Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-16
A Misapprehsnsfsn.

lrEom tAo Oufun8tOn Free ExeSS Adefbert Dangleboy and Gertrude Giggle- Giggletitter mansion through the moon l bathed suburbs of the city. It was soft l night in early spring, and the ice cream sa- loon, once more turing it's unwary victims from among the dispersing worshipsrs of 1 Thalls, had detained their innocent footsteps l until the great hands of the city clocks ale l ready shadowsd the hour of midnight.
 Still as the lovers turned their faces homeward, the dreamy quiet of the night, the wltching spell of the moonlight, and the fullness of their own hearts, with the regions subjacent thereto, forbade unseemly haste, and attuned their footateps to kind of ada. gio stroll, with variations (from the straight course)
 At length they turned into street shim- mering with long lines of unlaid water pipes, awaiting the operations of one of the city sgsngs." For few minutes they stopped to admire tho effect of the moonlight on the great black cylinders. stretching away until tool carts.
 Suddenly Gertrude Giggletister startsd and grasped Adslberss arm tightly. "Who is that coming" she gasped. Adslbert looked up quickly. A sselwart figure was walking swiftly down the avenue toward them, breasting the moonlight as Q ships prow breasts the incoming tide. ''It Is papa!" ex-
  der. "What shall we doa You know he has positively forbidden our meeting again. You must hide sonewhersi I will face him alone. He is 90 short sighted am sure he does not see us yet. Hide, Adelbersl-here, l crawl inte one of these pipssl That Is right thank heaven, my darling is safel" l Just as Adelbert Dangleboy's eoattails had disappeared within the long sepnlohrsl pipe, the pedestrian whose rapid approach had startled the lovers came abreast of the trem- bling girl and stopped in amaze. | "Aiss Giggletitteri What are you doing l hero at this time of highland alonsa" Heavens! It was Richard Clawtail, a rival l suiteri
 Gertrude stamnered, sniskered, burst into tears, and sitting down on the pipe in which Adelbert Danglebey was now hopelsssly en. tombsd, buried her face in her hands. Rich ard Clawtail sat down beside her and suo- ceedsd in engaging one of her hands. It | was an old trick of his, but was as far as his | engagement with Gertrude GiRgletitter had now succeeded in going.
 "It you won. tell me why you are here, all aleno, at midnight" ho said-tsndsrly, of Ia grippe-''you will certainly permit me to remain by you. es your protector, or, bst~ ter still, allow me to escort you homei"
 What could Gertrude Giggletister ssyi She could not give away the dear admirer wedged fast in the water pipe. That would be too humiliating triumph on the part of the hated rival. Neither could she in cons sistency object to the rivals courteous offer of protection. For she realized that oircum- stances had indeed placed her in very oom-
 promising situation. Poor innocent, unsus. pecting loversl How suddenly had fckls
 fortune brought them into tight quarters
 tight for Gertrude and very very tight for
 poor Adelbertl
 Miss GiggletitteY meditated upon the situ-
 ation for few moments. Then-for she felt the pipe begin to vibrate beneath them
 with Adelbert Dangleboy's frantic efforts to
 release himself-she rose and said swsetly: !, "You are very kind, dear Ar. Clawtail, and
 I shall be most hsppy to have your company
 as far as my home" There was something,
 both iu the words and tho tone, which may have deceived Richard Clawtsil, and may not. At any rate, sn oscnlAtory sound wave
 went billow1ng away into space, followed by the nervous titter of young female who ia into an irresistible habit of not objecting to
 1t. At the same time pair of shoes ap- peared at the black throat of the pipe and 6 , tremendous throe ran along its huge hollow length. But Richard Clawtail walked away l with Gertrude Gi9gletitter upon his arm, seeing nothing but the loveliness of her face and hearing nothing but the music of hel ! voice.
 Fifteen minutes later a sorry looking fg. ure emerged from the water pipe and stood
 upright. Not even its own mother would have recognized 1t as the exquisite Adelbsrt . Danglsboy. Its hat was gone; it's face was livid with passion and suffocation; its coat hung in tattered folds about its shrunken
 and compressed form; It's trousers were shredded above the knees, and Its shoes
 gspsd hideously with long kicking at the pavement.
 The figure stood irresolute for a minute
 then lifted It's bloody fist, shook it inpotent.
 ly in the moonlight, and sneaked away into tho nearest alley.