetly: "You are very kind, dear
Mr. Clawtail, and / shall be most happy
60 have your company as far as my
home. There was something both In
the words and tone which may have de-
ceived Richard Clawtail, and may not
at any rate, an osculatory sound wave
went billowing away intospace, followed
by the nervous litter of young female
who is accustomed to being kissed and is
fallen into an irresistible habit of object
ing to it. AT the same time a pair OF
shoes appeared at the black throat of the
pipe, and tremendous throe ran along
its huge hollow length. But Richard
Clawtail walked away with Gertrude
Giggletitter upon his arm, seeing moth
ing but the loveIiness Of her face and
hearing nothing but the music of her
voice
Fifteen minutes later a sorry looking
figure emerged from the water pipe, and
stood upright. Not even its own mother
would have recognized it as the exquisite
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its face was livid with passion and suffo-
cation: It's ccat hung in tattered folds