Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

"Gently, Jack" said I, remember I'm
subject to heart disease, and the mention of
large sum of money suddenly like that
might bereave my family. I have b
cents"
"Then lend me half dollar"
Cant do it, old mani I'm sorry, but
''Five cents, Howdy, for heavens sake,
unless you want these yellow shoes to drive
me crazy"
But you can't get new pair of shoes for
8 cents" said.
"Of course not; but I'm going to have
these blacked. They won't shine much,
but they'll be disguised, and that's what I
care about most. She's seen 'em before"
"She, the heiress?" I asked hopefully.
"Shall congratulate you, Jack?"
mo, confound it, congratulate her.
didn't win her. Lend me that nickel and
I'll tell you all about it while my shoes are
being brought up to date"
He climbed into a convenient chair, and
the artist went to work, while Jack told his
story.
A TALE OF LOVE.
"It was last June, said he, "when I made
upmy mind that couldn't stand poverty
any longer. Povertyl If I could ever have
worked up to the level of honest poverty, it
wouldn't have been so bad. But was $500
beyond poverty, on the wrong side. And
my salary was $40 weekl Howdy. it was
enough to drive man TO suicide. In fact,
living any longer at my boarding house
would have been tantamount to suicide of
an aggravated type. At this critical mo-
ment in my life first heard the name of
Myrtle Leigh"
"The heiress?''
eyes; the heiress. Iconfess that thought
II han har
supposed she was like other women But,
sir, If one word that speak of her in telling
you this story, or one thought of her in my
soul, now or at any time, fails in the most
perfect respect for her, may be, may
be, may that shoe return to its original
color!" and in his deep emotion he waved
the blacked one in the air.
SUMMER ON THE BEACH.
"But when first heard of her wealth-all
in her own right, too" he resumed; "and
learned that she was to spend the summer
at Great Beach, Me-, with nobody to look
out for her but a mother from whom she
could not possibly have inherited that sound
good sense of hers which afterward stood so
confoundedly in my way-when I heard OF
all this 1 resolved to go down there and win
her heart and hand. Yes; and especially y
her money. Well, of course the primary
consideration was an outfit of summer
clothes. 1 raised every cent 1 could. I
mortgaged myself body and soul to anybody
who could be deluded into belief that the
security was worth anything. thought the
stunnlngest-well, sir, just look at that
vest"
He opened his overcoat, and the "blazer''
which discovered beneath it, and showed
me a vest that was more beautiful than a
summer sunset, and as far out of season, In
November.
i've been selling off most of my ward
robe" said he, "but I couldn't part with
| that"
"When you sold your clothes, why didn't
you buy something for winter?" asked.
A STURDY OLD UNCLE.
"I never thought of it." said he. "She
wasn't coming to New York till November.
and thought that something would surely
turn up to help me out before this time.
I've got rich uncle who is 9S, and an in.
valid. He's always worst in the fall, espe.
cially if it's cold and damp. Have YOU
noticed anything the matter with the
weather lately?"
''No, I haven't" said I, tits been very
mild
| "But had great time this summer. ]